Casio for sure! Best quality. Made in Japan
Casio need to market their watches better, they have the Smartest dumbwatch**** of them all -
Casio have several lines that support Bluetooth - essentially will beep and vibrate on Notifications, calls and messages. Does basic fitness tracking. It also does all of this whilst basically being indestructible and a battery life of atleast 3 years.
No one seems to know this and I blame Casios poor marketing - I didn’t know any of this until I bought a new G-Shock and realised it had a BT label in the manual.
How are you liking it so far?
Ive got two BT enabled G Shocks, one of them my daily driver for the past year and I can’t fault it. It’s just a normal watch, with normal watch battery life and normal G Shock robustness - except that it savese having to pull my phone out of my pocket everytime I get a notification.
Garmin for sure.
I’ve had a Fitbit, Samsung Smart, and Garmin. Fitbit and Samsung were almost a daily charge where my Garmin Solar lasts about a week. Both Fitbit and Samsung died on me roughly after a year and a half, Garmin has shown no issues.
I’ll be switching to Garmin next time for other reasons, but my current Fitbit (Versa 3) actually has great battery life. 6-7 days between charges, unless I’m using the screen a lot.
Same here on the battery charge. Lasts me about 1-2 weeks on a single charge with the screen set to wake when turning my wrist.
Honestly the only real issue I have with Fitbit is the major syncing issues
For the most detailed exercise/health tracking, I’d highly recommend Garmin watches. First, no subscription fees, you buy the hardware and you own it and can customize it a lot. Second, the battery life can’t be beat. Third, stats, graphs, analytics! Plus it works just as well whether you’re an apple or android user.
I have the Forerunner 265 and it is so much fun for a stats and graph loving nerd like myself. My gf chose the Venu 2 Sq because she wanted a square screen and she is really happy with it.
Still miss my pebble…
Rocked a Garmin a few years, now I’m trying galaxy watch 5 pro. Miss the week long battery but 2+ days is “ok”, a lot less annoying then I first thought it would be.
Exelent integration with my phone is a big plus. (For instance the Garmin never let me respond to alarms from the Samsung clock app :/ )
Apple Watch just makes sense if you are already on iPhone. I resisted it for a long time but now after getting one it is so useful for things like having access to DUO codes on your wrist without a phone and maintaining healthy habits
Love my Apple Watch! Its main downside compared to the rest is weak battery life, you basically need to charge it every day. It’s an easy habit to form though (I just throw mine on the charger when I shower).
Mine chargers super fast and so yeah I can charge it while I do my bed time routine and have it 100% to track sleep and be ready for the next day
personally i am fine with the garmin on ios, only annoyance is double notifications
Garmin’s are great step trackers, I have read in reviews they are a lot more accurate in that regard compared to Apple Watch. The other integrations into the apple ecosystem is what I appreciate about my series 8
Garmin Instinct 2 Solar. It’s light and durable, solar charging with several weeks between charges when using GPS tracking pretty regularly.
I still wear my Apple Watch Series 0 since 2015 now. Love it. I replaced the battery this spring. All good again.
I am very happy with my Skagen Jorn gen 6 hybrid. Hybrid means both e-ink screen and physical watch hands. It has a few health sensors, can display notifications, track workouts, send commands to Alexa if you want that, and much more. It’s simply an awesome smartwatch in a classic inconspicuous design, and it has a hopping 5 weeks battery life, and it’s supported by Gadgetbridge. Nothing can beat it in my opinion.
I am an avid Garmin user. I have tried the Vivoactive and am currently using the Fenix series. Highly recommend!!!
While there are a lot of comments saying Garmin, I haven’t seen people mention the privacy aspect
https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/privacynotincluded/categories/wearables/
Garmin apps are much better for privacy. If I’m going to be wearing a biometric tracker 24/7, I don’t want that data being sold to advertisers. That’s more important to me than most other features
I wear an analog which has nothing to track and connect to a phone. Just like the good ol’ days.
I don’t wear one anymore I just have the Casio f-91w but if I could I would get a Pixel watch and remove all the spy ware from it
There’s only one smart watch that matters! This was the boyo!
All my phone numbers, my entire school lesson schedule, a calculator - everything 10 year old me ever needed!
If you had one of these when the TV came out in class, you were a god:
holy smokes i nedd that one
There was also a Casio Wrist Camera, which took 120x120 pixel photos in glorious 16bit greyscale. Sort of like a wrist mounted Game Boy Camera.
A discussion of retro smart watches would also not be complete without the Ruputer / OnHandPC - a PDA watch from 1998.
we need a board about retrotech
Pebble Time. It was the best ever until the battery swelled. My Fitbit Versa 2 was good until the battery gave out. My latest Fitbit has worse software with less features than the last and I hate it. There are no apps available anymore.
