• theskyisfalling@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    1 day ago

    Are you not recording any activities / using any GPS?

    Obviously everyone has different use cases and experiences so I don’t want to disregard other experiences it just seems so far out of reach for me compared to the experiences I have had across 5 or 6 different models of their watches over the years.

    I have mostly used different iterations of the forerunner range and a Vivosmart which was fucking trash IMO.

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      9 hours ago

      I get a week out of my 2 year old first gen instinct solar no problem. Normally 2 hours of GPS and 6-7 hours of live heart rate broadcasting.

      If your outside in the summer, the solar makes a decent difference I think. Useless in the winter though (except if it’s snowy maybe).

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      1 day ago

      I use it as a step counter and a sleep tracker every night (with plugin), don’t use any of the built-in activities though

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        1 day ago

        That makes more sense I guess as I know the GPS is a major battery drain. Maybe that model is also better with battery in general as I know for sure none I have ever owned would last that long just using it as you do. :)

        • Not_mikey@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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          It is the gps, took mine on a trip to peru and forgot the charger. Lasted the whole week starting at ~60% until the final day when we did a hike to machu pichu and I started tracking the activity, and it went from 10% to empty in an hour.