Apple Watch 4 vs Garmin Fenix 5 Plus Review 2019 (Best GPS Watch Comparison)
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10. comment for Apple Watch 4 vs Garmin Fenix 5 Plus Review 2019 (Best GPS Watch Comparison)
Anyone knows how long Apple Watch battery life on GPS? For a casual marathon runner.
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30. comment for Apple Watch 4 vs Garmin Fenix 5 Plus Review 2019 (Best GPS Watch Comparison)
That’s not to say the Garmin watch isn’t good, they are great at tracking all kinds of sports and I am less worried about cracking the screen on the Garmin as they can take some abuse.
In the end, they are both amazing watches it just depends on how much do you want to spend and what do you want out of your watch, if it’s most sports tracking, some basic smart features go for Garmin for most of the everyday sports tracking and tons of smart features go for the Apple Watch.
Am trying the Fenix 5.
thanks
Not so easy years have gone by iPhone 5 no longer supports updated series 1 watch.
There is the POINT, .. within 2-3 years I now owns, close to $900 of apple product that is un-usable.
So I suggest
Yeah apple lovely watch comfortable works well with the phone but that's the issue for how long ...
next iOS upgrade could see it no longer supported then it's sell tech time.
I think this is an important issue as I look after my tech but is Apple looking after me, certainly not when offering a repair service that doesn't ...
I've just moved countries so there is little chance of being able to get any joy out of my Apple products.
So if mapping is important on the go in a new environment without reasonable Cell phone IT has to be Garmin as its a standalone device with longer battery life built in ... Yes at a price but my Garmin Etrex still fires up with 2 AA batteries and i can get back to where I STARTED with my bread-crumbs ...
Point in case.
So I feel you should have factored in this with the Apple watch version 4.
Thanks for the review.
50. comment for Apple Watch 4 vs Garmin Fenix 5 Plus Review 2019 (Best GPS Watch Comparison)
Love it always new features - love that I can transfers my best music. And well I can put my allergies and medical history - warns me automatically if my heart has an anomaly and warns me if the weather is dangerous like the air in Cali cus of the fire-
But I’d love to try other watches bc I know most are open source and I’m a big tech guy when it comes to tech freedom,
Mods etc
If the Fenix improves their sleep tracking, which is very important for performance athletes I think, I'd wear it alone.
Plus, the "always on" display of the Fenix plus long battery life are a win. I don't need or care about having a bright AMOLED display...give me the week plus of battery life.
The Garmin app is a little less intuitive and buggy. Garmin Connect on my PC has been a bit buggy at times. I've lost data a couple times, once from uploading GPS data...sucked.
The Apple Watch is a trouble-free platform that is winning by building an ecosystem--no other company comes close.
For the real athlete who cares about better sleep tracking, use the Fenix plus a Fitbit at night or use your phone for sleep tracking.
Oh, one other thing, I've noticed problems with duplicate data loaded from my Fenix to Apple Health. I've had to delete A LOT of duplicates, triplicates of workouts...I finally disabled that feature so all my data just stays on Garmin...
Fenix IS the watch for outdoors too. Going camping, hiking, etc for days? You DO NOT want to bring your Apple Watch and the wad of chargers and cords with all your junk. Total pain in the ass.
For everyday use, homebodies who exercise casually and go straight home...no problem with the Apple Watch--charge it every night. It's THE BEST smartwatch period.
Fenix DOES look more manly, and to all you haters who think that doesn't matter...take a deep breath, relax and more along...
FITNESS DEVICE MANUFACTURES WE NEED:-
1. Min 10 day usage track heart, sleep, blood, EKG / GPS min 24hrs should do it
2. Fast silkcky smooth well designed fitness apps
3. Battery and or a means of connecting battery straps to watch in some way
4. Solar powered battery top through screen or strap
5. 16GB Min for music
6. Waterproofing min 5ATM
7. SIM /ESIM
8. Some type of mini expansion port
100. comment for Apple Watch 4 vs Garmin Fenix 5 Plus Review 2019 (Best GPS Watch Comparison)
And i think Apple watch threatens Garmin because although fenix is a sport watch and Garmin is famous for it's sport watches, Apple has more accurate heart rate sensor. The new sensor which is used on Vivosmart 4 has terrible heart rate performance. If Garmin doesn't improve it, they will be the new Mio Global !
For example, I saw some reviews where the Apple watch simply crushes the super expensive Garmin watches on wrist heart rate accuracy and on gps accuracy in open water swimming. For pool swimming, Apple looks pretty solid even even with wrist heart rate monitoring. Conversely, GPS accuracy for running doesn't look that great in the Apple watch while the Garmin watch looks pretty solid.
Can you do a video of how to use the data collected for your training??
Do you have problems like "old" Fenix 5 with GPS? And is there a problem with music connection?
I'm in a dilemma, Garmin 935 or Fenix 5 plus. I need the accuracy of GPS.
Thank you
It would mean a lot to me that I can hear someone else's opinion and his experience.
10-20% of the time i got intermittent connection problem e.g. broken stream..... which can be quite annoying.
Surprisingly the AW4 is good for 98% of what I do. I’m keeping the F3 for long hikes, ultras and maybe skiing when I go. Otherwise, the Smartwatch features far outweigh that of the Fenix (even 5+). For charging...not a deal breaker for me. I charge my phone nightly when I sleep, and for the watch, it takes an hour each day when I get home (I wear it to sleep). No big deal.
Besides everyday fitness tracking and maybe some smart features like convenient access to boarding passes or train ticket the most important feature for me is offline navigation for hiking - notifications or responding to messages via watch is nothing I plan to do. Since I ditched my Garmin Oregon for a combination of MapOut, Gaia GPS and ViewRanger (none is super perfect but the combination is great :)) I'm not sure if the slower none touch map handling on the fenix (which looks much better as a watch IMO) will make me happy. On the other hand if the apple watch runs out of power after 3 hours of hiking this also doesn't do me any good. My iPhone 8 in airplane mode currently records the track and I use it to shoot many pictures plus taking a look at the route (no active routing) every now and then. At the end of the day I still have half a charge left.
Anyone here got any experience with hiking apps on the current apple watch? What are your usage patterns? Record it as workout? Track recording through a 3rd party app? Active navigation? Just looking at the map?
Because of having the App Store and being so closely built for iPhone it handles notifications, custom alerts and can display much needed information really well.
Lastly, I just found that I didn’t use all of the fenix 5 or Apple Watch features like I thought I would. It was and still is my primary watch. To check the time and to see notifications from my phone without pulling out my phone. It sounds dumb for sure but as smart as it is simplicity was the way to go for me.
I don’t mean to knock either one but if you’re looking for something more streamlined and good at what it does go Apple Watch, but if you rely on the watch for work out monitoring or need a sleep / golf tracker go fenix 5. I hope this helps.
Well done on the great video rizknows, I really enjoy all of your videos :)
Personally I like the garmin, as the battery life is better and the circular rugged design.