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this the Amazfit Verge and I've been so excited to test this one I've been
waiting for a while to get my hands on one of these
after all I've tried nearly every other amazing device but I have a feeling that
this one is going to be super special it's got a 33 millimeter fully round
display made from third gen Gorilla Glass and the body is a little on the
thick side at twelve point six millimeters but it needs to be to pack
the punch that it delivers the red accents are a nice touch and it makes it
stand out from the crowd on the rear it's got an optical heart rate sensor
but internally also has an accelerometer gyro meter geomagnetic sensor air
pressure sensor ambient light sensor and a GPS module this is all running from a
1.2 gigahertz dual-core processor and a 390 mAh battery that gives it up to five
days of real-world use it's ip68 rated - meaning it's water-resistant but not
waterproof so isn't recommended for swimming
this watch is good-looking but the real beauty is when the display is on and
this watch features a beautiful AMOLED display which I'll talk about more very
shortly so let's start off by talking about the style ultimately it's a bit of
a one-trick pony when it comes to style currently they only offer two different
colors they often this one which is like a grey black color and they also offer a
white version I think both look okay but you're a little bit limited when it
comes to customizability because you can change the strap it's got a quick
release thing on the bottom here so you can pull this and take the strap off
like this I can't do it because I'm completely in it there we go so it comes
out like that but the straps are quite unique they're not like a normal watch
strap so customizability options you are a little bit stock and as well when you
use non amazement Verge straps I don't particularly think it looks very good
have a look at this this is what that looks like so you can see that it
doesn't look the best I believe but you know what each to their own put this
back in now I would say though that the strap they have included is very very
good on the inside of the little I don't what do you call this restraint for your
strap there's a little nodule that sits nicely in here so it is a very very firm
on your wrist and it's not going to come off very easy at all so that is a big
bonus the best bit about the style though if we take out the little bits
that I don't like is the fact it's got an OLED display so let's take a closer
look at that it is just brilliant and when you've got watch places like this
that have true black on it just makes that color and the screen and the
details just pop now the watch face is this is pretty interesting so unlike a
lot of manufacturers with the watch faces on a maze whip devices you have a
huge amount of customizability and I don't mean from the stock watch faces
but I mean the fact that you can install your own watch faces and there are
literally thousands to download and my favorite websites use is a main fit
watch faces comm which I'll leave a link in the description below so you can
check that out yourself but let's just have a quick look at how
easy it is to install your own watch face firstly you're gonna need to plug
the Amaze fit verge in by the way it's not the most beautiful looking charger
and in fact it's actually quite awkward but forgetting that fact plug it in and
plug it in to your computer then we need to do is go to a maze pit watch race is
calm and you also need to download Android file transfer as well so you can
move the files from your computer to the watch once it's plugged in you'll see
all the files on the amazement watch appear in the Android file transfer app
now all we need to do is download a new watch face so if we have a look on the
watch faces available there's loads and loads of stuff all developed by
different developers you can get really nice ones such as I don't know Lions or
standard watch faces you can get ones that look like other brands as well but
there's a huge variety of different watch faces including this one which
shows a bunch of exercises between two people I personally prefer anything that
uses black as the main color because that really makes the OLED display look
a lot nicer anything with a colored background I think looks okay but I just
prefer to have that OLED really really pop out with color once you've found a
watch face that you like the most all you need to do is click on that
watch face and then hit the download button just on the left underneath the
actual at picture itself you'll get given the option to download something
called a wfz file no idea what it is
I'm guessing it's watchface disease watch faces I don't know who knows but
that is the file type that you need to download to pop on to watch now once
it's downloaded all you simply do is drag that file into the watch face
folder on the Amaze bit verge and then done when you go back into the watch
you'll be able to find that particular watch face so that you can select it and
use that in future believe me if you get one of these your thunk before that tip
now it's all very well and good talking about how beautiful that displays but
let's talk about the actual functionality of the OS on here now the
OS is Jamie's own version of Canada Android wear type device but I've always
thought they did quite well it's there it's very very similar to the amazed fit
Stratos which I have done a review of and I'll leave a link up there for that
obviously it's a different display so looks a bit different
and also it's a much snappier device as well due to the bumped up specs but
let's have a look at how it works so there's a couple of ways to wake the
watch first of all you can either raise the wake all you can press the bun on
the side and that should unlock it as well at the moment it's a low-power
display because you did raised awake but the moment you press this button here it
wakens to full brightness now to change the watch face dead-simple just hold in
the middle like this you've got access to a few different watch faces on here
you may have noticed I installed that lovely one here which is the couple as
exercises which I found quite useful and but there's a few different options
available some of these are stock ones but I've installed a few myself not this
one because that's horrible let's go back to a different one let's go back to
a nicer one I mean this one's quite funky there's a lot going on on this one
so there is really quite a lot of options for different watch faces and
like I said the options are limitless now the actual software itself if we go
on here and swipe right this is where we get access to the bits of information
such as health heart rate sports sleep this is basically giving you an idea of
what your history's been like in terms of stats now going back swipe down we've
