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When did you realize that you needed a “second screen” beyond your phone?
Want to change the watch face as you like, not miss every WeChat notification, or record your daily trajectory?
The first time I felt I needed a screen to manage my body was when I stumbled into a Frisbee party hosted by friends over the weekend.
Frisbee was really fun, but I didn’t get to enjoy it for long.
After just trying to catch two rounds of Frisbee, I was out of breath and felt like my heart was about to pop out of my throat, and I had to change from athlete to water cooler guardian.
In order to keep up with the pace of my friends outdoors as soon as possible, I urgently need a “coach” on my wrist to help me exercise while monitoring abnormal body data.
Just recently, Amazfit Yuewo released a new generation of professional outdoor smartwatch T-Rex 2, just to soothe my heart that yearns for the wild.
So I made up my mind, put down the phone, put on running shoes, put on the hardcore T-Rex 2 and started an outdoor special training.
Live up to every drop of your sweat
Like most sports watches, the T-Rex 2 tells you right from the look that it’s a watch destined to live in the sun.
Wearing it, there will always be an invisible traction that pulls you out of the office building and the grid to the sunny forest road and runway. This is where it releases its wildness.
T-Rex 2 supports more than 150 sports mode records, covering almost all sports types that everyone can come into contact with in daily life.
For example, skiing, frisbee, and cycling, which are hot this year, can be found on T-Rex 2’s rich sports list, and niche sports such as triathlon, jiu-jitsu, curling, etc., are also available on T-Rex 2. It’s all there, and you’ll even find esports events that record your every heartbeat in the canyon.
I’m not a professional outdoor player, so I chose an entry-level outdoor run to experience the outdoor performance of the T-Rex 2.
The physical button on the upper right of the T-Rex 2 is the shortcut key for the sports mode by default. Press it to quickly switch to the running state, saving the tedious steps of swiping through the multi-layer menu to find the item.
After entering the running state, the first thing I feel is “fast” – GPS positioning is very fast. In an outdoor environment without obstructions, the star search positioning is completed in about 5 seconds.
For outdoor sports watches, accurate satellite positioning is very important, because only with accurate positioning can the movement speed and movement trajectory be calculated with high precision.
At this point, T-Rex 2 has many unique advantages.
The antenna structure of T-Rex 2 is specially designed to effectively filter the interference of external base station signals and Bluetooth Wifi signals, ensuring that the watch can simultaneously receive dual-frequency positioning signals from 72 satellites from the five positioning constellations (Beidou, GPS, GLONASS, Galileo, QZSS). , significantly improve the navigation and positioning accuracy. It is also with the blessing of this five-star dual-frequency positioning system that the positioning performance of the T-Rex 2 has made a qualitative leap compared with the previous Amazfit Yueme products.
In actual use, the most intuitive feeling is that no matter if I am in an office building area with dense high-rise buildings, or when I pass by dense trees and other places with poor satellite signals, the movement trajectory will not appear random flying or missing records. It provides a reliable positioning guarantee for outdoor travel.
According to the introduction, the positioning system of T-Rex 2 will improve the performance more significantly in scenes such as mountains, forests and canyons. It can not only record high-precision motion trajectories, but also support manual import of trajectories and realize trajectory navigation and other functions.
Compared with urban roads, many outdoor routes are more complicated, and it is almost impossible to rely on ready-made mobile phone navigation. A large number of outdoor routes need to rely on predecessors to walk out with their feet. At this time, T-Rex 2’s five-star dual-frequency positioning system plus “track import” and “track navigation” are the most practical functions.
However, “Track Import” and “Track Navigation” will not be supported until subsequent OTA upgrades. Those who want to experience this feature will need to wait.
In terms of exercise records, in addition to recording detailed information such as distance, heart rate, pace, and trajectory of each exercise, T-Rex 2 can also set exercise goals, exercise reminders, and plan fitness goals according to actual exercise consumption. Scientific and rational way to do exercise planning.
Before running, I can also set up automatic segmentation, virtual rabbit, cadence assistant and other sports auxiliary functions to help me adjust to the most suitable running state and let me devote myself to the exercise.
After the run, I also need to do some anaerobic exercise to increase muscle properly. At this time, using the new “strength training” mode on T-Rex 2 can help me train for the corresponding muscle group, so that the training effect can be multiplied with half the effort.
The “Strength Training” mode can intelligently identify 15 types of movements such as squats, bench presses, dumbbells, and sit-ups, and can automatically record the total rest time between sets and the heart rate of each set of movements, as well as the heart rate interval ratio between each set. Easy to review and adjust after training.
Open the Zepp App on your mobile phone, you can intuitively see the muscle groups exercised by each strength training, and adjust the movements in time according to the position of the muscles that need to be exercised, so that every exercise will be “useful work”.
When it comes to battery life, the most critical aspect of a sports watch, the T-Rex 2 performs quite well.
Officials claim that the T-Rex 2 can have a battery life of up to 24 days in standard mode with the GPS turned on normally, and in the 6 days of actual use (doing half an hour of exercise monitoring and 7 hours of sleep monitoring every day), The actual power loss is 23%, which is almost the same as the official standard battery life.
During this time of experience, the ultra-long battery life of the T-Rex 2 made me almost forget about needing to charge it. If it takes 21 days to develop a habit, then the Amazfit T-Rex 2 with a standard battery life of 24 days is enough to worry about battery life after I fall in love with a sport.
More durable and better looking
Another major upgrade of the T-Rex 2 is its tougher appearance. If you compare it with the previous generation, you will find that the T-Rex 2 has become much more refined in all aspects.
