9 ms·

They still don't have a day's worth of battery do they? Garmin watch actually lasts a week.

by soperj 6y ago

Swenrekcah 6y ago
A little tangential information on Garmin battery life for anyone in the market. I see that the upper end of Apple Watch is 800 dollars. That’s around what I paid for my Garmin fenix 6 pro solar which I’m very happy with. I get about 15 days of battery and dropping to around 10 days if I record around 1.5 hours of activities per day. Never owned an Apple Watch so can’t compare but I really like my Garmin. It is a little large though so not everyone’s cup of tea. Smaller versions probably last a bit shorter.
- mvanaltvorst 6y ago
  The top-of-the-line Apple Watch is $529. You can go higher than that, but that is purely for aesthetics (upgrade to titanium shell, stainless steel clasp, etc.).
soperj 6y ago
They do have over a day's worth of battery then? Or you just don't like that being pointed out?
- willseth 6y ago
  I think what people don't like is borderline troll posting.
  - soperj 6y ago
    how is it Troll posting? Apples own specs say 18 hours. OP says there's no better watch.
    - willseth 6y ago
      That's not what he said. Learn to read.
jamie_ca 6y ago
I've had my series 3 a little over seven months, it gets a day and a half easily - if I fully charge before bed, it's good two overnights and usually at around 20% the second morning. No comment as yet on longer-term battery degradation though.
- enos_feedler 6y ago
  Series 3 had the best battery life for me. Going to series 5 was a notable regression in having to charge daily.
  - samatman 6y ago
    I get a nearly identical charge profile to the one OP described for his 3 on my six: I charge before bed, and if I skip a charge one night, I still have battery (in the red of course) when I wake up. Offer not valid if I do an hour of exercise during the day, or game heavily (I've been known to zone out on 2048 pretty hardcore), but for normal use, sure. Apple Watch isn't trying to be anything other than a charge-daily device, it's honestly kind of incredible that something that small can be a full-fledged cell phone and still last a full day.
dangus 6y ago
From what I understand, the Apple Watch is much more of a general purpose computing device than Garmin's more fitness-focused lineup. It should be noted that Garmin's battery life drops to 36 hours (fenix 6) once GPS mode is on, which is comparable to the Apple Watch. Long battery life is a lot less important in this category than you'd think. You throw your watch on your night stand every night and forget about it.
- darkarmani 6y ago
  > You throw your watch on your night stand every night and forget about it. How do you wake up then? One of the biggest advantages of my pebble classic is that i can wear it to bed and have vibrate mode wake me up silently. For exercise, i already have my phone on me, so it tracks everything for me and the pebble shows stats on the watchface. I think we've lost something by not treating the "smart watches" as thin terminals.
  - hackstack 6y ago
    I throw it on the charger for 30 minutes while I work in the evening. Works great, and as others have noted, that’s usually enough to get through 2 nights. It charges pretty quickly; quickly enough in my experience that even if I forget to charge it one day and I find it dead at an inconvenient time, I can usually throw it in a charger for long enough to get through the rest of the day without much inconvenience. I’ve had my series 5 for about 18 months and in that time, only once have I had it die on me when I was trying to use it. If I ever go back to working in an office, my use pattern might change, but for the most part I think the inconvenience of charging daily is overstated. Edit: It also will notify you 1 hour before your configured bedtime if it doesn’t have enough juice to get through the night. I thought this was silly when they announced it but in practice it is great.
  - dangus 6y ago
    I also miss my Pebble classic in many ways, including the vibration alarm! As of right now I usually don't use an alarm to wake up. I just wake up. Or I use a standard audio alarm on the phone. But I guess that's kind of a cop-out answer? The vibration alarm was nice, not a must-have considering I had to wear something around my wrist when I slept: not as comfortable as not doing that. I disagree with you about the concept of smartwatches that should be "thin terminals." The things I don't miss about my Pebble classic involve how basic it was. I can totally understand someone wanting much more of a basic device with time, fitness tracking, basic notifications, long battery life, and that's about it. However, I think that in the scope of what is marketable to the general public, it's a more of a niche. I think that most people: 1. Don't actually want to sleep with any jewelry (watches) on. 2. Aren't deep into fitness tracking beyond the basics, i.e. they wouldn't sleep with jewelry on just to get sleep tracking. For most people fitness tracking means a few graphs and figures that make them feel good about themselves for getting on a treadmill for 20 minutes. 3. Choose their watch based on the fact that it's a piece of jewelry. In my mind, Apple gained a lot of early traction (and high-margin revenue) by focusing on the fashion part of it with the way the bands are easily changeable. Pebble wouldn't have folded if they had considered how high-margin the jewelry business usually is. The original Pebble should have been designed with replaceable bands like the Apple Watch. They shouldn't have said "oh hey these are standard sized bands, just buy your own!" They just surrendered revenue right out the gate! 4. Want something that's more of a general purpose extension of their smartphone. In the long term, I don't see a huge amount of reason why smartwatches can't entirely replace the smartphone, at least for the people who aren't interested in content consumption, or to give people flexibility to leave their phone at home for evenings out or other situations. Apple Watch does do sleep tracking. I've heard reports from people of success with just charging the Apple Watch while they're in the shower or getting ready every day. If you take something like 30 minutes to get ready you'll never need to charge the watch at night.

