Garmin Forerunner 45 vs Mobvoi TicWatch Pro 3

Garmin is top of the heap and I won’t switch for the foreseeable future…they also look good for everyday wear. You’ll never catch me with one of those god-awful looking Apple Watches on my wrist.

It looks great. It has many nice features. I'd recommend the company steal Amazfit's power scheme, this watch can and should get a week or two between charges. Giving an option to make Google Fit the single source of truth across all displays on the watch would also be a good thing, especially since it is a Google Wear OS watch and many buying it are getting it for that exact reason

I tracked my route on my watch, which worked great but ate the battery. I hadn't adjusted any of the power-saving settings. I will next time, but I wonder if it will affect accuracy. It just gave basic distance speed, etc

After a while though, the battery life got so bad that after about 8 hours, not even enough time for me to make it back to my house, it dropped below 30% and switched to battery saver mode. So, I was on the lookout for a new watch and had heard about the Ticwatch Pro 3 GPS and how it used the new Snapdragon 4100 processor. When it came on sale on Prime day, I just had to have it. I've worn the watch for about a week straight now and I have to say it's been a little bit of a disappointment

It comes with some of the most commonly used sport profiles like running outdoors running indoors. On a treadmill, cycling walking a generic cardio pr...

I no longer consider this feature a differentiator. Like so many people today, I have multiple devices that track my activities - Garmin and Wahoo bike computers, this type of integrated usage tracking and application integration is a must. I used the watch when I swam as well but I didn’t use any of the apps to track my speed, distance, etc. The watch, however, did track my active heart rate

> If you are primarily looking for a running watch, we recommend that you focus your search on that. If you’re a runner who’s interested in having the Apple ecosystem on your wrist, the Apple Watch will serve you fine, but there are some caveats.

I used an Asus Zenwatch 2 and got as a present a fitbit Inspire 2. I liked the functionality of the Wear OS and when I started to use the fitbit I liked the monitoring of health and sleep functions. Need to say that the inspire 2 works very well in the sleep tracking, the step count and heart rate monitor. Since this watch have all the functions plus the oxygen monitor and the best performance of the battery not only because of the capacity of the battery but the use of the dual display this looks the right option

And then next is your stress level, which takes about thirty Seconds to register and then, if we dive in, we can see your stress level over the last f...

What ultimately worked was 3D Printing a dock of my own. It's on Thingiverse if anyone else has this problem. I've had trouble with the docks in the past watches, but this is a step backwards for the Ticwatch. They really need to step it up with this on the next version and maybe consider wireless charging

I don't think it's overkill at all! Honestly I think it's worth it just for the convenience of being able to easily see your pace/time/distance during your run, alone. I think the Forerunner 45 would be fine for you, but if you think there is a chance that you might want to upgrade in the future, I would just go for the Forerunner 245 now!

Its comfortable to wear and I'm normally not a fan of things on my wrist. It doesn't always track my sleep, but i also charge it at night as i use it in full mode where you get about a day and a half of battery.. so i charge it nightly so i have the next day

But with the forerunner 45, it's made for this and lasts a long time. I have not used it for daily tracking or sleeping as that was not my intent. So far super happy with my purchase. Only reason it's 4 stars is due to my limited use so far

I’ve seen stories about sensors failing after a shower and where direct streams of water can over pressurize the IP68 rating. I am an avid fisher and boater; I will have to worry about accidental water exposure, and I am hesitant to trust the “pool swimming suitable” rating from Mobvoi. I do not want to brick a $300 watch. This is the reason why I can top up the device as needed while showering, 15 minutes of charging seems to increase the battery by about 10%

It was extremely frustrating downloading the firmware update when the watch wouldn't stay connected to my phone. But once I got the firmware updated, the watch has stayed connected without issue (iPhone Xs). It's the original firmware that's the problem, not the watch! The one thing that does really bug me (and that Garmin will likely fix in future updates) is that even when I turn notifications off, I still get ALL notifications sent to my phone! The 45s has a choice of all notifications, calls and texts, calls or off. Further, notifications have to be cleared individually

I use it for weather, walk tracking, and Hangouts messages and texts (until that's killed off in January anyway). \+ Handles notifications well.