I went from Apple Watch to Garmin, now on Garmin Instinct 2. Thé best bang for bucks ever considering I don’t even have to charge the watch for a month, and yes I exercise 6 days a week with that watch.

But the best thing is that it’s so rugged and well constructed that even if I hit the watch while working out, on the gym equipment or even one time I fell down on the road, there wasn’t any scratch let alone scuffs. Extremely stress free experience. Apple Watch wouldn’t have survived that, in fact my previous Apple Watch was blue in colour and the colour already started fading a little even though I washed it every time after I exercised, and that was within 3 months period only. It didn’t seem to be able to handle chlorines, nor sweat very well. Not sure about this ultra though, but the battery life is always an issue if you are used to Garmin already.

This post has been edited by miyakochan89: Sep 19 2022, 10:17 AM

Garmin has OLED display watches as well, that easily lasted for 7 days. I used Venu 2s too just like how I used my AW and easily lasted for 7 days. But I wanted something rugged and my exercises are going into higher intensity zone, and I quite like Instinct so I jumped there.

The most I got from AW is 2 days but that’s because I didn’t wear it. Otherwise it’s less than 24 hours. Exercising does take up more battery cause the HR and gps and calculation work.

Don’t understand what you meant by support?

Yeah if you need to disable so many craps just to extend the battery, you might as well get a normal watch la.

This post has been edited by miyakochan89: Sep 21 2022, 07:13 PM

So far I never use for more than 2 years la. Cause I only started exercise like a crazy person since Covid started. But from what I could read and research, a lot of people use their Garmin for 5-7 years cause their watches can easily last that long.

Since you are active in this forum, I think you have already decided on Ultra.

But you don’t climb mount K everyday also lo. So that depends on your needs. But sports enthusiasts will definitely go for Garmin, solely because the watches won’t give up on them halfway. Especially some logs their route via the garmin maps.

I’m not hiker myself but I have faced a few situations that when it’s finally time for me to exercise in the evening, only to find that my AW didn’t have enough juice anymore for my 1 hour run or exercises. So I had to just sit around for like 20 minutes for it to charge. Lol! That was the reason why I jump ship.

Yeah that could work too. Cause I wear mechanical watch during the day these days, only wear Garmin for sports. LMAO.

Cause I still like the old school watches.

Wah this Apple Watch ultra is so huge on women’s hands!!

No i just saw real youtube reviews on women's wrist. Asian's. Really way too big.
LOL.

Not gonna buy it though cause Garmin ecosystem fits me better.