WOW, I have found a good review channel that seems competent and honest and even test functions in more detail than I have seen on all other channels. I know we all are focused on different things but DesFit really fit my review needs. I'm not athletic but just an ordinary exercise interested guy and being a tech nerd I do like to have gadgets to push me to train better (and more regularly)

You are the first guy who reviews the sport activities espacially swimming - I was searching the web for the last few hours and finally found someone who posted a review on that! Thanks a lot man!

the most thorough and well produced review ive ever seen of any smart watch. you really know your stuff. great review. keep it up. looking forward to seeing more.

Thank you for well detailed review. Cant wait to arrive mine!

Thank you for your phenomenal review.. I am happy that you bought the watch so as to make more tests and videos 😆😆. Looking forward to some comparisons with other products.. But most importantly, your " not a review" videos.. Your insight and philosophy is always having my attention and respect..

*** Note: A couple nice subscribers pointed out that a recent firmware update added auto pause as well as a few other features, but for some reason it’s not on my firmware. And thanks for your patience, folks! I hope you enjoy! Follow on Twitter for updates! 👉 twitter.com/GetDesFit

Thanks so much for your time/effort to conduct product reviews; well received and appreciated!

One of your best reviews yet. Awesome breakdown and detailing

Hi, this is a very well organised and detailed review. Lots of work out into it. Great work!

2 years later and still hella useful!!

Awesome review, I have been actively waiting for this review and I feel more comfortable about purchasing it thanks to you.

I loved your video, very professional and full of data. Can t find a better review of the Stratos anywhere. Congrats and brgds from Argentina. D

That’s very clean, detailed explanation about the device features without any advertising purpose. Thanks a lot for the video. It is very helpful 👍🏻

Amazing review man. This is the most detailed review i have ever seen.

I have this watch. It's awesome especially the batterylife, waterproofness and the transreflective display 😊

Very thorough video Des. Great job!

Des, your reviews are phenomenal. Thanks for all the effort and time you put into this! Liked as usual :)

Another killer review! I may have to try this puppy out....

Great review. Thanks. My Ionic broke, while waiting for a replacement, I am trying the Stratos. So far, so good.

Great review! Hope you'll continue to follow the Amazfit products, the pricing really makes it a great option for those looking for a budget choice or outside the US.

Dad gave me his Stratos when we paid him a visit on Christmas. This is the very first smartwatch I have and man I am absolutely happy it!

Nice review desfit. I actually solved the problem with the HR. I have to clean the HR glass (on the bottom of the watch) regularly or at least before I begin and after the exercise so the HR reading would be accurate 😊

Great review- perfect work Des.

Thanks man! Was an awesome review! You just got a new subscriber :)

Very in-depth, ultimate review! Thanks!

Awesome video! I was waiting for it for some time now. FYI, the last firmware update added an auto pause feature for running which is tunable to a predefined threshold pace or standstill conditions. Keep up the awesome videos!!!

Great video, I picked one up a few days ago after watching this upload. On the last firmware I'd have a resting heart rate in the 40s far to often which was no where near correct. After the update that came out today I'm getting warnings that my heart rate is in the 180s while jogging, which seems to be around 40 beats faster than what I'm counting. Might be worth doing an update to retest it's tracking if you still own the watch. Other than that all the features have been working great for me.

Liked and sub'd thanks Des. I Just got this watch on Friday... I took it on two day hikes this weekend, using the Trail Run profile. A trail hike is basically a slower pace ~3.5 mph trail run. AWESOME GPS Performance!! Love having an altimeter and compass right on my wrist. Very accurate indeed paired up with a old school trail map in my pocket.

Great review comprehensive but still succinct, best I've seen so far for this watch.

Once again, a great review. Thank you for the time you have spent to do it. 5 stars.

thanks for the precise video bro... really insightful and deep into the watches working.

Great vid as always des!

Absolutely brilliant review. Very helpful. Thank you.

Nice review!

Can’t wait to see u test Stratos 3

Always I love to see your videos, they are very detailed and informative. Thank you.

Thanks for the review!

Great review! This is a lot of watch for the money, but I still decided on the Garmin FR645M (got a 25% discount on it), because I did not want to leave the Garmin platform after many years. However, if I was buying my first sports/smartwatch, the Amazfit Stratos would probably have been my choice.

Thank you for the review, appreciate it so much.

Great review. You deserve more views and subscribers!

Keep up the good work!

Very good review. The time and effort is well appreciated.

