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Garmin Instinct 2S Solar Standard 40mm Rugged GPS Smartwatch

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Explore the Garmin Instinct 2S Solar GPS Smartwatch. Long battery, water-resistant, heart rate, smart notifications, and durable design. Shop now for your ultimate adventure!

Whatever You Do, Own ItThis rugged, solar charging GPS smartwatch is tough enough to keep up with you and unique enough to fit your style. Now it comes in two sizes to fit every wrist.&#149; This watch is tough, which means no holding back&#149; Train your way with built-in sports apps at the wrist&#149; Smart notifications so you don't miss out on what matters&#149; Push boundaries, but stay on track with access to more satellites&#149; Understand your body better with 24/7 health monitoring&#149; Keep your experiences going with up to 51 days of battery life in smartwatch mode with solar chargingEngineered For EnduranceThis rugged watch is water-rated to 100 meters and is thermal and shock resistant. Plus, with a fiber-reinforced polymer case and chemically strengthened, scratch-resistant Lens, this device is built to endure.Designed To Do YouBold colors, high-contrast displays and size options let you show the world that you do things your own way.Get More Battery Out Of LifeGo longer than ever with solar charging that gives you the potential for unlimited battery life in battery saver mode and up to 51 days in smartwatch mode. Plus, power manager lets you extend battery life by controlling what settings and sensors draw power.Track every adventure.Multi-Gnss SupportWhether you're hiking, mountain biking, trail running or skiing, you'll have access to multiple global navigation satellite systems (GPS, GLONASS and Galileo) to track in more challenging environments than GPS alone.ABC SensorsNavigate your next trail with ABC sensors, including an altimeter for elevation data, barometer to monitor weather and 3-axis electronic compass.Tracback RoutingTake the guesswork out of your return journey by using this feature to navigate the same route back to your starting point.Live connected.Smart NotificationsReceive emails, texts and alerts right on your watch when paired with your compatible smartphone.Connect IQ StoreDownload custom watch faces, add data fields, and get apps and widgets from the Connect IQ Store app on your compatible smartphone.Garmin Pay Contactless PaymentsBreeze through checkout lines and select transit systems with Garmin Pay contactless payments through participating providers.Safety And Tracking FeaturesWhen your watch and phone are paired, your live location can be sent to your contacts manually or - during select outdoor activities - automatically with built-in incident detection.Calendar ViewEasily see your plans for the day with a dedicated calendar screen when paired with your compatible smartphone.Sync With The Garmin Connect AppSee your health and fitness information all in one place. The Garmin Connect app on your compatible smartphone is a thriving online community where people on the go can connect, compete and share.Train your way.Built-In Sports AppsDo whatever you love with preloaded activity profiles for running, cycling, swimming, strength training, indoor climbing, virtual running, golf, yoga and more.Hiit WorkoutsThis activity profile tracks your HIIT workouts, including AMRAP, EMOM, Tabata and custom. Set the number of rounds, work/rest intervals and more.VO2 MaxTrain smarter with VO2 max, an indicator of how you can expect to perform. It even accounts for changes in performance that could be caused by heat or altitude.Daily Workout SuggestionsView your entire week of daily suggested workouts, which adapt after every run or ride to match your performance and recovery as well as the races coming up in your Garmin Connect smartphone app calendar.Recovery TimeAfter each workout, recovery time lets you know when you'll be ready for another hard workout. It even accounts for training intensity and factors such as stress, daily activity and sleep.Backcountry Skiing and SnowboardingThese activity profiles now automatically distinguish between descending and climbing. So you can hit start on your first run and leave your smartwatch tracking all day long.MTB DynamicsTrack the details of every ride with mountain biking metrics plus specialized Grit and Flow measurements that rate trail difficulty and how smoothly you descend, giving you a score to beat next time.Wrist-Based Running PowerSee how much power you're applying to the trail or the road so you can manage your effort and fine-tune your training. No accessory required.Know your body.Wrist-Based Heart RateGet estimated heart rate data along with alerts if your heart rate stays too high or too low while you're at rest. Gauge how hard your heart is working during activities.Stress TrackingHeart rate variability is used to calculate your stress level score, so you can see if you're having a calm, balanced or stressful day.Sleep Score And Advanced Sleep MonitoringGet a full breakdown of your light, deep and REM sleep stages. View it all on a dedicated widget that includes your sleep score and insights.Body Battery Energy MonitoringOptimize your body's energy reserves, using heart rate variability, stress, sleep and other data to gauge when you're ready to be active or when you may need to rest.Pulse OXFor altitude acclimation or sleep monitoring, a Pulse Ox sensor uses light beams at your wrist to estimate how well your body is absorbing oxygen.Fitness AgeThis feature uses chronological age, your weekly vigorous activity, resting heart rate and BMI to estimate if your body is younger or older than you are. Get tips to lower your fitness age.Intensity MinutesTrack how many minutes of vigorous activity you're getting, when you earn them and during what activity. You can even view them as a data field during timed activities.Women's Health TrackingUse the Garmin Connect app to track your menstrual cycle or pregnancy. Log symptoms, get exercise and nutrition education, and more.

