The Garmin Forerunner 35 is a great choice for runners who want to track their runs and get more serious about running. It offers built-in GPS and heart rate monitoring in a waterproof design, long battery life, push notifications, and the option to control music from your phone. The watch is also cost-effective and provides accurate GPS readings with fast acquisition and no dropouts. However, it does not offer features that are available on other sports watches such as Strava.

Verdict

The Garmin Instinct 2S is a rugged and reliable GPS watch that is suitable for a variety of activities such as hiking, trail running, biking, and fishing. It has a great mix of activity tracking and smartwatch features without being overly intrusive. The battery life is good and it connects to Bluetooth and GPS easily. However, some users have experienced issues with the watch stopping connecting to Bluetooth or GPS after a few months of use.

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Battery Life

Great activity tracker, average smartwatch

While I have found getting these alerts on my wrist pretty useful, this particular feature falls short of what the Pebble offered. There's no queue or timeline for reviewing notifications as there is on the Pebble and I find I miss the ability to simply scroll back through previous alerts. BATTERY LIFE The Forerunner 35's battery life is outstanding. I get between 8 and 10 days between charges, and a full charge takes only a few hours

Decent watch but I would not recommend it to anyone else. I purchased my first Garmin Instinct Tactical in early 2020. In ~2.5 years I've gone through two of them and each has had the same issue at the end of its life - it stops connecting to Bluetooth and GPS and the battery life becomes non-existent

3/5

2 years ago

amazon.com

Notifications

Like the GPS features, but the stock band "burns" my wrists

What I don't like: ------------------ Phone integration for text and call notifications is spotty. Sometimes they work and sometimes they don't. It's a nice feature when it works. The phone downloads slowly but reliably to my Moto G7 Power

Once paired with my iphone, I could not stop the watch from receiving notifications (news feeds, texts, etc) from my phone. I went to both my iphone settings and the Connect app, disabled notifications, but they still came through. Extremely annoying.

3/5

2 years ago

amazon.com

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