apple watch itch..

It doesn’t seem to be as good as my Garmin was at swim length tracking. I swim a few times a week and tend do do 1km in a 16 m pool and my Garmin was pretty accurate at recording lengths/ distance, so much so I stopped counting myself and relied on it. My Apple Watch undercounts by about 30% it seems

this surprises me, as I find my Apple watch 9 never gets lengths wrong but previous Garmin instinct and Instinct crossover both did.

I haven’t tried my Garmin Epix gen 2 in the pool, as the Apple Watch just works perfectly for me in that environment.

I wonder if it is related to the shortish pool length and how you are turning ?  I do 100 lengths of a 25 m pool in a session, usually 2 sessions a week.  I can either do a conventional turn or a tumble turn, and it works as it should, I presume it ‘turns’ when it detects the arm glide/stop ?

garmin does have a payment function on most watches, but you need to bank with santander, or get a Revolut account, i have both on my watch the payment function works flawlessly..

anyone want to split a revolut sign up bonus (currently £70) message me .

terms are sign up via link / add money to account, order a physical card, and make 3 purchases of £5+, before 12th november

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My son has an Apple watch but I’d find daily recharging intolerable. I’m considering going Garmin to Coros simply for longer battery life,

Or Starling…which also works seamlessly with the Garmin pay system (seamlessly as in you don’t need to link your bank account to a third party solution that then links to the Garmin pay system).

I still think Apple and Garmin do different things so aren’t completely comparable. I’m very happy that my Garmin doesn’t do much phone/social stuff – more than happy with it alerting me to incoming calls and messages, but very happy that it doesn’t allow me to reply direct from the phone (it does, but it is so limited that it isn’t worth using).

Apple watch does look very good at what it does (despite me berating it for the daily charge), but it isn’t doing only fitness stuff. As I said, each to their own, but a watch (for me) is to tell time and the fact it does a lot of fitness tracking stuff is ideal. I’m really not wanting it to be a replacement to my phone. Got several friends who have them and are very happy with them (I also don’t think they are saying that just because they paid a lot of money for them, I think it is a genuine like).

I have just changed some medical equipment, the previous kit connected to my phone and I’d need to recharge my phone every single day – it was incredibly annoying as it meant I needed a power supply every single night. Having changed kit that doesn’t use my phone, I’m back to getting over 2 days on a charge with my phone – unplug it Monday morning and I could get to Wednesday mid-morning before having to charge it again. Feels so much better as it means I’m not needing to have something else to pack or check if I’m away anywhere (obviously if I’m away for more than 1 night, then I’m still likely to take charging stuff, but if just for the 1 night, I don’t need to remember it).

I’m assuming people are grabbing quick charge times throughout the day if they are wearing the watch throughout the night to get sleep details and all that? If not, they are probably missing out on a lot of potentially useful data, but I like the fact my Garmin needs recharged every 10 days and my phone is now every 2 days…