Bought this watch about a month ago to replace my annoying Apple Watch. Great battery life and do not have to baby it! Very tough and do not have to by all kinds of accessories to keep from scratching it like an Apple Watch. The only complaint it the back light washes out the watch face with a blue light. Not very easy to read in the dark at any setting. Love this watch and its size. It is a reasonable 40mm and does not bump or get caught on anything!

Great watch but poor back light

I got this as a Mother's Day gift. I have had several Apple Watches and made the switch to Garmin. There was a steep learning curve there for a while, but adapting fairly well. The only issue I have is I have to run with an iPod touch and Bluetooth headphones because Garmin doesn't have capability to have Apple Music, so that's been a huge switch, going from listening to music right from my Apple watch to now wearing another device to listen to music, but really that has been the only major drawback, otherwise very happy with my Garmin watch.

Loving it so far.

I should have gotten the bigger watch face surface..it's a little too small for my eyes to see everything but I finally found a watch face that allows me to read everything even though it's boring. So far the solar charging is less than impressive..and I'm not sure how it will last on a multi day hiking trip. I charged it some in the sun today and for about 90 minutes I got a 2% charge. I bought this hoping it would allow me to trace multi day hikes with the solar charging but I'm skeptical. More to come I guess.



I like that it has built in hiking activities because that's what I primarily bought this for and the track back feature.

Good watch

I have triathlons for 25 years always used a Garmin w HR monitor



I haven't raced in 4 years and in my training decided to get this model and put my iwatch in the drawer awhile

Good bang for your buck

I'm not sure what species they designed the watch to fit comfortably, it isn't a human though. Most 20mm bands can be adapted, which then fixes the problem. Garmin uses a funky oversized pin, that won't fit every band, but there are options. The other downside, certain outside brightness, you won't be able to see the face. Light on isn't quite bright enough. Full daylight, full night it's fine. I'm near 50 and eyesight isn't great so the small script is eh. Those are the cons I've got. The rest is great. Menu nav is good, sensors accurate, workout reps great, battery life amazing, recharge quick.

Terrible watch band, great watch otherwise

Had the Apple Watch previously (for YEARS), much prefer the simplicity of this watch. Only thing I cannot do with this, that I did with Apple, is respond to texts which isn't a big deal. Highly prefer the Garmin.

Better than expected

Been using the Garmin 2S Instinct for about a month for logging runs and workouts. Overall amazing battery life and a plethora of metrics to track recovery, sleep, and stress. Coming from and Apple Watch 5, this was the upgrade I didn't know I needed.

Long Battery Life and Easy to Learn!