This sense of sophistication comes from the larger screen size and the embellishment of metal elements. Let’s first look at the screen. The screen area of the T-Rex 2 has been increased from 1.3 inches in the previous generation to 1.39 inches. The larger screen can not only display more content information, but also looks more atmospheric in the first look. More in line with its professional sports positioning.
The T-Rex 2 on the bezel is treated with metal sandblasting, which improves the texture and also improves the wear resistance of the bezel to a certain extent. It is not easy to leave traces on it when encountering small bumps.
Turning to the side, you can see that T-Rex 2 has added a stainless steel guard bridge, which can effectively prevent sand and sweat from blocking the air pressure holes of the watch body, and this also improves the overall rigidity of the watch to a certain extent.
The four stainless steel buttons distributed in the four corners can be said to be my most satisfactory design on the T-Rex 2. During the exercise, the operation frequency of the four physical buttons is much higher than that of the touch screen, so the feel of the physical buttons is much higher. Whether it is good or bad will greatly affect the wearer’s first impression of it.
The T-Rex 2’s metal buttons are sandblasted and etched on the surface to give clear finger feedback when clicking, making it durable and reliable. And when you’re playing with the watch, the metallic buttons also make the T-Rex 2 look more like a professional multi-sport watch than a simple smartwatch.
T-Rex 2 uses an antibacterial silicone strap with a sweat guide on the inside of the strap. Whether it is high-intensity outdoor sports or long-term wear, T-Rex 2 can fit the wrist well. It is not easy to feel sticky and sweaty, and it is dry and comfortable to wear.
In terms of color matching, T-Rex 2 has 4 colors: midnight black, star black, jungle green, and earth yellow. Outdoor sports enthusiasts can freely choose the most harmonious color according to their daily wear and matching colors.
With the increase of the screen area of the watch, the resolution of the screen has also been improved. The screen resolution has been increased from 360 × 360 to 454 × 454, and the PPI has reached 326. The overall display effect is delicate and clear, and there is no obvious sawtooth when you look closely. sense.
The T-Rex 2 is equipped with a high-brightness AMOLED screen, which can clearly see the information displayed on the screen without pressure in the case of strong direct sunlight outdoors.
The screen brightness supports adaptive adjustment, and the screen brightness will be automatically reduced in low light, so that when you raise your hand to check the time in the middle of the night, you will not be woken up by the bright surface.
On the whole, the design of T-Rex 2 conforms to the trend of the current outdoor style, whether it is matched with hard-core outdoor clothing or with casual sports fashion brands.
If you always like to take the outdoor wear route of G-Shock and Patagonia, then I believe that T-Rex 2 can be well integrated into your daily wear and become a good functional embellishment.
Hardcore sports and daily leisure, both can be taken into account
Although outdoor sports are the focus of T-Rex 2, T-Rex 2 is not left behind in terms of daily health monitoring and convenience experience.
As a smartwatch launched by Huami, T-Rex 2 naturally pays attention to health.
T-Rex 2 is equipped with BioTracker developed by Huami Technology 
3.0 PPG bio-tracking optical sensor capable of monitoring heart rate, blood oxygen, sleep, stress, respiration rate and arrhythmia in atrial fibrillation.
Through the “one-button measurement” function, 5 items of health data can be measured simultaneously within 1 minute, comprehensively grasp the status of blood oxygen, heart rate, and heart health, and the measurement efficiency is greatly improved. This is also the “routine operation” of Huami’s self-developed technology.
In addition, T-Rex 2 also supports intelligent monitoring of blood oxygen based on altitude. When an outdoor athlete climbs above the limit of 3000 meters, T-Rex 2 will remind the wearer to monitor blood oxygen according to the change in altitude and reduce the limit The risk of hypoxia associated with climbing can be said to be a very practical “life-saving skill” for small partners who like mountaineering or high-altitude hiking.
Returning to life, T-Rex 2 supports NFC travel cards, WeChat/Alipay offline payment and other convenience functions. When you are thirsty during exercise, you need to buy a bottle of water. You can complete the payment by raising your wrist, so that you don’t need to carry your mobile phone with you when you travel. on.
In addition, T-Rex 2 is equipped with the Zepp OS operating system, with its own compass, altimeter, barometer and other practical functions, and can also be used with third-party applications including GoPro to achieve rich functions such as remote operation.
In general, T-Rex 2, as the third watch launched in the T-Rex series, can be said to be the culmination of this hardcore series.
It inherits the military-grade workmanship of the T-Rex series. It is not afraid of the test of sediment and deep water. It can be used normally even in the extreme -30°C environment. If the GPS is turned off, the T-Rex 2 can still be used. Up to 9 days of battery life in such extreme environments pushes the reliability of smartwatches to another extreme.
After years of development, users’ acceptance of smart watches is becoming more and more high, and at the same time, the types of smart watches have become more and more abundant with the increase of user needs.
The all-smart watch represented by the Apple Watch is no longer the only paradigm for creating a “second screen”. The smart watch is like a smartphone. It derives professional differences based on the three basic functions of mobile phone notifications, sports health and basic communication. targeted products.
At this time, it doesn’t make much sense to talk about “the best smartwatch”, because the battle for convenience on the wrist has gradually evolved from the competition of “hexagonal warriors” to a professional showdown.
T-Rex 2 is such a product that is constantly digging into outdoor sports and health. On the premise of ensuring the basic convenience of smart watches, it brings military-standard workmanship, high-precision satellite positioning and professional Health monitoring function, which happens to be an area that smart watch manufacturers rarely pay attention to.
For users like me who have certain outdoor sports needs, T-Rex 2 can be regarded as one of the few suitable choices.
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