I liked the Fossil Neutra and then saw it’s from Texas, so… My research started. A quick glace through a search engine didn’t return anything… Hence, I’m asking you

  • skarn@discuss.tchncs.de
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    3 days ago

    Are you me 8 months ago? I was using Mi Band 8 while looking at maybe eventually buying a Garmin Instinct type watch. Then the Xiaomi died during a quick swim in the sea in early october and I pulled the trigger on the Instinct 2S solar.

    The Garmin is great, it’s so superior to the Xiaomi in literally everything that it’s not even funny.

    So you have a difficult choice, between European (Polar) at the cost of having to use their App, or Gadgetbridge, and then Garmin is really the best choice by far from almost any angle.

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      3 days ago

      So you have a difficult choice, between European (Polar) at the cost of having to use their App

      Well, seeing as this is a non-starter for me, Polar is out of the question. Seeing as we are in the Buy European-community, I’ll rationalize it by the fact that I am avoiding their app which is probably running on American cloud infrastructure. :)

      I plan to still use my Mi Band 7 for tracking HR outside of activites. But it is acting up a little - screen sometimes won’t turn on, and I have to either connect it to a charger or use the “Find device”-option in Gadgetbridge. We’ll see how long it lasts, I’ve been using it for two years so far. Ideally I would have a band with no screen that just records data that I can view in Gadgetbridge / my own setup, but I’ve never been able to find that (which again would work with Gadgetbridge).