The Amazfit GTR 2 line continues to expand with the GTR 2e. Whilst it is similar in appearance to the standard GTR 2, it boasts a far longer battery life for an even cheaper price - though you do give up the built-in speaker, meaning you can't use the watch alone to take calls.
The case is made from aluminum alloy with curved glass over a 1.65-inch AMOLED screen with a 454 x 454-pixel resolution and a 341 pixel-per-inch (PPI) density, the same as the GTR 2. Amazfit says a vacuum coating has been applied to the tempered glass to make sure it resists fingerprints, but it does not come with the additional scratch protection you get on the GTR 2’s glass. The 2.5D curve on the body and glass is supposedly different from the GTR 2’s 3D curve, but I can barely feel any change when directly comparing the two.
It feels solidly made but is very light, and it can feel a little cheap. For example, the case back is plastic and although it is glass over the screen, it’s so thin it doesn’t feel much like it. There are two buttons on the side of the body, the top one with a sporty red flash around it, and they have a precise, if not very tactile, feeling. It’s all attached to a simple black silicone strap, which provides plenty of adjustment and doesn’t get uncomfortable.
The Amazfit GTR 2e uses the company’s own operating system, and not Google’s Wear OS, which syncs to the Zepp app on your phone. The setup process is quick, perhaps more so than setting up a Wear OS watch, but the app does need you to dig into the phone’s settings to grant it various permissions. Do this and you receive notifications more reliably than most Wear OS smartwatches too.
Moving through the menus on the watch is performed by swiping up and down on the screen, and the layout will be familiar to anyone who has used a modern smartwatch — down for shortcuts, up for notifications, and across for different Tile-style widgets — while the buttons open the menu or activate workout tracking.
Scrolling through the menus, opening the apps, and generally interacting with the watch is pain-free. Notifications are mostly reliable. You can’t interact with them either, so consider the GTR 2e’s notifications for-your-information only, and the raise-to-wake activation doesn’t always show the incoming notification, reducing convenience.
Amazfit claims about 24 days of typical use from the GTR 2e’s battery, which is 10 days more than it expects from the GTR 2.
Health tracking, rather than smartwatch functionality, is the Amazfit GTR 2e’s specialty. There’s a massive list of more than 90 activities to track on the GTR 2e, and all are accessed using the lower button on the case, or through the menu. The list presented can be edited so your preferred workouts are instantly available. Data is clearly presented on the watch, it’s easy to start and stop workouts, there’s GPS for running and cycling, plus a heart rate sensor to provide in-depth tracking and data.
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