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Garmin Edge 200 In Depth Review

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Like all my reviews, they tend to be pretty in depth (perhaps overly so) – but that’s just my trademark DC Rainmaker way of doing things. … This matches their moves on the running watch lineup to offer different levels of products at very different price points for very different audiences.

Garmin Vivosmart 3 Activity Tracker In-Depth Review

www.dcrainmaker.com/2017/04/garmin-vivosmart-activity-tracker.html

The reviews generally take a lot of hours to put together, so it’s a fair bit of work (and labor of love). … Finally on the display front is watch faces.

COROS Adds Virtual Run & CORE Body Temp Support

www.dcrainmaker.com/2022/01/coros-virtual-support.html

Most of these features aren’t new to the landscape of sports watches, but some of them are new to how they’re implemented in the industry.

Garmin Fenix 7 vs COROS Vertix 2: New York City GPS Accuracy Test!

www.dcrainmaker.com/2022/04/garmin-vertix-accuracy.html

As I’ve shown in my in-depth reviews though, that promise is sometimes a bit far-fetched. … Over the last 6-8 months we’ve seen watch companies, including Garmin and COROS, add multi-band/dual-frequency GPS chipsets to their watches, which have long-promised to be the holy-grail of GPS accuracy.

First Look: Body Heat and Solar Powered Matrix PowerWatch 2 GPS

www.dcrainmaker.com/2019/01/powered-matrix-powerwatch.html

Still, my answer this year oscillates between this crazy bread machine, and the PowerWatch 2 GPS.

New 2021 GPS Accuracy Issue Impacting Some Garmin, Suunto, other GPS Devices

www.dcrainmaker.com/2021/01/accuracy-impacting-devices.html

This file is what makes your watch near-instantly find GPS satellites when you go outside.

Polar’s Vantage V2 SHIFT & Red Models + Unite & Grit X Features Firmware Update

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The parts included in the bundle allow Polar Vantage V2 users to update their current watch into a SHIFT™ Edition and seamlessly swap out their current wristbands for any other 22mm Polar wristband.

Suunto 7 and New Routes Features: Hands-on Details & Explainer

www.dcrainmaker.com/2020/09/features-details-explainer.html

Of course, with the watch being Wear OS based, there were other apps that could do such a feat previously, but that usually meant sacrificing integration within the Suunto app/platform.

Review of Polar’s New SleepWise Feature: Does It Align With Reality?

www.dcrainmaker.com/2023/01/sleepwise-feature-reality.html

When Polar launched their Ignite 3 watch this past fall, they also announced a new feature: SleepWise.

Garmin Fenix & Epix Release History and Future Timelines

www.dcrainmaker.com/2023/12/garmin-fenix7-epix-release-history-explained.html

In fact, the original Fenix at launch was objectively not great as a fitness/sports watch, due to the menu system that came from the handheld devices (whereas Garmin’s Forerunner line came from their ‘Fitness’ division - which included cycling computers).

NURVV Run In-Depth Review

www.dcrainmaker.com/2021/02/nurvv-depth-review.html

Some also your GPS watch.

FitBit Zip In-Depth Review

www.dcrainmaker.com/2013/10/fitbit-depth-review.html

Still, given the market for activity trackers continues to heat up, and I continue to try and track the activity trackers – I wanted to circle back to this little one first before I publish a number of other activity tracker reviews over the next few weeks (Withings Pulse, Polar Loop, and some others). … I didn’t include the below Basis B1 in this show, merely because it’s a full-on watch as well, and has far more metrics it’s recording (such as sweat and heart rate).

Hands-on: Garmin’s new Forerunner 35 with optical HR

www.dcrainmaker.com/2016/09/garmins-forerunner-optical.html

This is Garmin’s 4th edition of their budget GPS watch lineup, which has been refreshed each year.

Garmin’s new Vivoactive HR & Vivofit 3: Hands-on & First Run

www.dcrainmaker.com/2016/02/garmins-vivoactivehr-vivofit3.html

Literally – that was the goal – to make the smallest GPS watch ever.

Spotify Now Available on Garmin: Everything you need to know

www.dcrainmaker.com/2018/10/spotify-available-everything.html

Being 2018, I’m well beyond the days of loading individual music files to my watch.

Garmin Edge 830 Cycling GPS In-Depth Review

www.dcrainmaker.com/2019/04/garmin-cycling-depth-review.html

If you’re sitting here trying to determine how many cups of coffee you’ll need to get through all three in-depth reviews, you’ll find comfort in knowing that the Edge 530 and 830 are incredibly similar, with only a couple of unique features. … Additionally, if your phone is within range (and it probably is), you’ll get a notification there which would also show up on any smartwatches you might have on.

Garmin launches Uber ETA and other Connect IQ Apps

www.dcrainmaker.com/2017/01/garmin-launches-uber.html

Caught up in the announcement of the all new Garmin Fenix 5 series this morning was the release of a host of new Connect IQ apps, watch faces, and data fields.

O-Synce Navi2Coach GPS Cycling Computer In-Depth Review

www.dcrainmaker.com/2013/05/navi2coach-cycling-computer.html

Because I want to be transparent about my reviews – O-Synce sent me the Navi2Coach GPS bicycling computer to try out. … Bike units are a bit more difficult to put on a rolling pin than typical watches are.

FINIS Neptune Swimming MP3 Player In-Depth Review

www.dcrainmaker.com/2013/08/neptune-swimming-review.html

Because I want to be transparent about my reviews – FINIS sent me a final production Neptune unit to test out. … It’s fully waterproofed – and pretty much looks like most watch connectors these days.

My 2013 Sports Gadgets Recommendations

www.dcrainmaker.com/2013/11/sports-gadgets-recommendations.html

I’ve been including little snippets of these scales in my recent FitBit Zip and Withings Pulse reviews. … This category is for what the industry calls ‘multisport’ watches, but, that typically just translates to triathlon watches.

Garmin Live Event Sharing: Everything you ever wanted to know about it

www.dcrainmaker.com/2019/05/garmin-sharing-everything.html

This is also why quick replies on both Fitbit and Garmin devices only work with Android, and not iOS (though, this is an area that Apple makes an exception for their own Apple Watch).

Fitbit Charge and Charge HR In-Depth Review

www.dcrainmaker.com/2015/02/fitbit-charge-review.html

I write these reviews because I’m inherently a curious person with a technology background, and thus I try and be as complete as I can. … Here’s how they compare to watches, including the Fitbit Surge.

Garmin Running Power App: The good, the bad, and the ugly

www.dcrainmaker.com/2017/12/garmin-running-power-good.html

It also requires the latest Garmin watches, specifically either a Fenix 5, Chronos or a FR935.

Behind the scenes on my aquatic product review posts

www.dcrainmaker.com/2011/08/behind-scenes-on-my-aquatic-product.html

I had planed afterwards to spend a bit of time and get some product shots I needed for a variety of upcoming reviews, as well as to just round out some missing edges on my own sports technology product stock library. … Taking watch on wrist shots are actually more difficult than most folks realize, especially when you get the sun reflecting off the glass/plastic.