Ich war jahrelang Apple Watch Nutzer (Series 5/7, AWU 1/2). Sehr gute Uhr, dachte ich immer. Bis ich dann eine Fenix 8 ausprobiert habe. Es gibt nichts besseres.
Und den Kommentar mit Spielzeuguhr befindet Apple Uhr kann ich teilen, sieht so aus und wirkt lächerlich wie ich heute finde!
Software der Garmin ist super, klar nicht die Liga der Apple Watch Watch, aber: es ist und soll eine Uhr und ein tracker sein. Siri klappt super, alle wichtigen Informationen die man braucht werden ebenfalls angezeigt.
Wozu derart leistungsfähige Prozessoren ect. wie an der Apple Watch? Was soll der Schwachsinn?
Garmin ist der Meister!!!!!
Apple Watch User for a long time, then switched to Fenix 8. I really don’t regret it! It‘s a own device with all these top functions. An Apple Watch is just an gadget for the iPhone. Not more, yet.
For me as a cyclist, runner and swimmer a Garmin doesn’t really offer many features I need. I already use a Wahoo head unit that syncs to Strava, so the watch side adds very little. Then use rungap or healthfit to move the workouts. Swimming the apple watch kicks the garmin out if the park and for running both are very similar other than battery life. There are some metrics garmins have that apple watches/ third party apps don’t have, but for me most are just gimmicks anyway.
As most people know, Garmin is primarily a fitness watch, while the Ultra is a smartwatch. And realistically, 99% of the time people are at work or going about daily life—not doing multi-day hikes or extreme expeditions. For everyday use, the Ultra just makes far more sense. Charging every couple of days really isn’t a big deal. Plus if you dont want the smartwatch bits of the apple watch you can always turn them off.
I tried the Fenix 8, and while it’s Garmin’s top-of-the-line model, it honestly feels quite dated in terms of software, UX, and overall features. The Apple Watch, by comparison, feels like a complete ecosystem. And if something feels missing, there’s almost always a strong third-party app to fill the gap—WorkoutDoors for advanced mapping and metrics, for example, and Bevel for Garmin-style sleep, recovery, and readiness insights.
On top of that, Apple Watches get meaningful software updates every year. Garmin devices tend to run fragmented software across models, don’t always receive major upgrades, and are fairly well known for lingering bugs.
1) day to day tracking it is very good in my opinion. However you will want an app like Bevel to interprit that data for you. Think of the health app as a massive database of your data, you need a third party tool to actually interpret it for you.
2) Tracking activities again its very good, I use it for running and Hiking, not so much cycling as I have a bike computer for that. Again, a third party tool like Workoutdoors will be your best friend if you want a custom workout screen or maps in the data pages.
As for diving, other than the subscription, it just works. Love the design of the app and because of the Ultra’s OLED display it’s soo much brighter, easy to read and informative than anything else. Unlike other dive computers its easy to read on someone else’s wrist as its big and bright.
3) Use Bevel for tracking calorie intake, or myfitnesspal, both have ios apps for the watch and phone and will read and write to apple health.
In my view you have two options:
Apple ultra or garmin fenix 8. Both cost more or less than same.
The difference is;
Apple has a whole ecosystem of third party apps you can use to make the experience better, the software is very stable, its highly customizable and integrates beautifully with other apple devices, ie phone calls, notifications, music control, not needing a phone.
Garmin has battery life, this comes at the cost where the software is very basic, very limited customisability, it’s a fitness watch and not a smart watch, as its a smaller company that runs model specific software expect bugs, limited software support for older devices and almost no 3rd party software support.
In my view, the apple watch is far superior for day to day use, then buy a cheaper garmin as well, ie fenix 7 or 6 for if you are doing multi day activities or need a long battery life, however even then you can always have a portable charger ready to give the apple watch a little 15 minute charge which with fast charging will give you approx 40%.
Get the ultra. It goes 3 days on a charge and can control your Apple TVs in the house, Bluetooth speakers playing Apple Music, etc. also it allows you to get a good band that is sweat/mud/water proof. I ride 5-6000 miles annually, getting my ultra watch covered in mud, rain, sweat, etc.
Is it the best thing if you need data from a power meter? No. Does the watch allow for tracking via Strava, allow you to turn your wrist up to see your hr/distance rode/avg speed quickly? Yes. Will you move onto a bike computer if you get really into cycling eventually? Almost definitely…
My Apple Watch Ultra 1 has been going strong for 3 years (month of launch) and still holds 2 days of battery life at a time. The number one issue with Apple Watches is them not holding a charge -Apple figured out that issue… they just keep it behind a (ultra) paywall.
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