Amazfit Helio Review: Woefully Behind and Lacking Features

Smart rings have arrived. They’re nary longer the sphere of Finnish pioneer Oura; we person tested rings from Ultrahuman, Ringconn, and Movano successful caller months, and our Samsung Galaxy Ring review is successful the works. These finger-based trackers are casual to deterioration and supply perchance invaluable insights astir our wellness and fitness. As possibly the ascendant Chinese subordinate successful the fittingness tracking space, Amazfit should beryllium well-placed to leap aboard the trend, but the Helio astute ringing feels similar a enactment successful progress.

Amazfit grew from Huami, founded much than a decennary ago. The institution has tons of acquisition turning retired affordable gadgets, and Amazfit is simply a sub-brand that released its archetypal smartwatch successful 2016. Huami rebranded to Zepp Health successful 2021, and the Amazfit app became the Zepp app, adjacent though the Amazfit marque was retained for the devices. (Please conscionable prime 1 name.)

We person tested a fewer of Amazfit’s fittingness trackers, including the Amazfit GTR Pro (5/10, WIRED Review) and the Amazfit Balance (5/10, WIRED Review). Amazfit was bullish astir the ringing and ticker combination, with the Zepp app aggregating information from both, truthful it sent maine the Cheetah Pro alongside the Helio. (Amazfit besides sells the ringing bundled with different models.) The duo works well, but investigating the Helio ringing unsocial rapidly revealed its shortcomings.

Rushed Ring

The Amazfit Helio comes successful lone 1 colour and 2 sizes. Amazfit calls the colour titanium. It is titanium alloy, but the decorativeness looks bronze with a subtle, classy-looking dot signifier connected the apical and a tiny indentation connected the different broadside to assistance you align the sensors correctly. The Helio weighs conscionable shy of 4 grams, is 2.6 mm thick, and is comfy to wear. It is bulkier than a regular ringing but not terribly so.

The Amazfit Helio is rated astatine 10 ATM for h2o resistance. You tin aquatics oregon ablution with it on. It comes with a wee, wireless charging plinth, conscionable similar Oura’s, and a USB-C cable, but you indispensable proviso a powerfulness adapter. Amazfit offers size 10 oregon 12. (Luckily, I americium size 12.) Eventually, it volition connection sizes 7 done 13. The constricted options boost my content that Amazfit has rushed the ringing to market.

The ringing seems durable. Mine is mostly blemish-free aft a mates of weeks, and I thin to beryllium pugnacious connected astute rings, though I did negociate to gouge my porcelain bath sink. (You indispensable retrieve to region your ringing earlier cleaning, lifting weights, oregon immoderate enactment wherever it is apt to interaction a hard surface.) Like astir astute rings, the Helio works champion connected your scale finger, but this makes it much apt to travel into interaction with … well, everything.

Mighty Metrics

The Helio has the accustomed sensor suspects, including a photoplethysmography (PPG) sensor, 3-axis accelerometer, 3-axis gyroscope, somesthesia sensor, and electro-dermal (EDA) sensor. It tin way your bosom complaint and bosom complaint variability, progressive minutes, full steps, calories burned, and a fewer different bits. You indispensable instal and nexus the Zepp app (iOS, Android) to reappraisal your data.