Garmin Enduro 3 In-Depth Review: The Cheaper/Better Fenix 8 Solar?

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Summary

TLDRThe Garmin Enduro 3 is a new smartwatch promising over 300 hours of GPS battery life, distinct from low-update modes. While testing it on a hike, the reviewer highlights major improvements and features. The watch is priced at $899, which is a price drop despite recent increases for other models. Enduro 3 introduces a new solar panel design, boasting a 120% energy improvement, and incorporates Garmin's Gen 5 Optical heart rate sensor with ECG and wrist temperature capabilities. The design also removes the solar panel from the display for enhanced readability. Enduro 3 retains features like music and payments but is $300 cheaper than the Phoenix 8 due to the absence of dive features and sound support. Despite some UI sluggishness, the watch offers a lightweight design and is described as a potential Phoenix 8 alternative for users who don't need those extra features.

Takeaways

  • 🔋 Enduro 3 promises over 300 hours of GPS battery life.
  • 💲 Price dropped to $899, cheaper than Phoenix 8.
  • 🆕 New solar panel design improves energy efficiency by 120%.
  • 📊 Gen 5 Optical heart rate sensor with ECG and wrist temperature features.
  • 🎵 Supports music and contactless payments.
  • 🔦 Includes a flashlight feature for convenience.
  • 📺 Improved screen visibility by removing solar panel overlay.
  • 🧭 Offers full functionality for outdoor activities including navigation.
  • 💪 UI slight sluggishness similar to Phoenix 8, but expected to improve.
  • 🌦 Tested in varied environments including heavy treelines and open landscapes.

Timeline

  • 00:00:00 - 00:05:00

    The Garmin Enduro 3 watch offers over 300 hours of normal GPS battery life and comes at a reduced price of $899. Instead of removing features, like the previous Enduro models, it features the new Gen 5 Optical Heart Rate Sensor and an upgraded solar panel design. The solar panel is more efficient, contributing to an impressive increase in battery life despite its seemingly reduced surface area. The watch aims to compete with the Phoenix series by maintaining high-end features while offering better value.

  • 00:05:00 - 00:10:00

    During testing, the Enduro 3, in GPS-only mode, showed varied battery life results based on usage conditions. While sunny conditions proved favorable for solar charging, navigation and screen usage impacted the overall battery capacity estimates. Garmin acknowledged that current firmware might affect efficiency and plans to release an update to optimize battery usage further. The video's creator tested the watch's endurance and features over a demanding series of hikes, underscoring the real-world practicality of its impressive battery claims.

  • 00:10:00 - 00:19:26

    In terms of accuracy, the Enduro 3 performs well, even in challenging terrains. The watch includes a feature that post-processes GPS tracks to enhance accuracy, smoothing out any discrepancies seen in the raw data. Functionally, the software takes after the Phoenix 8 series, but with hardware akin to the 7x Pro, minus specific diving and audio features. Ultimately, it offers a cost-effective alternative to high-end Phoenix models, appealing to users who can forego certain premium functions.

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Video Q&A

  • What is the battery life of Garmin Enduro 3?

    The Garmin Enduro 3 claims over 300 hours of real GPS battery life.

  • How much does the Garmin Enduro 3 cost?

    The price of the Garmin Enduro 3 has dropped to $899.

  • What is new in the Garmin Enduro 3?

    New features include a Gen 5 Optical heart rate sensor, a redesigned solar panel, and a user interface update.

  • Is there a new solar panel design in Enduro 3?

    Yes, Enduro 3 features a new solar panel design, which is 120% more efficient.

  • What are some features of the new heart rate sensor?

    The new Gen 5 Optical heart rate sensor is ECG capable and records wrist temperature.

  • Does Garmin Enduro 3 support music and payments?

    Yes, it supports music and contactless payments.

  • What are the main differences between Enduro 3 and Phoenix 8?

    Enduro 3 lacks dive capabilities and speaker/microphone, making it $300 cheaper than Phoenix 8.

  • Does Garmin Enduro 3 have a flashlight feature?

    Yes, it includes a flashlight feature.

  • What improvements are there in screen visibility?

    The screen visibility has been improved by removing the solar panel over the display.