As always... your reviews are some of the best on KZfaq and love your focus on long term testing. Keep up the great work. Wanted to pass on a funny note I received from Garmin a few months back regarding the Fenix 5 "After reviewing the activities where you mentioned an issue with the OHR accuracy, the engineers determined that your level of fitness exceeds the ability of the OHR to provide valuable and accurate data for the calculation of your vo2 max estimate. The system was not designed to adjust to such a finite and high level of fitness so you would experience a larger discrepancy when introducing erroneous HR data."

Thank you so much for the review! Bought it after your review and endorsement! You got my subscription! Please recommend a heart rate monitor and bike computer to go along??

Very helpful as usual. You do the best reviews in this department, love them! Are you planning on doing one on the new Amazfit GTR?

Amazing review! Well done! 👍🏾

Great review, I'm upgrading from the pace watch and being on a limited budget (i.e. the Mrs was making lots of frowny faces when I was looking at Garmin's prices) it looks like the stratos is going to be the perfect fit watch for me, looks good too

Excellent review!

Very nice and in depth review

Awesome review. Subscribed !

Amazing review. Ive had the Stratos for about a month. The HRM was always off, until the recent update. But I use it with the Polar OH1. Compared them and the result was almost identical. For the price, its an amazing watch. And the bluetooth connection with headphones are great. I highly recommend it! And Ive had everything from suunto to garmin.

Great review! Thanks!

Very good. Using it for a month now, and you say all the truth. As you say, I looks to be extremely dependent on the position for the HR to be accurate. For running im using it kind of tight, and that improves the results a lot. But with any leather or fabric straps, it will move while running and you will need to continually reposition it, which is annoying. Running with the original strap and tight, gave me the best results. Thx and keep the good work.

Hey Des ! Love the channel love the hardworking you put into it 😎, does this device flaunts a stopwatch ?

Great balanced review. My heart rate estimates during high intensity running are about 30-50bmp too low (even after the latest firmware update). As you mentioned I still like the watch for the price and will use it with a cheststrap for the first beat stats, hoping that amazfit will continue to improve their algorithm in the future (strange thing is that I did not have this issue with my amazfit Pace).

Best review so far, the smart watch interface is okay for me.

I've been really excited for this review. Thanks and another great review! Amazon cancelled my order of the watch, but I might reorder.

Thank you for the detailed review. I've been looking at the Amazfit Stratos to help me with my triathlon training. Your vid is very helpful for those who are just new to these gadgetry/fitness thing. So if only I can give you a thousand likes, it's RIP likes button. 😀😀

i will buying this after seeing your video.thanks

Very Detailed Review...Thanks mate..

thank you for your robust review!

Great review! I've been using the Amazfit Stratos for a month now, and I like almost everything about the watch for the price point except for the heart rate monitor. Compared to other wrist based HR watches I have used, the HR data was routinely inaccurate on outdoor runs. The HR data was pretty good for indoor runs compared to other wrist-based watches I have. But I have not been able to get accurate HR data for outdoor activities. I have the watch on pretty tightly but it is always wildly off, sometimes by 80 bpm. So if anyone plans to buy this device, then you will most likely want a bluetooth HR strap. The best feature for me is the music storage. Although it doesn't have streaming, I have a lot of DRM free mp3s that I can rip from CDs I own. So I don't really need streaming music. The convenience of having music storage is a big plus for me. Overall, I would say this device is a 7/10 for me. Amazing price, lots of advanced features but a very unreliable wrist-based HR monitor.

Nice review. Thanks. You should do one on the stratos 3 now.

This is a great review because it actually gives me an honest and complete overview of what the watch can do and what type of usage it may be best suited for. I think I'm actually going with this even though most of my training is in the gym with cycling to and from it there plus 2-4 cycling tours per month. The watch looks great and considering that most watches with an optical sensor seem to have issues with reading the heart rate, buying this cheaper, albeit still functional and good-looking watch and having a few spare bucks for a heart rate strap that I'd have to buy anyway seems like a very cost-effective solution that also yields good results.

Great review!

Amazing Review!

Best review out there unbiased and professional

Superb review! 👍

Hi you are the "BEST" Thank you

great review thanks

After second review it is time to subscribe. Great content, and a lot of infos, that others do not gave a damn. Extra value infos...

I have this.. its really good.. very useful and full of features

Very informative video. I had one of those smart watch and used for checking the time only!!!! LOL

Excellent Review!

Gee, I bought Amazfit Bip for quite sometime. lovin it. And your review made me want to upgrade...

Also have the stratos.... some issue with heart rate accuracy on cycling. Sent feedback and now it's doing okay. Great for swimming. Counts distance and laps just preset the pool length. Value for money smart watch. Nice review sir!

amazing review!!!! subscribing now :)

bought this and sold it three months later and bough fenix 3 no camparison,amazfit battery for HRM belt was deciding factor.fenix 3 awesome watch

Hey, I am amazed by your review man! Keep up the good work. I was comparing this watch with the huawei watch fit since there's a flash deal for both of them. Which one do you suggest?