Great watch. Love the many different activity features. This works so much better than my versa 4.

Love the features.

Bought four weeks ago. I've had a Tom-Tom and two Samsung watches. While i liked them, I think I love my Garmin. Charged twice; once when I opened the box and then 20 days later. I seem to be getting some solar charging but it is still long sleeve and cloudy time here in Cleveland. Health reports are great. GPS when on runs or hikes in the woods is accurate. I love my Garmin InReach Mini 2 and that was a big reason to go with the Instinct Solar. The Garmin Connect app is amazing. Can't wait to take this on my backpacking and upcoming 21 day rafting trips on the Colorado.

Great watch!

I have only had my Instinct 2S Solar a couple of weeks, so I am still learning about all the features and how I want to use it. But even in two weeks, I find myself not wanting to be without it for a minute. And the solar charging and long battery life makes that possible for longer between charges. I like the basic health stats and the extras that help me with my training for long distance hiking. Great watch at an affordable price!

Sturdy, Functional, Fun!

I am a previous owner of the Instinct and just love my old watch. This is smaller and the wrist band is much smaller. I am still trying to get used to the differences and the watch face is smaller and has too much information on it. I would prefer to have the option of going back to the face with just 4 fields and larger time numbers. Also, I could push the GPS button and my hiking app would come up first. Now I have to scroll through lots options to hike. Possibly there are ways of reordering the options. Also, the altimeter doesn't seem as accurate. So far (winter) the solar feature has had an opportunity to function much.

Smaller 40 mm size

Love all the features, more useful than I expected

Love it

Nice but the watch band is a little small! Wish they had a option for larger watch band

Simple

But learning how to use it is challenging moving from nighttime watch face to daytime should be a one button push.

Not several buttons and different for morning report screen and afternoon watch face screen.

During the day it's easy in the morning the same button routine does not work.

Finally found a position that stated do not change watch face by checking on it the watch does not go into night mod with morning report.



I have thousands of dollars worth of Garmin equipped Gps units & walkie-talkies with maps. All are old all still work I did not have any trouble with the instructions for those units.

Suggest you make a cliff notes version of the manual that then references the more detailed portions of the manual this way when you're learning how to use it you can use the shorter version and not have to search through the longer version.

The shorter version should include the most commonly used features.

Great Features

Excellent work.

Customer service 100%

Everything

Recommend!

Great Work. Customer service 100%

The Fenix 7, like most Garmin watches I've worn, delivers on its promises. I highly recommend this to anyone who can afford it.

Worth my paycheck

I'm in love with my Instinct. I love the design and the rugged look. The smaller size fits my wrist perfectly. It doesn't have the fancy touchscreen but I am 100% fine with that. I'd rather have the buttons. It has all the features I want and then some. I wear it all day and night so I can track my sleep. Love the morning report when I wake up. I run and hike a lot and it's been fabulous for that. Bonus-solar powered! Thank you Garmin!

Favorite Watch I've Owned!

The watch is just next level! It's amazing! I wear it to bed, work on my cars, and honestly sometimes forget about charging because it last so long. Would recommend for anyone who is looking for a watch that can do it all but still have style to wear with a suit. I get compliments everywhere I go

Outstanding

Live pictures from my Ring camera are a plus I did not know I needed. The colors and morning insights are very lovely. First Garmin I've had to loosen due to skin irritation from the charger connection area on the back.

Fancy fenix 7S Solar

I used the Golf widget and didn't need to use my range finder once. I can't wait to try it this spring for skiing and climbing 14ers in Colorado.

Golf

I love the watch as it has many features. I have not had a chance to test the bike feature yet, but I am sure it will do its job.

Face

I received this watch about one month ago because I will need a good watch for a long backpacking trip I am taking this year. The watch's solar is excellent and I have only charged it 2 times since I spend a great deal of time outdoors! The battery life lives up to the advertising! The features are wonderful and covers all I need. The Garmin Connect app, sums up my workouts and sleep. There is a bit of a learning curve to understand how the watch works and all that it is able to do...but a little practice makes perfect!

