(Image credit: Future) Amazfit T-Rex 2: Performance The battery life, said to support 24 days of typical use, 10 days of heavy use and 50 hours in GPS mode, will suit weekend adventure warriors down to the ground. Swimming metrics include strokes counted, and strength training functionalities include neat body heat maps where you can effectively see which part of the body your exercise has worked.ĭual-band satellite positioning should allow for accurate positioning, with full-color maps displayed on the watch and the ability to follow your route back the way you came, to the start of your course. When it comes to reporting on your workouts, training load, anaerobic capacity, VO2 max and all the usual metrics you'd expect are very much present-and-correct alongside simple time, distance, heart rate and calories burned. It offers good sleep tracking capabilities, strength training exercise recognition, and tools like the in-built barometer and compass suited for the watch’s primary audience: adventure enthusiasts. It's obviously not for measuring race-accurate start time but I was satisfied with the results on the Zepp app.Īmazfit offers “training templates” which are essentially workout plans on your watch, including warm-ups and cool-downs. The running and walking ExerSense automatic workout logging kicked in roughly 15-20 seconds after the exercise began. There’s a whole host of other modes from skiing to outdoor swimming to indoor strength training, but we obviously didn’t have time to test them all. Eight sports, including running, walking, pool swimming and outdoor cycling, can be automatically tracked and logged, so you don’t even have to select a workout (providing you enable the watch’s ExerSense algorithm). This is one of the areas the T-Rex 2 really good for its price, as it crams in the features with over 150 sports modes. Workouts are presented as dull lists of stats, and although there’s plenty of metrics, little actionable advice on what you can do with all that information. The layout makes no sense, with features arbitrarily split between the “homepage” and “health” tabs. It’s far from unusable, the graphs on sleep metrics and GPS are well-presented, but it’s not got either the friendliness and accessibility of Fitbit Premium, which is all rounded corners and simple scores, or Garmin Connect, which has advanced AI pacing tools and next-level metric deep dives. When it comes to design, the Zepp app is okay.
It could be that the watch is thick because that’s what an adventure watch is expected to be, but either way, people with smaller wrists might feel a tad overwhelmed at the large size. It could be that in order to get all the features in needed at this price point, Amazfit hasn’t minimized some of the technology. However, its size, which is what makes it so visually striking, might also be its undoing. It shone at night, it was readable in sunlight, and it was a genuine pleasure to operate.
The big screen is lovely from a touch-screen perspective, allowing for additional space to swipe through, and the action is smooth. I absolutely loved the screen, and even though some of the watch face designs were a little ugly, I could not fault the screen itself.
The watch is undoubtedly robust, with 10ATM water resistance and passing its military tests including being “tough enough to be operated4 even in extreme temperatures as low as -30☌”, but the chunkiness and the wide watch face is larger than some of its competitors.
The strap that comes with it is a thick rubber, while the watch face is large, sporting a 1.39” AMOLED screen at 434px x 434px, which is bright to the tune of 1,000 nits. It also echoes the structure of Garmin, with four buttons - up, down, select and back - and a steel loop or nodule where the fifth button should be. The Amazfit T-Rex 2 is designed like a G-Shock, chunky and blocky with a polymer outer layer. (Image credit: Matt Evans) Amazfit T-Rex 2: Design
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