The Amazfit Verge Lite Smart Watch by Huami
The watch is packed with a stunning 20-Day Battery Life, offers continuous 24/7 HR monitoring, sports a 1.3 Inch AMOLED Touchscreen and is IP68 water resistant.
- DURABLE & BUILT TO LAST: The Amazfit Verge Lite smartwatch comes with whopping 20-day battery life so that you can lead an active lifestyle without interruption.
- Never miss a beat: It comes with next-generation PPG sensor for accurate heart rate monitoring so that you can keep an eye on your heart health 24/7.
- Look good, feel good: With a sleek, modern design, brilliant 1.3″ AMOLED display, customizable watch faces and two colors to choose from, it makes for the perfect fitness accessory.
- Achieve your personal best: Take your fitness to the next level with the Amazfit Verge Lite that comes with GPS + GLONASS route tracking to help you track 7 different sports like indoor running, cycling, etc.
- Satisfaction Guaranteed: Buy with confidence. Amazfit offers a 30-day refund policy, and 12-month new replacement warranty.
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Fabio –
Very very very good!!!!
Kelly Cartwright –
I previously had the Amazfit Bip. This is a great upgrade with more features, a better screen, and performs faster. Really like this one!
R. Sonmez –
I actually love amazfit and still use their Pace smartwatch (first generation). But this one seems to fail. It feels like a watch that only a teenager would want to wear. Plasticky and feels cheaper than it should. Also while the screen is high quality it also has a huge drawback which is that the watch is never always on. This was the main reason I returned it. This is first and foremost a watch and should be on at all times so you can get a glimpse of the time without making the wrist move. It gets pretty awkward when there people around you in a meeting or a social gathering.
Ross J. Waldron –
Summary: If you came from the Pebble line of smartwatches and care only for basic features, this is the watch you want.My first smartwatch was a Pebble, then Pebble Time. After support (and eventually the battery) borked out, I jumped to a Wear OS watch, the Asus Zenwatch 3. It looked good, but battery life was awful, performance was hit or miss (normally a miss), and Asus dropped support for the hardware 3 months after I got it. After doing everything I could to keep the watch relevant, I decided to buy another brand after two years.Research brought me to the Amazfit Verge Lite. I had a bunch of gift card credit and my Zenwatch recently pissed me off, so why not. Had it shipped into my hands two days later.For clarity, I’m syncing this watch with a 1st generation Pixel XL running Android 10.Setup was easy and straightforward. The instruction booklet has the QR code to download the Mi Fit app directly from the Play Store. You have to create a Mi Fit account, which can be annoying, but it also allows logging in via an array of social networks. Pairing was simple, and after a few minutes of updating, the watch was ready to go.The Mi Fit app is pretty basic, but that’s all it has to be. It lets you make changes to watch settings, allows you to start workouts from the watch, and provides charts & summary data for all previous workouts. You can also force the watch to sync its workout results with your phone, which only takes about 15-20 seconds. Watch customization doesn’t have a lot to offer, mostly just rearranging menu items and selecting one of 10 watch faces. You can set up your watch alerts such as app notifications, incoming phone calls, idle alerts to tell you to start moving after a set amount of time, Event reminders, basic alarms, and Smart Unlock (used to keep your phone unlocked while the watch is paired). Weather settings and heart rate detection settings are also set here.The watch itself looks great. It uses a silicone band, but you can swap out your own with the quick release pins. The OLED screen is clean, bright, and easy to read in both indoor & outdoor environments. Navigation is all touch based, with a single button for basic tasks like turning on the screen and stopping workouts. You can also set the button to activate a certain workout on long presses.I never owned a smartwatch that was a workout tracker, so I was curious how well the Verge Lite would function with my exercise habits. The pedometer is nothing special, but that’s the case with every watch. Heart rate monitoring uses green light detection, which has its own set of accuracy problems, but I’ve found it to be pretty solid so far. It made me painfully aware that I’m not trying nearly as hard as I should be on my bike rides to work (70-110bpm over 4 miles). The most impressive feature for workouts is its GPS. It takes about 30-45 seconds to lock on and you’re all set. It’s incredibly accurate with no drops.Other smartwatch features include music control (Google Play Music), weather forecasts, stopwatch/timer, and a few other odds and ends. Adjusting volume in the Music app has a delay, so you may experience some lag if you change it too quickly. You also can’t use more than one application at a time, which is a shame but not critical. It has no speaker or microphone, so you can’t take calls or play music from it.Watch performance is top notch. Touchscreen is responsive, no app or navigation delays, and notifications/calls pop up immediately after receiving them on my Pixel XL. You really can’t ask for much else. It has a strict set of things that it can do, and it does these things quickly and reliably.The most impressive feature, by far, is the battery life. If you’re a Pebble user, this will get you excited. I jumped from