D.A
Striker
Do you need your phone to use garmin pay?Yeah, that’s a good point. The times I’m without my phone are few and far between.
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Do you need your phone to use garmin pay?Yeah, that’s a good point. The times I’m without my phone are few and far between.
Do you need your phone to use garmin pay?
I have the fenix 5x. I use it for maps. It's toppa.nope, but it has apple pay on it so can use that the majority of the time. I reckon I'll just get the Instinct which has all the features I need and spend the rest on hookers and blow
Cheers D.A. The best running watch you can get at the lower budget end. Built in HRM.My mate has a fore runner 235 for sale, 80 quid ono
SoldMy mate has a fore runner 235 for sale, 80 quid ono
The fenix has a full colour display, Garmin pay and can store 500 songs as well as better fitness tracking & navigation etc
I’d definitely use Garmin pay, the other features would be a nice to haves. If it wasn’t for the massive price drop I wouldn’t bother about it.
Iirc it's more to do with UK banks supporting it - Santander certainly do and I've used it and it works perfectly. Definitely a useful thing to have imo.Out of interest, do many places use Garmin pay ?
The advantage I can see with it is buying something when you’re out in a run - a drink, or something from the shops when you get back as I never take my card or phone with me
Was thinking about this or the Forerunner 645, both with music.
Is the Forerunner worth the extra money and does the music element work alright when running?
MusicI’m having the same dilemma. Which one did you go for in the end? What was your verdict?
I'm looking at getting one of these! Reasonably priced and good reviews. From google I can see it is possible to sync to Strava but nobody seems too confident about it...do you know DA?My mate has a fore runner 235 for sale, 80 quid ono
Yep, syncs to garmin connect and strava via Bluetooth.I'm looking at getting one of these! Reasonably priced and good reviews. From google I can see it is possible to sync to Strava but nobody seems too confident about it...do you know DA?
Also I will get back to you on the trail shoes tomorrow, I've been sick & off work / super busy.
I'm looking at getting one of these! Reasonably priced and good reviews. From google I can see it is possible to sync to Strava but nobody seems too confident about it...do you know DA?
Also I will get back to you on the trail shoes tomorrow, I've been sick & off work / super busy.
Just got the 5 plus a couple of weeks back, the day before I come back to work so only used it for treadmill running. I’ll have to set the garmin pay up. Over spec’d for what I need but I wanted a watch that looked smart aswell.I have the fenix 5x. I use it for maps. It's toppa.
Today, we turned up for work. My mate has the same vivoactive 3 that I do. He looked a bit peaky and said he felt like he was getting cold or flu or summit. Anyway, he disappeared up to the medic and we thought it was just to get some lemsips or summit. He was gone for about 45 minutes.
When I eventually caught up with him and asked if he was ok, he said "my [garmin] was going mental, vibrating like fuck and showing 'abnormal heartrate' so I went to see the medic, who put me on an ECG and it showed I was having a
Supraventricular tachycardia (SVT)- the watch is a very good fitness tracker if it notified that"
The results from the ECG tallied up with what was shown on the Garmin. I was under the impression these weren't that accurate, but obviously they are
And my mate is fine, SVTs aren't that serious