Amazfit Balance In-Depth Review - Did They FINALLY Get It Right?

I just got an update on my Balance to ZeppOS3.5. There's lots of changes but the big ones is the additional of AI feature called Zepp Flow. And other one of interest to me is there's now maps.

Has it calling feature?

Thanks a lot for great video and lot advice !
I am use Amazfit GTR 4
with of course, Zepp App.
Suddenly, (until 2 days everything works fine) app did not show me "Nap" mode result, still "sleep" data is show and is ok.
Please, what can I do to "back to work" the NAP mode in Zepp App ?
If you have a time, please answer to me, this is very important to me.
Best regards and all the best to you 🏆💥👏

Great review, I definitely learned a lot. I’m an iPhone user however I’m very much put of with the battery life even though the ultra 2 might be marginally better. So to potentially get up to 14 days of battery life is really impressive.

No mention of the ability to reply to notifications or not 👎👎👎

My honor magic watch 2 still has all these features apartment from wifi. It has in built storage to store music.

On my second week with an Amazfit Balance. I've owned a Pace from back in the day, so I was familiar with the Amazfit brand. In between the Pace and the Balance I had a Garmin Vivoactive 3 and an Apple Watch. The Balance's screen is gorgeous and the watch just looks better than my prior three watches. Whatever they did fixed the GPS and heartrate issues that plagued older Amazfit watches. No issues with notifications or anything. Battery life has been great so far. I love this freaking watch. Edited to add I'm using it with an iPhone

Can it be compared to Garmin Venu 3 or Samsung Galaxy 6? It's not "budget" at all - you add 50EUR and get a Samsung Galaxy watch 6 classic 43mm. Samsung is a far more solid watch, except for the battery life.

Let's be honest, so far nothing is an Apple killer when it comes to features, capability, usability and hardware. Samsung comes close

No, not for me (I am a runner). It doesn't support interval training (in any meaningful way). No impending end of workout step tones, voice notifications or vibrations. A single vibration and brief step info which you are inevitably going to miss. No progress graphic if you also have a heart rate range. HR zones have to be based on a max of 220-age and can't be edited (mine is 36 too low!). No support for pace zones. AI plans to 10k only. The Huawei Watch GT4 is better for running and also has a track mode. Depends on what you want it for, but not a very good option for someone seriously trying to improve their running.

Amazfit has the worst after sales service. I bought a GTR 3 Pro and less than 2 years it's touch stopped working

I really enjoy your no-BS reviews and the fact that you tackle devices that some other bloggers won't. I have ordered one! I tried an Huawei GT4, which is a very pretty smartwatch, but the "Quantified Scientist"s assertion of great optical HR did not bear out with my usage, in fact, for me, the optical HR sucked (almost inevitable cadence lock after 20 minutes or so as it dialled down the LEDs to save power). I don't normally have issues with optical HR and I use HR a lot for training on longer runs so this was a deal-breaker. I also found the GPS/GNSS sketchy as it was overly smoothed and tracked through corners and buildings. I sent it back. Using it however got me used to having a large amoled display and smartwatch features and it felt really hard going back to my Coros. I can't justify the cost of a higher end Garmin device with amoled so I am going to give the Amazfit a try. Perhaps they have got this one nearly right this time.

Did you mention if you need the phone with you when you go for a run? or can you leave phone at home when you go for run and sync data when you get home?

comparisons to apple watch are always a miss. If you start comparing anything non-apple with apple watch in regards to the 'ecosystem', you are at a loss on every single point. The fact that a watch has gps, hr and music control doesn't make it apple watch alternative :) So it's always a question: what do you need 'a smart watch' to do? if your answer is "I need something to track my sport/outdoors activity" and you are not in apple ecosystem, buying apple watch is plain waste of money (borderline stupid as without an iphone it's pretty much a brick) - ANYTHING is better than apple watch :) if, however, you need ecosystem integration (with siri, tags location, apps integrations etc...), then no, nothing is 'apple watch alternative'.

