I've had many G-Shocks and debated whether or not to get a Garmin Instinct 2 before finally ordering one. I've loved the watch as soon as I pulled it from the box. Battery life is great, the features are great (and I haven't even learned them all yet). It's a great watch, love it.

I bought this as my first Sports Watch, and I absolutely love it. I use it for running both trail and road. The workout feature is nice, it detects what exercises I am doing although I sometimes have to edit it later for similar exercises (Incline Bench vs. Bench and any other exercises that might have similar ranges of motion). Overall I would, and have, highly recommend this watch.

Great outdoor watch! I wanted a watch that could track my physical stats for hiking, cycling, climbing and all and wasnt looking for all those gimmicky watches that can do way too much unnecessary stuff . Its simple but very effective and still offers a lot of tools. What made me go for this one especially was its battery life, which i can confirm, can last a month if you dont use the gps. You also dont have to keep it connected to your phone for it to work while doing activities. In short, if you're looking for an outdoor or running watch that won't fail you and you don't need the touch screen, go for it!

This is my first Garmin watch so there was a small learning curve. Once I learned how to navigate the menus using the watch, it became second nature. I enjoy using it. You can customize the watch to show exactly what you want. The Connect app is better than the Fitbit one I had been using. This is a minimalist watch that does exactly what I want and has a very long battery - nearly a month. I had considered an Apple watch, but those require daily charging and owning an iPhone. The only downside is that since I bought the watch in the graphite color the button legends are hard to see and took a few days to learn. I would definitely buy this watch again.

Glad they didn't take away any features. The new ones are pretty nice.I've been using the Garmin watch for a long time and not had any problems except charging. It always seems to stop charging after a year or so. We'll see how this one does. When I first went to the solar, it was a learning experience to get used to it. Kind of like going back a step in technology.

Had this watch for 3 years and love it. It gets used everyday to just tell the time etc. and record all my activities when linking to strava, hiking MTB and kayaking. Used to record a 12 day kayaking trip around Cape Scott on Vancouver Island - batt needed charging everyday but no problem with a power pack.

I have a Forerunner 935 (4 years old) and with age it has lost some key features (altitude, temperature seems off) since most of my training is in the mountains, I wanted to try my luck with the Instinct. The instinct seems to match the 935 in features but feels a little flimsy with plastic buttons that remind me of the 90's timex ironman watch. I don't expect this to last as long as the 935, but I could be wrong. I don't plan to swim with this watch, I will use the 935 since I believe the chlorine is the culprit to several features on the 935 deteriorating. I will still buy this watch just feel the buttons are not on the same level as the 935 in durability. As for the next question on your mind I could not justify paying the difference from the instinct 2 to a forerunner 955 at this time.

So far I am not impressed with this smart watch. The heart rate monitor is incorrect frequently and it seems like anytime the censor gets water or sweat of any amount it sends an alert that my watch is worn improperly. Also it seems like sweat also causes the heart rate monitor to be incorrect. There are times that my watch doesn't move and I get an alert that my watch is being worn improperly. Overall I'm not impressed by this watch. I got this watch as part of a study, if I had bought it I would have returned it.

I chose this watch because I wanted something rugged, I wanted something that would last and I didn't want to break the bank. This watch checked all the boxes. I've had my Garmin Instinct for 5 years now and I haven't once considered getting a new watch. It is perfect for logging your activities and navigating in a pinch. After about 4 years I needed to buy a new watch strap mine started to break. I once lost my watch on a golf course for 4 months (in a temperate rainforest) someone eventually found it and got in touch with me and it worked perfectly fine. The battery life Is very impressive. If I am not logging activities It can go around 2 weeks without a charge. If I am logging daily runs I have to charge it about once a week. when ( or if ) this watch ever needs to be replaced I will be buying another one.

I wanted to like this watch, now the reason I returned it was for 1 reason, i ordered the green one and it looked more yellow and it was like a 2 tone yellow, i was hoping it was gonna be more lime green. If they make it in green I would deff buy it again. But being that I already have the fenix 6x and the epic2 i didnt see the need to keep this yellow one. Other than that I love Garmin watches and will never go back to Samsung.