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    this is the brand new Garmin Enduro 3 a
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    watch that claims over 300 hours of GPS
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    battery life like normal GPS battery
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    life none of this like Ultra track low
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    update stuff the real deal the question
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    is is it the real deal and I've been out
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    here trying to figure that out however
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    I've still got 22k left in today's hike
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    and I'm uh 70k into at this point and so
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    I want to complete this before I get
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    stuck on a mountain top uh just so I can
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    finish this video so let's go down and
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    uh finish it down there okay so with
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    that hike complete as well as a whole
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    bunch of other cycling and running and
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    swimming and you name it we are back
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    here in the cave to dive into what is
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    new about the Enduro 3 and I'll give you
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    something to think about for a second
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    the price is actually cheaper Garmin for
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    once dropped the price from $199 to
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    $8.99 I'm not kidding despite all the
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    phoenix8 pricing like increases this one
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    actually got cheaper now will you ponder
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    that I need 30 seconds to explain the
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    history of the Enduro Series cuz it
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    makes a big difference to understand
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    where they're going so when the Enduro 1
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    came out in 2022 uh it was essentially a
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    phoenix 6X with all the useful stuff
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    removed so stuff like mapping that got
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    yanked out of course given that most
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    Ultra Runners and Trail Runners kind of
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    want Maps that's like the point of a GPS
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    device that didn't go over super well so
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    then 18 months later they came back with
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    the Enduro 2 that took the just released
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    Garmin Phoenix 7x with all of its
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    features and just made a bigger battery
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    out of it and also upgraded the
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    flashlight to make it a little more
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    powerful it was as simple as that so
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    that just became a phoenix 7x Plus+
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    right not a pro because that's something
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    else but like a just a bigger chunkier
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    Phoenix 7x with way more battery life
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    and that was awesome however for the
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    Enduro 3 they're kind of split seeing
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    the difference there between those two
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    ideals so as I mentioned the First new
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    thing was the price has dropped the
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    second new thing is they've added the
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    New Gen 5 Optical heart rate sensor on
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    the back that you see right there this
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    was the same Optical heart rate sensor
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    released with the Garmin epic Pro and
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    Phoenix 7 Pro about a year ago and now
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    it's here as well that is not because
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    this sensor here is ECG capable at least
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    for certified countries and as of this
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    moment that certified country is
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    currently the US I would expect that to
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    expand down the road here this also does
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    rist temperature as well and it's
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    slightly more accurate not like
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    massively more accurate but I do find it
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    more accurate than in the past but don't
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    worry we'll dive into GPS accuracy and
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    heart rate accuracy at the end okay so
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    the next big change then is a massive
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    increase in battery life this claimed
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    320 hours that you see right there right
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    that's a cool chart let's talk about how
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    they do that which is a new solar panel
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    design so over here I've got an Enduro 2
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    which is representative of essentially
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    all of garmin's existing solar devices
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    and how they do things and the way it
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    works is you got this little you can see
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    on the outside edge right there uh that
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    is a solar ring and that one isn't
