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Withings?
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One of the running Garmins will do that. It’s the venu's etc that are smart watches, the forerunners are fairly dumb.
Forerunner 45 or similar -
The GPS tech thread is a good place to get fuller info on this, but on the charging point, I upgraded a decent but old Suunto for a Forerunner 945 over Christmas and couldn't / still can't believe the battery life (and is far from the best of the bunch on that score) - it easily goes well over a week without charging, that's even with a few tracked runs and rides during the week. And the quality and features of it are quite amazing... recommended getting up-to-date (and yep the watch records HR the whole time you're wearing it).
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Get a Garmin something. My Fenix 5x is coming up for 4 years old and needs charging less than once a week. If you don't want notifications you can switch those off.
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I just bought a second-hand Garmin Vivoactive 3 for £68 from CEX. Yes, I gave it a good wash.
Battery lasts about a week tracking wrist HR 24 hours a day.
A lot less if you use GPS though, which is optional for explicitly tracked activities. As others have said you can turn off notifications, in fact most default to off.
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Coros Pace 2 is great, and you can (I have) turned off all phone related notifications etc. so it's just a GPS fitness watch, which does HR full time, and with my 2 daily commutes and the odd Parkrun it'll last a full week on a charge. Also got the option of setting the screen to look like a simple analogue watch or an all-singing all-dancing screen of a million different digital stats - there's lots of styles to choose from in the app. Recommended!
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Amazfit bip, great battery life, change the clock face to whatever you want more or less
https://www.amazfit.com/en/bip
Pair with the notify and fitness app for optimum usability
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mc.amazfit1&hl=en_GB&gl=US
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I got a Vivoactive 3 in 2019 and the feeble battery is pretty much my only complaint (that and the accuracy of distance when swimming lengths is a bit suspect, occasionally). I’d get a s/h Fenix if I were looking to get another Garmin, tho.
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grumpy middle aged man alert.
Same here I guess
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grumpy middle aged man alert.
mmm so i want a smartwatch but i dont want a smartwatch..... my trusty Suunto T3C from many a year back is eating batteries and has plenty of battle scars - generally i put on the HR belt once a year for a few months but have basically used it as a digital watch and it (used to) last years on a battery
i want to replace
but i dont want a fitness watch that i have to charge every night or get bothered with notifications from everyone every second.
but actually i'd like to track runs and rides, but just time/speed and maybe HR - i'm assuming wrist HR would do? or perhaps i should stick with/get a newer chest HR.
digital or analogue face , dont mind
does anything like this even exist?
ta.