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Garmin's 935 and health apps?

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Copenhagen69

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I'm looking at the Garmin and love the features for working out and the like 12 day battery life. Howe er I'm unsure of the health app I'd be able to use. I like the s health app but from my research Samsung refuses to support Garmin. What other options are there that can compete with s health?
 
What features does S Health provide? The Garmin Connect app can track a lot of stats, certainly with my 235 model, I get sleep stats, resting heart rate, all activities include numerous graphs to analyse your performance.
 
Among the list. The ones I like is stress, HR, sleep, and active time.

I have not looked at the Garmin app to see if it does handle those.
 
Take a look. It's quite good. I also upload my activities to Strava, which offers more analysis tools (some are for premium membership though).
 
One thing I will say about that watch, from experience, you will not use all the features. And most of the features are gimmicks. Stuff like the VO2 Max. To measure that properly requires a lab treadmill set up. Basically you're paying for features you won't use. My 235 does everything (and more) I need, and it's a lot less money than the 935.
And if you're intending to use the built-in heart rate sensor, be aware that mine doesn't work properly. I get more accurate results from my HRM chest strap.
 
Fenix 5?! Now your going up in price.
It's entirely your decision. My point was that for me, those high end watches have features which I use rarely, or never at all. As a runner, I basically want 4 pieces of information - my heart rate, pace, distance, and time.
Everything else is just garnish, and you pay a high price for it.
Just my view of course, YMMV.
 
Copenhagen69 said:
I can get both for $499 on Amazon

What would be a less flashy model that has a good HR monitor? You said yours was flakey...
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TBH I wouldn't have faith in Garmin's wrist based HR sensor. I initially had high hopes of ditching my chest strap, but after using it for a while, I found the watch to be a bit erratic in its readings, sometimes too high, other times too low. So as I need consistent readings, I went back to using my chest strap. It's much better.
I'm not saying it won't work for you, just be aware that it might not be that good. I get the impression that a lot of wrist based sensors have problems.
 
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