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Not worth the money.
So first off, I will say that my review is based on the $800 price tag. This is a decent watch and appeared to do the things it claims but for the $800 I was expecting much more. My biggest gripe is with the display. Ironically (or not), I bought and returned the Instinct for the same reason. As Garmin's flagship watch and this being 2020, it is hard to imagine any company releasing a tech device at this price point with a lousy 260 x 260 pixel display, a roughly 8% improvement over the 5. As a device that I am wearing and that I am interfacing with throughout the day, I'm really put off by a company's top of the line model sporting 10 year old technology. Similarly, the Garmin Instinct with a 126 x 126 pixel display looks like a1980's Atari video game. Also, the display is almost impossible to see unless the backlight is on, in which case, at night you're looking at a very blue screen. None of the photos of this watch show how the display actually appears. Admittedly I am a tech snob so when I spend $800 on a piece of tech I expect the very best that the industry has to offer and this is not it.
January 2020 · Electronics · verified purchase