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Garmin Venu 2 & Venu 2S GPS Smartwatch In-Depth Review

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Today Garmin announced the new Venu 2 & Venu 2S watches, the AMOLED display successors to the original Garmin Venu watch.

Friday Tech Tidbits: Banning power meters at Tour de France, Polar Vantage now shipping, new COROS APEX GPS watch

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Only so many wrists, with others like the Fitbit Charge 3 and Garmin Vivosmart 4 in-depth reviews also waiting in the wings. … Next, we’ve got a new watch from COROS in the pipeline – the COROS APEX.

First hands-on look at Bia GPS watch designed for women

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Earlier this week while in Las Vegas for CES I had the chance to meet up with the founder of Bia, the only womens focused GPS watch on the market.

The Best GPS Sport Watches (2021 Recommendations Guide)

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Meaning, if you’re aiming to keep your runs to a few hours or so (even a marathon), then all of these watches will do perfectly fine.

Garmin HRM-PRO In-Depth Review

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This section is comparably easy in light of doing watch reviews, but essentially the HRM-PRO is a blend of the HRM-TRI and the HRM-DUAL into one, with one bit of data offloading spiciness on the side. … Garmin has (finally) announced and started shipping the HRM-PRO chest strap, bringing Bluetooth to their higher-end heart rate strap that also transmits advanced running metrics and has memory onboard for watch-less activities.

Wahoo Adds Native Stryd Support for RIVAL Watch, Outlines Future Plans

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Its been one year since the Wahoo RIVAL GPS watch was launched, and in that time Wahoo has added a number of features.

Apple Watch Ultra vs New York City: GPS Accuracy Test!

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In the event you aren’t subscribed over on YouTube, I’ve posted a full comparison of the Apple Watch Ultra vs Garmin Epix in New York City, on an epic route through the city, including up and down some of the most building-dense streets I could find.

Apple Watch Series 5 First Run Impressions Video Up!

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This post is just a super quick note that I pushed out a video with my initial impressions on the Apple Watch Series 5.

Hands-on with the new Garmin Vivomove watch

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That watch was merely an activity tracker that connected via Bluetooth Smart to your phone.

Apple Significantly Changes Apple Watch Running Power In Latest Beta

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Apple has quietly made a pretty substantial change to how and when running power is calculated in the Apple Watch, which will impact ultra and trail runners the most.

Suunto Ambit2 R In-Depth Review

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Because I want to be transparent about my reviews – Suunto sent me two final retail units to try out (white and black). … With that, we’ve finally got the watches themselves: The units are waterproofed to 50-meters (150ft in Americana units), which is why it doesn’t use a standard mini-USB port on the side of the watch, but rather uses the connector to the watch and a USB portion on your computer.

Garmin Venu 3 In-Depth Review: More Sleep Analytics, Power Meters, and More!

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Note, this is the same GPS chipset as seen on the newer COROS Pace 3, and while I haven’t tested that yet – all the initial reviews show similar performance. … The watch also increases features in a number of sports/fitness areas, including expanded sport profiles, sensor support, and new support for wheelchair push tracking and handcycle sport tracking.

Apple Watch Running Track Mode Expands To More Countries

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A quick post for today as Apple has expanded their Apple Watch running track mode to more countries.

COROS’s Nifty New Keychain Watch Charger: Way more detail than you needed

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As longtime readers know, I’ve probably got a bit of a watch charging ‘thing’.

Samsung Galaxy Watch6 and Watch6 Classic In-Depth Review: Is it Finally Accurate?

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Like clockwork each summer, Samsung has released their latest wearables, this time the Galaxy Watch6 and Watch6 Classic.

Suunto Ambit 2 and 2S In-Depth Review

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Because I want to be transparent about my reviews – Suunto sent me two final retail units to try out (Ambit2 and Ambit2 S). … But, how well does it work? And can it knock the FR910XT off the top spot? Well, I’ve spent a lot of miles with the watch recently, and am here to give you all the details: Good, bad, and ugly.

Garmin Venu 2 Plus In-Depth Review

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This is the first Garmin watch to offer any sort of voice assistant integration, and out of the gate it supports Apple’s Siri, Google Assistant, and Samsung’s Bixby.

Garmin Venu GPS Smartwatch In-Depth Review

www.dcrainmaker.com/2019/12/garmin-smartwatch-sports.html

So these last few weeks I’ve been circling back to getting some of these leftover wearables reviews knocked out, as seen with the Apple Watch Series 5 last week. … The watch is notable because it’s Garmin’s first wearable with an AMOLED display, aka: A pretty screen.

Apple Watch Ultra 2 vs Garmin Epix Pro: The NYC Test Gauntlet

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In case you're interested, here was the test there of the Apple Watch Ultra 1 vs Garmin Epix (not Pro).

Polar Vantage V Multisport GPS In-Depth Review

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In any case, once I’m done with these reviews I’ll be shooting Polar back the small collection of media loaner Vantage V & M watches I have, and going out and getting my own through normal retail channels. … It’s been four months since Polar announced their new Vantage series of multisport watches.

Dive Tidbits From Underwater Chamber Testing the Apple Watch Ultra

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I hadn’t really planned on writing a separate post for the video shown above, where I put the Apple Watch Ultra in my underwater depth testing chamber.

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