Garmin Venu X1 is an Apple Watch Extremely to your Android cellphone

If you happen to’ve all the time favored the look of an Apple Watch Extremely smartwatch however don’t personal an iPhone to pair it with, the Garmin Venu X1 might simply be the subsequent neatest thing.

Appropriate with each iOS and Android, the Garmin Venu X1 has a 2in scratch-resistant show (Garmin’s largest) and is housed in an 8mm titanium case (Garmin’s thinnest) that’s waterproof all the way down to about 50m.

The display screen’s 448×486 decision needs to be ultimate for displaying its full-colour maps, whether or not you’re navigating your technique to the highest of a mountain or simply to the closest Lidl. It’ll additionally present you issues like your real-time coronary heart charge, SPO2, and Physique Battery, which is Garmin’s means of figuring out how a lot vitality you might have, so that you’ll know whether or not you’re able to embark on one of many 100+ actions that it’s able to monitoring.

It’ll additionally present notifications out of your cellphone, so that you’ll don’t have any excuse for lacking that textual content reminding you to choose up some knock-off Monster Munch, and with assist for Garmin Pay onboard you possibly can faucet it on the checkout too. 

The watch has a built-in speaker and microphone so you need to use it for calls in the event you’ve obtained your fingers full with procuring, plus there’s additionally assist for voice management. And if it’s darkish by the point you get house, there’s even a built-in torch that can assist you navigate your means safely to the entrance door.

How lengthy the battery will final is dependent upon which options you might have turned on, however it’ll do eight days in smartwatch mode, though that drops considerably to 2 days when you’ve got the show in always-on mode. Use the GPS for any size of time and it’ll fall to as little as seven hours in the event you even have music enjoying.

Not all of its options can be found when utilizing the Venu X1 with iOS; you possibly can’t reply to texts out of your wrist or view picture messages on the watch’s display screen, however that’s nonetheless far more than an Apple Watch will do with an Android cellphone. 

The Garmin Venu X1 is on the market in two colors – black or moss with matching nylon straps – and it’ll set you again £680/$800.