Amazfit Band 5 Activity Fitness Tracker with Alexa Built-in, 15-Day Battery Life, Blood Oxygen, Heart Rate, Sleep & Stress Monitoring, 5 ATM Water Resistant, Fitness Watch for Men Women Kids, Black

I started a new job that required me to be on my feet all day, move around a lot, and wash my hands constantly. It was important to me to have a waterproof watch so I could time certain aspects of my job. I wanted a cheap waterproof watch, and after trying two different 20 dollar watches from The Mart of Wal that both lasted less than a week, I decided to purchase this. I didn't care about tracking anything, I just wanted something cheap but durable that could handle being roughed up and exposed to water that would still tell the time.This thing is amazing for that purpose, but I wouldn't want to rely on it to accurately track biometrics.I've knocked my hand/wrist/arm into walls, pipes, sinks, toilets, desks, doorways hard enough on multiple occasions to wince and be convinced I accidentally cracked the screen. The screen is still flawless, and I didn't put any sort of protector on it. I've washed my hands enough to turn them red, submerged this watch, wiped it with lysol orisopropyl alcohol to disinfect it, accidentally slathered it in lotion, and it's come clean and still works perfectly every time. In fact, after a few months of use, it looks just the same as the day I bought it.11/10 for durability.However, sometimes this thing misreads. One time I had it sitting in the pouch on the front of my lunchbox at work for a few hours, and it decided my heart rate was 40 BPM during those hours despite me not even being in the same room. (Unless my lunchbox has come to life?) Sometimes the device decides my heartrate is 120 while I'm sitting down, or 50 while I'm on my feet, and when I check my pulse with a blood pressure cuff I have in the house, it is most definitely normal. Overall the baseline pulse seems somewhat accurate, it just spikes and falls once or twice a day seemingly at random. The blood oxygen sensor seems to be bamboozled if I'm sweaty or have just washed my hands. One time I was sitting watching TV, and when I got up the watch decided that during the time I was watching TV I was actually asleep and it cheerfully informed me of my 'nap' biometrics.The one set of readings that seems pretty accurate is the step counter / pedometer. It wasn't a feature I was looking for but now that I have it I like to wear it even when I don't need a watch (mowing the lawn, etc) just to see how many steps I'm putting it.If you have a health condition that requires accurate information, or are serious about tracking, look elsewhere. If you want the world's most durable waterproof watch, this is it. If you're curious but not serious to see your pulse or other readings, and don't need them to be medically accurate, this is probably a good place to start with a basic tracker.The custom backgrounds are a nice perk, but I like having my pedometer information and the current weather displayed on the face, and none of the custom watch face templates have that so I've stuck with the default one. Customize-ability in this is basic but still way more than I was expecting since I bought this just looking for a cheap watch.It's also been EXTEREMELY comfortable to wear. I hate having jewelry on me, won't even wear my wedding ring because I hate the feel of something on my skin like that, but this doesn't bother me unless I'm particularly sweaty.Highly recommend, unless you're looking for accuracy.

The size of this model #5 is terrific . Not too large and easy to read. It does all the tracking that I need and easily connects to the app on my phone. Amazon also sells additional colors of the bands which are very easy to change. Just remember which model you have before ordering

Really like this watch. Its super basic but ofc its also cheap so what do you expect... The quality is good though, had mine for almost 2 years now and its still going strong. NO PICTURES ON TEXT THOUGH just be warned. You will only get basic text through it, and you cant reply like on an actual apple watch or anything.So yea again its super basic but for me it does the job. Heart rate, step counter, alarms, and shows me texts that come through when I cant look at my phone.