got lots of different apps on here things like music control phone control
your weather alarm fun phone now one thing I would say is that it is a very
snappy watch very very snappy much more so than the Amaze Fitbit and they made
fit Stratos the Stratos this is most like a guess but this is a much snappier
operating system than the Stratos right or it definitely runs the operating
system a lot better now I can actually have these as widgets as well so if I
choose through the app to have these as a widget when I swipe right I'll get
access to a larger version or its eventually tap on that there oh there's
the tech from Sam sure you see what that said now to see what that said from Sam
let's have a look get back nope swipe up instead and there
we are he lights amazing sweet Virg review coming tonight so that was a
notification and you can see in here by the way all the app icons are displayed
not every single one but most app icons are shown on the amazements operating
system which i think is a really nice touch and just makes it a little bit
better than many many other fitness trackers and smartwatches out there that
generally can't show the icons so that's quite a nice lot of touch but yeah
overall the operating system itself is very snappy and I've been very very
impressed with it overall there isn't really anything to criticize about it
it's just designed very well indeed moving on as always a fitness tracker or
smartwatches always only as good as the app it comes with now the amazement
verge uses something slightly different to the bit it uses the same one as their
Stratis which is the amazement app now when I did my original review of the
Stratos I thought that was ok wasn't anything super special but they have
updated it a bit and it does look them feel and function a bit nicer
so in here just to give you an overview of how it
you can tap on different bits of information such as steps here and I can
see my steps today or I can see my weekly steps or monthly steps and if we
go into something like my heart rate I've got constant heart rate turned on
on this which does reduce battery life but it means that I'm always getting my
heart rate through to the app but I can go through history here obviously and
see yesterday I didn't wear it and then 27th of May it was 83 average 27th I
didn't wear it 25th was 89 76 on 24 2013 7 t9 57 on the 22nd of May I must have
been very relaxed on that day but overall it gives you a good insight to
your health history now one good thing I quite liked about this as you can see a
really good visualization of your previous activities now this has GPS
built in to write up on this activity just here for example I can see just a
very very short walk that I did this morning with the dogs and I can
basically look at how fast I was going which parts I moved the quickest which
path I stopped but overall it gives me some really decent information about
that walk so for usage if you're running or training outdoors it really is quite
a useful piece of kit I think if I was to come to some sort of opinion on the
app I'd say it's nothing super special but nor is it something that's gone
hideously wrong it does a good job and what it's meant to do and it doesn't
have lots of flashy images and text and all that nonsense
I think it does a good job more than you'd need to connect to a watch
let's stop singing its praises for just a second
and let's talk about where I think it's gone wrong the first thing is music now
you can control your phone with this so if for example I've dropped my phone
playing music I can skip track or pause it directly through the watch which is a
nice addition now you can store music directly on this as well
and screen to Bluetooth headphones however and that has to be in mp3 form
and I don't remember the last time people used mp3s I mean don't you have
to download LimeWire or something to get an mp3 most people use things like Apple
music or Spotify or even YouTube to stream their music it's very very rare
that people actually have mp3s that they can put on two devices nowadays I mean
correct me if I'm wrong I'm sure there's somebody watching this right now going
religiously well that's fine you can be part of the cult of mp3 but I'm not and
I don't think many people are but actually you know to put files on there
it's quite straightforward you just have to get hold of the mp3s to put them on
and I mean you saw earlier me putting the watch faces on dead easy really
straightforward it's just the file type the mp3 some of you may struggle with
the next thing would be the sound now the sound itself is okay it's not too
bad it is a little bit tinny sometimes but when you're using it to take a phone
call it doesn't really work that well also I found especially when you do
FaceTime so the other week for example I was facetiming someone and I chosen to
take the audio through the phone now when you flip the camera around in
FaceTime on the iPhone it decides to reconnect the audio each time to the
watch so you men got the audio coming through this and going through that and
it's all a bit of a faff and I think doesn't work that well ah and another
criticism is that at the time of review at this moment in time which is May 2009
teen you can't get a lexer on this in the UK now if you're watching this in
the US you can actually get a lecture on this so you can use it as a voice
assistant which i think is incredible but you just can't get it in the UK at
the moment which is both disappointing and miserable very much like the UK's so
America you quids in when that one but you maybe watch
this and Alexa is available in the UK and if you are apologies I guess the
best place to check whether it is or not is on the amazement website so we've
spoken about some things that I think they've done very well on and we've
spoken about some things that I think they haven't done so well on but the
real question is what does it cost and how much do you pay for this device well
it depends all you're looking so let's have a quick peek generally speaking it
ranges from about 100 to 130 depending on if it's on offer or not but as usual
guys I will leave a link in the description below so you can check it
out for yourselves on to my final thoughts and conclusion of the amazement
vert first of all is it a good fitness tracker absolutely is it a good
SmartWatch absolutely and is it worth the price that it's asking for
indefinitely I think that this is an incredible piece of tech for the price
and if you are looking for a really nice looking SmartWatch slash fitness tracker
with an OLED display at a cheap price point I think the amazement verge is an
absolute no-brainer and if you're used to any form of amazement device I can
promise you this one will not disappoint and that concludes today's review guys
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