Amazfit follows the Cheetah 2 Professional with a rugged new Extremely mannequin

Simply weeks after launching the brand new Cheetah 2 Professional, Amazfit is already increasing its lineup from pavement to mountain trails with the brand new Cheetah 2 Extremely. Designed particularly for path runners and ultra-distance athletes, the brand new wearable presents improved sturdiness and key options for off-road coaching.

Amazfit outfitted the fitness-tracking watch with a Grade 5 titanium bezel, body, and again cowl, plus sapphire glass safety over the show, all whereas protecting the general construct light-weight sufficient for lengthy coaching classes and races. Amazfit additionally enlarged the show to 1.5 inches, which ought to make maps and navigation screens simpler to see mid-run than on the smaller Professional mannequin. The show nonetheless reaches as much as 3,000 nits of brightness to make sure visibility throughout noon path runs. As for endurance, the Cheetah 2 Extremely can last as long as 33 hours in Path Operating mode with dual-frequency GPS, heart-rate monitoring, map navigation, and the always-on show enabled. Outdoors of exercises, the corporate says customers can count on as much as 30 days throughout typical use.

Unsurprisingly, navigation is one other large focus with the watch supporting full-color topographic and contour maps, offline rerouting, and point-to-point route creation. It additionally provides a brand new elevation overview instrument that color-codes slope problem throughout a route. Amazfit additionally says map rendering and refresh speeds have been considerably improved over earlier generations. The Extremely doubles the Professional mannequin’s storage with 64GB of onboard storage for maps and offline audio. For security on the paths, the Extremely additionally includes a built-in flashlight with white, pink, SOS, and enhance lighting modes.

Like a lot of Amazfit’s current wearables, the Cheetah 2 Extremely ties into coaching and restoration insights via the Zepp ecosystem. The corporate is constant to construct out its Hybrid Coaching platform as effectively, with instruments designed to assist runners stability endurance work, energy coaching, and restoration throughout longer coaching blocks. The watch helps metrics together with VO₂ max, lactate threshold, working energy, HRV, fatigue monitoring, and coaching load evaluation. On the Extremely, Amazfit additionally provides extra trail-specific exercise evaluation, with load calculations designed to account for elevation achieve and terrain problem as an alternative of monitoring path miles like highway miles.

The Amazfit Cheetah 2 Extremely is offered beginning in the present day for $599.99 via Amazfit’s web site, persevering with the model’s current push upmarket. Between the brand new trail-focused options, titanium development, and $600 price ticket, the corporate is more and more positioning the Cheetah lineup as a direct competitor to manufacturers like Garmin.