Garmin Instinct Solar, Rugged Outdoor Smartwatch With Solar Charging Capabilities, Built-In Sports A
Garmin Instinct Solar, Rugged Outdoor Smartwatch with Solar Charging Capabilities, Built-in Sports Apps and Health Monitoring, Sunburst Yellow
- Solar charging capabilities allow you to extend battery life beyond traditional charging.Supported Application:GPS. Connectivity technology:Bluetooth, ANT+. Wireless comm standard:Bluetooth
- Rugged GPS Watch is water-rated to 100 meters and constructed to U.S. military standard 810 for thermal, shock and water resistance
- Built-in 3-axis compass and barometric altimeter plus multiple global navigation satellite systems (GPS, GLONASS and Galileo) track in more challenging environments than GPS alone
- Track your activities for running, biking, swimming, strength and more
- Help understand your health and wellness better with all-day health monitoring and Pulse Ox (this is not a medical device and is not intended for use in the diagnosis or monitoring of any medical condition)
- Monitor how your body uses energy by tracking heart rate, stress and sleep estimates with Body Battery energy monitoring
Do what you love, longer with Instinct Solar. This rugged GPS smart Watch boasts solar charging, giving incredible battery life in smart Watch and Expedition modes while outdoors. Monitor how your body uses energy by tracking heart rate, stress, estimated sleep and Pulse Ox (this is not a medical device and is not intended for use in the diagnosis or monitoring of any medical condition), which helps give you a better understanding of your health and wellness. Get more out of the sports you love with preloaded activity profiles such as running, biking, swimming and more. Smart notifications (when paired with a compatible smartphone) at the wrist keep you connected to what matters. Multiple global navigation satellite systems (GPS, GLONASS and Galileo) help you track wherever your adventures take you.
Brand : Garmin
Category : Electronics,GPS, Finders & Accessories,Sports & Handheld GPS,Handheld GPS Units
Rating : 4.6
ListPrice : US $349.99
Price : US $249.99
Review Count : 307
Item Weight : 1.87 ounces
Best Sellers Rank : #77,418 in Electronics (See Top 100 in Electronics) #221 in Handheld GPS Units
Special features : Solar Battery; Military Standard 810; Power Manager; Wrist-Based Heart Rate; Pulse Ox; Stress Tracking
Color : Sunburst Yellow - Solar
Whats in the box : Instinct Solar; Charging/data cable; Documentation
SalesRank : 77418
Other display features : Wireless
Batteries : 1 Lithium Polymer batteries required. (included)
Batteries : 1 Lithium Polymer batteries required. (included)
Wireless communication technologies : Bluetooth
Connectivity technologies : Bluetooth
Display resolution : 128 x 128
Human Interface Input : Buttons
GPS : TRUE
Garmin Instinct Solar, Rugged Outdoor Smartwatch with Solar Charging Capabilities, Built-in Sports Apps and Health Monitoring, Sunburst Yellow
- I wanted to like this watch - so many 5 star reviews, but don\'t believe all that hype. In the end, there are things the watch does well and doesn\'t do well and things that just aren\'t needed. To keep or not to keep - that is the question. No. Don\'t. Don\'t buy it or just send it back. In a year to 18 months, there will be a fitness tracker worth the money - and Garmin may well be the company that brings it out. It\'s not there yet.I bought this because it is more narrowly aimed at what I want in a smartwatch. What does a smartwatch do that you really need?If it has LTE, it can stand in for your phone - at the expense of battery life: less than a day. Too big a price for a small convenience.I don\'t want music on my watch. I use my eyes and ears when I\'m running or biking.SPO2 is nice for a day or 2 to see that you\'re normal, but the vast majority of don\'t need that or EKG, and so on.Blood pressure would be of use, but reliably measuring that from a watch hasn\'t happened yet. I hear that BP is a year away and will probably appear on the next Apple watch. Hope it works and that Garmin finds a source for the sensor.The sleep statistics are very approximate. We are all better an knowing how well we sleep. The same goes for body battery and stress tracking. Though a lot of people latch on to this as something great.What I find useful:Activity tracking with a good GPS. Heart rate monitoring during activities. Logging weekly activity stats to see that I\'m meeting fitness goals (which I know anyway, but its fun to see the stats). Basic navigating sensors (gps, altimeter and compass) and route guidance. Battery life - the longer the better.That is why I bought the Garmin Instinct Solar. It gives me the things I want. But I already know all these