Amazfit Bip 6

The Amazfit Bip 6 is a smartwatch that goes big on smarts and cheap on price. For less than £100, one of Amazfit's cheapest smartwatches serves you up an AMOLED display, Bluetooth calls, offline maps and potentially weeks of battery life.

- Mike Sawh

These are features you'd typically have to pay a lot more for. As we've already seen with the firm's other smartwatches like the T-Rex 3 and Active 2, Amazfit is capable of delivering the goods.

On paper, there's a lot to like about the Amazfit Bip 6, but is it the best budget smartwatch to buy this year? Let's find out.

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The Bip 6 is a square smartwatch you won't mistake for an Apple Watch, yet also doesn't feel low quality and reminds me a lot of the look of the CMF Watch Pro. Once you've picked from red, black, stone, blush or charcoal straps (there are three hues for the body), you'll get a polymer case with an aluminium frame. It now has an additional physical button down the right side of the case.

That's matched up with a 22mm silicone strap that's breathable and stayed securely in place. It can be simply removed and replaced by sliding across the pin mechanism on the back of each end of the strap.

It measures 10.45mm thick, so isn't the slimmest smartwatch available. For perspective, it's slimmer than a Google Pixel Watch 3 and not quite as skinny as a Samsung Galaxy Watch 7.

The 46.3mm case tells you it's not the smallest smartwatch either, with that wide, square frame soaking up a good amount of wrist space. It weighs 27.9g without a strap which is slightly less than the 42mm Apple Watch Series 11.

If you want to take it for a swim, it carries a 5ATM waterproof rating, deeming it safe to be submerged in water up to 50 metres depth. That's an improvement on the level of protection offered on the Bip 5.

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