u/admi99

Hello everybody!

I'm fully new to smart watches and because of that obviously my knowledge is quite limited (although I'm constantly doing the research) about smart watches so I'd like to ask for you help!

I'm looking forward for a watch, that has preferably Amoled Display, good battery life, durable and most importantly have great navigation features. (touch screen is a bonus). My budget is 500$ at maximum and in that range, my choice is quite limited.

My most important requirement for the watch would be the navigation related featured because I do a lot of hiking and I'm also going to travel to rural areas and countries in the summer, therefore a smartwatch would be great with useful built in navigation features.

An option could be the Instinct 3, but it has only breadcrumb navigation, which is really limited, therefore that's out of the question. Another option would be the Forerunner 965, which is just barely in the budget, has some level of navigation features but not looking too durable and optimized for runners, not for hiking.

However, I couldn't find other options in my price range that would fit with my requirements, but might easily missed models so I appreciate any feedback or recommendation if you have one.

Therefore, I started to look into the second hand market and I found a garmin Fenix 6X Pro Sapphire for 300€. I assume this is a correct price, because the new Fenix watches are 1000$+, so I would get a Fenix for the price of an Instinct. However, this Fenix is quite old with a release date of 2019, so I'm not sure how great it would still be, but it was a great watch back then, so I assume it's still good? I'm just not sure about software sluggishness and more importantly the battery, wouldn't it degrade quite a lot since then?

If you have any other recommendation, tips or advice, either for a new model or for a second hand, or any other advice that would fit into my prince range and also fit into my "requirements", I would really appreciate your feedback.

Thanks in advance!

Hello everybody!

I'm fully new to smart watches and because of that obviously my knowledge is quite limited (although I'm constantly doing the research) about smart watches so I'd like to ask for you help!

I'm looking forward for a watch, that has preferably Amoled Display, good battery life, durable and most importantly have great navigation features. (touch screen is a bonus). My budget is 500$ at maximum and in that range, my choice is quite limited.

My most important requirement for the watch would be the navigation related featured because I do a lot of hiking and I'm also going to travel to rural areas and countries in the summer, therefore a smartwatch would be great with useful built in navigation features.

An option could be the Instinct 3, but it has only breadcrumb navigation, which is really limited, therefore that's out of the question. Another option would be the Forerunner 965, which is just barely in the budget, has some level of navigation features but not looking too durable and optimized for runners, not for hiking.

However, I couldn't find other options in my price range that would fit with my requirements, but might easily missed models so I appreciate any feedback or recommendation if you have one.

Therefore, I started to look into the second hand market and I found a garmin Fenix 6X Pro Sapphire for 300€. I assume this is a correct price, because the new Fenix watches are 1000$+, so I would get a Fenix for the price of an Instinct. However, this Fenix is quite old with a release date of 2019, so I'm not sure how great it would still be, but it was a great watch back then, so I assume it's still good? I'm just not sure about software sluggishness and more importantly the battery, wouldn't it degrade quite a lot since then?

If you have any other recommendation, tips or advice, either for a new model or for a second hand, or any other advice that would fit into my prince range and also fit into my "requirements", I would really appreciate your feedback.

Thanks in advance!