Garmin Instinct 2 Solar, Rugged GPS Smartwatch, Built-in Sports Apps and Health Monitoring, Solar Charging and Ultratough Design Features, Tidal Blue

Bought this as a gift for my son and he loves it's looks, durability and function. One of the best gifts I've given him.

Has a lot of options and the app connectivity is great. A good amount of data with daily activities, fitness, sleep. I wear it while I bike and it maps everywhere I ride on a map! It's awesome. I also wear it while playing soccer and it tracks my HR, calories and intensity quite well.Can be confusing or overwhelming to learn all the different things you can perform with it, but overall I'm grateful for everything the watch includes. The battery does go down quite extensively when using the GPS mode, but other than that the battery duration is phenomenal.Also, they have an app (Garmin Express) on the computer which makes it super easier to install updates. I had issues uploading my first update on the watch, but it went flawlessly once plugged into my computer.

Purchased the Instinct 2 solar to upgrade my Instinct (original) solar tactical. Didn't need the features on the tactical. Really like the tidal blue color. Good solid watch. Is has some true smart watch app features that the original didn't have. I like the monochrome LCD over color displays on other the smart watches.It took about 2.5 weeks from the UK. Really glad I jumped on the $280 when I did. Soon as I purchased it the seller upped the cost to nearly $400.

The watch does more things than I could have hoped for. The only problems I have is it is back and white (or grey and white) The writing is a little small and hard to see. The solar battery just prolongs the battery life and it only lasts 28 days on a charge. A true solar watch shouldn't need to be plugged in. I work in the woods and build fence, this watch is truly rugged and so far has with stood all the abuse I put it though. Fully waterproof, great tracking.

Okay I just want to clear this up for any other Americans thinking about buying this watch since this listing is priced significantly lower than other listings based in the states: It's genuine, it is a new 45 mm model, and it comes with a dongle that attaches the watch to a usb port for charging purposes. As for the watch itself, it works great for me. I live in a very sunny area so the solar functionality is very useful for me when it comes to extending battery charge. Now you can't expect to run the watch indefinitely, especially if you keep it in GPS mode all the time, even if you stay outdoors 8 hours+ a day in the middle of the Sahara but it will keep you from having to charge this watch every single night.

Being someone that leaves a watch on 24hrs, 7 days a wk, the long lasting battery was very important (gave away a I-watch 7 cause it drove me crazy (re-charge it);Still don’t use 50% of the features, the ones I do are accurate. Easy to change band (silicone doesn’t like me); absolutely worth every cent

Retired U.S. Army Infantry and current Search and Rescue member here. The watch has locked up on me a few times. Got out of my vehicle and saved location. Went on our backcountry hike and tried to navigate back. None of the “saved locations” were there. FORTUNATELY Id brought a back-up GPS. Looking at other posts with this same problem, I needed to reset and erase all data before it would save any locations (but of course those locations still weren’t there). Also, the “saved locations” don't show up in the Explore app.Its apparent to me that in an attempt to move more into the activity tracker market, Garmin has lost its GPS chops. This is neither the best activity tracker nor a reliable GPS.And its not just this watch. I also bought an Alpha 200i to keep GPS track of my dogs. After an “update,” I tried to use it for SAR navigation and when I went to enter coordinates to navigate to, you could not see the second line of coordinates you were entering. I had to just hope I was entering correctly. A couple weeks later there was an update that fixed that issue.Im getting rid of the watch as fast as possible. Im getting rid of the Alpha 200i as soon as I find another long life battery tracker for the dogs. Going back to the etrexs Ive used many times in the past.I will be focusing on purpose-specific microcontrollers instead of remotely reprogrammable devices that try to do so much that they aren’t very good at anything.Out.

It works pretty well in the summer. HOWEVER don’t plan on using it in the winter. I own 3 of these and the activity tracker sucks when any type of clothing or gloves touch it. It loses your pulse rate and screws up the activity tracking. For $400 bucks and their “adventure watch” claim you would think they would have done a better job of testing. BTW I use it for winter mountaineering activities.