Is calories burnt accurate?? Also did they fixed the HR accuracy with any upgrade?

Great Job !!!

I always use the heart rate function while at the gym. And compare it to a portable oximeter. They usually match or are off by 2 beats! I love this watch!!

Perfect review 👍👍👍, Pls do a Review on New Amazfit Stratos 3, is it worth to Upgrade? 🙏🙏

Thanks for the review. Really great. I bought one after watching your video. Do you know what the Sport dial in the default Everest watch face is for? The top dial, it says Sport and it has 1.5 at the 30 minute mark. What is that dial for?

Thank you for the great review, one which I had been looking forward to! One feature that I'm particularly interested in is music playback. Does it solely rely on an mp3 library or does it integrate with offline playlists on any streaming platforms (particularly Spotify)? And as I'm guessing that the answer is "no": do you think this feature can potentially be added by software updates? I suppose the question is as relevant for high-end watches such as the Fenix 5. Thank you once again!

Autopause was implemented in the latest upgrade and maybe useful for some but it does not work for mountainbiking. First of all, here in Vancouver, GPS takes a while to get a lock and even longer fot the altimeter to start registering on the 6field data screen. So making sure waiting for the values to show up is imperative for a decent GPX file. Well, if the auto pause is on, the watch will immediately go into auto pause at Standing Still mode and the search for a good gps lock will be put on hold. Also slow crawling climbs can register as a pause and can give you bad gps track.. anyways, minor thing but I would like to see some kind of a delay implemented into the Auto Pause (20-30 secs of standing still) Apart from all of that, I am happy with the watch and its performance..

Excellent review! Would you please do a review on Stratos 3 since it is an upgrade to the Stratos 2?

Awesome review, Des! I really wonder how long it will take Garmin to give us those fancy heatmap GPS track info, I loved that on the Apple watch. One of the hidden features I love about the 645 is to resume a tracking later, did you ever try this one out? For my experience, Garmin has a very straight and fast interface, which seems to now be available at a low price.

I never leave comments but very informative video,

Loved it... Your really explain it in detail, that's really matters to make buy or pass decision. One question I have, is it able to connect to Nike run club app?

Awesome review. I'm trying to get my first fitness tracker but still torn between getting this or a refurbished fenix 3 with HRM chest strap which is 70 dollar more expensive.

Review the amazfit BIP or BIP lite Des. It's cheap but i think it gets the job done with an amazing battery life with a always on screen as well.

Great review mate. Appreciate the time you put into the testing of devices. I am considering buying a stratos for outdoor rowing (GPS distance) And hiking (GPS, alti and baro). Do you know if the altimeter is barometric or GPS based? Also, if barometric based, how can it be calibrated? Can you set sea level pressure and base heights? Cheers man!

Amazing review! One question: can you either start an activity or stay in one while charging? I'm looking at doing an ultramarathon and would like a watch that can be charged mid-activity without it stopping the current track/activity. Since it will be my first, I'm looking at needing 24-36 hours, and have yet to find a watch that will GPS track for that long on a single charge.

Great review with highligth the inaccuracy of HR monitoring can be replaced by chest strip. The straps may be replaced by any 22mm one if the original is not good enough. Tennis is monitoring with additional parameters which may not be noticed by most user. This GPS watch gets almost most wanted features at a very good valued price.

After watching your unboxing and this video I deside to purchase one for myself. I have to say that for me it kind of tix all boxes. Cheap and lots of funktions and great GPS to match Strava segments when riding MTB. I do use the auto pause feature. Thanks for a great review.

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great review! I have this device for 2 weeks and I have to agree with you for the heart rate accuracy, even my amazfit bip does better. however, i can say that its algorithm for heart rate reading has improved since the last firmware update

How does music playback during workouts? I have read that you cant navigate through music during workouts

Hey Des! First of all thank you so much for the great reviews! I've spent the last few hours checking them. I am currently using a Weloop Hey 3, but I'm just wondering how you would weigh the following options as I'm looking for a new smart/fitness watch: garmin vivoactive 3 black (275$), Amazfit Stratos (130$). Currently leaning towards the vivoactive as it seems less bulky than the stratos (the watch also will be worn with smart/casual wear as an all day watch) but on the other hand here in china, the stratos is very cheap compared to the others. I know it's hard to answer this, but just trying to get more perspective. PS. activities would mainly involve hiking, cycling, table tennis and squash... and which one wins on battery life? Thanks again!