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‘Looks at perfectly functional Galaxy Watch 3 on my wrist’

  • iturnedintoanewt@lemm.eeEnglish
    2·
    5 months ago

    Now your comment has piqued my curiosity…I never considered a bigger smartwatch, and have kept myselft mostly to the Xiaomi band, which does more or less what I need it to…But I’m now curious how well does a Garmin cover the main points for me: -Read messages from SMS, Whatsapp, Telegram, etc (can I also reply to them, maybe voice-type or similar?) -Obviously tracking fitness, routes, heart rate and sleep etc it is probably way bounds out of the miband’s league. -Can it pair to a headphone and use it to play music during a fitness run? Does it have esim support or similar to use data? (these are a clear no-no on the miband, but then again, heh…about 25 bucks it costed me!).

    • raptore39@lemm.eeEnglish
      6·
      5 months ago
      • Can read messages. On Android can reply with canned responses set up in the Connect app
      • GPS tracking during workouts without having to have phone within range, has heart rate, sleep tracking and more
      • Instinct can control media (play/pause/skip) when phone is in range, though the Forerunner music can store music to play via Bluetooth headphones
      • No LTE/eSIM support on any of them that I know of
      • Best feature for me by far is the time is always visible and in fact is even more visible in direct sunlight
      • iturnedintoanewt@lemm.eeEnglish
        2·
        5 months ago

        Hmmm the music storage… How does it work? Can you just send an mp3? Or does it need to be from a specific service? Bummer about the esim, I was wanting to rid of the phone while I’m out running.

        • raptore39@lemm.eeEnglish
          2·
          5 months ago

          Download songs and playlists from your Spotify, Deezer or Amazon Music accounts for phone-free listening.

          So it seems it is specifically those services I found more info here

          • iturnedintoanewt@lemm.eeEnglish
            2·
            5 months ago

            Awesome… Thanks! On second thought i think I’ll hold out about the esim part. I can control the privacy on my phone decently enough but that would fly out of the window if the smart watch can call home on its own.

            • raptore39@lemm.eeEnglish
              1·
              5 months ago

              I’ve never heard of that before. It looks awesome and I’m going to look into it!