a Zenwatch 3 that required charging every night (15%-50% battery after a 16 hour day, depending on what Wear OS is doing in the background) to a watch that has barely used 10% in the last two days. For reference, I don’t have it detecting my heart rate unless it’s a workout, I get ~20-50 notifications a day, gesture detection for the screen is turned off, and my workouts are 25-30 minute intervals. It was charged to 97% on day 1, and it just hit 87% after two days. It’s absolutely insane. Using the heart rate monitor will obviously eat up more juice, and anything with GPS will inform you of how long you can use it (a full charge is ~40 hours before the battery dies). Still, even heavy users can expect at least 10 days from the watch, easy. The 20+ days of battery life is no joke.If there’s one feature I’d like to eventually see on the Verge Lite, it would be replies to app notifications. Who knows, maybe it’ll be put in eventually.Overall, the Verge Lite is what everyone should expect out of a simple smartwatch. It’s for those that don’t care about how much a smartwatch can do, rather if the smartwatch can do what it can do well. This watch absolutely does everything well, and at that price point ($100 at the time of purchase), you really can’t go wrong.
Andy –
Excellent smart watch and can do everything you expect from a similar product (even those with a higher price tag). Very good product quality and it also very light in weight so it feels very comfortable wearing it. The screen is responsive, bright and clear.This is definitely not the cheapest smart watch in the market but people would have to pay much for to find another product equipped with all the similar features. Highly recommended for people wants to try smart watch but don’t want to spend extra dollars just on the brand logo.
Lawrence or Christine Dol –
[Updated 2019-02-26]First I have to say the battery life is as fantastic as advertised. I got the watch 7 days ago, charged it immediately, set it up and it’s at 83% now, so 17% in 7 days; if that holds for the entire charge, that will be over a month using the functions I use. Which are: Time keeping with wrist-action auto-on and 10 second screen auto-off; pedometer; sleep monitoring; heartbeat monitor every 30 minutes with activity detection; app sync with phone; SMS text messages; one daily alarm; weather; and audio control. This includes a number of updates downloaded, and my playing with every watch face. The first charge lasted nearly 40 days; second almost 30; third will be a little more than 30.This fits the bill for a basic smart watch and does everything I want it too. It has an OK selection of default watch-faces, and there is a nice selection of just under 500 custom faces available and easily installed using the AmazFaces app, from amazfitwatchfaces.com. I think nearly everyone will be able to find a face that they love, which makes this watch close to perfect. Only three watch faces are stored on the watch (default digital, default analog, and one custom face), so the others need to be pushed to the watch on demand. That’s acceptable but I wish that it had the ability to store at least two, and preferably a handful, of custom faces, as I now have several that I’d like to quickly switch between, particularly a custom digital and custom analog face.The band and case are a little bit “plastic” looking, but it looks good enough. I don’t think it looks cheap, but it doesn’t look expensive either. The strap’s retention band has a notch that prevents the excess strap slipping out, but it’s a bit flimsy and could have been better — it does the job but it’s merely OK and it’s easy to have the excess strap come out of it and be flapping around — this could really be improved.The touch screen works flawlessly, is plenty bright and has an auto-brightness option that seems to work quite well.The heart monitor works adequately. I know my various heart rates very well and the watch seems to match close to what I expect. When I remove the watch it shows no detection, which is better than my previous, less expensive watch which seemed to just make the heartbeat up, even when it was sitting on my nightstand.The sleep monitor seems to poorly; it’s less accurate than my phone’s sleep app. Initially I thought it was working well, but after some time it is obviously not very accurate. I’ve now disabled as much as I can to do with this, and I’d like to be able disable monitoring altogether and extend battery life.The thing I had uncertainty about was the pedometer. But after some anomalies that seemed to be my phone double counting were resolved I’ve found it to be very accurate. There are movements which cause false counting; two that I’ve noted in particular are washing my hair and playing drums, both of which involve moving the arm back and forward very uniformly.The AmazFit iPhone app works well enough, watch setup/config is easy, and access to records and history is intuitive (I feel this app is a little better than the MiFit alternative). There are a number of options to tweak the behavior, which pleasantly surprised me: The wrist-movement auto-on has a setting for sensitivity and wrist (right/left) (and on the default, lower sensitivity level it works well without turning on constantly when I am not looking at it); heart rate interval and activity detection; ability to order and select which menu options are offered; alarms can be set on the phone or watch.Overall, after owning this watch for about 6 months, and particularly because I can now install custom faces, I am very pleased with my purchase. Without the custom faces, I would be merely satisfied.
