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I have this in my Amazfit Bip watch with one month battery life and always readable display and to this day I don't understand why there are pretty much none ot

I have this in my Amazfit Bip watch with one month battery life and always readable display and to this day I don't understand why there are pretty much none other watches using trans reflective display besides very expensive garmin which still has crappy battery life. Had for few months stint with OLED smartwatch until I returned back to Bip, OLED was unbearable in daylight unless on maximum brightness and I had to charge it minimum twice a week, while I charge Bip once a month.

truffdog 5y ago
That's an amazing battery life.
poisonborz 5y ago
Can confirm, it's amazing. The Bip 2 actually dipped in battery time, with first gen I could do 55 days even (HR off). It's the closest match for Pebble fans. It even has a custom firmware/apps scene. Truly beyond me why no one else pushes these. Is it hard to source? Or is display quality so important for the masses, that they rather charge every 2 days?
- Markoff 5y ago
  I think judging by how software updates look B is correct, people don't care anymore about functionality, but how things look. They don't wanna perfectly OK display which is not so colorful and doesn't have so high resolution, but it's ALWAYS readable, more sunlight the better and battery life is counted in 4-6 weeks, they will rather have display with better colors and resolution and charge it every 2 days. Or there is option C, same as with compact phones, it's relatively small group of users and companies just don't care with providing them any options. Nowadays if you want "compactish" phone with good camera and decent battery life your only options are year old Zenfone 8, year old Pixel 5, Xiaomi Mi 12/12X or Samsung S22 and that's pretty much it, two phones released recently, meanwhile you have hunreds of tablets ("phones") to choose from. Same thing with laptops, you can have either ugly unbreakable workhorse Thinkpad T series, but most of the people will rather buy crappy laptop from different brand because it looks nicer and they don't care they will have it in repair all the time. And it's even worse with transreflective watch with good battery life and normal size, which will not break your wallet, such thing doesn't exist anymore at all. You can buy premium Garmin which is huge, expensive and lasts maybe 2 weeks and that's pretty much it unless you order some obscure copy of original Amazfit Bip (SMA Q2 or Q3), but in that case it's just easier to buy used Bip for peanuts. PineTime has crap battery life and 11mm thickness, Bangle.js is huge, so it's Timex R300 plus pricey and all of these are released long time ago anyway.
  - poisonborz 5y ago
    Judging by that I use the exact brands you mentioned, this could be true :v You shortly gave me the fear that the Bip S is discontinued, but it's still on the Amazfit product page, and is available at the usual retailers.
    - Markoff 5y ago
      Bip S is hardly sold here anymore, I can see it only in one shop on price comparison site plus it was already small downgrade battery life wise (but not as bad as newer iterations milking the name), so I'd still rather go for used Bip as I did for 20$

truffdog 5y ago

That's an amazing battery life.

poisonborz 5y ago

Can confirm, it's amazing. The Bip 2 actually dipped in battery time, with first gen I could do 55 days even (HR off). It's the closest match for Pebble fans. It even has a custom firmware/apps scene. Truly beyond me why no one else pushes these. Is it hard to source? Or is display quality so important for the masses, that they rather charge every 2 days?

Markoff 5y ago
I think judging by how software updates look B is correct, people don't care anymore about functionality, but how things look. They don't wanna perfectly OK display which is not so colorful and doesn't have so high resolution, but it's ALWAYS readable, more sunlight the better and battery life is counted in 4-6 weeks, they will rather have display with better colors and resolution and charge it every 2 days. Or there is option C, same as with compact phones, it's relatively small group of users and companies just don't care with providing them any options. Nowadays if you want "compactish" phone with good camera and decent battery life your only options are year old Zenfone 8, year old Pixel 5, Xiaomi Mi 12/12X or Samsung S22 and that's pretty much it, two phones released recently, meanwhile you have hunreds of tablets ("phones") to choose from. Same thing with laptops, you can have either ugly unbreakable workhorse Thinkpad T series, but most of the people will rather buy crappy laptop from different brand because it looks nicer and they don't care they will have it in repair all the time. And it's even worse with transreflective watch with good battery life and normal size, which will not break your wallet, such thing doesn't exist anymore at all. You can buy premium Garmin which is huge, expensive and lasts maybe 2 weeks and that's pretty much it unless you order some obscure copy of original Amazfit Bip (SMA Q2 or Q3), but in that case it's just easier to buy used Bip for peanuts. PineTime has crap battery life and 11mm thickness, Bangle.js is huge, so it's Timex R300 plus pricey and all of these are released long time ago anyway.
- poisonborz 5y ago
  Judging by that I use the exact brands you mentioned, this could be true :v You shortly gave me the fear that the Bip S is discontinued, but it's still on the Amazfit product page, and is available at the usual retailers.
  - Markoff 5y ago
    Bip S is hardly sold here anymore, I can see it only in one shop on price comparison site plus it was already small downgrade battery life wise (but not as bad as newer iterations milking the name), so I'd still rather go for used Bip as I did for 20$