Google's Wear OS is better than ever as a smartwatch platform, but it doesn't provide the best experience for working out. Because of that, I swapped my Pixel Watch 3 with an Amazfit T-Rex 3 earlier this year and haven't looked back since. Now you can get the same great experience for $53 less with this excellent Black Friday deal. But if you want the best deal possible this week, Amazon's excellent Renewed program will get you a refurbished T-Rex 3 for just $159 out the door. The catch is that the latter deal only applies to Prime members.
The Amazfit T-Rex 3 is an incredibly impressive smartwatch with a gorgeous AMOLED screen, one month battery life (seriously!), and support for tracking 170 different sports and types of workouts. It's also got offline dual-band GPS for epic accuracy, a free diving mode, and more.
✅Recommended if: You don't care about running loads of apps on a smartwatch, love using your watch for workout or sleep tracking, and are tired of charging your watch every day.
❌Skip this deal if: You like to multitask between apps often on your watch or have a specific app or service that doesn't work with Amazfit/Zepp.
Aside from battery life and more accurate GPS tracking, I'm a huge fan of all the types of workouts this watch can track. It automatically counts my reps while running strength training or other lifting exercises built into the watch, and it's super simple to switch sets and weight with quick 5lb increments.
Just like Garmin watches, Amazfit's Zepp app tracks the muscles you use for each type of workout and often does a great job of automatically identifying certain types of workouts. If I'm doing barbell backsquats, for instance, I just start the "strength training" exercise on the watch, and it typically understands that I'm doing barbell backsquats based on my movements. It's really cool, and you can always easily change the workout from the app at any time after the fact.
The Amazfit T-Rex 3 goes beyond just workout tracking and everyday notification management, too. The Zepp app, used to connect the watch to your phone, has a great UI that's insightful and user-friendly. Part of that is made possible by Amazfit's clever use of AI to surface information you're looking for, and the other half is just good design.
One of my favorite parts of the app is the AI-powered meal tracking capabilities, which let you type or voice a natural language prompt to input meals. That means no more scanning barcodes or scrolling through lists of junk.
Just tell it, "I had 2 scrambled eggs, a piece of buttered toast, and a glass of orange juice for breakfast," and it uses AI to understand and input that into your daily log quickly. It's easily the single most useful AI tool I use daily, and it means I actually track my diet instead of getting lazy and quitting half a day into the week.
Black Friday 2025 - quick links
- Best Buy: up to 60% off Chromebooks, Android phones, and more
- Amazon: early discounts on headphones, smart home tech
- Walmart: early price drops on ASUS laptops, locked phones
- Samsung: new Galaxy XR headset, trade-in opportunities
- Verizon: free phones with new line, trade-in
- T-Mobile: free Galaxy phones, $300 back w/ 5G Home Internet
- Mint Mobile: 50% off Pixel 10, BOGO Unlimited plans
- AT&T: get a free Z Flip 7 with trade-in, new line
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- The best Samsung deals of Black Friday
- The best Motorola deals of Black Friday
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