things - so isn\'t it bit like admiring myself in the mirror?The battery life is a strong point. Who wan\'t to have to charge every day.And it does all the activity tracking that fitbit and others do. The altimeter is nice, but not accurate for small altitude changes - e.g., one of my activities is to jog up and down the stadium stairs. The altitude change the Garmin records using a barometric altimeter is an approximation at best. On my last stadium workout it had me ascending 200 feet more than I descended and each round trip had different high and low elevations. And it seems to record about half the altitude gain and loss. The stadium is 30 ft from bottom to top. I do 30 round trips. The watch records a total altitude gain of 450 ft. It would be great if they could squeeze differential GPS into the watch, but that may be asking a bit much. It would certainly swallow some of the battery life, but I would pay that price because so much of my fitness routine is based on climbing and descending (but again I know that stuff anyway).It\'s big - big enough that the size was a determining factor for returning it. Had it been smaller, I\'d have kept it. That said, it weighs only 2 oz. and it is comfortable.My experience with battery life: I use the GPS about 5 days a week for anywhere from 30 minutes to several hours. I charge it at 3 week intervals. It\'s often off at night since I don\'t believe the sleep tracking; and I turn off heart rate monitoring except when I\'m doing a strenuous activity (which boosts battery life a lot).The knocks: You practically need the merit badge to get a thorough understanding of how to use this thing. They need to keep improving the software. And there are some of what I consider bugs. E.g., A reason I bought it was so I could use the route feature when bicycling. The first time I did that I had to do a very small detour at an intersection - I had to cut a corner through a parking lot rather than stay on the street. That broke the route. When you depart even a little from a route, the watch assumes you decided to quit the route. The route is still there and you can see your position on the route, but guidance and distance to the end stop at the point you deviate. Please fix this Garmin.There is a small list of other things that could be improved for my use and I\'ve only had it a few weeks, but I haven\'t figured out how to give Garmin feedback that they will look at. They\'re too busy for that.It\'s a overpriced for it\'s utility (aren\'t they all!). But the yellow one had a discount to $310 at the time (still overpriced) and turned out to be sharp looking with the $10 black band.All-in-all: 3 stars, which means I like it.But I\'m now ready to return it. It\'s a good, seemingly rugged product, but it has its warts - as do they all. Its a difficult engineering and design problem. Garmin\'s approach is appealing, but it has to be big to fit it in and be rugged. I don\'t like wearing something that big and in the end, it isn\'t giving me any information that I need and the novelty of seeing what it does tell me has worn off. I\'ll take another look in a year or so.Beware all the 5 star ratings. They are almost always overenthusiastic and undeserved. Giving 5 stars as the normal devalues the utility of ratings. When you look at ratings, always sort them by most recent. Otherwise you\'ll be looking at over hyped reviews.
- Excelente para el deporte, igual su batería dura más de 15 días y usando gps todos los días... Garmin excelente producto.
- this is the first generation but still works really well with a high quality build and functional app, a joy shopping experience.
- Thought it might wear big but wears well on medium wrist size. Rugged, reliable and feature packed.
- Tiene una batería duradera, es ligero y muy cómodo, me encanta el color, lo hace especial
- I love this watch/gps/health monitor. Yes, it does many things, and that\'s what I love about it. Since it arrived, I almost never take it off. I use the health features (along with Garmin Connect) the most but I love being able to double-check my directions and location as well. And did I mention it tells the time too?The one thing I wish for this is that it had a tougher band. One instance of my cat trying to catch it on my wrist when I first put it on and it was permanently damaged. I superglued it so I could still wear it but I hate that one day in and I had to order a new band for it.
- Great rugged watch.Silicone band is comfortable.Solar charging works great.Charges quickly when using the supplied cord.Features work greatReceiving notifications works great.Being able to respond with generic replies is a plus
- Clear watch face
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