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47mm Garmin epix Gen 2 Sapphire Edition Smartwatch (White Titanium, 010-02582-20) on sale for
$454.99.
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About this Item:
- 1.3" always-on AMOLED display
- Understand your body better with 24/7 health monitoring.
- Keep the adventure going with up to 16 days of battery life in smartwatch mode.
- Smart notifications keep you connected to what matters.
- Train your way with built-in sports apps at the wrist.
- More satellite coverage means more accurate positioning.
- Navigate confidently with options for TopoActive mapping right on your wrist.
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Pros of this watch over apple watch:
- Continuous heart rate monitoring (24 hours a day, 365 days a year) while apple watch detects only once every few seconds or minutes unless you started an activity manually. It is slightly more accurate than an apple watch too (but less accurate than a chest monitor) but is good enough for detecting fluctuations in heart rate. Thanks to this, I was able to detect a spike in heart rate for a few days and went to the doctor who diagnosed me with thyroiditis.
- Blood oxygen sensor (which is now discontinued in apple due to law suit)
- Sleep tracking. I got this mainly for sleep tracking and apple didn't have a sleep tracking feature (I had to buy an external app called autosleep on app store). Garmin connect app does it natively.
- Battery lasts for 2-3 weeks vs apple's 1-2 days.
- I love the morning report feature. It shows my Heartrate, HRV, body battery etc all of which tell me how I slept and also about my health in general. All my stats were messed up when the initial symptoms of thyroiditis started and slowly when I started getting better, my stats reflected that too.
- You are not restricted to apple phone. I use this watch with my pixel and if needed, I can also sync it to my office iphone. I think you can also download your data and do your own analysis but I didn't do this.
- It has lot of other features (baromter which alerts you of a storm, downloadable maps, and many other health features which I don't use yet but will do once I get back into fitness)
- I personally like the rugged look.
Advantage of apple watch over garmin:
- It is like a mini phone, so you can respond to messages etc on watch but apart from approving authenticator token prompts, I never used these features. They were distracting infact.
- It has ECG feature which is good but whenever I need to check my ECG (if at all), I just use my wife's watch
- Apple watch has a sound sensor to detect decibels in the environment but I didnt find it as useful.
- It detects automatically when you start running but in Garmin you need to manually start activity.
- It has fall detection and ability to call 911 (when connected to phone) which I think are good features.
Edit: I stand corrected, someone mentioned this is the Sapphire Edition which makes this a much better deal.
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Pros of this watch over apple watch:
- Continuous heart rate monitoring (24 hours a day, 365 days a year) while apple watch detects only once every few seconds or minutes unless you started an activity manually. It is slightly more accurate than an apple watch too (but less accurate than a chest monitor) but is good enough for detecting fluctuations in heart rate. Thanks to this, I was able to detect a spike in heart rate for a few days and went to the doctor who diagnosed me with thyroiditis.
- Blood oxygen sensor (which is now discontinued in apple due to law suit)
- Sleep tracking. I got this mainly for sleep tracking and apple didn't have a sleep tracking feature (I had to buy an external app called autosleep on app store). Garmin connect app does it natively.
- Battery lasts for 2-3 weeks vs apple's 1-2 days.
- I love the morning report feature. It shows my Heartrate, HRV, body battery etc all of which tell me how I slept and also about my health in general. All my stats were messed up when the initial symptoms of thyroiditis started and slowly when I started getting better, my stats reflected that too.
- You are not restricted to apple phone. I use this watch with my pixel and if needed, I can also sync it to my office iphone. I think you can also download your data and do your own analysis but I didn't do this.
- It has lot of other features (baromter which alerts you of a storm, downloadable maps, and many other health features which I don't use yet but will do once I get back into fitness)
- I personally like the rugged look.
Advantage of apple watch over garmin:
- It is like a mini phone, so you can respond to messages etc on watch but apart from approving authenticator token prompts, I never used these features. They were distracting infact.
- It has ECG feature which is good but whenever I need to check my ECG (if at all), I just use my wife's watch
- Apple watch has a sound sensor to detect decibels in the environment but I didnt find it as useful.
- It detects automatically when you start running but in Garmin you need to manually start activity.
- It has fall detection and ability to call 911 (when connected to phone) which I think are good features.
Also for those that don't like white (I'm fine with it), you can swap out the band in 30 seconds. But be aware that the sides of the watch are still white.
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One important difference that others have not highlighted is this has 32gb in the Sapphire version vs 16gb for non-sapphire. This gives the ability to not only store more maps, but also more music.
Please go on a better sale pro, please.
32gb vs 16
Maps preloaded vs downloadable
Multi band gps
Sapphire glass vs Gorilla
Slightly lighter weight
For some the GB and multi band gps doesn't really matter. I've never personally had an issue with my prior Fenixes with Gorilla vs the 6 sapphire I now have.
Also keep take a look at Forerunner 265 if you don't need maps.
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