It’s December – and you realize what which means: It’s time for the annual (and sprawling) – Sportswatch 12 months in Evaluation video! This marks half a decade in a row of this annual video, the place Des of DesFit, and I sit down and decide aside how the 12 months went for sports activities watches.
This 12 months marks the sixth iteration of this, with some 20 watches and wearables this 12 months, together with one of the crucial various group of watches by way of options, performance…and value. We noticed extra corporations start (or full) their transition to AMOLED, whereas others pushed into new product classes.
Listed below are all of the chapters within the video, diving into every of the watches or main bulletins individually. You’ll be able to click on on any of those to be taken proper to that part.
0:00 Intro
2:24 Garmin Lily 2
5:55 Garmin HRM Match
9:39 Garmin Forerunner 165
13:37 Polar Grit X2 Professional
19:35 Sennheiser Momentum Sport
25:34 COROS Vertix 2S
29:43 Suunto Race S
33:29 Samsung Galaxy Watch 7
37:25 Samsung Galaxy Watch Extremely
42:34 Suunto Ocean
46:16 Google Pixel Watch 3
55:39 Garmin Fenix 8
1:04:42 Garmin Enduro 3
1:07:43 Garmin Fenix E
1:11:49 Apple Watch Extremely 2 Black
1:21:47 Apple Watch Collection 10
1:25:20 Amazfit T Rex 3
1:34:16 Garmin Lily 2 Lively
1:38:45 Polar Vantage M3
1:41:26 COROS Tempo Professional
1:46:02 What’s in retailer for 2025?
At just below 2 hours in size, these movies are considerably designed to be placed on within the background – akin to a podcast (just like the FIT File Podcast). Thus, be happy to simply hear within the background whereas pretending to do work. Up to now, the components appears to be fashionable, with final 12 months’s 2023 recap video at 345K views, 2022 video having topped 465K views, 2021 at 485K views, and 2020 at 443,000 views.
As regular, for every watch, we speak by way of what labored effectively, and what didn’t work. In addition to how we predict issues may change going ahead (each on the product degree and trade degree).
Give it a watch (or a hear), I feel you’ll discover it a bit addicting, particularly in the event you’re a sports activities tech or watch geek. And in the event you take pleasure in this form of factor, once more, try the FIT File Podcast as effectively, new episode dropping shortly there as effectively!
Thanks for watching!
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