I’ve been using smartwatches for years now, and very infrequently have I come across something that genuinely excited me. The Amazfit GTR 2e (Rs. 9,999) is one of the few watches that I was quite interested in checking out. After all, the GTR 2 was a pretty nice smartwatch, and the GTR 2e brings most of those features at a lower price point. So, if you’re in the market for a new budget smartwatch, here is my review of the Amazfit GTR 2e.

First off, let’s take a look at the contents of the box here.

The box itself is pretty much what you’d expect, although I do like the almost lego-like way it opens up when you take the watch out of it.

Design-wise, the Amazfit GTR 2e looks very much like its more expensive predecessor, the GTR 2. That’s actually something I like, because the design of these watches has gotten better with every generation since the first GTR came out, and the GTR 2e makes very slight changes to the GTR 2e’s design philosophy.

It’s still a circular watch, with a pretty big bezel around it, two buttons on the side, and just an overall pretty looking aesthetic.

Then there’s the strap, made of silicone, which I found quite comfortable for everyday use, although you might miss the leather strap options that were available with the Amazfit GTR 2.

The watch features a pretty big 1.39-inch AMOLED display. This screen has a resolution of 454×454 pixels, same as the Amazfit GTR 2. It’s also a really nice screen. Being an AMOLED panel, the screen does a really good job with colours and contrast, and everything looks very pretty on this display.

While you can always press the power button on the watch to head into the apps screen, there are a bunch of widgets, and features, that you can access with just some basic interactions on the watch display.

Swiping left, or right from the watch face shows up the widgets you’ve added there. By default this includes the activity widget, heart rate, music control, weather, and more. There’s also a handy daily-overview of sorts that shows you your alarms, weather, heart rate, and other information you might need to take a peek at every now and then.

One of the many advantages of using a smartwatch is the fact that you can change the watch face design to match the occasion or your outfits. If that’s something you find yourself doing often, Amazfit offers a wide collection of watch faces within the companion app that you can freely use on your watch without any problems.

Amazfit has always stuffed its watches full of features, although how good those features actually are is a different story. The Amazfit GTR 2e is no different. It’s packed with a boatload of features ranging from basics like heart rate measurements, to things like Blood Oxygen saturation levels, stress measurement, and more.

What’s more, you can even add the heart rate graph as a complication in some watch faces.

The Amazfit GTR 2e also offers quite a bit in terms of fitness features. The watch features an absolute ton of workout options. There are 90 sport options, to be exact including a variety of dances, combat sports, ball sports and a lot more.

  • Elliptical
  • Outdoor running
  • Treadmill
  • Walking
  • Outdoor cycling
  • Pool swimming

Once you’re done with a workout, the watch compiles a fairly detailed analytical report for you to peruse. Plus, this report can also be found within the Zepp app.

Other Features

The Amazfit GTR 2e also offers some other features in its bag of tricks. You get the ability to control the music playing on your smartphone via the watch, which is something I use quite often when I’m out and about and don’t want to pull my phone out of my pocket every time I want to skip a song or play it all over again.

That’s out of a total of 151 apps that are installed on my phone.

One, this enables notifications for literally every app on my phone, even ones that don’t send notifications that are important enough to cause vibrations on my wrist. And two, when you open the notification center on the watch, all of these apps just show up a generic ‘App’ icon which makes it quite difficult to gather context from.

Similar to the Amazfit GTR 2, the GTR 2e also brings support for offline audio commands, and these, while limited, work really well.

You can also use this to change settings on your watch. So you can say things like ‘brightness up’ or ‘brightness down’ to change the brightness of the screen. You can also say ‘silent mode’ to put your watch into a silent mode.

Coming to the battery life, this is one of those things that I just knew would be remarkable on the Amazfit GTR 2e, and I wasn’t wrong. My colleague, George, has been using the Amazfit GTR for a very long time, and the battery life on that thing has always impressed me. The GTR 2e makes things even better.

With all of that in mind, the question remains, should you buy the Amazfit GTR 2e? Honestly, for Rs. 9,999, I would say go for it. Not because there aren’t other options in the market. In fact there are quite a lot. However, the Amazfit GTR 2e really manages to hit the ball out of the park in ways that most smartwatches don’t.

That said, if you’re hell bent on looking for other options under Rs. 10,000, you can check out the NoiseFit Fusion hybrid smartwatch (Rs. 5,999) or even the Amazfit GTS 2 Mini (Rs.6,999). On the other hand, if you can spend an extra three grand, you can get the Amazfit GTR 2 (Rs. 12,999), which will let you answer calls on the smartwatch itself.