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    transparent so it gets way more solar
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    power however across the entire display
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    is another transparent solar uh panel
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    and that one gets less power but
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    contributes to the entire system right
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    the problem with the one that's over the
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    top of the display there uh is that it
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    also contributes to reducing the
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    visibility of the device you can see
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    these side by side in brilliant Studio
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    lighting and this one just looks a
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    little bit crispier uh this one's a
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    little bit more like just a tiny bit not
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    as crispy I don't know how to explain it
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    just not as crispy right over here on
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    the Enduro 3 they've done two things
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    well three things really when it comes
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    to solar panel uh number one you'll
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    notice it's black like you can't see it
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    there's no reddish Hue anymore on any
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    angle so it's black so it looks like
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    it's just part of the bezel number two
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    that ring around the outside is a heck
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    of a lot thicker looks like about double
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    the thickness compared to the previous
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    one and number three there is no longer
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    a solar panel across the entire display
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    that is naked if you will across that
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    middle portion that you actually look at
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    the screen on uh now at this point
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    you're probably worried doesn't that
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    reduce the solar power energy gain but
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    Garmin says No in fact it's
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    120% stronger with this new solar panel
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    design uh and it's not just a sizing and
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    Arrangement it's actually a totally new
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    solar panel design as somewhat evidenced
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    by the color of that particular solar
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    panel itself hey in a quick note if you
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    are finding this video interesting
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    useful now is a great time to either
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    click the like button or subscribe
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    button or frankly just watch the video
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    all the way through just let it play all
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    the way through that's what YouTube
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    likes the most I'm not kidding they they
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    just want you to play it all the way
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    through so let's get back to whether or
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    not those battery claims hold water and
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    to do that I've been as I noted doing
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    some stupid long tests but also most
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    importantly I had someone who was
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    equally as gble with me with another
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    Enduro 3 to try to like test out some of
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    these scenarios so de of desfit up in
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    the corner right there and and I went
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    out into the Pyrenees got absolutely
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    drenched nobody can ever say that we
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    don't put things to the test and to try
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    to figure out how these different claims
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    actually line up in real life and on the
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    first day we did one interesting test uh
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    we both had Enduro 3s on he left his on
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    the sa IQ mode here's again the battery
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    chart right there I left mine on the GPS
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    only mode and the GPS only mode is the
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    one they're claiming up to 320 hours of
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    GPS life with solar and the solar claim
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    there means that it has to have at least
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    three hours of Sun per day at 50,000 Lux
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    50,000 Lux actually isn't that bright
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    when it comes to Sun it's just a normal
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    sunny day it's just honestly as simple
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    as that that is not a problem uh and on
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    our hike we actually had the first well
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    the entire morning was sunny uh and then
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    in the afternoon and evening we got
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    dumbed on but of course we wanted to
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    make things realistic and challenging so
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    of course we had a course loaded on
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    there uh and we were using that course
