Tech Tidbits: Amazfit New Products Coming, GoPro GP3 Footage, HoverAir Aqua, DJI Avata 360

Here’s just a smattering of interesting things related to sports tech that have plopped across my desk over the last few days.

Amazfit New Products & Earnings Call:

As I’ve said many times, I love reading through earnings call transcripts. Legitimately, I do. There’s always so much good stuff in there, especially when analysts ask questions (even dumb questions often elicit interesting information). In any case, Zepp (the official name of Amazfit) had their investor call on Monday, and there were a few tidbits worth noting. Because this is a tech tidbits post, I’m not going to go very deep on these, all of which were said by the company’s CEO, Leon Deng.

– The Amazfit Helio Band is their most popular product. It’s easy to see why, it’s generally speaking pretty darn good for the price. Leon Deng said in the call, “Helio Strap has made a great performance and a debut in 2025. The most popular, if not the most popular, products in our portfolio.”

– A new Amazfit Helio Band 2 is coming in the second half of the year (e.g., July-December). He didn’t say anything more than that, except, “On the other hand, we’re also working on the next generation of those as we stay tuned for the second half of this year.” The conversation was in response to Amazfit noting they basically couldn’t make enough of the Helio bands in 2025, from a manufacturing standpoint.

– Other T-Rex products would come in 2026: Given Amazfit announced the T-Rex Ultra 2 a few weeks back, and a T-Rex 3 Pro last September 2025 (and T-Rex 3 in January 2025), I’d assume this would be a T-Rex 4 and T-Rex 4 Pro. I wonder at some point when they’ll flip the script, and do ‘Pro’ first, then Non-Pro (to drive sales of the higher-end, and usually higher-margin model).

– Revenue is way up, saying “In the last quarter of 2025, our revenue rose to $85.2 million, up 43% year-over-year, upper end of our guidance range. For full year 2025, revenue million, representing a 41.8% year-over-year growth.” Rapid growth at this stage isn’t really a surprise, as always, sustaining said growth for any small company is trickier. Still, they expect growth in Q1 at 30-43% over last year.

Beyond those items, there wasn’t much else there. Some chat about increases in memory cost and such, but nothing that was that concerning for them. Also, some talk about them continuing to expand paid influencer relationships/sponsorships, which has long been the cornerstone of Amazfit’s growth and marketing strategy. Hopefully they can find a way to do that, while some of those influencers make those partnerships a bit more transparent than they are today.

GoPro GP3 Video Footage:

Above, a video from GoPro with footage from a new, unannounced camera using their announced GP3 chipset. I wrote a boatload about that chipset a week or two ago. Sadly, there wasn’t much interesting in the earnings call that followed a few days after that (except that they expect strong revenue from said new cameras with said chipset).

In any case, obviously, that footage looks pretty darn incredible for a GoPro. Knowing GoPro pretty well, I’m going to take a swag that this is fully actual footage from the camera (save any color correction/tweaks/etc, as any other edited video might have). Meaning, I don’t think this is AI-tweaked off-camera in post-production. If there’s any supposed AI stuff on-camera (like what their competitors do), fine, that’s on-camera. Anyways, worth the 23-second watch.

Notably, GoPro has confirmed the first camera having this will be in Q2 (e.g., April to June). Whether that’s a GoPro Hero 14, a GoPro Cine-type cam, or some other GoPro camera line remains to be announced.

HoverAir Aqua:

Because I’m on a roll of things, I figured I’d mention I’ve started testing this drone. I bought this last summer, and it’s finally starting to ship now, and so far it’s a blend of ‘super effing cool’ and ‘needs some usability tweaks’.

In short, the HoverAir Aqua is a fully waterproofed drone. You can take-off and land in the water, you can throw it out into the water upside-down, and it’ll so-called ‘turtle flip’ itself, and then take-off and follow-you. You can (and should) wear a beacon on your shoulder, which lets it follow you better in case it loses contact for any number of reasons. Likewise, you can control the drone with the beacon. The drone, batteries, and controller are all fully waterproof (and you can even watch the inside battery compartment too). Here’s a silly quick example of throwing it into the water, and then letting it orbit around me on a semi-windy day.

Video quality ranges from really good to so-so, depending on the lighting. I find it can struggle a bit with really bright highlights (like against the rocks/cliffs), but otherwise it is pretty equivalent to something like a $300 DJI drone (e.g., DJI NEO 2). It’s not too bad in the still from below (taken from the video above), but it can be a bit worse in other areas.

In any case, a full review is coming pretty soon. Want to get a few more scenarios, but was just waiting for some weather bits to sort themselves out.

That said, for those in the US, realistically, this drone isn’t coming to the US. Without going down the entire rabbit hole of the current US drone fiascos, the long story short is that any FCC approvals that weren’t done prior to December, aren’t happening for non-US drone companies (of which, there are no meaningful consumer ones). This impacts not just DJI, but also HoverAir, Insta360/Antigravity, and more. But again, totally separate. HoverAir didn’t get that FCC approval done before then, and the path to getting on the approved list is near impossible at this point for a Chinese company. HoverAir is giving refunds to those who requested it, or if you have a friend in Canada/etc, you can simply ship there and pick it up accordingly.

DJI Avata 360:

Finally, I figured I’d mention this one briefly. It looks interesting for sure. I’ve got the Antigravity drone, which is also 360, though I suspect the DJI one will solve some of the issues that the Antigravity one has (namely the range is rough, and being unable to use a regular controller is rough).

At the moment, the DJI Avata 360 is due to start shipping on March 26th. We’ve had a bunch of mostly paid DJI influencer things released last week, all of which required approval for each video from DJI (and then also approval on what they could and couldn’t say). So realistically, we don’t know what the gotchas are yet. Though frankly, I don’t expect a ton of gotchas on this, since the core drone tech is well-established by DJI, and then equally, the 360 side is mostly well-covered by their existing 360 camera (and they solved the biggie from the action cam, which was non-replaceable lenses).

I’ll be picking one up, though travel schedules will make that messy initially. It remains to be seen exactly which ActiveTrack features it has (it definitely has some, based on some of the videos). But again, more to come there too.

With that – thanks for reading!

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