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Why do people spend money (and quite a lot of it) for devices that have less functionality than a smartphone?

  • Tablet is just a bigger screen, but not same power like a laptop.

  • Smartwatch is just tracking device that sends even more of your personal data.

And BOTH are another battery that you have to worry about.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

What Garmin are you using?

I could look into a watch that needs to be recharged ~~never~~ every few weeks.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

I have the Fenix 6X, which normally lasts 4-5 days with all bells and whistles enabled. Three settings I use to extend the battery to 2 weeks:

Disabled backlight on gesture, kept backlight enabled on keypress, set backlight to 5% and 4 seconds.

Disabled SPO2/oximetry (huge battery hog and doesn't ruin functionality of other things to disable)

Battery Saver set on a schedule for 10 hours per day - disables wifi/bluetooth. Basically an extreme 'do not disturb'.

But the two week figure is when I'm not doing many if any activities. Every other Wednesday it gets to around 20% and I charge it, but when I was running a lot it was closer to once a week.

Fenix 7 apparently has even better battery life tho so you might be able to wring 3 weeks out of that thing