Amazfit Cheetah Smart Watch with Dual-Band GPS, Route Navigation & Offline Maps, Training Template, Heart Rate Monitor, Alexa-Built In

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There are some additional battery-saver modes to boost things from anywhere to 24-45 days, but that does mean living a more primitive smartwatch life. Overall, I found that Amazfit overestimated my training load compared to Garmin, but this is in part because of a shorter sample load of data and because I started running with it when I was "overtraining" according to Garmin, making me look less fit to Zepp's algorithms.

You can view mapping data from one of the data screens during runs where you’ll be able to pick out greener areas and give you some added detail.In Amazfit’s press materials, they put a lot of emphasis on the accuracy of the GPS, so in particular I wanted to see how well that piece did. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. It has limited ability to pair with external sensors (via BTLE only), so heart rate and power meters only. This makes it ideal for those who enjoy running in the rain or even those who want to combine their running training with swimming.

Some software quirks however mean it's not quite the complete Garmin or Apple rival when it comes to delivering the best run tracking or smartwatch experience. The Cheetah Pro, alongside the Cheetah Round and Cheetah Square, wants to prove that the best running watch doesn’t just lie with Garmin, Polar, Coros, and the likes of Apple. Michael Sawh has been covering the wearable tech industry since the very first Fitbit landed back in 2011.It’s great that there’s more competition in the space, but as your review seems to suggest, what’s the point of developing great feature rich hardware if the software and platform don’t allow it to be reliably accessible?

There are a few quirks to the tracking experience and they can add up collectively to make using the watch a slightly irritating experience at times. Amazfit has come a long way from its early days of budget Apple Watch lookalikes and Xiaomi Mi Band clones. Uploading routes to follow is done via the My Route menu on the phone app, which is tucked away and lets you sync over GPX files and previous runs. The Amazfit Cheetah Pro is a high-end sports watch designed for outdoors enthusiasts and runners looking to take their training to the next level. He also regularly contributed to T3 magazine when they needed someone to talk about fitness trackers, running watches, headphones, tablets, and phones.

Like all fabric straps, it retains water, so post-shower you need to be careful of where you place your wrist, or else you get a damp spot on your shorts/pants/crotch/wherever. The general look of Zepp OS doesn’t scream sophistication and while Zepp doesn’t disclose the chipset powering performance, it does at least run pretty slick. Track Run Mode, on the other hand, provides time, distance, and pace data for every lap, and if needed, the Cheetah Pro's algorithm can correct your trajectory and distance to ensure your performance data in the Zepp App matches your selected lane. As no scheduling of custom workouts I tried their AI generated marathon workout which did schedule and was updated weekly.

sports modes Great variety of sports modes, incluing outdoor running, treadmill, traithalon, HIIT and more. The coloring of the red/orange portion of the screen appears to be the same no matter what happens with any of the metrics within it – ensuring that’s always Cheetah Cheetolishous. The most common question I receive outside of the “what’s the best GPS watch for me” variant, are photography-esq based. The one up top is a twisting crown type, which has been the go-to approach for a lot of smartwatch makers getting into the sports watch space. Pre-update I ran a one-lap, 5k race against the Garmin Forerunner 965 and generally data and mapped routes matched up, though the Amazfit suggested I’d paused the watch for over a minute and this emphasised some of the odd software quirks I experienced overall with the Cheetah Pro.

There’s a music player included too, though unlike music player-packing Garmin watches and Apple Watches, doesn’t work with music streaming services. That’s in addition to existing features like structured workout training, training load/recovery metrics, and more.