This. I even have an Apple Watch Ultra and still use my Garmin FR 265 for my runs. I actually wear both watches so I can run misc through my Apple and have cellular capability.
SE watches made to suck (or the base models for any product or any brand ) so person will buy more expensive model or the Ultra here in Apple Watches. My Ultra 2 gets me 2 days tops whether always on display is ON or OFF just minor differences in battery life, on power saving mode it gets more than 2 days, around a day extra.
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.
Any of the Ultra series Apple Watches will be much better on battery life. You can get them for $300-500 used and I picked one up (new) at Costco for a bit over $500.
Ultra 2 lasts plenty long enough for typical marathons or more. I just got back from a half marathon this morning and only lost 10% battery. Other benefit is you’ll get 2-3 days between charges which helps compared to the standard watches
Quick tip, Apple should make it easier like Garmin or Coros…but in Apple Health you can delete the workout but save the workout data, and then enter in a manual treadmill run starting at the same time. It will grab your heart rate, calories, etc from that time (say 42 minute run starting at 6:15am) and your full workout will be available in Health and exportable to Strava too
Whole process takes 30 seconds after a run once your used to it
I use an Ultra 2 for running, hiking, skiing. It’s great and I do have the experience of using Garmin for many years prior to this (also used an AW SE1 in 2021 so know how much Apple has improved in the past few years).
AWU is much better at daily stuff like setting alarms, checking messages, tracking food. What I like the most is I can put my phone in the other room and still be available to people if needed, but not have the distraction of games or social media apps
It’s not a “better” watch from a sports tracking standpoint, but has all the stuff that you really need. Good GPS, great heart rate, and acceptable battery life while giving a much better daily experience outside of workouts
I have an Apple Watch Ultra 2. I do a lot of hiking biking trail running boating. Health features and sleep tracking are the most inportant to me with notifications and texts being of lesser import. I’ve been looking at the enduro 3 for a couple of months but I’m a bit confused by all the dofferent services and names garmin offers.
I’d want to subscribe to lte so I could send messages to people and receive as well while on a trail or water. It looks like the enduro does this, but what is the service called?
I think I’d also want advanced topo maps and there’s a service for that right?
And for extended health metrics I’d also need to subscribe to garmin plus?
I also can’t figure out if this does talk to text and if garmin pay is the same basically as Apple Pay on my watch
All of these questions go back to the original post by OP for if it’s “worth it?” I’m tired of battery anxiety and really want to pull the trigger on an enduro 3, but these questions are lingering for me. Any help is appreciated. If no one wants to answer specifically, if you’d just point me to a stickied post that would be fine too.
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