Who owns a smartwatch with good battery life and health monitoring? (Buying advice up to £300)

The_Fat_Controller

With the large watches you'll be lucky to find one that doesn't need charging daily.

The smaller bands are much better, anything from 5 to 14 days.

Neil49

I don't know whether my Amazfit GTS 2 mini is water resistant but I have no problem in getting over 2 weeks between battery charges. Maybe I should get more exercise

Otherwise it does what you want, and a lot more. Cost was under £60 direct from their website on a promotion. 

JustAnotherSaver

powerful_Rogue said:

Samsung Galaxy Watch 4 ticks all those boxes. I easily get over 2 days use before charging.

Took mine off charge this morning and still on 68%

Really?

I'm curious. How did you get your watch to operate differently to the majority of GW4 users?

I was looking in to trading in my GW3 at some point because the deal for upgrading to a GW4 was actually quite decent.

I found the battery life was not really much different to mine. Some people actually reported a much worse battery life.

I will get 2 days at the VERY MOST out of my GW3. That's connected via bluetooth, not WiFi. That will entail....

Putting it on 100% charge and then going to bed - so it's 100% when I hop in bed. Let's call this Monday night.

Wake up Tuesday morning, go to work, so it's only really counting steps & showing notifications.

Finish work, go to the gym. Track say 3 different cardio workouts for a total of an hour.

Go home, do stuff (so only step counting really), go to bed.

So now we're tracking a 2nd nights sleep.

Get up Wednesday morning, repeat Tuesday.

Now by the time I finish at the gym on Wednesday, I'll be on anything from 10%-20%. Usually 15-20%. There's zero chance I'm getting a 3rd day.

Ok I know this is a GW3 but like I said, when I was researching, I read the GW4 wasn't really any different. Some reporting worse.

lisyloo

I have a Xiaomi mi band 6 that was £30, but meets the requirements you specify and the battery life is brilliant.
It depends on what you turn on but it's certainly many days.
I use mine for swimming regularly and it comes out of the band so I use silicone ones for swimming.
The straps can be got for about £3 on ebay if that appeals - it just pops in and out.
I don't know when the 7 is coming out.

I find the vibrating alarm really useful as it doesn't disturb my other half.
For the price it's brilliant.

RumRat

lisyloo said:

I have a Xiaomi mi band 6 that was £30, but meets the requirements you specify and the battery life is brilliant.
It depends on what you turn on but it's certainly many days.
I use mine for swimming regularly and it comes out of the band so I use silicone ones for swimming.
The straps can be got for about £3 on ebay if that appeals - it just pops in and out.
I don't know when the 7 is coming out.

I find the vibrating alarm really useful as it doesn't disturb my other half.
For the price it's brilliant.

The 7 is out...I linked to it in my previous post.

Jorell00

I got my mum and my wife the mi band 6. Does everything you requested. Only about 30 quid.
I have the amazfit gts2(not mini). Does everything with 7-10 days battery (and will fully charge in 90 mins), would definitely recommend it.
I looked at getting an amazfit gt3, but loses some functions over the gts2.