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    in fact we made a pack to use the map
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    screen the entire time across all the
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    watches the Phoenix 8 the Enduro 3 the
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    epics 2 Etc just to see what that would
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    do we were actually kind of curious on
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    that now some of us were better at
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    meming that pack than others uh so
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    you'll see that in the chart as to which
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    one of us was better remembering to keep
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    it on the map screen the entire time and
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    not going back and forth to clim for and
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    whatnot uh so with the battery chart in
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    mind we got the first day here to the
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    map on the entire time which is the
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    biggest battery burning thing because
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    every single step you take moves that
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    MTH page and it has to redraw it so at
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    the end of that 9-hour day my unit was
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    on track for 57 hours of Total capacity
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    versus Dez's unit was on track for 7.83
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    hours again I probably did a better job
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    of keeping on the map page holy um
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    versus someone else uh now the next day
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    I went out again for another 10 hours uh
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    Dez decided that was a a stupid idea uh
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    so he went off and rode a bunch but in
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    this case I changed things up a little
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    bit I kept it on GPS only but I let it
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    stay mostly on the clim pro screen this
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    day was actually quite sunny and the
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    majority of my day was spent above of
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    the tree line uh and in the sun in some
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    capacity so I would expect it solar to
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    contribute quite a bit more here you can
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    see though at the end of 10 hours here
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    the Enduro 3 in GPS only mode with again
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    a course loaded the entire time uh and
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    me navigating with that course had an
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    estimated capacity of 123 hours almost
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    precisely uh their estimate claim uh
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    they have for GPS only mode without
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    solar but also that claim doesn't
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    account for navigation which does of
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    course bring down those numbers still I
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    had kept it on the clim Pro page the
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    entire time and I was honestly a little
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    bit surprised that that number wasn't
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    quite a bit higher given the very high
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    Sun I had for I would say at least 7 to
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    eight hours of that day uh and the fact
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    that it was on a text based page so I
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    shot those results back to Garmin I said
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    hey this seems a little bit I mean it's
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    great but it seems a little bit low to
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    me uh and they actually agreed and they
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    said yep there's something wrong there
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    uh and so they looked into it and
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    there's a firmware update coming in the
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    next few weeks which should optimize the
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    battery for the cim Pro page in
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    particular which is what I was using I
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    don't know yet whether or not there'll
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    be a big optimization or a little
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    optimization I just know it's coming and
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    at some point in September I'll go out
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    and do something stupid again just to
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    see what the impacts to that particular
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    update are so before we get into some of
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    the GPS accuracy stuff in the charts
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    there one of the claims is about that
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    visibility and Screen improvements and
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    yes you can clearly see that just
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    sitting here that this looks sharper if
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    I go down right now through this we find
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    two widgets that are basically identical
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    uh you can see this just looks a little
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    bit sharper a little bit clearer than
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    this one over here even when the
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    backlight turns off there uh and yes
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    compared to there's a backlight turned
