Amazfit Balance 46mm Smart Watch, NFC Contactless Payment, AI Fitness Coach, 14-Day Battery Life, Sleep & Health Monitoring, GPS, 150+ Sports Modes, Bluetooth Calls, AMOLED Screen for Android & iPhone

I've had a number of smart watches and fitness trackers, including a number of wear OS devices. This is the most impressive one I've had so far. The battery life is remarkable (10 days with everything switched on), screen is easy to read (adjusts to light level), GPS works well to track workouts (along with map for navigation). The notifications work well (initially too well as vibrated for every change during google maps for example, but you can turn off by app within the zepp app). Also used NFC payment (had to set up via curve but only took five minutes to take from my credit card and no fee as don't need a physical card from curve). Very configurable, on watch and within device tab of zepp app. Good selection of sleep, readiness and everyday/exercise health statisticsBut the most impressive thing is the battery life! Does virtually all my wear OS watch did, and more in some cases, cheaper and in a good-looking, lightweight package. Recommend (I received no payment etc for this review and paid for device)

This is the best smartwatch I’ve bought. The original strap it comes with is very comfy. The size of the display is perfect with so many faces to choose from. All of the measurements seem very accurate especially when paired with the amazfit scales. Compared to an Apple Watch it’s great value for money and looks amazing. It can pair with Apple health and import all data, has really good automatic tracking when starting exercises. Would highly recommend.Just to update the battery life is really good a full charge lasts me around 5 days

The watch works very well, charge is not quite as good as stated - but probably because I have all options turned on and keep playing with it!Alexa took a lot of getting working, 1st it would not even get a login page but this did eventually work, next I couldn't log in - after a bit of Googleing I deleted all other Amazon apps from my phone, logged in then re added other apps - everything not works perfectly.The phone calling, text messaging and WhatsApp is brilliant for reading and quick replies work very well. The fitness functions and GPS work very accurately. There are a good number of free watch faces and moving between them are quick and easy from phone app or watch menus.The watch build quality is high standard and the strap is better than expected.All in all I feel this watch is good value for money, looks good for smart and everyday use + outdoors adventure use.**********************UpdateZepp Pay up and running (there was never a problem, just didn't set it up). You need a Curve account in the UK. If you are new to Curve as I was Curve is 'middle man' virtual account (a little like using PayPal) but you also get a real card.Zepp pay appears to be accepted widely (probably anywhere that accepts mastercard).Battery life of appear to still be improving.

Ok I feel like I should write a review. I have moved from apple to android after the 3rd gen iPhone. 2 reasons, cost and phone/watch options. Really enjoying android. My phone choice was red magic 9 pro (excellent 👌) and my watch choice was a ticwatch pro 5. At the time I thought the ticwatch was excellent. Good battery life (about 3 days inc 3 to 4 gym sesh per week) unique display and solid build. After a while though I noticed that my heart rate while on the running machine was off quite a bit. Sometimes up to 20bpm (I think this is more how the watch sat on my wrist than the watch itself) but, after a while this just got to me. I would spend nearly all the time on the running machine adjusting the watch to try and correct the BPM vs what the running machine was telling me. Not really wanting to change though, the balance came on offer for £120, so I pulled the trigger. Man, so happy I did. The balance sits nicer on my wrist, I barely notice it's there. The screen is better, the battery lasts 10 days with the same usage as my ticwatch, the heartrate reading is much more accurate, I get ALL my notifications, there are more accessories available. The list goes on. The UI on the balance is better, the phone app is better, there is more data to interrogate and yes, curve works brilliantly for contactless payments (better than Google wallet on ticwatch), yes you can reply to messages via onscreen keyboard or voice to text. The virtual assistant is accurate and easy to use. The speaker and mic for phonecalls is soooo much better than on the ticwatch. One niggle I have is when using the downloaded map, I can't get the map to orientate, as I would like the map to orientate rather than my location/direction triangle. It's a very little niggle and it may just be in a setting I haven't found. The watch is fantastic and does EVERYTHING and more my Google OS ticwatch did!I did originally buy the balance thinking "I will probably be returning it", but no, the ticwatch is now for sale.

So far so good, this is proberbly the most feature rich watch I have owned so far and I have tried lots including Apple, Garmin, Withings, Fitbit, Honor and other Amazfit models. Can't comment on activity as I'm only interested in walking and I put no value on sleep tracking but the step count and heart rate appear accurate. But where it shines for me is all the other stuff like calendar, todo lists, easy to read notifications, music which can be stored on the watch as well as on your phone, etc etc as well as the ability to add more from the Zepp store like a calculator, currency and unit convertors etc. still finding new stuff like sleep mode which dims the screen and puts it into a low energy mode whilst you sleep. Plenty of watch faces to choose from. My only gripe is like all Amazfit watches I've had is the bluetooth connection is slow to reconnect and the watch says it's disconnected whilst my iPhone says it is connected

Large screen, easy to see and read, very light. Lots of features.Well worth the money