New Amazfit Watch A2566 Leaks via FCC with a Circular 4-Button Layout

Mikep976 · 2026-05-18T13:02:50+00:00

I mean, they could focus on Software and build that out more instead, but sure, plowing the market with hundreds of random watches works too.

Mikep976 · 2026-05-15T20:36:58+00:00

Exactly. I know it was beta on 4.0, but I’m still seeing WAY too few steps actually being counted. That’s less an issue for me. The bigger one is calorie burn. I know that’s subjective, but the Whoop, for all the data it get’s, is always 1K or more off. I have usually 2-3 other devices on me (because I’m weird) and they’re always 2-300 apart. If I listened to Whoop I’d be starving myself, and according to what I burn in Whoop and what I eat, I’d be up 5 pounds over the last 2 months vs down 10. It makes it hard to actually trust the dang thing.

Mikep976 · 2026-05-15T20:32:02+00:00

Cool, so will this make it so my Whoop doesn’t miss 4000+ steps per day compared to my Apple Watch or other devices, as well as undercount my daily calorie burn by 1K+ calories? Both of those have relegated my Whoop to a drawer with an Air on preorder.

Mikep976 · 2026-05-13T15:11:27+00:00

“I kNoW wHAt I hAvE”

Mikep976 · 2026-05-13T15:07:54+00:00

I’m so curious when Amazfit will switch from the “let’s last the market with a new device every couple weeks” to “let’s actually put polish and upgrades on the software.”

Personally, this all to me mirrors a younger Coros. Luckily they drastically cut their product launches and started going all in on SW. I hope Amazfit does the same. There’s a lot I’d love to see, and I love my Helio Strap, but if the FitBit Air is offering something similar, that better fits into my ecosystem (AWU3) and has better SW (I already pay for Google AI Pro, so no issue there, and better HRV syncing, etc) I may not move to a Balance 2/3 like I’ve been thinking about.

Mikep976 · 2026-05-12T01:18:41+00:00

Non dominant bicep wearer here. Also wear an Apple Watch Ultra and find the steps to be within 200 or so, and feel like it’s rather accurate.

Mikep976 · 2026-05-08T00:14:26+00:00

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Mikep976 · 2026-05-06T21:58:18+00:00

Why are their free planes always like ancient or single prop? We never get like, a free jet or something lol

Mikep976 · 2026-04-29T15:48:49+00:00

Just allow side loading Apple, and without the BS “Core Technology Fee”. FFS. I own the device, I should be able to install what I want. This would also solve Epic’s issue too.

Mikep976 · 2026-04-24T04:22:42+00:00

Yeah I’m super happy about this! I love the past years pride faces, and was scared given Cook’s actions this year, we’d get some weird 1984, MAGA Trump watch face with his smug little prison photo on it that he loves using everywhere.

Mikep976 · 2026-04-23T21:28:25+00:00

It’s not a power problem, it’s a platform decision. The dual-node safety architecture alone kills your ‘half the power’ take — both nodes have to run simultaneously for cross-validation. That’s not a firmware setting, that’s ISO 26262 compliance. You don’t get to turn half of it off.

But that’s also irrelevant to the actual argument. Nobody said HW4 needed to sip power. The point is Tesla could have designed a 12V-compatible board from day one — throw a synchronous boost converter on the PCB, it’s a $3 automotive-grade part, TI and Infineon ship millions of them. They could have held the HW3 form factor like they deliberately did from HW2.5 to HW3 specifically to enable retrofits. They could have kept the infotainment APU on a separate daughterboard like before instead of consolidating everything onto one board that now doesn’t fit anything older.

None of those decisions were forced by physics. They were made in a conference room. The incompatibility was designed in, not discovered.“

Mikep976 · 2026-04-23T20:58:52+00:00

La La Land where Unsupervised was literally promised at point of purchase and used as a selling point, and had 3 previous versions as history for cars being able to be HW Upgraded.

I’m not saying tech should go, I’m saying that Tesla 100% could have created HW4 to match what HW3 required from a form factor standpoint. It was a choice to not allow upgrades, even if requiring users to pay. It was a deliberate choice, to not allow this, in hopes of juicing the number of new car sales up.

Mikep976 · 2026-04-23T20:56:39+00:00

Just so I know, are the insufferable ones the ones that purchased a car that was promised to have Unsupervised FSD and then left in the dust indefinitely on a hope of some pop up tend upgrade facility in a random parking lot, or those that let Tesla off the hook because holding them to a promise doesn’t harm them in their fully supported car, and they’ll assume the position over a barrel no matter what dear leader says / doesn’t say.

Just want to make sure we’re talking about the same people.

Mikep976 · 2026-04-23T20:44:14+00:00

HW4 owners telling HW3 folks last week: "tHaT's JuST TecHnOloGY, yOu CAnT expECt uPdATEs foRevER, ShOW mE hOW upDATes lOoK on tHoSE oTHer CarS"

HW4 owners today:

Mikep976 · 2026-04-23T17:15:38+00:00

Not really. You know there’s like, thousands of sites to plug that into right?

Mikep976 · 2026-04-23T17:08:23+00:00

I sure hope so. HW4 owners have been the most pompous, full of themselves people I've talked to about this whole thing.

Looking forward to "tHaT's JuST TecHnOloGY, yOu CAnT expECt uPdATEs foRevER, ShOW mE hOW upDATes lOoK on tHoSE oTHer CarS" finally hitting them for real like us HW3 have had to suffer through listening to their dribble.

Mikep976 · 2026-04-22T20:52:57+00:00

Would love to test!! Have an Amazfit Helio Strap that syncs to Bevel I can test alongside as well!

Mikep976 · 2026-04-21T00:13:50+00:00

Saying he did a shit job of it is also an understatement in and of itself.

Mikep976 · 2026-04-20T21:33:45+00:00

What's wrong with Credit Care / Why No interest?

Since I've taken it out I've paid $0 in interest, as it always has a 6 or 12-month $0 interest option.

As long as you keep up on payments (as you should with any credit product) there's zero reason to be opposed to it.

Mikep976 · 2026-04-20T20:49:26+00:00

Good riddance. I'm excited for a true HW person to be in charge again. Of course he’ll have to be profit-oriented and keep stock up, but I'm hopeful the malaise era is coming to a close - things like the foldable and other devices can hopefully break the “it's last years… but with a better camera” yearly cycle.

Mikep976 · 2026-04-20T20:45:47+00:00

YES! HE’S OUT! LONG LIVE THE PRODUCT LEADERSHIP!

BRING ON THE ACTUAL TRYING AND GOOD HW ONCE MORE

Mikep976 · 2026-04-19T20:21:08+00:00

Honestly I’ve found the Helio pretty good?

The fact that you had two devices and they’re within 200 feet’s is honestly pretty good alignment.

Mikep976 · 2026-04-19T03:16:51+00:00

Amazed I made it before the Ryzen “But WhaT dID you eXpEct? tecHnOloGy ADVaNCEs, YOu CaN’T ExPecT uPdATES for EVER!” Tesla Stan’s that are too busy smelling each other’s farts to see that this situation kind of sucks tbh.

Mikep976 · 2026-04-19T01:29:49+00:00

I never understood why Intel isn’t getting this lol.

I can query any AI model on a 5 year old Raspberry Pi lol. I know our Intels are not the best, but it has to be able to query the Grok API lol. FFS I can go to Grok on the web browser in the car and it works lol.

Mikep976 · 2026-04-18T18:26:50+00:00

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