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    off so you can see what that looks like
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    uh and it's a little bit better the font
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    sizes are also a little bit different as
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    well the screens themselves are the
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    exact same size by the way so this is
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    and the screen Technologies are the
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    exact same underneath it is purely the
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    difference of that solar panel being
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    removed I do want to point out there are
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    scenarios where this display is simply
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    not all that awesome unless you turn on
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    the backlight either being gesture based
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    which is fine but it burns way more
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    battery life um or having it be uh
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    manually touched on and so now is a good
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    time to talk about some of the changes
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    in the user interface because they is
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    different it takes the Phoenix 8 user
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    interface and applies it to this watch
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    here uh and depending on where you are
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    you'll notice it more or less I'll
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    briefly touch on it here but you can
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    also watch my complete Phoenix 8 user
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    guide video to see how that works like
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    in long form because it's the exact same
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    thing here because it's the same
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    software uh so this is the endur 3 endur
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    2 if we go down right here you'll see
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    the widgets are largely the same right
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    they're looking the same no major
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    differences there however where we see
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    the differences is going over into the
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    settings so going down here they've
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    rearranged all the settings under this
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    right there so that the most used ones
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    are at the top and they're grouped
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    differently now the idea being to make
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    it easier for new to Garmin users find
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    stuff for frankly most Garmin users find
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    stuff uh the obviously the running joke
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    in Garmin watches is just there's like a
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    gazillion rabbit holes of settings and
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    this tries to clean those up a little
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    bit however from a sports standpoint
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    that's the biggest single change so you
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    top right hand button right there and at
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    first you're like this looks kind of
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    similar no it's not so on the top there
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    these are your favorite sports you could
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    pin Sports in the past but the way it
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    works is that right now you can see
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    there's run bike swim these are the ones
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    that I favored uh and if I go down again
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    I go over here to activities this is
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    where I can access the rest of my sports
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    so um down further all the categorized
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    Sports I can open these up uh you know
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    different categories Etc and I can pin
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    these to my list right there so you can
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    see up here I have run by Kik Open Water
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    uh these are the ones that I've set as
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    kind of my top ones but if I go back
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    here to this main page and I scroll down
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    it goes down to the non-sport apps so
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    these are like Messenger music garment
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    share Etc they're all here speaking of
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    us just as a reminder the Enduro 3 has a
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    flashlight up top there so you can
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    change um you know different modes so
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    there's white mode red mode it's also
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    got music contactless payments again
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    it's all the same features as a phoenix
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    a except for the dive and the speaker uh
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    microphone pieces that's the only
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    difference between this and a phoenix 8
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    it lacks those Hardware pieces there uh
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    from a again kind of new hardware
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    perspective so back into here I'm going
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    to open up the run and again you're
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    going be like oh that looks similar n no
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    it's not just scroll down for a second
