Gadgetbridge
A free and cloudless replacement for your gadget vendors' closed source Android applications. See the list for supported devices.
Gadgetbridge users, can you tell about your smart watch and what are it's pros/cons.
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Amazefit Bip - pro: transflective display with backlight, supreme battery life (weeks), virtually indistructible (although I had massive doubts at the start), all the features I need. con: replaced the wristband almost immediately - really cheap.
Bip here. Bought 2018. Have been charging it literally only once a month.
It relieved me from the battery anxiety of my previous sony smartwatch that ran the full googles smartwatch OS. That thing lasted usually a day. Less if i did anything meaningful on it. It made me seriously think if it needed a watch that would do everything, but ended up doing nothing anyway because of the battery life.
Exactly this. It's nice to go on vacation and not even worry about packing a charger.
Bip S user here. Formerly a pebble holdout. Nice watch at a nice price and no thanks to the Zepp app
Is the Amazefit made by Xiaomi? Just curious, no l not sure how they seem to share hardware.
Amazefit is a Trademark of Huami Technologies, which is a Xiaomi daughter company, according to Wikipedia.
Thanks! I guess I'll look them up for alternatives. The local Xiaomi store only carries the Mi band 7 pro etc, no longer compatible with gadgetbridge...
Later comments mention the Fossil Hybrid. I just checked that watch, and have to admit it is really nice. There is a strong want urge, for me.
Then I remembered another pro for the Bip: It is comparatively cheap, at <50€ (I seem to remember 36€ at when I bought it, years ago?).
So for me, with everyday items like mobiles or watches, I use them heavily till they break. I really would hate to get a scratch on that really nice Fossil, but with the Amazefit, it would not hurt that much.
So the tldr pro is: Very good feature to price ratio.