Garmin Epix

Ruger Hollow Point +P, and Garmin Epix. Both have performed flawlessly throughout there life. The watch still carries a charge like the first day, and takes a beating while scrambling through old mines.

As a new user I find the introduction videos and start up guides woefully lacking in step by step usage to make it easy for the new user. Trying to keep up with the videos while using the watch is impossible. Too bad. Intro step by step guides are necessary.

Other brands have some models that can do own music and most have media controller now. Pro is battery life is often +5 days (some like the Garmin Instinct 2 Solar is unlimited with enough sunlight) - however most are transflective MIP screens, though you do get some like Garmin Venu 2 which is AMOLED (2-3 days AOD on, up to 10 AOD off) or Garmin Epix (up to 6 days AOD on, up to 16 days AOD off).

The calendar and weather don’t update consistently and in a timely manner. Weather is often an hour or more old and mostly inaccurate even if recent. Calendar simply stops working. Great for activities, terrible for smartwatch features.

You could go for the Garmin Epix - definitely not cheap, and definitely superior build quality at that price - but then from a fitness and training prespective it offers loads more than the the V2. Similar interface but touch plus buttons can make it super quick to navigate, plus using latest software so may have some features that the V2 doesn't.

I have been wearing my epix for about one month. Truly, it is an amazing watch, however, my heart broke when I noticed a blemish on the bezel. I will give you some personal background so you understand how I care for my watch.

Personally, the amount of money for the epix, I consider, a lot of mone...

And these R&D also insure that the watches are pretty accurate in terms of HR and GPS and the underlying metrics that drive them. Take a look at what a watch like the Garmin Epix 2 can offer: read the overview and then take a look at the Spec sheet to see full list of features; and it might help you to read this overview on Garmin Features: (running/cycling - just read the one as they are pretty much the same, but do go and read about the health, dive, golf and maps section as after reading them you might start to understand why Garmin can charge what they do (not only the dive watches have the dive features but epix has the rest of these features; and there is a Fenix (Epix without AMOLED uses a transflective MIP screen for greater battery life) model that is a dive watch variant that does have all these features. In fact you can get a Fenix that includes AB (applied ballistics for rifles that will integrate with kestrels) and or a Fenix that is designed to work with flying (tracks metrics) and or one that works with Garmin boat equipment. They even make an instinct for truck drivers that has a host of truck driving related features.

I wanted to love this watch and I barely even liked it.

Used for Kayaking and day hikes.

Issues:

Sync to Garmin Explore 33% success on tracks but 100% on saved points.

Exporting your tracks to use in other programs that actually do sync is a PITA.

Explore was missing POIs that are visible on Goog...

It is cool but Samsung will probably never do it especially because they are on the amoled thing with all their products. I own a Garmin Epix 2 and it gets 16 days with tilt to wake or 6 days with AOD.

Excellent product. My main considerations for the Epix were the mapping and navigation features. Versus the Fenix, I especially appreciate the brightness of the sceen, even in direct sunlight and the level of detail on the maps. While the battery life takes a hit compared to the Fenix, my use case d...