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    to see what happens all the settings for
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    run are now down below very very similar
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    to what stto does where you can go down
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    and you can um add structure workouts
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    you can see my daily suggestion workout
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    right there for today you can go down
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    you can add a course here crack open
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    courses there's this new save function
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    that basically puts all of your save
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    navigation things in one spot so I can
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    open up this course right here and then
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    I can see details about the course uh I
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    can go more I can do the course in
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    Reverse I can view climbs uh let's see
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    load this up right here so this is the
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    first climb 980 M and 4.74 km fun times
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    um and can go back here and then I can
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    choose to do course let me go up where's
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    do course come on do course there we go
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    and now it's going to load the course
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    into my activity
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    and so now you'll see the course is
  • 00:11:31
    loaded right there across the middle so
  • 00:11:33
    it shows that one right there uh and
  • 00:11:34
    then I would be able to hit start to
  • 00:11:36
    start this particular course now Watch
  • 00:11:39
    What Happens here so while I was editing
  • 00:11:40
    this I found the footage that I actually
  • 00:11:42
    shot this entire next section out on the
  • 00:11:44
    trail in the middle of the hike so let's
  • 00:11:45
    go there now okay so let's just take a
  • 00:11:46
    look at the new UI and how this works
  • 00:11:49
    while you're out in activity in the
  • 00:11:50
    middle of this super long hike so I'm
  • 00:11:52
    25k or 2.49k into this uh that's my
  • 00:11:55
    compass heading right there you can see
  • 00:11:56
    that as I move there we go um but I'm
  • 00:11:58
    going to go down these are all my normal
  • 00:12:00
    data Pages these are things I've set up
  • 00:12:02
    just like you normally would on any
  • 00:12:03
    other G device it's all the same right
  • 00:12:05
    here as well there's my map page going
  • 00:12:07
    down again uh you can see my clim Pro
  • 00:12:09
    page again these are things I've set up
  • 00:12:11
    so middle of it as scent right here 274
  • 00:12:13
    m to go at 1.5 km in this 1.54 km in
  • 00:12:17
    this particular descent now I can swipe
  • 00:12:19
    to the right though and it immediately
  • 00:12:20
    says hey yo you got to unlock this so
  • 00:12:22
    there we go I can do tap unlock just
  • 00:12:24
    like that and again you can turn that
  • 00:12:26
    off if you don't like that uh but I can
  • 00:12:27
    swipe to the right hey come on turn that
  • 00:12:29
    off there we go um I can swipe to the
  • 00:12:30
    right and this is where I can set up my
  • 00:12:31
    music on this device uh in this case
  • 00:12:34
    this watch hasn't been reset up with
  • 00:12:35
    music on it but I would find my Spotify
  • 00:12:37
    or Amazon music or YouTube music or MP3s
  • 00:12:39
    whatever it may be all right here
  • 00:12:41
    swiping back to the left right there uh
  • 00:12:43
    you got my normal data Pages again and
  • 00:12:44
    then swiping again once more left I've
  • 00:12:46
    got what is effectively like a control
  • 00:12:48
    panel so I can go down right there and
  • 00:12:49
    you can see change sport save location
  • 00:12:51
    all the navigation options you would
  • 00:12:53
    have all the activity settings for this
  • 00:12:54
    particular activity profile so hiking in
  • 00:12:56
    this case all my normal watch settings
  • 00:12:58
    so Wi-Fi and my cell phone stuff like
  • 00:13:01
    that is all right there uh and then up
  • 00:13:03
    here is the navigation panel so I can
  • 00:13:05
    tap into this and see all of my
  • 00:13:07
    navigation related data fields data
  • 00:13:09
    pages in one shot going down uh I can
  • 00:13:12
    see whether not I'm on or off course
  • 00:13:13
    distance remaining so 1936 km my ETA
  • 00:13:16
    tonight uh 9913 down again these are way
  • 00:13:19
    points I've set up so I got a small town
  • 00:13:21
    up ahead in 2.3k or I'm hoping for some
  • 00:13:23
    ice cream I've got the bigger Town
  • 00:13:25
    campgrounds and topest time below that
  • 00:13:28
    you'll notice that while this screen is
  • 00:13:29
    now locked I can still use the up and
  • 00:13:31
    down buttons like you'd expect and these
  • 00:13:33
    are all my clim Pro climbs and then
  • 00:13:35
    finally where I am on this particular
  • 00:13:37
    course in terms of an elevation profile
  • 00:13:39
    uh I split this course into two days uh
  • 00:13:40
    basically roughly in half there so on my
  • 00:13:42
    second day right here sorry there's lots
  • 00:13:44
    of fli here um but you can see 1,700 M
  • 00:13:47
    today uh 430 430 M remaining you can see
  • 00:13:50
    where I am and I'm basically like I'm
  • 00:13:52
    past the rough stuff and it's just kind
  • 00:13:53
    of a pretty chill rest of the day here
  • 00:13:56
    and if you want to get back to the main
  • 00:13:57
    page you just simply swipe right again
  • 00:13:59
    you do have to unlock it but you can
  • 00:14:00
    swipe back and then here you are on the
  • 00:14:02
    main data Pages now that said let's get
  • 00:14:04
    into the accuracy side of things cuz
  • 00:14:06
    this is this is fun I had some I was
  • 00:14:08
    pushing the boundaries a little bit here
  • 00:14:09
    uh so starting off with the simple stuff
  • 00:14:11
    um here is basically a GPS Test in a
  • 00:14:14
    city going back and forth down some
  • 00:14:15
    buildings just to like establish a
  • 00:14:17
    baseline you can see it is perfectly
  • 00:14:19
    fine this is in s IQ mode no problems at
  • 00:14:22
    all also just for funsies here's the
  • 00:14:24
    heart rate from that again zero issues
  • 00:14:26
    whatsoever it's good across the board
  • 00:14:27
    it's just some minor nuance in cycling
  • 00:14:30
    Outdoors as the train gets rougher where
  • 00:14:31
    you'll see some variants but uh for
  • 00:14:33
    running I've had no issues whatsoever uh
  • 00:14:36
    instead though let's look into the
  • 00:14:38
    mountains uh because that's where things
  • 00:14:39
    matter a bit and here on this first
  • 00:14:41
    screen this is where I had the Enduro 3
  • 00:14:44
    and GPS only mode but Dez had his in s
  • 00:14:46
    IQ mode and you can see going up this
