The Garmin Instinct Solar is a rugged smartwatch with MIL-STD-810G certification, built-in GPS, solar charging, heart rate monitoring, advanced features, and an impressive design. Track your heart rate, stress, and sleep to better understand your health and wellness.
The Garmin smartwatch is primarily aimed at athletes, hikers, hunters, fishermen, and generally people who want a durable, waterproof, and multifunctional watch that can be used in tough conditions.
Additionally, the Garmin Instinct Solar is designed to withstand extreme conditions, such as high temperature, low temperature, shocks, and water resistance, making it ideal for outdoor use and sports activities.
Unmatched Durability
The Garmin Instinct Solar is manufactured according to the American military standard MIL-STD-810G, for resistance to temperature variations, drops, and waterproofing up to 100 meters depth. It features a fiber-reinforced polymer case in vibrant colors, a high-contrast display, and scratch-resistant Corning Gorilla Glass, for exceptional clarity in all lighting conditions.
Made for adventure
The battery life of the Garmin Instinct Solar reaches 24/54 days with solar charging in Smartwatch mode. With GPS usage, it lasts for 30/38 hours and up to 70/145 hours in Max Battery GPS mode. Additionally, in Expedition GPS Mode, it lasts for 28/68 days, while in power-saving mode, it provides autonomy for 56 or even unlimited days, always with solar charging.
Advanced navigation features
The support for MULTI-GNSS, including GPS, GLONASS, and Galileo, gives you the ability to navigate the outdoors with confidence, even if you stray off course. Connect the Instinct Solar with an inReach device (sold separately and requires an active satellite subscription) to view and send messages, receive weather alerts on your wrist, and send an SOS signal to the GEOS emergency response team.
Heartbeats from the wrist
See heart rate data combined with alerts for whether your heart rate remains high or low while resting. Measure how hard your heart works during activities, even in water. The Pulse Ox2 sensor can measure your body's oxygen absorption capacity, even for acclimatization from altitude changes or during your sleep.
Energy measurement with Body Battery
Use pre-installed activity profiles for running, swimming, cycling, rowing, and many more. Leverage your body's energy reserves by using heart rate variability, stress, sleep, and other data to know when you're ready for action and when you need rest. Heart rate variability is used to calculate stress levels, so you can check if you had a calm, balanced, or stressful day.
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The Garmin Connect app is the primary source of information for health data and sports activities. Whether you're training for a race or want to track your steps, Garmin Connect provides the information and inspiration you need.
Navigate your next trail with the barometric altimeter for elevation data, the barometer for weather tracking, and the three-axis electronic compass.
The Garmin Explore app allows adventure enthusiasts and explorers to connect even offline without network or Wi-Fi coverage to gain navigation, trip planning, mapping, and data transfer capabilities.
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I can't take it out of my hand. Lightweight, very powerful construction and funny autonomy. If you deal with it a little, you can fully customize it to your needs and optimize battery life. I expected something bigger in hand, it has the perfect size.
When connected to the Galaxy A70, it consumes a lot of battery from the phone. Maybe it's the settings, but I haven't looked into it yet. Compared to the Suunto Traverse Alpha I had before, it has much better autonomy due to the solar system and has more options for sports. As for the quality of the watch, it seems cheaper than the Traverse, but that doesn't bother me. It fits well on my wrist, I don't even realize I'm wearing it.
Update 1/9/21:
The battery issue seems to be resolved with the updates.
Now, I don't know why, but the Samsung A70 I have constantly loses connection with the watch. Whatever solution I found on the internet didn't work. I reached the point of resetting both the phone and the watch without any luck. Essentially, because I just want the watch to notify me when someone calls me (e.g., when I'm running) and it doesn't do that, I no longer wear the watch outside. It's a shame. Maybe I'll contact the dealership.
Update 7/2/22:
It doesn't connect properly even with the Pixel 5. It constantly loses connection. As soon as I connect the phone to the car or with headphones, the connection with the watch is lost. If I move away from the phone and come back close, it doesn't reconnect. What can I say, I just won't buy Garmin again. I read others online who have the same problem. I bought a G-Shock GBD-200-1 and everything works perfectly. And the Suunto Traverse Alpha I had before never had any issues.
It is exactly what I wanted, durable, lasts a long time, even with daily use of its functions, and it has the sensors of the much more expensive Fenix 6. Without many bells and whistles
Too expensive for its quality! It doesn't live up to its price or its brand! The screen has no brightness at all! The menu is very difficult! It reminds me of a Casio g shock that is worth no more than 50€-80€
In 2021 it is tragic for Garmin to present such a product.
1) Countless submenus that you have to press the button 3000 times to navigate.
2) As for the screen part, we are simply laughing. From what we see, it is half a small square that makes it impossible for someone to read the data in the three lines it has during activity. (It should be called a vision test)
3) The GPS takes three minutes to catch compared to other companies like Polar or Garmin's Phenix models (which are very expensive, of course).
4) The Solar version in the activity part is not stable, so its autonomy is okay as a simple watch, and a simple Casio has two years of autonomy just to see the time.
5) For 150 euros, yes, it is a good purchase, not even a euro more.
6) Build quality and design, not even close.
Final conclusion: It has no touch, no color screen, and it is very expensive.
Well, yes!!! Its battery life is reasonable, it's not surprising