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0 pointsLeifCarrotson3y ago0 comments

Yes, and better than that, most new Garmin watches can also store several GB of music on the device itself and play it over Bluetooth headphones, no need to carry your phone with you.

Watches are a strange sort of luxury good, where some people will pay thousands of dollars, and Garmin aggressively price-segments their products. Use this comparison tool to see the different features:

https://www.dcrainmaker.com/product-comparison-calculator

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DC-33y ago

When people pay large amounts of money for watches, they are doing so for premium materials and exquisite workmanship (brand is often a large factor too, of course). It's not obvious that the same value proposition applies to mass-produced electronics, even if they also tell the time and sit on the wrist.

LeifCarrotsonOP3y ago

The materials and workmanship in a Forerunner 955 are almost the same as those in a Forerunner 255.

The latter disables the NFC payments radio on the same radio IC, disables recording power meter and etap/DI2 gear-shift data from bikes even though it has ANT+ radio, disables open-water swim mode, disables multi-sport (triathlon) tracking, disables maps (even though it has the same memory capacity), and doesn't implement the running dynamics/running power software.

It's like a premium printer that's identical to the cheap printer, with the speed inhibitor turned off:

https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2004/12/15/camels-and-rubber-...

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