Garmin Instinct 2S Solar, Smaller-Sized GPS Outdoor Watch, Solar Charging Capabilities, Multi-GNSS Support, Trackback Routing, Graphite

it's almost everything i want it to be, and very little else. good for mild/moderately outdoorsy people who want to track fitness and health and get basic smartwatch features without having to charge it constantly. definitely hunt around for sale prices, especially now that it's discontinued! fitness/backwoods usefulness: amazing battery life. weeks if you aren't using GPS. fitness: primarily good for cardio. wrist-based HR is not comparable to a chest strap but for an average person it seems pretty useful. can't really take into account the load of strength/lifting activities, and you probably want to use another app as your primary tracker for those. breadcrumb navigation gives you just enough information to save points of interest and backtrack if you end up off trail; compass/etc. for supporting information. should be just enough information to get yourself unlost if you're only mildly lost, and the battery life is good enough that it will probably stay on long enough for you to do so, even with GPS. - but since it's just a breadcrumb you can't see topo, roads, water, etc. so if you (for a totally hypothetical example, ha...) downclimb a cliff you can't get back up, it's going to be of limited helpfulness finding an alternative route. water resistance seems good enough for anything short of diving, it can definitely handle normal submersion screen/aesthetics/ergonomics: great MIP screen - very readable in bright sunlight, contributes hugely to the long battery life, and i actually really like the black and white only display (less distracting) - solar slightly reduces screen crispness and readability compared to the non-solar version and i'm not sure if it's contributing enough charge to be worth that trade-off bc it means i have to have the backlight on slightly brighter. S size feels comfortable and looks reasonable on a small (5.5") wrist - the silicon watch strap was sweaty and annoying, i bought an adjustable nylon strap immediately personally i love the aesthetic, a little rugged without being too tacticool, but i'm the kind of person who wears wool socks with sandals so i'm not the most fashionable miscellaneous: garmin pay on the solar edition works without having your phone, great for runs etc. where you don't want to carry anything extra i use "find my phone" all the time seems reasonably durable - proprietary charging port is kinda annoying