Great informative video like always 😊.I sold my series 9 with 2 days battery and bought this watch, its amazing I already have t rex2{ for work} and mi band 7(for alarm clock) but they are useless for workout but the balance is worth for buying Im using for walking and small runing and its very accurate and also show me burned calories
all day on the watchface. I also can dowload new watchfaces not like the borring ones on apple watch. 😊

It's an amazing watch, but a good advice for people who want it, do yourself a favour and buy a cover/screen protector for the watch as the glass scratches extremely easily.

When I saw the name, I thought just another Amazon product and kept on scrolling. Glad you mentioned that it is not affiliated with Amazon.

I’ve got the T-Rex 2. These watches are amazing. These destroy the Ultra for ruggedness and price. Thousands of community built watch faces. 7 day battery as well.

the samsung watch is better than both the apple watch and this.

I had several Amazfit watches, they suck ! their HR sensor is extremely inaccurate especially for HIIT training and regular fat burning sessions.
If you want something decent and affordable get a Garmin, any Garmin will do.
To knock Apple out of the ballpark you are mistaken very badly.

I gotta stop watching I just hate tht crown on a round watch cringe

Still Apple

Tht crown tho is shitty looking

They have to change their name. I skipped over many recommendations, because it sounded like it's made by Amazon and I do not want a smart watch by them.

as a Apple Watch user I am so jaloux of the watchface store 😢 Apple can't design watchfaces 😮

How easily does it sync with Strava?

so ugly

no saphire? then it is a no go for me. Every sport watch should have saphire IMO.

Is it better than amazfit cheetah for daily running?

Did he ssy menstrual tracking? I rewound three times sure sounds like it

Value smartwatch @ 229$!!!!!!!!😂😂😂

Does the smartwatch support the Korean language?

Finally, an Amazfit watch with good accuracy. The rest of their watches are typically very inaccurate.

I'm currently using T Rex 2. I consider switching to Cheetah Pro, but I don't like really bezel color and nylon band. The Amazfit Balance looks pretty nice though.

Where is the amazfit service center.

In poland now it 305$ for this watch ;O why so expensive,

I decided on a Coros Pace 2 because the price is really good right now. First time using a Coros so I'm looking forward to using one. I just realized the Zepp app does not track elevation which is really important for me when I cycle.

Great job. Thank you

Hi, thanks for the review. Would you choose this Balance over the Ticwatch 5 pro? Thanks in advance!

Thank you for this really useful review. I got tthis what as a gift I could choose for Christmas, because my old Vivoactive 3's battery is dead in 1-2 day's without GPS usage. The display is really impressive and the performance is awsome compared to the Vivoactive 3.
It would be really nice, if a brand took the first step to produce a watch, which is repairable. I don't like to change the watch in 2 - 3 years, just because the battery is nearly dead.

Creo que coros es ua mucho mejor opción como reloj deportivo

He usado amazfit por algun ienpo tengo un amazfit band. Un amazfit Neo un amazfit gtr3 pro y gtr4, aunque los productos son aceptables el gran problema es que abandonan a los usuarios, por ejemplo el amazfit gtr4 y amazfit cheetapro son exectame iguales en hadware meses de diferencia de lanzamiento pero no afrecen actualización para gtr4 😢

Me thinking it was from Amazon 😂

Agree with you 100% Amazing amazfit

Is the font size any larger than on the GTS3?

Do i need phone on me to pay or listen to music?

What about app store?

I have been using the Amazfit GTS 3 for the past 3 years. To give you guys a little bit of context, I work and use it in a containership Engine Room, where if you ask me, is probably the most brutal working environment on earth. Sometimes -5 to +50 degrees celcius, exposure to acids, chemicals, dirty oils, seawater, high pressure fluids, steam etc. Now it has all kinds of scratches since everywhere is metal. Yet it still works! Yes battery life maybe less than original years ago, but basically for me, as long as it can survive the environment you’ll be using your smartwatch, its good enough. Amazfit watches delivers! No doubt.