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With its 11 day battery life, built-in GPS and 2GB of music storage, wi-fi connectivity and tons of watch faces, there's a lot to like about the Xiaomi AMAZFIT Pace smart watch. But there are some really important limitations that might make you think twice about buying one, even at its surprisingly affordable price.
A candid review by tech expert Dave Taylor of https://www.AskDaveTaylor.com/ highlights some of the coolest features and demonstrates some that will make you want to carefully assess pros and cons before you proceed with a purchase.
Note: The Xiaomi AMAZFIT Pace works with both Android and iPhone / iOS smartphones with the associated app.
Learn more: http://www.gearbest.com/smart-watches/pp_605468.html?lkid=10783274
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is this your next Smartwatch let's find
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out Dave Taylor here and I want to talk
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about smart watches now we're not
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talking about the Apple watch I'm not
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talking about the Samsung Gear 2 or
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anything like that I'm talking about
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this this is the zi Emma fit Pace this
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is a pretty interesting Smartwatch it is
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a Bluetooth Sports Smartwatch so it has
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heart rate monitor it has GPS it's not
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quite running Android Wear they have
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their own version of the software and
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there's a lot to really like about it
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it's pretty slick little device however
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it has a really interesting screen which
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and you're not going to even believe me
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I'll try to show you this but it's
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actually brighter and easier to see in
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direct sunlight than it is in a dark
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room so one of the things you find with
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this is that you sort of hold it a
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different angles and then you get to a
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certain angle and suddenly it's nice and
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visible so here's an insert that'll show
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you a little bit of that but this is
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like the core challenge with this watch
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is that if you're going to be doing a
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lot of outdoor activity they're what
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they call Trans reflective LCD screen
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works great but here just inside just
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looking straight on the watch it's
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barely readable which is super
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frustrating because it doesn't have a
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brightness control but before we go too
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far down that particular issue let's
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talk about what it does have so has
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built-in GPS it's an IP67 waterproof
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design and here's the thing that's going
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to really get you if you're used to like
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the Apple watch this is 11 days on a
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charge now that's with fairly little use
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but even if you use this super
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aggressively and you have continuous
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heart rate monitor and you have the GPS
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on because you're on some big hike or
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something it'll still last a couple of
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days in typical use it's about 5 days
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takes 3 hours to charge and you charge
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it using this little cradle then if I
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take it off I'll show you on the back
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there are little electrical connector
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dots and then this has those same
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connector dots you line it up and then
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there's a micro USB and you're good to
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go 3 hours of charge from nothing to
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full not too bad at all um you can do a
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variety of different Sports it tracks
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Trail distance altitude number of steps
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you can track your heart rate it does
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sleep tracking if you can find it and
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I'll get back to that too um you can
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connect headphones via Bluetooth and it
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actually has onboard memory something
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between like 2 or 3 gab of memory and
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you can download up to somewhere about
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500 songs and then have this connected
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to your little Bluetooth waterproof
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Sports Buds and you can go for for a run
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or a hike and you don't even need your
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phone at all the GPS works just on this
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you know the music works just on this
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there's a lot of things they got right
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um it does all sorts of notifications
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there's both an iPhone and an Android
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app that you need to get you pair them
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and then the app gives you some level of
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control and there's also controls on the
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watch itself um has lots of watch faces
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that's one thing I really like you can
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see here there's a lot of different
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choices and you you know then there's
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stuff so um one of the other issues is
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it's stuck in 24-hour mode so if you're
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someone who at 300 p.m. in the afternoon
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wants to look at your watch and have it
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say 3 not 15 you got an issue so one of
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the ways to do that is to only use faces
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that have hands so then you sort of
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sidestep that but part of the fun of
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this is actually having these nice
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bright digital faces which doesn't
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actually work great because it's in
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24-hour mode so you know the brightness
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you can't control you can't control
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24-hour or 12h hour mode there's just
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certain features that it's just very
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surprising the company hasn't made
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available to us actual users um has a
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ceramic bezel so it's scratch resistant
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and the screen this is kind of cool if
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you can read it and of course this as as
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I said works great outdoors it's always
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on so that's 11 days of an always on
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screen and this is something where if
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you're using something like an Apple
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Watch you probably live in permanent
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frustration that you know the watch
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isn't always on so you can't just glance
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down and see what time it is you have to
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physically do something to make it turn
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on that's a little tedious so I really
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like the alwayson feature um the screen
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however isn't actually active for touch
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until you either push the one button on
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the side or you can set it to do a a
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double tap and then it actually turns on
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and now you can swipe around and do
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stuff and I'll just show you just a
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little bit it's kind of confusing it's
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sort of like Snapchat where it's like if
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you move this way then this way then
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this way then you get to different
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screens um but there's a lot of data
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here there's a lot of stuff going on and
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I just feel like this is a good reminder
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that there's a certain level of user
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interface that needs to be designed for
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these watches to really work well as
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wearables that you don't really have to
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think about now one more cool thing has
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Wi-Fi connectivity so if you're really
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in a pinch you can actually connect via
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Wi-Fi which is nice and in terms of the
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specs it is a 1.3 in screen it's pretty
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big it's 12 mm thick and the screen
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itself is 320x 300 in of course a
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circular
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orientation and it uses what they call a
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trans reflective color
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LCD now there's a lot I like about this
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there's a lot I think they got right but
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the biggest thing that I think is an
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obstacle that you have to know about
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before you decide to get one is the
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brightness Outdoors it's great I really
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I mean it's just a fantastic outdoor
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watch and if you're in bright sunlight
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again it's just it's like
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counterintuitive in bright sunlight the
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screen's crystal clear and bright and
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Vivid but in indoor use in environment
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like this it's hard to read and so what
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I find doing that I'm doing is I'm like
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tilting my wrist to different angles
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just to get just the right angle where I
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can actually see what's on the screen
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and that's annoying I want to be able to
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actually have it where you know whatever
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they do a brighter backlight some sort
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of a sensor that can tell I'm looking at
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it which would be the Apple watch
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solution I want something where it
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doesn't mean that I have to work if I
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want to see what time it is that just
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seems like such a basic sort of thing or
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of course it would be the same for
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reading a notification or anything else
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so
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this is the zomi Amaze fit pace and you
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can pick up one for yourself if you're
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still interested it's 116 bucks so it's
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not a huge investment and it is a good
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sports watch with a lot of those sort of
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features that you'd want 116 bucks at
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gearbest.com this is Dave Taylor
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and I just wish they would have made
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this just a little better but maybe the
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next generation will be something really
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cool so that's all I got and I'll catch
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you oh wait whoa I'm not going to catch
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you yet cuz I want to ask you to click
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that subscribe button awesome now I'll
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catch you in my next video
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