This Budget Fitness Watch From Amazfit Is Only $80 Right Now
This year’s Amazon Big Spring Sale doesn’t have too many deep discounts on premium watches, but we are seeing some sweet deals on budget models.
One worth looking at is Amazfit’s Active 2 Sport , on sale today for $79.99.
It’s a fitness watch with a solid feature set, and it will cost you half the price of other brands’ entry-level watches.
I’ll confess that when I first heard of Amazfit, I assumed they were some kind of Amazon fitness brand.
But there’s no relation—the Amazfit brand is owned by a company called Zepp.
And Zepp has quietly been making solid fitness devices for years, including some unexpected ones.
It has the best Whoop alternative (the Amazfit Helio Strap, also branded as Core ), it’s working on a meal-tracking camera , and it’s made several impressive forays into the world of high-end adventure watches.
I liked Amazfit's T-Rex 3 Pro when I reviewed it : nice hardware, ambitious software features, but ultimately somewhat clunky execution.
My colleague Meredith Dietz had a similar experience with the T-Rex Ultra 2 .
Not all of Zepp’s products hit the mark they aim for, but they’re never bad , and I’m generally pretty impressed with the company.
Even at full price, the Active 2 Sport watch is only $99.99.
I haven’t tested this watch myself, but I have been trying out the Active Max ($169.99), a more recent version with a bigger screen.
It seems pretty nice so far, although you'll have to wait for my final verdict.
The Active watches don’t make as big a swing for fancy features as the T-Rex models Meredith and I reviewed, and so it’s a lot easier for them to meet your needs.
The Active 2 has GPS and heart rate tracking, sleep tracking, 160+ workout modes, and it can handle calls and texts from a Bluetooth-connected phone.
