Garmin epix Gen 2, Premium active smartwatch, Health and wellness features, touchscreen AMOLED display, adventure watch with advanced features, white titanium

Well packed and arrive just in time as a fathers day gift. Really love this watch. The resolution is brilliant and clear. Have been using it for the past 5 days and the battery life is amazing. Got this watch at an amazing price. Highly recommended

I’ve been wearing Garmin smart watches for years and I think I’ve been waiting for this for years. The AMOLED display is bright and beautiful. The battery life for my GPS use pattern is good, several days. The “always on” but dimmed out Display mode works great. The GPS accuracy is better than the Garmin MARQ I was wearing before. The wrist based HRM is better than the MARQ too, none of the annoying, wildly inaccurate heart rate spikes. The golf app works great and only consumes 15% of a full charge for a 4 hour round. I really like the white band & case and titanium bezel, looks sophisticated and cool. The selection of watch faces is large and I use an Omega Seamaster look-alike. I’ve had pretty good luck with the Amazon Prime music app and the Bluetooth connection from the watch to by Bose ear buds is very good.

Do you really need a $1000 running watch? No. But it sure makes running fun & the display is killer. The battery life is pretty damn good too.

So far it works great. I am still learning about all it can do. The online manual is 130 pages long. All in all it is a great watch.

For those of you who know with the forerunner 945 can do you also know this was probably a splurge upgrade. Coming off an Apple Watch into the Garmin family. I had quickly realized that the Garman was the absolute best fit for me when it came to my work out tracking and smart, watch features that I valued. However, after being used to the quality of screens coming from my Apple Watch, there was a bit to be desired. I initially started searching for the new forerunner 965 when I decided to take a look at the epic 2. The OLED screen was a key feature, and I would not have upgraded without that. That all being said, the epic two is absolutely living up to its name. This watch really has everything you could possibly need for everything other than diving. I feel the sleep tracking is slightly better with the epic than the forerunner. I also really love the training readiness and tracking more on the epic. The screen itself is absolutely gorgeous and function exactly how you would want it to. The dual GPS capabilities have shown marked improvement on the forerunner as well without a huge battery draw. Speaking of battery, when the watch is not on, always on mode, I have seen consistently around 12 to 13 days battery life before I need to charge. I have actually left on a weeklong vacation without my charger ran multiple times using GPS about 20 to 25 miles during the week and still came home with about four days worth of battery life.

Ive had the Fenix 5x Sapphire since launch, and have used about 10% of the functionality (HR, GPS activities, Sleep, Steps, etc), but logged and tracked that consistently with the Connect app. My Fenix was getting tired: the battery was aging - never reached 100% charged, dropped to 50% in a few days, lasted about a week with no GPS, but that was hit/miss; and the watch strap lasted about 4 months before the silicon breaking, and that display, apps, and app controls werent quite as compelling as what I was seeing on other devices.

I have been a Garmin Fenix user for years and love everything about the Fenix BUT the display. While I understand the advantages of LCD display it just robs Fenix of the high end smart watch look. Epix 2 is the perfect balance between both worlds: it has all the features of Fenix and comes with a much nicer display. If you don’t mind charging once a week I think this is a better choice over Fenix.

Not in the original package. No product manual or charging wire. Couple of scratches on the watch and the strap. Some Data is still in the watch that shows it has been used for at least 2 months.

I originally had a vivoactive 3. Was looking at the venu 2 and possibly the Apple Watch 7. I decided to get the epix titanium gen 2 even though there was quite a wait for it. It is loaded with so many features and customization! A lot the stuff that was on my vivoactive 3 was a bit gimmicky, however the same features on the epix seem to work smoothly. For instance rep counting on the epix seems to be spot on. The screen is very bright, the maps are great, navigation works flawlessly, I no longer need to take my brick of a phone with me for workouts.

I wasn’t going to buy this because of the cost. But I am so glad I did. I love being able to see my metrics in the water and the morning report is awesome!