Amazfit T-Rex 3 Pro review: External watch that does not work

Offline guidance is supposed to be one of the tagline features of this watch. You should be able to just choose a point in the Maps app on the watch, then choose straight-line navigation or route navigation. Unless you’re in a wide-open field, a straight line won’t help you much, but the Route Navigation feature should analyze the Watch’s ability to read roads and lanes to get you where you want to go.

Then you can choose between outdoor running, walking, or outdoor cycling. Why isn’t hiking included? Who knows, but it doesn’t really matter because 90 percent of the times I tried it, the clock would just say, “Route creation failed. Try again.” I’ve only been able to run it twice, and only for very short distances, and one of those times he advised me to run on Interstate 405, one of the largest and busiest highways in the country. I wouldn’t rely on this feature.

There’s just a general feeling of incompleteness to the whole thing. Questionable translations abound. She missed the waves while surfing. It still doesn’t recognize the types of strength training you’re doing, a feature that was promised earlier this year and is readily available on all other sports watches at this point.

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Photo: Brent Rose

It’s not all bad news. I love that this watch has an LED light, which is a feature that I think every sports watch should have because it is so useful. The speaker and microphone aren’t great quality, but they’re also nice to have. The watch does a pretty good job of displaying notifications from your smartphone, and if you’re an Android user, you can quickly respond to incoming texts, or initiate text messages through the Zepp Flow, though it doesn’t differentiate between notification types and will start ringing without interruption while you’re driving.