Zeblaze Ares GPS Smartwatch

Zeblaze Ares GPS Smartwatch

The distinguishing feature is in the name: this watch has its own satellite positioning rather than borrowing your phone's. Compare it across our smartwatches.

What built-in GPS actually changes

Almost every affordable smartwatch tracks distance using a motion sensor and a step count, or by piggybacking on your phone's GPS — which means carrying the phone. A watch with its own receiver records an actual route with actual distances, and it does so with the phone left at home. For running, cycling or hiking that is the whole difference between an estimate and a measurement. It also means pace and distance stay accurate on varied terrain, where a step-counting estimate drifts badly. The Ares GPS additionally accepts imported route files, so you can follow a planned path on the wrist rather than stopping to check a phone.

Battery, and the cost of positioning

Seven days of typical use, extending to fourteen in battery-saver mode. Satellite positioning is power-hungry — the receiver has to stay locked onto signals continuously — so a long GPS session will consume battery far faster than the seven-day figure suggests. That is not a fault of this watch; it is what GPS costs on any wearable, and the reason battery-saver mode exists.

Health tracking, and the rest of the range

Heart rate, blood oxygen, stress and sleep quality, all of which should be read as trend data rather than clinical measurement. If you want an AMOLED display and much longer battery life instead of positioning, the Ares 3 Plus is the alternative in the same range — it has no GPS but is rated at eighteen days.

Buying from Kolorob

No warranty term is published for this model through our supply route, so we do not state one. Our returns policy covers a faulty unit.