3 ms·
Garmin. They've got models with various kinds of displays, from transflective outdoor usable ones to the usual OLED. Battery life on the non-OLED models can b
by Saris 3y ago
Garmin.
They've got models with various kinds of displays, from transflective outdoor usable ones to the usual OLED.
Battery life on the non-OLED models can be very good too, especially on the solar ones, a month or more in most cases.
- linsomniac 3y agoNote it can vary depending greatly on settings, which is kind of nice. I have a Forerunner 745 (sweet spot of features and price on Prime day), and I can get, IIRC, a solid week plus with the default settings. I ended up dialing way up the settings to get better tracking of sleep, which took the battery life to around 2.5 days.
- alephxyz 3y agoYep. I'm willing to pay extra for something dead simple that does what it needs to do and nothing more. No ads or distractions, connecting to sensors over ANT+ "just works", devices are supported for years, and if I think of a useful feature or metric to display I can create a monkey C module in about an hour. Makes me wish all IOT devices were like that. My only gripe with them is their segmentation of devices with nearly identical hardware into different segments (e.g. edge explore vs edge 130) and walling off features.
- Saris 3y agoGarmin is a little bit closed off, that's the main downside. And as far as I can tell their app needs internet to sync data from the watch even though it's connected via bluetooth, I assume it's uploading to their servers for processing before viewing in app. Other than that it works great, I have no complaints about my Venu 2.