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The Amazfit Cheetah comes in two versions - round and square. We only have details about the former, called Amazfit Cheetah (Round), so let's focus on that.
Amazfit has announced the new Cheetah series under its Performance lineup. It's aimed at runners, and the first smartwatches Amazfit launched as a part of the Cheetah series are called Cheetah and Cheetah Pro. Amazfit Cheetah Pro One thing to note, no Bluetooth is calling from the wrist. So it’s a pretty barebones smartwatch experience compared to the likes of the Apple Watch or Galaxy Watch. But rewinding even further, some history first: Amazfit is a Chinese brand established in 2015 with very very limited presence in North America. Most of their smartwatches are a little more “lifestyle” focused. Think: cheaper Fitbit.
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Power Saving GPS Mode: Turn on heart rate monitoring and GPS exercise (single frequency, GPS low power consumption). When those maps are on, they’re certainly not the richly detailed maps you’ll find on watches like the Garmin Epix or even third-party Apple Watch apps, but it does offer you a little more detail to survey surroundings and get a better sensor of what’s around you. The Amazfit Cheetah (Round) sports a smaller 1.39" screen of 454x454-pixel resolution, and its bezel is made of fiber-reinforced polymer instead of Titanium alloy. It also uses a liquid silicone strap, which takes the smartwatch's weight to 47g. Without the strap, it weighs 32g. Morning updates need to be set in the Zepp App or in the watch settings, and the currently supported content is: weather, battery, sleep, schedule, PAI, yesterday's activity.
Notifications from your phone will display on the wrist, and there’s full granular control of which apps on your smartphone are allowed to pester your wrist – which is something we like. Something we did experience with the Cheetah Pro echoes our experiences with the Cheetah Square where it would regularly display on the watch that the A-GPS file was out of date. In terms of 24/7 and resting heart rate, the numbers held up. We saw resting heart rate ranges during sleep in the same ballpark as our established baselines in Whoop 4.0 and other smartwatches.Now, not everything is executed perfectly (or even well), but there are literally so many sports and everyday “lifestyle” features on this watch—with limited documentation and iffy on-watch navigation—it’s actually difficult to find or use them all. Read on for what actually works and what doesn’t. Section divider Amazfit Cheetah Pro Review: The Good
If you want to know what specific metrics mean or get some general advice such as how to build speed or endurance, then it works perfectly well. In terms of training features, you can create workouts that can be synced to the watch and then there are more advanced features like Zepp Coach and the AI-powered Zepp Coach Chat. The Amazfit Cheetah Pro is Amazfit’s first attempt at making a watch for runners. Joining the Cheetah Round and Square, the Pro sits at the top of that trio, offering a bigger screen and nicer design materials. hour monitoring of heart rate and blood-oxygen saturation (SpO₂) need to be enabled in the Zepp App. For heart rate monitoring, the user must enable Auto Heart Rate Monitor in the Zepp App, and the minimum value can be set to 1 minute. Abnormal heart rate alerts and the preset value need to be set in the Zepp App. To measure blood-oxygen saturation (SpO₂), please wear the watch tightly at one finger-width from the wrist, and keep your arm still for best results. SpO₂ alerts are sent if the detected rate is too low compared to the preset value, which needs to be set in the Zepp App, at a minimum of 80%. Movement, and environmental and physical characteristics can affect speed and accuracy of monitoring and measurement. The 24-hour stress level monitoring needs to be enabled on the watch or in the Zepp App. Alerts for high stress levels are based on the preset value, and prompts for the breathing exercise need to be enabled on the watch. To process the one-tap measurement and other manual metric measurements, please wear the watch tightly at one finger-width from the wrist, and keep your arm still for best results. Movement, and environmental and physical characteristics can affect speed and accuracy of monitoring and measurement. It does include additional modes like a battery saver mode that gives you up to 24 days and a basic watch mode that gives you 45 days.
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Finally, smaller things like no running with power (though it does have somewhat advanced running metrics like stride length and cadence), a very limited on-watch post-workout data screen (typically forcing you to use the Zepp app, which is actually very good), and intermittent issues with smartphone connectivity might not be make-or-break for the Cheetah Pro, but it does show that Amazfit isn’t 100% there when it comes to their sport-focused devices. Section divider Conclusions Unlike the Cheetah, the Cheetah Pro only comes in a round-case option. That’s a 47mm-sized case, so you can expect something similar in stature to a watch like the Garmin Forerunner 965. It’s a polymer case with a titanium alloy bezel surrounding a 1.45-inch, 480x480 resolution AMOLED and that is a screen you can keep on 24/7. Fitbit and Whoop devices tend to be very sensitive so it’s not uncommon to see shorter sleep durations on devices such as Amazfit, and that’s not a huge problem as long as data is consistent. The only issue is that it can put a positive sheen on average sleep, and make users less likely to take steps to improve their rest. So it’s an effective GPS running watch at this price point, but we didn’t see levels of accuracy overall that exceeded our expectations.
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