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I just finished swimming, tracked by a Garmin Forerunner 910x which I bought back in 2015 and I have been constantly using since. Wrist band replaced once each
by lobster2342 2mo ago
I just finished swimming, tracked by a Garmin Forerunner 910x which I bought back in 2015 and I have been constantly using since. Wrist band replaced once each side. Battery lifetime still amazing, even with longer bike rides and GPS. Data can be analyzed locally. Uptime since I bought it: almost 100%.
Amazing peace of Hardware.
Also their algorithms are cool. If the watch tells me to rest more than 24 hours, I know, I will be tired the next day.
The two features that I miss are built in heartrate monitor and temperature sensor. I payed around 500€ back then. Over the years I use this watch, the price became very reasonable.
- the_real_cher 2mo agoi have a fenix solar, i charge it once a month. it has an insane number of features
- microtonal 2mo agoThe price is also insane nowadays though. IMO they are very vulnerable to the likes of Coros, who also have MIP watches that last for weeks, have much faster mapping and are less than half the price.
- the_real_cher 2mo agoI know. I got a health perk at work for the year and used it all on the watch. I don't know if it would have been worth it to me without that. How's the accuracy on the Coros watches?
- microtonal 2mo agoI haven't compared it with a heart rate band yet. GPS accuracy is good since I enabled dual-frequency (MAX), before I had some inaccuracy in (urban) canyons.
- NBJack 2mo agoHonestly, Garmin watches are amazing. Going from a watch I had to charge daily (Samsung Gear line) to one I charge about 3 times a month feels incredibly liberating, particularly for travel. _And_ it feels almost as slim and light as my old Pebble Time Round.
- cyberax 2mo agoPebble Time 2 is available again! I bought one. It doesn't have all the Garmin features, but it's free and I don't have to worry about it's software getting redesigned.
- microtonal 2mo agoTrue, but in defense or Garmins, one cool feature is that they are really similar to their GPSr units in that you can just connect them to a computer and transfer data and maps (including many custom maps) through MTP (or as a USB drive on older models). Plus they work with Gadgetbridge. So you can pretty much use the watch forever without Garmin involved.
- cyberax 2mo agoYep, agreed. Garmins are great! I tried Fenix and I liked its feature set, but it's just too large for me physically.
- peterleiser 2mo agoI agree completely! Our Garmin Descent Mk3i dive computer smart watches are the best watches I've ever seen. They just work. You can charge it for an hour or so and it's good for 25 days. I hated having to charge previous watches every day. It has a double-tap light on/off feature with a very bright LED, four light levels, and a red light mode. It automatically starts tracking my dives and is rated to 200 meters. It can also do diver-to-diver messaging, air tank tracking, and group tracking using subwave sonar. And it has all the normal pulse ox, heart rate tracking, step tracking, sleep tracking, and smartwatch stuff. Just don't enable the one touch kill-switch ;-). Apparently it's a feature for military divers to erase their data (but sounds like a marketing gimmick).
- sandworm101 2mo agoAs a former very very fast swimmer, i never found a watch that worked. The ones with the features were to heavy/draggy. So i always bought dirt cheap ones that i could leave at one end of the lane. Cheap ironmans. They got stepped on every day. People would apologise and i would throw the watch across the deck to show how much i did not care about scratches. Try this: put your watch on your other wrist. The weight/drag difference will be dramatic.
- Melatonic 2mo agoCouldn't you clip it to the little lane dividers or hang it from the edge somehow ?
- DANmode 2mo agoAre these algos local, as well?
- theshrike79 2mo agoYes, mostly because the Garmin app on iOS is pretty bad at keeping a live connection up even for weather =)
- _giorgio_ 2mo agoThe missing heart-rate monitor is a pretty big limitation for a lot of users. LOL. Imagine writing a review and leaving the heart rate in last place. Just don’t write a review then.
- roryirvine 2mo agoGP is talking about a model that was released 14 years ago, and is closely based on one from 2009. Seems to me that "still working well after more than a decade of use" is a more useful piece of info than "newer models include additional features".
- _giorgio_ 2mo agoIs a stone working after 1000 years? Yep, still a stone though.
- dspillett 2mo agoHe's talking about an 11 year old device of a 15 year old (long since discontinued) design, even flagship devices were less featureful then than some mid-market devices are now. Imagine expecting a review of such a device to be enticing to someone comparing modern options… Also, not everyone with a GPS watch cares that much about heart rate. I am a runner (well, less so now that I used to be, but working on fixing that) and have a Feninx7, not for the health tracking features but for route tracking and the long battery life (for “ultra” events covering many hours or even multiple days).
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- _giorgio_ 2mo agoThat's just an old and not useful device.
- kitd 2mo agoI have a Garmin Vivoactive 3. Fantastic watch but I find the HRM underwhelming. Not very accurate and drains battery. I pair a chest band with it instead for much better quality monitoring.