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by TMWNN·5y ago·view on hn ↗
>4 years later, I'm still not blown away at the sensor technology on Apple Watch. (disc. I have one) Sleep tracking wasn't added till the latest release!!??

I didn't buy an Apple Watch because of a) the cost and b) not wanting to charge a watch every day. My Amazfit Bip is 2.5 years old, and has

* Heart rate detection up to every minute (automatically speeds up to real time during workout)

* Bluetooth Smart sensor functionality, so I can use it to report heart rate to compliant apps like iSmoothRun

* Sleep tracking

* 25 days of battery life (real world, not specification)

* GPS (although I never use it, preferring GPS on my phone through iSmoothRun)

* Notifications display

* More than 20,000 user-contributed watch faces

* $60 price when I bought it; the successor Bip S is about the same price today

It doesn't have Apple Watch's arrythmia or blood oxygen detection, and there is a UI bug that the company never fixed after it appeared last year, but otherwise Bip has done exactly what it promised and more.