The AW Ultra suddenly seems like a bargain now with Garmins silly pricing

[Indianwin2001]

These are fair points. Garmin's weakness is in software. While every touts about the amount of metrics available on a Garmin watch, it's the accuracy of that information that's more important.

And people are caught up with metrics that they would never use. It's information overload, just to pretend you're a serious athlete.

I like Apple's more methodical approach where pertinent information is given. Unlike Samsung and Garmin where it's about having many features, Apple seems more intentional in slowly rolling out accurate sensors and software.

My biggest gripe with Apple is (as mentioned earlier in this thread) is the lack of a smaller Ultra.
I suppose they believe 49mm is fine for everybody because it's a sports watch.

At the very least, give us an action button on an AW11 then.

Totally agree with this post. I’ve owned many Garmins and ALL of them had horrible HR accuracy during workouts. Read the Garmin Forums, they are full of software compliants. Apple’s HR seems much more reliable during workouts..

 

[Zelegorm]

Totally agree with this post. I’ve owned many Garmins and ALL of them had horrible HR accuracy during workouts. Read the Garmin Forums, they are full of software compliants. Apple’s HR seems much more reliable during workouts..

It’s not only the heart rate sensor. Garmin is using SATIQ during workouts. Saves a lot of battery but is not really good when running trough a city or when you have big trees. In general it should work good but I’ve lost again gps in the woods on my garmin. No way. The oxygen sensor is bad too. The sleep detection is bad. And now think about all those metrics they are providing. It will not make any sense when the data is bad

 

[sbassios]

It’s not only the heart rate sensor. Garmin is using SATIQ during workouts. Saves a lot of battery but is not really good when running trough a city or when you have big trees. In general it should work good but I’ve lost again gps in the woods on my garmin. No way. The oxygen sensor is bad too. The sleep detection is bad. And now think about all those metrics they are providing. It will not make any sense when the data is bad

totally agree... 15 days with the ultra 2 from fenix 7x and i see big difference in hr monitoring and sleep data