Comparing Huami Amazfit GTR and Amazfit Verge

Amazfit smart watches remain popular due to its versatility and affordability. And they

remain popular among usersdifferent age groups. In the new smart watch Amazfit GTR, which the company Huami introduced not so long ago, quite a lot of improvements. In addition, the company preferred the round dial. It seems that the manufacturer has serious plans for the path to the segment of premium watches.

Comparison of Amazfit GTR and Amazfit Verge

Huami has released two versions of the watch: sizes 42 mm and 47 mm with a slight difference in the versions of the assembly and color. In the table below, we compare the characteristics of Amazfit GTR and Amazfit Verge.

Amazfit GTR
Amazfit Verge

Display
47 mm - 1.39 ″ AMOLED, resolution 454x454, 326 ppi
43 mm - 1.2 ″ AMOLED, resolution 390x390, 326 ppi
1.3 inches, 360 x 360p resolution, AMOLED

Weight
47 mm - aluminum: about 36 grams

steel: about 48 grams

titanium: about 40 grams

42 mm - 25.5 grams
46 grams

The size
47 mm - 47.2x47.2x10.75 mm

42 mm - 42.6x42.6x9.2 mm

Water protection
5ATM
IP68

Connection
Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 5.0 LE, GPS, GLONASS
Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 4.0 LE, GPS, GLONASS

Battery
47 mm - 410 mAh
42 mm - 195 mAh

410 mAh - charging time 2 hours
390 mAh, charging time about 1 hour

5 days from one charge with regular use

Other features
Gorilla Glass 3 + AF coating, BioTracker PPG, 6-axis accelerometer, 3-axis geomagnetic air sensor, ambient light brightness sensor
Gorilla Glass 3, sports tracking, intelligent voice assistant, mobile payments

Sensors
PPG Bio-Tracking, 6-axis accelerometer, pressure sensor, capacitive sensor, ambient light sensor
Heart rate sensor, air pressure sensor, geomagnetic sensor

Design and build

Most of the amazing Amazfit watches are known for theircompact square dials, but Amazfit GTR breaks this trend, as it has a round dial. They are perfect and more attractive than Amazfit Verge. They can also be used at depths of up to 50 meters in contrast to Amazfit Verge. Amazfit GTR is available in two different sizes - 42 mm and 47 mm. The smaller version is about 9.2 mm thick and weighs 25.5 grams. But the 47-mm version is slightly heavier and weighs more than 48 grams. The 47 mm version of Amazfit is made of aluminum, stainless steel and titanium. Amazfit Verge has a plastic case, a round dial and just one plastic button in the upper right corner.

The company Huami first introduced a newtitanium design on the watch Amazfit. On average, the assembly of titanium takes 15 processes and takes up to 55 days to make one unit of titanium watches. It is widely used in the aerospace industry due to its incomparable properties, such as hardness, corrosion resistance, light weight and biocompatibility. The titanium version of the smartwatch comes with a rubber-coated hybrid strap. It is coated with a wear resistant oxide layer to increase belt life. Stainless steel coated with shiny IP-chrome film and AF anti-finger film to improve metallic color.

The large version of the Amazfit GTR wins with its display characteristics. They have the brightest and largest display. Features like a fingerprint cover make a new watch the best.

System characteristics

Amazfit Verge uses dual core1.2 GHz processor, 512 MB of RAM and 4 GB of internal memory. Amazfit GTR uses a low-power chip with new algorithms to optimize power consumption. This facilitates brightness control and motion modes to save energy. Energy efficiency increases with energy consumption by about 48.7%. GPS is optimized and reduced use by 51.2 percent.

Amazfit GTR contains 15 different sensors.including BioTracker PPG bio-track optical sensor, 6-axis accelerometer, 3-axis geomagnetic sensor, air pressure sensor, capacitive sensor, ambient brightness sensor, and others.

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Users can easily choose between 100dials with different styles and effects to customize the user interface of the watch. Each dial is effective and displays a lot of useful information on one screen (time and date, heart rate, number of steps, etc.).

The operating system is more intuitive andoptimized. Bluetooth 5.0 allows users to receive text messages, emails, calendar events, alerts from applications and other information reminders.

Built-in NFC chip allows you to make mobilepayments in China. Amazfit integrated NFC functionality with metro cards in 253 cities in China, there is support for bus cards. Alipay support is also present in the new Amazfit GTR watch for offline scanning codes. And that is all.

Amazfit Verge features ten differentsports modes. Meanwhile, Amazfit GTR have as many as 12 professional sports modes with 100 sports courses. They can easily distinguish and measure walking, running, riding, swimming and various exercises. In real time, they can report high heart rate, pressure frequency, and other factors.

Amazfit GTR has BioTracker’s own technology.Huami's PPG, which can accurately monitor the 24-hour continuous heart rate, and can also report heart vibrations. It also helps to measure fat burning during exercise.

Battery

Amazfit Verge can last five days.regular use when fully charged, while the new GTR smart watch can work up to 24 days with regular use. It is noteworthy that the 47-mm version of the Amazfit GTR comes with a 410 mAh lithium-polymer battery and supports up to 24 days of battery life during normal use and up to 74 days in basic watch mode (turning off Bluetooth, heart rate and other functions). The 42 mm version of the GTR comes with a 195 mAh battery and can last up to 12 days with regular use and up to 34 days in basic watch mode.

The Amazfit Verge 390 mAh battery fully charges within an hour, and the Amazfit GTR takes 2 hours to charge a 410 mAh battery.

Price

Amazfit Verge was priced at $ 116. This time the Amazfit GTR 42 mm costs 799 yuan ($ 116), and the limited edition Swarovski model will be sold for 999 yuan ($ 145). Larger versions of the Amazfit GTR 47 mm aluminum and stainless steel will be available at a price of 999 yuan ($ 145). A special edition of Iron Man on titanium will cost 1399 yuan, which is approximately equal to 203 dollars.