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Customer Review
Reviewed in the United States on July 30, 2023
I love everything about the watch - EXCEPT - the main reason I purchased it was to count laps for me while swimming. It is frustratingly bad at that. Garmin provides guidance suggesting a strong push off from the wall. However, the count loses anywhere from 1-3 lengths for every 10 that I swim. Adding to the frustration, is the pool at my place is small - 37'. For whatever reason, Garmin has limited the lower end of the pool size to 42'. So I set the length to be double the 37' to 74' to make it easy to track so all I should have to do is halve the distance displayed. For some reason, the watch actually quadruples the distance when tracking my swim. So while the length count is somewhat accurate; the distance displayed is right around 4X the actual distance covered. I'm not sure why any of these issues happen. The watch contains both GPS and a compass. You would think with those sensors, it would be easy for the watch to determine that you have reversed direction when swimming laps. Hopefully, these issues will be addressed in future software upgrades.
Aside from the lap swimming issue, the watch is great. The pool swimming issue aside, the software for tracking your activities and sleep is very well thought out. The integration with my Android phone is well executed. I can see incoming texts, emails, calls. I can even respond with pre-configured responses. I can mark to-dos as done. In my experience, the watch holds at least 2-3 weeks of charge (it says 24 days when fully charged.) But, unless you spend many hours a day outside in the sun, you are going to have to plug it in at some point during this period to recharge.
Aside from the lap swimming issue, the watch is great. The pool swimming issue aside, the software for tracking your activities and sleep is very well thought out. The integration with my Android phone is well executed. I can see incoming texts, emails, calls. I can even respond with pre-configured responses. I can mark to-dos as done. In my experience, the watch holds at least 2-3 weeks of charge (it says 24 days when fully charged.) But, unless you spend many hours a day outside in the sun, you are going to have to plug it in at some point during this period to recharge.
