It's fantastic, using it regularly for mountain biking, hiking, climbing. Kinda like the styling and doesn't shout "coros" on the dial like the apex series. It's very light.
I've just moved from a Pace 3 to a Nomad and, honestly, they're cracking pieces of kit. I've not had any issues with them since moving to Coros watches in February. For trails I would lean towards at least the Pace Pro or the Nomad/Apex 4 (they're basically the same) simply due to offline maps.
Either way, Coros or Garmin, there's a device that meets your needs at a price you are willing to pay.
I've just moved from a Pace 3 to a Nomad and, honestly, they're cracking pieces of kit. I've not had any issues with them since moving to Coros watches in February. For trails I would lean towards at least the Pace Pro or the Nomad/Apex 4 (they're basically the same) simply due to offline maps.
Either way, Coros or Garmin, there's a device that meets your needs at a price you are willing to pay.
"No Feature locking" is not true. Fishing modes are not shipped to all watches, just Nomad and vertix. Also other activity modes are not available on all watch models although it is not a hardware issue
He might be saying that because of how expensive a new Garmin is. If money is no object for you and you're giving it to him as a gift then a Forerunner 970 is a far superior watch.
If he really wants to try Coros, he should do it with his own money and buying it from somewhere that you can return it without paying a restocking fee or shipping such as REI (in-store returns) or Amazon.
I'm coming from Garmin and I've been pretty happy with my Coros Nomad, though there are a lot of mostly UI quirks. Functionality wise it's FAR better than Suunto and close but not quite there to Garmin. There is at least 1 completely dealbreaking flaw for me which is that the fonts are way too small in certain places and can't be increased. I can't read my notifications at all which kind of kills all the smartwatch functionality for me.
I returned my Coros Nomad because the font was just too small. They make pretty decent products but they fall short of Garmin with not being customizable in quality of life ways such as font size, screen brightness (way too bright), beep sounds (too loud and can't turn off or make quieter), and their watch faces aren't customizable.
A few notes after owning a nomad for almost two weeks:
Screen lock during activities - this only locks the dial button, not the dial wheel and the two other buttons. The reason I was using the screen lock is so my gloves don't scroll the data pages while riding an MTB, my gloves often press against the dial.
Notifications - if I toggle the notifications button on and off on the app, I will temporarily get all notifications to the watch. But after time, it resets to some glitch where I only receive phone calls notifications, not texts.
Real time HR - the watch will freeze on HR data until you hand gesture for the screen to wake up. Then the HR will appear in real time again. I started noticing my HR was either high or low, but when I moved the watch to look closer, the HR jumped from say 74 to 57. Just an example. The second dial disappears until you hand gesture.
Laps on the walking activity - my auto lap happens on 0.62mi, not 1mi.
Overall, this watch is great. The thing just works. I am recent convert from Garmin (Fenix 5) so this was a game changer in regard to HR, HRV, Screen technology, and just updated user interface.
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