Hi everyone welcome to wesknows tech news and reviews just a couple of days ago we
have made a video about the best day-to-day budget smart watches and the fact that i'll
be switching from the magic watch 2 to a mass for gtr 2 as my day-to-day wearable
that review was a qualitative comparison today we have a quantitative one we'll be testing and
comparing the gps and step counts if you are new to Wesknows tech news and reviews we talk
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i took the two smart watches on an evening run i strapped up the watches tightly on my wrists
and took off as we know both have inbuilt dual gps but more on that later we wanted
the test in comparison to be as objective as possible hence the benchmark distance
was calculated using polar beat and another gpx app on my iphone 12. both apps traced
3.15 and 3.16 kilometers so we'll go with the polar beat with 3.16 kilometers
in order to test the accuracy of step counts cadence and stride on the smart watches we need
an accurate pedometer the most accurate pedometers are essentially foot worn. they count steps from
source of movement that is your feet and not just relying on the gyroscope and accelerometer data
i have overlaid the smartwatch gpx maps over the polar beat map let's go through each one with
a short recap of what the tracker offers and then its test results by the end of the video
we'll rank the results to find the most accurate gps receiver and step counter
between the honor magic watch 2 and Amazfit gtr 2. first up is the honor magicwatch 2.
being sold at under 150 bucks it brought you a 1.2 inch amoled display 326 ppi with 390 by 390
pixel resolution two gigabytes are allocated for music downloads there are 100 gold based fitness
profiles including triathlon mode you also get a dedicated running app with 13 running courses
which take you through running workouts of varying intensities to emphasize the outdoor nature it has
a compass barometer and altimeter and by the way the watch sits in a steel case the straps
are the generic 20 millimeter replaceable ones of course you also get three sleep stages monitoring
stress and guided breathing apps it also measures your spot or on demand blood oxygen saturation
aka sp02 if we look at the gps route recorded by magic watch 2 overlaying the benchmark gps route
we can see that the watch's route is all over the show the overstatement is just 0.15 of a kilometer
but there are so many erroneous signals that the relatively small overstatement from the benchmark
is most likely due to ad hoc averaging from all the zigzags around the real course some signals
look to cut corners while in other places the route is extended beyond the benchmark route
and now let's take a look at Amazfit gtr2. gtr2 was released in december 2020 it costs just under
180 bucks the case is made from an aluminium alloy keeping it light even for 47 millimeter
diameter at just 31.5 grams it's got a 1.39 inch amoled 454 by 454 pixel resolution display
there's no bezel to limit the display surface it stretches all the way to the watch case
there are tons of downloadable faces available from the zepp app but the biggest advantage is
that there's no compatibility issues with ios so you can easily upload custom faces from either
an ios or android devices you get 3gb allocated storage for music the watch has a speaker and
microphone so you can play music right off your wrist as well as take calls off your wrist the
watch features voice control as well and these voice commands can range from starting to play
music start and poor sports and activities you also get an array of apps and monitors that track
your pie so your personal activity index blood oxygen saturation aka sp02 stress level there's
also a timed breathing app and on top of that in the near future alexa is coming via an ota
update looking at the gps route recorded by the Amazfit gtr2 overlaying the benchmark gps route
we can see that the watch's gps receiver traced the route quite well except for one cutoff corner
and hence short by the 150 meters from the benchmark giving us a variance of 4.7 percent
let's take a look at the step counts now the footworm pedometer shows 3765 steps taken
and Amazfit gtr2 comes closer yet again with just 61 steps of the mark while honor magicwatch
2 is 84 steps out not a major difference but nonetheless so if we were to draw any conclusions
here we can see that step counts are quite accurate on both watches but the gps receiver
on honor magic watch 2 is much less accurate than on the amazfit gtr 2. let me know in the comments
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