Customer Reviews for Garmin - epix (Gen 2) GPS Smartwatch 47mm Fiber-reinforced polymer - White Titanium - (2022)
Customer Rating
5
on April 5, 2024
Posted by: Houston W
It's an amazing watch, I love everything about it. The durability is amazing and I like how fashionable it is. It helps my life in so many different ways.
I took it with me on vacation in Vienna and felt quite fashionable in a very luxe city. Also love the long battery life! 10 days and still no need of charging. But I bought it for the map feature and equestrian endurance riding.
I’ve had Fitbit watches before, then went with the Apple Watch and finally moved to Garmin. My biggest gripe with the Apple Watch was the battery life which completely drove me away. I’ve been using the Epix for 3 weeks now and am fully in love with it. It has a great display, the fitness tracking is working fantastic, and the smartwatch notifications (calls, messages, reminders, etc.) work really well too. There are lots of watch faces available that should cover a lot of tastes but I guess I’m a little special there too as I love data and analog watch faces. Using the standard watch face until I can get my son to program something similar with more complications to show additional data. I switched the display to always on and get to 4 days with about 1 hour of workout a day which I am ok with. Not quite the 6 days I was hoping for but not the dreading daily charge needed for the Apple Watch.
I also went with the white model but attaching brown leather wristbands doesn’t look suitable so I should have gone with the black model.
I bought Epix Gen 2 about 8 months ago. Coming from an Apple Watch the biggest thumbs up was the battery life. Secondly it was the depth of statistics. I also loved the variety of watch faces and the ability to have a variety of stats at a glance. What i dont like is the accuracy of the heart rate monitor. If you are doing interval training, it can take up to a minute to a get up to your actual heart rate. Sometimes i have to hold onto something for it to read. I always want my stats at a glance and not on gesture or screen tap. I absolutely have watch apps that change face to “pure.” The IQ app is a joke. You install a watch face and/or uninstall another, when you refresh it has uninstalled the incorrect face. Then you have to install the face that was installed and good luck with that.
Response from GarminBy Garmin, April 1, 2024
Thank you for your review and experience with the epix (Gen 2). We would like to discuss this further over email. If you would please email us at product.support@garmin.com.
I have owned my Epix for approximately 3 weeks. I enjoy having the ability to track sleep, workouts, heart rate, altitude, maps, and weather. One caveat though, is that before the update I was able to see weather on my watch without my phone being on. Now weather doesn’t display unless my phone is on and the connect app running. What happens if you are in a deep woods mountain hike with no cell service? We’ll just pray you don’t get trapped by inclement weather. That is my biggest complaint and concern. I believe the weather should update a few times a day and have all the data for the day. Weather should work offline like the maps.