****UPDATED REVIEW****So I am about a week or so from the last review.ONE cool thing I will note is that (at least on iPhone) there are widgets you can place on your phone screentop.I left off the last review on 1/27 with 57% battery, recently charge on 1/25.Battery died on 1/29, I charged it on 1/30. Wore my iWatch on 1/30 and 1/31.Put the Amazefit Band on 2/1. It's 2/3 (8am) I am at 51%.As I've mentioned previously aside from the original charge, I've had to sync up with the app every time for all the feature to work/work properly. This is highly annoying.The last 2 charging times, the band is not syncing or remaining synced.For example it's telling me it's 60/64 degree's and sunny, sorry its 43 degree's (65/40) and raining.Or it's told me I haven't walked at all - literally 0 (ZERO) steps today - I've been up wrangling kids for the bus since 5am. Three hours I haven't taken a single step? When did I learn to fly? My iPhone pedometer which hasn't even been on my person the whole time, has registered 218 steps.I have to open the app and swipe the sync for it to sync, it doesn't automatically do it.It's literally just NOT functioning in the basic capacity.And I'm about 3 days out of the return window.....of course.Guess my kids just got a new toy.Back to the have to charge every night iWatch. At least I can answer calls on it, and it has a calculator and memo recorder.~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Has everything you want, maybe more so. Lacks accuracy.(Review is in compared to an iWatch.)The main reason I wanted a watch/band is: a watch, a pedometer, a rudimentary fitness tracker (including walking, treadmill, cardio and swimming), a sleep tracker (including duration, REM, # of times awaken during the night, and quality) & continuous heart rate monitor. The stress monitor would be a plus, but only useful if the information is recorded. And of course - and LONG battery life.Compared to the iWatch/iPhone technology, the AmazeFit Band 5 isWatch - Hello it's a watch - they both probably pull time from the NIST.Pedometer - Well not only did I measure the iWatch, the AmazeFit Band 5, the Xaomi Mi Band 6, the Garmin VivoActive 4S, and my Treadmill (ReeBok GT40x). I reviewed both steps and mileage. They were all wildly different. I ultimately chose the AmazeFit because it was the closest to meeting the treadmills numbers.However, after about 4 weeks, this band has become quite different than the treadmill. Almost 1/2mile to 3/4mile off from the treadmill. After each workout the band does let me calibrate the workout, and some times I can "match" it up to the mileage I did on the treadmill - but oftentimes I cannot match the total workout, which for me is very annoying. I didn't do all of that for nothing.* I am unaware of whether that only affects my "workout" mileage, or if it affects my daily step total also. I have not been able to see a correlation to daily steps - since that continues on through the day after my workout. (And the treadmill doesn't tell me steps, of course)** One other thing to note about the pedometer while in "workout" mode that really bothers me is that, if I am not CONTINUOUSLY swinging my arm it will go in to "PAUSE" mode and stop registering my movement. And I DO MEAN CONTINUOUSLY. Like if I literally just not swing my arm or if I take a sip of water or brush my hair out of my face I have use the hand that doesn't have the band or it will "PAUSE". That is very annoying.*** I have not had a chance to use it in the pool yet, so I cannot attest to its stroke counting or water durability.Rudimentary Fitness Tracker - I personally do not enjoy the presentation of the information in the APP.(I do not particularly enjoy it in iHealth either)Sleep Tracker - Again, the presentation in the APP is not ideal. I understand there are a lot of tid-bits presented. However, if you don't look at it each day, you are unable to view some pieces of information, such as REM, Times awake, Amount of Deep Sleep or Light Sleep. You can see they are there - just not the individual data. Which makes it redundant. When you select the date it only tells you the total amount of sleep for that day.Continuous Heart Rate Monitoring - As similar with other reports - if you don't check it that day and get whatever information you need, you wont be able to access. For today only, you can see what time your heart rate was at "xyz," - but yesterday or any day prior you will only see the lowest and highest readings, with no timestamps. There are no alerts for spikes or dips either.Stress Monitor - I can manually run it on my band, but the APP doesn't recognize it. The last registered reading was 1/1/22.Battery Life - Finally the MAIN Reason I chose this, and did not continue on with my old iWatch. In late December it had a 15 day battery life.* You have to reconnect with the APP after each charge or some functions will not work, or sync back to the APP.My iWatch had buckled down to about 18hours of battery charge, which was useless to me and with it's pedometer seemingly unfixable with every re-calibration trick tried, I was ready to move on. This was approximately $40, it had a "15day" battery life, it was the closest pedometer accuracy I could find and the app wasn't terrible. As of late January, 4 weeks later - I have had to charge this band 3 times.Charged when received 12/28wore AmazeFit Band 12/29 - 1/13, (14 days)charged 1/14, wore the iWatch.wore AmazeFit Band 1/15-1/24, (10 days)charged 1/25, wore the iWatch.1/26- (2 days and at 57% currently).* It does NOT take all day to charge, I just did not want to interrupt my step count once the day started by change watches midday.** I do not know, nor assume that it is a trend, that the battery life will continue to drop. It's only been 2 charges post full usage, so a lot of factors go in to that. I let the battery drain completely down, because I understand that it the best way to preserve the battery. If this is a significant trend I will update.Conclusion:As most people say - it's a good watch for $40. Don't expect an iWatch or a Garmin. Don't ever expect to compare a $40 item to a $300 item. That said if you're frustrated with the APP or interfaces of iPhone or Garmin or Samsung and want something more straight forward this could work. Or if your resigned to not be fully on board with anything/everything, then you'll be happier to pay less at less for a fully functional (in the overall sense) product such as this than paying gobbloads for Apple, Garmin, Samsung, etc. I will say this - I do like the construction of this product. I don't feel like I need to buy a protective layer for it or worry about my clumsiness. It's hearty and fits well on my wrist without being too bulky.