  • 00:14:48
    slope in the woods here this was like
  • 00:14:50
    25% or so uh most of the side kind of a
  • 00:14:52
    bank if you will with kind of dense
  • 00:14:54
    trees that the one in the GPS only mode
  • 00:14:56
    wasn't quite as good um you can see kind
  • 00:14:58
    of bit more more wandering and whatnot
  • 00:15:00
    but it wasn't bad either like it it's
  • 00:15:02
    not horrible it just simply wasn't quite
  • 00:15:03
    as crispy as the rest of the units there
  • 00:15:05
    that were in s IQ mode here we are
  • 00:15:07
    descending down next to some really high
  • 00:15:09
    Cliffs Cliffs that I don't know went
  • 00:15:10
    like maybe 500 ft up straight up next to
  • 00:15:13
    us here very very steep Cliffs very
  • 00:15:15
    close to them poor GPS uh coverage yet
  • 00:15:18
    from an accuracy standpoint all the
  • 00:15:20
    watches were basically indistinguishable
  • 00:15:22
    back and forth in those switchbacks
  • 00:15:23
    there's no meaningful difference there
  • 00:15:24
    and again if we look at the total
  • 00:15:25
    distance stats at the end of that day
  • 00:15:27
    one there on 28 km the distance variance
  • 00:15:30
    was a maximum of 300 M between the
  • 00:15:32
    lowest and the highest unit that's it
  • 00:15:34
    that's not too bad almost all those
  • 00:15:36
    units if we took away the GPS only one
  • 00:15:38
    were within 200 M which is again very
  • 00:15:41
    solid given the challenging train and
  • 00:15:43
    the weather since it was dumping
  • 00:15:45
    thunderstorm and hail and all that kind
  • 00:15:46
    of stuff uh good job there so then
  • 00:15:49
    looking at the second day here again I
  • 00:15:51
    compared GPS only and sat IQ side by
  • 00:15:53
    side and across the board it was
  • 00:15:55
    virtually identical especially once I
  • 00:15:57
    got above the tree line there was no
  • 00:15:59
    difference whatsoever between these
  • 00:16:00
    units they were spot on I did though see
  • 00:16:03
    more difference in the total distance at
  • 00:16:04
    the end of this day um 38 Colm for the
  • 00:16:07
    Enduro 3 and GPS only mode versus the
  • 00:16:10
    rest of them were somewhere between 35.6
  • 00:16:12
    7 and 37.8 km so a bit more variance
  • 00:16:16
    there I don't really know why I'm kind
  • 00:16:17
    of surprised but there was also a lot of
  • 00:16:19
    bushwacking I had to do at one point for
  • 00:16:21
    an hour or so so maybe that contributed
  • 00:16:23
    in some way shape or form however we've
  • 00:16:25
    have one more Rabbit Hole to unravel
  • 00:16:27
    here when it comes to the Enduro 3 as
  • 00:16:29
    well as the Phoenix AG which is a
  • 00:16:31
    setting that allows you to go ahead and
  • 00:16:33
    have it automatically process your
  • 00:16:35
    tracks afterwards to correct for GPS and
  • 00:16:38
    accuracies specifically it'll do that
  • 00:16:40
    when it sees the GPS accuracy of the
  • 00:16:42
    device it was questionable during a
  • 00:16:43
    route it won't do it for every single
  • 00:16:46
    activity it only does it for pedestrian
  • 00:16:48
    activities so running hiking walking Etc
  • 00:16:50
    as well as Open Water swims and what it
  • 00:16:52
    does it takes all the internal sensor
  • 00:16:54
    data in the watch so things like the
  • 00:16:56
    gyro and the accelerometer uh and the
  • 00:16:58
    compass and all that fun all that data
  • 00:17:00
    there and then it sends up the Garment
  • 00:17:02
    connect and then it tries to correct for
  • 00:17:04
    any inaccuracies and pulls it back down
  • 00:17:06
    again uh and so what I've been doing is
  • 00:17:08
    capturing both the before and after file
  • 00:17:10
    uh for all of my activities to see where
  • 00:17:13
    I could spot these differences and I'm
  • 00:17:15
    going to do an entirely separate video
  • 00:17:16
    on that because it's it's super
  • 00:17:17
    fascinating but just to look at this one
  • 00:17:19
    little section here you can see the
  • 00:17:21
    Enduro 3 taking before in the after file
  • 00:17:24
    and there are differences there very
  • 00:17:26
    slight differences but what I tend to
  • 00:17:28
    see though is it Smooths out some of the
  • 00:17:30
    shake that you see on the GPS only track
  • 00:17:33
    uh and makes it nearly identical to the
  • 00:17:35
    S IQ track point of that whole kind of
  • 00:17:37
    like thing there being that you can more
  • 00:17:39
    comfortably use GPS only whereas most
  • 00:17:42
    people most the time even myself I would
  • 00:17:43
    have said in the back don't don't do
  • 00:17:45
    that just just do sad IQ you can use GPS
  • 00:17:47
    only to get yourself quite a bit more
  • 00:17:49
    battery life without any major impacts
  • 00:17:51
    from a GPS accuracy standpoint uh so
  • 00:17:54
    that's something to consider and again
  • 00:17:56
    there's way more accuracy data in my
  • 00:17:57
    written reviews that are linked to down
  • 00:17:59
    below there because I just not that
  • 00:18:00
    exciting to watch on YouTube to be
  • 00:18:01
    honest okay so where are we overall well
  • 00:18:04
    essentially the Enduro 3 takes a
  • 00:18:05
    software from a phoenix8 the hardware
  • 00:18:08
    from a phoenix 7x Pro ands in a new
  • 00:18:11
    solar panel uh called the new solar
  • 00:18:14
    panel and then that gives you an Enduro
  • 00:18:16
    3 right it's just honestly as simple as
  • 00:18:18
    that which means that if you are a
  • 00:18:20
    myth-based lover that if you didn't care
  • 00:18:21
    about diving and you did not care about
  • 00:18:23
    a microphone or speaker then this could
  • 00:18:26
    really be your Phoenix 8 for you for 300
  • 00:18:29
    bucks cheaper like it's it's honestly as
  • 00:18:32
    simple as that uh I would look at it
  • 00:18:34
    that way as opposed to thinking about
  • 00:18:36
    the phoenix8 um being so expensive for
  • 00:18:38
    the myth-based displays that's just my
  • 00:18:40
    two cents I can't help you if you want a
  • 00:18:42
    smaller one or a mediumsized one but at
  • 00:18:44
    least that option is there for the
  • 00:18:45
    larger ones overall setting aside my
  • 00:18:48
    display personal preferences this watch
  • 00:18:50
    works pretty darn well uh the UI is a
  • 00:18:53
    little bit sluggish at times but it's
  • 00:18:55
    also sluggish on the Phoenix 8 as well
  • 00:18:57
    at times I suspect that'll get optimized
  • 00:18:59
    over the next few weeks and months as
  • 00:19:01
    they kind of stick the landing on that
  • 00:19:02
    new UI but otherwise I don't really have
  • 00:19:04
    any complaints I love how lightweight it
  • 00:19:06
    is I'm somewhat indifferent on the strap
  • 00:19:08
    only because after you take a shower or
  • 00:19:09
    jump in the water and then you put it on
  • 00:19:11
    your clothing it looks like you peed
  • 00:19:12
    your pants because it makes all your
  • 00:19:14
    clothing wet or the couch wet Etc but
  • 00:19:16
    you know can't win them all with that if
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    you found this video interesting or
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  • Garmin Enduro 3
  • GPS battery life
  • solar panel
  • Optical heart rate sensor
  • price drop
  • UI update
  • sports features
  • screen visibility
  • smartwatch review