Xiaomi’s Mi band series of wearables have already stolen a lot of market share in the budget segment. Now, Xiaomi is looking forward to grabbing Apple’s share in the market with the newly launched Amazfit Verge 2. The Amazfit Verge 2 is sold by Huami (a biometric and data-driven company with an expertise in smart wearables) a sub-brand of Xiaomi. Interestingly, this smartwatch offers e-SIM support, a real-time ECG tracker, an AMOLED display and a lot more at a price that is hard to digest.
The original Amazfit Verge was well received in the tech community, therefore the expectation from this device would be pretty high.
Talking of the hardware specifications, the Amazfit Verge 2 sports a 1.39 inch AMOLED display with 454X454p resolution and Gorilla Glass 3 protection. The display is backed by IP68 dust and water resistance. At the heart, Amazfit Verge 2 packs in the Qualcomm Snapdragon 2500 SoC clocked at 1.1GHz, coupled with 512MB and 4GB of storage. The e-sim support makes this smartwatch capable a standalone device to make and receive calls.The 420mAH battery inside would probably hold up for a day on a 4G connection. This device also has support for 4G VoLTE (via e-SIM), Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n, Bluetooth 4.2 LE, GPS+GLONASS+BDS and NFC.
The Amazfit Verge 2 comes with e-SIM support which was missing in the previous version. Another major upgrade is the addition of a real-time electrocardiogram (ECG). The chassis is built out of a microcrystalline Zirconium Ceramic frame instead of polycarbonate used in their previous device.
Huami has priced the base variant of the Amazfit Verge at 999 yuan (Rs 10,000 approx), The ECG version will be available 1299 yuan(Rs 13,000 approx) and the special Avengers edition will cost you 1499 yuan(Rs 15,000 approx).The smartwatch is only available in China as of now and there’s no word from Huami on its global launch.
You can read our Huami Amazfit Pace review here.