They still don't have a day's worth of battery do they? Garmin watch actually lasts a week.

by soperj 6y ago

They still don't have a day's worth of battery do they? Garmin watch actually lasts a week.

A little tangential information on Garmin battery life for anyone in the market. I see that the upper end of Apple Watch is 800 dollars. That’s around what I paid for my Garmin fenix 6 pro solar which I’m very happy with. I get about 15 days of battery and dropping to around 10 days if I record around 1.5 hours of activities per day. Never owned an Apple Watch so can’t compare but I really like my Garmin. It is a little large though so not everyone’s cup of tea. Smaller versions probably last a bit shorter.

mvanaltvorst 6y ago
The top-of-the-line Apple Watch is $529. You can go higher than that, but that is purely for aesthetics (upgrade to titanium shell, stainless steel clasp, etc.).

soperj 6y ago

They do have over a day's worth of battery then? Or you just don't like that being pointed out?

willseth 6y ago
I think what people don't like is borderline troll posting.
- soperj 6y ago
  how is it Troll posting? Apples own specs say 18 hours. OP says there's no better watch.
  - willseth 6y ago
    That's not what he said. Learn to read.

jamie_ca 6y ago

I've had my series 3 a little over seven months, it gets a day and a half easily - if I fully charge before bed, it's good two overnights and usually at around 20% the second morning. No comment as yet on longer-term battery degradation though.

enos_feedler 6y ago
Series 3 had the best battery life for me. Going to series 5 was a notable regression in having to charge daily.
- samatman 6y ago
  I get a nearly identical charge profile to the one OP described for his 3 on my six: I charge before bed, and if I skip a charge one night, I still have battery (in the red of course) when I wake up. Offer not valid if I do an hour of exercise during the day, or game heavily (I've been known to zone out on 2048 pretty hardcore), but for normal use, sure. Apple Watch isn't trying to be anything other than a charge-daily device, it's honestly kind of incredible that something that small can be a full-fledged cell phone and still last a full day.

dangus 6y ago

From what I understand, the Apple Watch is much more of a general purpose computing device than Garmin's more fitness-focused lineup. It should be noted that Garmin's battery life drops to 36 hours (fenix 6) once GPS mode is on, which is comparable to the Apple Watch. Long battery life is a lot less important in this category than you'd think. You throw your watch on your night stand every night and forget about it.

darkarmani 6y ago
> You throw your watch on your night stand every night and forget about it. How do you wake up then? One of the biggest advantages of my pebble classic is that i can wear it to bed and have vibrate mode wake me up silently. For exercise, i already have my phone on me, so it tracks everything for me and the pebble shows stats on the watchface. I think we've lost something by not treating the "smart watches" as thin terminals.
- hackstack 6y ago
  I throw it on the charger for 30 minutes while I work in the evening. Works great, and as others have noted, that’s usually enough to get through 2 nights. It charges pretty quickly; quickly enough in my experience that even if I forget to charge it one day and I find it dead at an inconvenient time, I can usually throw it in a charger for long enough to get through the rest of the day without much inconvenience. I’ve had my series 5 for about 18 months and in that time, only once have I had it die on me when I was trying to use it. If I ever go back to working in an office, my use pattern might change, but for the most part I think the inconvenience of charging daily is overstated. Edit: It also will notify you 1 hour before your configured bedtime if it doesn’t have enough juice to get through the night. I thought this was silly when they announced it but in practice it is great.
- dangus 6y ago
  I also miss my Pebble classic in many ways, including the vibration alarm! As of right now I usually don't use an alarm to wake up. I just wake up. Or I use a standard audio alarm on the phone. But I guess that's kind of a cop-out answer? The vibration alarm was nice, not a must-have considering I had to wear something around my wrist when I slept: not as comfortable as not doing that. I disagree with you about the concept of smartwatches that should be "thin terminals." The things I don't miss about my Pebble classic involve how basic it was. I can totally understand someone wanting much more of a basic device with time, fitness tracking, basic notifications, long battery life, and that's about it. However, I think that in the scope of what is marketable to the general public, it's a more of a niche. I think that most people: 1. Don't actually want to sleep with any jewelry (watches) on. 2. Aren't deep into fitness tracking beyond the basics, i.e. they wouldn't sleep with jewelry on just to get sleep tracking. For most people fitness tracking means a few graphs and figures that make them feel good about themselves for getting on a treadmill for 20 minutes. 3. Choose their watch based on the fact that it's a piece of jewelry. In my mind, Apple gained a lot of early traction (and high-margin revenue) by focusing on the fashion part of it with the way the bands are easily changeable. Pebble wouldn't have folded if they had considered how high-margin the jewelry business usually is. The original Pebble should have been designed with replaceable bands like the Apple Watch. They shouldn't have said "oh hey these are standard sized bands, just buy your own!" They just surrendered revenue right out the gate! 4. Want something that's more of a general purpose extension of their smartphone. In the long term, I don't see a huge amount of reason why smartwatches can't entirely replace the smartphone, at least for the people who aren't interested in content consumption, or to give people flexibility to leave their phone at home for evenings out or other situations. Apple Watch does do sleep tracking. I've heard reports from people of success with just charging the Apple Watch while they're in the shower or getting ready every day. If you take something like 30 minutes to get ready you'll never need to charge the watch at night.