Smartwatches have taken over the market for the last 3-4 years now. Not only smartphones, but the smartwatch has also become very competitive now. For better fitness results and awareness, many people use these watches. Companies like Apple, Samsung, and Huawei have done quite exceptional work in this field. Not only the tech companies but also the famous watch brands have joined the list too with the likes of Fossil, Michael Kors and Garmin. Though many people in India are not buying many of these, still many studies show that the sales of smartwatches will increase exponentially in the coming years. Choose to explore buying online with available Snapdeal Coupons today for best discounted rates.

Garmin launched its new Instinct smartwatch which is its first military-grade product. Launched in three different color variants: Tundra, Flame Red, and Graphite, the new Garmin Instinct is priced at Rs. 26,990. But, is it worth it? Let’s check out in the Garmin Instinct review below:

Design

Garmin instinct gets fiber-reinforced polymer material with the dimension of 45 x 45 x 55.3mm with the weight of 52 grams. Coming to the display, it carries monochrome sunlight visible and transreflective MIP display having 128 x 128 pixels. The looks are quite rugged like any military gear has. The strap is very comfortable in your wrist and looks premium too.

The battery packs rechargeable lithium-ion battery and packs 16MB of memory. For connectivity options, it includes Bluetooth and ANT+. As per Garmin itself, they claim that the watch has been tested under US Military standards coupled with MIL-STD-810G thermal, water, and shock testing. Moreover, the product can be easily coupled with QuickFit 22 bands and gets a 10ATM/100 meters water rating.

The round dial has five buttons on its sides- three on the lift while on the right, there are two only. At the left, you get CTRL, MENU and ABC buttons. Furthermore, the MENU and ABC can also be used as the UP and DOWN button. The round dial shows the date, day and heart rate at the top. The battery life can be seen on the bottom of the screen.

Performance

The Garmin new product, Instinct is not the touchscreen smartwatch but only bears five buttons which serve all the purpose. Though many of the users might feel it very disgusting, but still it is what it is. It might take you a week or so to get used to this watch and its features.

The CTRL button is the power on button and also it acts as the backlight providing a button. Long pressing the MENU button will display three options on the screen including Watch Face, Settings and History. The Watch Face feature lets you customize the icons. Meanwhile, History keeps the history of your activities which are accessible through Records, Totals, and Options. On the other hand, Settings has different settings which you can change or play with to bring something attractive and new to the watch.

Long pressing CTRL button opens up menu options including Power Off, Backlight, Lock Keys, Do Not Disturb and many more. The Garmin Instinct has a big chunk of features and customization options like target, elevation etc. The watch packs sensors like GPS, barometer, compass, GLONASS, Galileo Elevate wrist heart rate monitor, and accelerometer.

Coming to the battery life, the device gets charged very quickly- in about an hour. The device easily gives 4-5 days easily if you use the device for 40-45 minutes only- for GPS tracking and navigation. If you want full day GPS tracking, you will easily get a single day of fuel. As per Garmin, the Instinct can easily give you 14 hours on GPS modes and on UltraTrac Mode, it gives 35 hours.

You can easily pair the watch with your Android smartphone, the watch gets smartphone’s notifications and responds to calls and texts. Moreover, there is an app called Garmin Connect app, you can dig in the device deep. You can choose to explore some of the latest gadgets online today by available Amazon Coupons.

Verdict

If you are looking for a smartphone to track your steps you take in a day or the distance you have covered, then clearly Garmin Instinct smartwatch is not for you. The smartwatch is not bounded to that but is built for very rugged conditions like trekking, rock climbing, river crossing and adventurous stuff like that. Priced at Rs. 26,990, Garmin Instinct is solid and tough with no touchscreen tech but military looks. So, if you are up to all that, this watch is not a bad choice at all. All said, the Garmin Instinct watch straight away target those who are willing to go into the wild, for the adventurous vagabond junkies who love to spend each minute as their last- such a toughness and sheerness in the product with some tech gimmick only suits them and is best for them at the price around thirty grand.

Well, it is now all but confirmed that the 3^rd generation of the Apple Watch which is scheduled for release in September 2017 is going to have an eSIM inside.

What does this new bit of technology Apple Watch mean to the user ? Apple Watch weaters will be able to access the internet directly from their eSIm enabled wristpiece, without needing to pair the device with an iPhone. Personally, I hope this does some way to reducing the less sociable aspects of mobile phones. If people don’t have their phones with them, they can’t always be staring at them.

The eSIM is new technology. Here’s what you need to know about it :

Standard eSIM :

Apple have trialed Apple SIMs before in iPads and other devices. None have been particularly successful. This iteration of eSIM tech is the official GSMA approved totally standard eSIM. There is nothing unique or Apple about it. The eSIM simply does what a removable SIM does, it’s just embedded before you buy the watch.

At this stage, there will be no voice calling facility in the Apple phone :

This version of the Apple watch will not support cellular network voice calls. Since the user does have a data plan and since there are Voice Over Internet Protocol Apps like and Skype, WhatsApp, it does seem there is a work around for that. Talking to your wrist is very Star Trek and quite cool so we hope they turn that service on in the future.

It means the phone can stay the same size :

If you wanted to include a SIM in a smartwatch,  before the eSIM, you needed to have a physical tray which was large enough to hold such a chip, the electronics to read it and an actual Nano SIM in the phone. The eSIM actually follows all the same conventions of a physical SIM. The embedded version of it is just much, much smaller. Result ? No need to worry that this watch will be any bigger than the watch 2, 38mm x 42mm.

There’s Intel Inside :

Apple are departing from Quallcom as their chip provider, the new eSIM enabled Apple Watch for 2017 is going to be built in to an Intel SIM.

The development of a chip like this (a standard processor which also has a facility to act as an embedded SIM)  takes time. But once it’s done, producing a lot of them is easy. The Apple Watch is the first product to take this type of SIM but, based on the announcements that Intel have been making with Microsoft and others, about the number of laptops from all the major laptop OEMs, the eSIM could be a big part of our future in many devices, large and small.

What else do I need to know ?

Sign up to a phone company which has shared data plans. The data requirements for the Apple Watch 3 are likely to be relatively small. Most data on mobile devices us used by rapidly changing video content – YouTube videos, for example. The screen on the Apple Watch 3 is of ample size compared to other smartwatches, but you probably wouldn’t watch a video on it.

We think you will be safe buying a plan with 1GB or less for your new Apple Watch.

There is one better type of plan you can get, however, than a single GB of data. If your phone company allows shared data plans, shared data bundles or family plans, we strongly suggest you consider it for this device.

The Apple Watch is one of the first successful elements of ‘wearable’ technology in the world. There will be many more behind it. We will have our BMWs, children, door, boat and every other element of our lives hooked up to the internet in no time at all. At that time, we hope there will be a variety of easy to manage applications which help you buy one big data allocation and to split it across all of your internet connected products.

Summing up

There will be an eSIM version of the new watch and a non eSIM version. However, Intel’s inclusion as the chip provider of choice makes this a strategically important step. Soon, there could be eSIMs in everything.