{"id":5027,"date":"2023-06-12T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-06-12T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.foell.org\/justin\/?p=5027"},"modified":"2023-06-12T10:14:12","modified_gmt":"2023-06-12T15:14:12","slug":"fitness-watch-take-2-amazfit-gtr-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.foell.org\/justin\/fitness-watch-take-2-amazfit-gtr-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Fitness Watch Take 2: Amazfit GTR-3"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Last year I officially gave up on my Fitbit Charge 4<\/a>. It was great until it wasn’t. Since I’m a glutton for punishment, I got yet another<\/em> fitness watch. This time, the Amazfit GTR-3<\/a> on a recommendation from a co-worker.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The pros and cons? Pros: great battery life, customizable color screen, built-in GPS. My only real complaint is around the face automatically turning on\/off. When I look at the face it won’t always automatically turn on, so I’ll go to press the button on the side and a split second before I press the button, the face will self-activate. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

What happens is similar to “Layout Shift” on websites. Your finger or cursor is over a button, then bam! Something else loads and moves something (that you didn’t intent to tap) right where you were.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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What happens with the watch is it displays the face for a split second, then goes into the menu system because I technically pressed the button while the screen was active \ud83d\ude16<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The workaround for me has been to enable the always-on screen functionality, which lessens the battery life from 21-days to 7, but I’m OK with that because it beats charging every day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

GPS<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

What I really got it for was the GPS. I’ve only used for fitness tracking twice, but I can already tell it’s going to be a better experience. My first ride was on a company retreat in Mexico. There was a resort “Bike Tour” which I use in quotes because we rode bikes from the resort up the road to the adjacent marina town, and then went to the grocery store \ud83c\udfea<\/p>\n\n\n

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While I was in the grocery store, after a certain amount of time, it warned me about turning the GPS off to save battery while my activity was paused. Then when I unpaused it there were no issues \ud83d\udcaa (unlike my Fitbit). The only real issue was I forgot to press start until halfway to Puerto Morelos \ud83d\ude13<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Take 2<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Now that I’m home and winter seems to have actually gone away, I tried it with a bike ride here and everything went as planned.<\/p>\n\n\n

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I’m looking forward to seeing how it does out on the water. That was the death-blow for my fitbit. When I’m in the water I don’t want to be fiddling with my phone. So far, so good \ud83e\udd1e<\/p>\n

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