Lawrence or Christine Dol –
First I have to say the battery life is as fantastic as advertised. I got the watch 7 days ago, charged it immediately, set it up and it’s at 83% now, so 17% in 7 days; if that holds for the entire charge, that will be over a month using the functions I use. Which are: Time keeping with wrist-action auto-on and 10 second screen auto-off; pedometer; sleep monitoring; heartbeat monitor every 30 minutes with activity detection; app sync with phone; SMS text messages; one daily alarm; weather; and audio control. This includes a number of updates downloaded, and my playing with every watch face. The first charge lasted nearly 40 days; second almost 30; third will be a little more than 30. [Update after 9 months: On average the battery does better than advertised, though if can differ between 20 and 35 days from charge to charge. The meter is also uneven, typically consuming 4%-5%/day at first and reducing evenly until the last 10% tends to be about 2%/day; oddly, it often gets stuck on 7 or 8% for 2 to 3 days. It’s never delivered less than the advertised 20 days.]This fits the bill for a basic smart watch and does everything I want it too. It has an OK selection of default watch-faces, and there is a nice selection of just under 500 custom faces available and easily installed using the AmazFaces app, from amazfitwatchfaces.com. I think nearly everyone will be able to find a face that they love, which makes this watch close to perfect. Only three watch faces are stored on the watch (default digital, default analog, and one custom face), so the others need to be pushed to the watch on demand. That’s acceptable but I wish that it had the ability to store at least two, and preferably a handful, of custom faces, as I now have several that I’d like to quickly switch between, particularly a custom digital and custom analog face.The band and case are a little bit “plastic” looking, but it looks good enough. I don’t think it looks cheap, but it doesn’t look expensive either. The strap’s retention band has a notch that prevents the excess strap slipping out, but it’s a bit flimsy and could have been better — it does the job but it’s merely OK and it’s easy to have the excess strap come out of it and be flapping around — this could really be improved.The touch screen works flawlessly, is plenty bright and has an auto-brightness option that seems to work quite well.The heart monitor works adequately. I know my various heart rates very well and the watch seems to match close to what I expect. When I remove the watch it shows no detection, which is better than my previous, less expensive watch which seemed to just make the heartbeat up, even when it was sitting on my nightstand.The sleep monitor seems to poorly; it’s less accurate than my phone’s sleep app. Initially I thought it was working well, but after some time it is obviously not very accurate. I’ve now disabled as much as I can to do with this, and I’d like to be able disable monitoring altogether and extend battery life.The thing I had uncertainty about was the pedometer. But after some anomalies that seemed to be my phone double counting were resolved I’ve found it to be very accurate. There are movements which cause false counting; two that I’ve noted in particular are washing my hair and playing drums, both of which involve moving the arm back and forward very uniformly.The AmazFit iPhone app works well enough, watch setup/config is easy, and access to records and history is intuitive (I feel this app is a little better than the MiFit alternative). There are a number of options to tweak the behavior, which pleasantly surprised me: The wrist-movement auto-on has a setting for sensitivity and wrist (right/left) (and on the default, lower sensitivity level it works well without turning on constantly when I am not looking at it); heart rate interval and activity detection; ability to order and select which menu options are offered; alarms can be set on the phone or watch.Overall, after owning this watch for about 6 months, and particularly because I can now install custom faces, I am very pleased with my purchase. Without the custom faces, I would be merely satisfied.
Eugene Stewart –
This is replacing my “Fitbit clone”. It larger, but not by much and very comfortable. The battery life is incredible (I’m not using all the features, but who wants a buzz on the wrist for EVERYTHING!).I find the features useful and this is very accurate for vitals and sleep tracking.Did I mention the GREAT BATTERY LIFE? (Its great)