Excellent watch especially for outdoor activities!

I have had the Instinct 2S Solar for about a month and I'm super glad with this purchase! I love to run, hike, raft, kayak and I feel like this watch fits perfect for my lifestyle. I love the rugged/sporty look of the watch. Also, I love the size of this watch. It doesn't look too big or too small on my wrist. 10/10.

Instinct 2S Solar

I was looking to switch out from an aging Apple Watch for like a year now. I finally made the switch over to the instinct 2s solar and am in love with it! I get all of the phone notifications I want without a touchscreen interface! I no longer worry about working on a project and having a touchscreen smacking against wood and breaking (although as a long time Apple Watch user [think generation 1 around the time the 2nd came out] I am very used to protecting my watch which is ANNOYING)?. One of the big reasons I switched is that 3 years ago I ended up getting a full black and white sleeve on my watch arm and had to switch over to my other wrist so my watch wouldn't lock up on me? I was not convinced I would have any luck whatsoever but read a few reviews scattered across the garmin lineup that mentioned dark ink and the sensors still working?. Personally I actually have tested Apple to garmin HR with my garmin being on my tattoo wrist and Apple on the non offending wrist and Garmins doesn't seem to actually be all that affected by my ink? it did take me a minute to find a place the sensor will pick up what it needs too but now that I have I am back to wearing my watch on the correct wrist and I've actually been LOVING it!!!

Surprisingly Great!

I got this watch for its long battery life, and to use the basic health tracking functions (calories, heart rate, etc.). I am not using it to track any complex training metrics. 



Very satisfied with battery life, it's not a watch you need to plug in every couple days. However, the solar charging seems a bit scammy; you might gain "3 days" of charge on a really sunny day but it drops back down much quicker than 3 days. Seems like they exaggerate the number to make you feel like it's doing something but then sneakily reduce it in the background. 



I also find heart rate monitoring to be very spotty. A lot of the times when I am working out my heart rate will be elevated after a set but the watch is reading 100-110bpm, and will suddenly shoot up to the actual 150-160 once I sit down and my arm is not moving. This delay is very long sometimes, some times it doesn't seem to track at all, and other times it appears to do great.



Sleep tracking is also spotty, I've had it tell me I'm sleeping while I'm driving my car down the highway plenty of times.



Overall I'm happy with it. I don't expect 100% precision on all of these metrics from a wrist watch. It's great to get a general feel for things, not necessarily high precision.

Useful, but take it with a grain of salt

I brought it one month ago. Iam extremely happy charging coming more than 18days.

Awesome watch

Too early to review but it's cumbersome to learn. Thank goodness for UTube. Not sure solar adds anything to the charging from what I can see. Time will tell on the ruggedness.

Poor instruction booklet

At the beginning it felt weird but because i never had a bulky watch before, once i got used to it i have to say its been great, love everything about it, im a very active person and have to say battery does run out quite quick and the solar does not make a difference, but apart from that great device!

Great all around!

I bought this a month ago and I'm so happy I did. It has great features, from tracking workouts accurately to tracking sleep. The solar power feature is nice, but will probably be more helpful in the summer when the watch isn't covered by a sleeve all the time. I'm still getting use to it and figuring everything out but so far it's great!

Great features

I've had this watch for 3 weeks now, and I love it. It's stylish and it works well. Since I'm in the PNW I don't get a lot of sun this time of year, so it hasn't been solar charging much, but still the battery lasts me about 10 days. I like it's customizable settings for activities. My only complaint is that it's not very intuitive . I've had to watch a few videos to figure it out. Also, I wish it connected to Alltrails! Overall, it's a nice robust smart watch.

Garmin Instinct 2S Solar Standard 40mm Rugged GPS Smartwatch Mist Gray

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