Amazfit Bip 5 Smart Watch 46mm, GPS, Amazon Alexa Built-in, Bluetooth Calling, 10-Day Battery, Heart-Rate & VO2 Max, Sleep Health Monitoring, AI Fitness Tracker App, for Android & iPhone, Pastel Pink

Great watch – replaced my fitbit
This watch is bright, long battery life (if you set it up right) and measures well. The connection to the phone (I have an apple phone) for calls – I couldn’t get going properly. It used battery life in hours not days. But texts, calendars and other app notifications is fine and I get 9-10 days of battery life. I am sure I am missing a step, but I prefer not to get calls on my watch anyway. Lots of good free screens and great paid ones, It does all I want – except connect to runkeeper – which is a bummer. But if that is the only downer I can live with it

So far I’m impressed.
I had a Wear OS watch that died and wanted to replace it but that wasn’t in my budget. I tried several smartwatches with my Samsung phone running Android 13 with mostly bad results; none of them did everything they claimed. Very frustrating. I wanted a circular style yet I kept looking at the BIP 5. Honestly, the only seller I found that would answer my questions honestly was Amazfit. So I gave it a chance. Glad I did.I’ve developed Android apps so I’m familiar with the “inner workings” as well as being a retired firmware engineer and one of the things that ticks me off is the fact that many Chinese watches aren’t properly designed. For example, Notifications in Android are visible to all apps loaded by the OS design; Android flags them by which app generated it. Many of the watches just read some specific Notifications that they have designed their code to use and ignore others. This means, for example, if you are using Samsung Email instead of Gmail and the watch only accepts Gmail then you will never get email Notifications. This is a major problem because I couldn’t find any watches that worked with everything and I found NONE that worked with a Calendar app…until this one. Based on descriptions and questions I asked, evidently to the Chinese “Calendar” means it will display date and time.Amazfit’s Zepp app is designed to take better advantage of Android’s features. In particular it seeks out all apps on your device and allows you to select whether you want Notifications from specific apps. To that purpose it uses Android’s generic functions so when you look at the list you find them all. Using a different email app than Gmail? No problem. Using a messaging app different than Google Messages? No problem. Using a Calendar? No problem.I exercise often yet I usually don’t wear my watch when I do because I’ve been known to break them. I do like using some of the fitness features yet those are usually just monitoring steps and heart rate; I have an abnormally low heart rate so I was surprised to find just how accurate the Bip 5 is for that. I can’t attest to the other fitness features.I wanted a watch that could run all day without needing charging; my former Wear OS couldn’t do that on busy days but most of the time it would last a single day only. The Bip 5 with heart monitoring on every few minutes has use 9% of the battery in over 24 hours so I suspect 10 days is a good estimate; I will probably charge it once a week.I wanted SMS and MMS Notifications because most “group conversations” are MMS; none of the watches I tried or researched would do that yet Amazfit said theirs would…and it does! Note that if you get a “true” MMS it notifies you that it was received but not show the video/image but I don’t care about that. I just wanted to know I got a message so this works great for both SMS/MMS.I want my Calendar events on my watch…and I get them!I want to see calls coming in on my watch with the ability to reject them…and I get that!I want to get email on my watch…and I get them!I want to have a quick response to emails on my watch; Wear OS allows you to type anything but I found myself only using “canned suggestions” 90% of the time and usually preferred using my phone except for OK, Yes, etc. The Bip 5 allows you to reply with canned responses that you can edit…so I can do that.Supposedly I can instigate a call on the Bip 5; I haven’t found that and never used that on my old watch so I probably don’t care if I find that setting. For grins, I answered a call using the Bip 5 and it worked well although I wear hearing aids so I probably won’t make a habit of that unless it is really quiet but it does work.Basically, the Bip 5 does the 6 things I wanted: read texts, answer texts with canned replies, read group texts, get events from my calendar, get my emails, and lasts more than a day. And it does so without drama.I honestly don’t really care for the basic watch faces and didn’t want to buy a custom one, especially since I wanted a round watch. To my surprise it comes with a “photo” watch face that you can customize with any pic you want that displays date/time over it and another optional message. I really like that so I uploaded a favorite pic. You can make multiple versions of faces, such as seasonal pics, and the app will keep them so it is easy to switch them. I only have two so far so I don’t know if there is a limit to how many but it is nice to have.I read some negative comments about the Zepp app yet those were old comments. It seems well designed and easy to use. To be fair I wrote software/firmware for 35+ years, including a lot of User Interfaces so I’m better versed than most people when it comes to testing the limits of code yet honestly it looks and works pretty well. Better than a lot of other watch apps I tried.

Muy bueno
Ya lo tengo hace casi 2 años lo he metido hasta en el agua y lodo y nada que se quiebra es muy fuerte y la batería me dura hasta 15 días

Awful watch
Updating my review. I contacted them again and they sent a new watch. My niece got it yesterday, but lets see. Hope works. If I could give this watch zero stars, I would. After less than six months, it completely stopped working and wouldn’t turn on, even after following every troubleshooting step exactly as instructed. I bought two of them, thinking an Amazon watch would be reliable, but both were a huge disappointment.I even paid for the warranty, and now I’m stuck without a working watch. Living outside the U.S. means it cost me twice as much to buy and ship it here — total waste of money. I just want a replacement or a refund. Do not buy this watch.

Es muy bueno, totalmente recomendable para regalo o para uno mismo, ya que cumple muy bien, es un poco complicado entender bien como se conecta al celular, quizá un caso en especial con el mío, pero cumple perfectamente con lo que dice, es muy buen reloj.

1st, it doesn’t have the band strap loop/s that all other watches of this style do. It has a slot that you slide the band end into so that the band end isn’t in your way! LOVE IT, ABSOLUTELY LOVE THIS FEATURE! It was in the ad but I didn’t notice it as I was more concerned with functions AND had never come across this style before so wasn’t looking for it. No more fighting with nor having to replace the band loops to hold the end of the band strap. Although this watch is a bit bigger in surface area than my old Garmin (which is round), it seems smaller! I love being able to read the time without having to put on glasses.The functions are easy enough to find and customize if you take the time to explore it. It was easy to synchronize with a cell phone where you can further customize functions as well as see more detail of sleep patterns, etc.This watch has much more to offer than I need, and it also has 3 games on it!! I had hoped for a more conventional face style choice but I did find a few that were free that I liked, so NO stars taken away.All in all, an excellent watch for the price ($109 CAD + taxes).

Good item