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It being a Garmin it has the occasional wobble (once every few months) but nothing drastic
What sort of stuff do you find happens?
My Fenix 6 tends to puke once or twice a year and it took me ages to figure out its because the on board memory was filling up with activities. I now periodically wipe storage to avoid it.
Stonehedge
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Got a 945. Upgraded from my 935 as I wanted the SpO2 monitoring in times of Covid.
I wear it for running and swimming (pool and open water) and enjoy not having to wear a HR strap when pool swimming (the wrist based HR is good enough for that, but not good enough IMHO for running).
Also good for cycling as for most of my rides I don't need a map or to look at any data whilst riding, it just records the ride (including data from power meter). Also good for connecting to the stationary bikes (Stages or Wattbike) at the local gym if I'm doing a Zwift session or spin class.
Mine is 18 months old now and the battery life isn't what it used to be, but it will still easily last 4-5 days (with 24/7 HR and SpO2 measuring) with the odd activity and I've just got into a habit of charging it whenever I have a bath/shower and that keeps it topped up.
Don't use the music stuff often at all (I don't run with music) but handy to know it's there if it was needed.
It being a Garmin it has the occasional wobble (once every few months) but nothing drastic. Generally something like getting into a state where it needs a complete reset, or failing to record some aspect of a run/swim (e.g. just completely failing to record HR).
Accuracy is great (wrist based HR excepted).
Will definitely replace mine with something similar (not a Fenix) when it comes round to it.
Cons are it is £££ and overkill for purely running. Look for the 245 (I think) for that.