If you can live without its AMOLED screen you can get the same features and more battery life with the Fenix 7 for £200 less. It’s a terrific watch that excels on the sports front and includes useful smart features, but the Epix 2 does come at a staggering cost. Best for pool swimming Garmin swim 2: £219. 10 best smartwatches that do much more than just tell the time 10 best running headphones that won’t fall out during a workout 8 best running watches for tracking your workouts 12 best. The Epix 2 also has NFC payments and an app store, though the range and amount of apps available fall well short of what you get from the Apple or Android stores. There’s music storage on the Epix 2 and you can link the watch to a Spotify Premium or Amazon Music account to sync playlists wirelessly for offline listening.

The Epix 2 also has colour maps and brilliant navigation tools to help you explore outdoors. smart watches none Garmin Forerunner 255 Smartwatch - Slate grey none HUAWEI Band 8 - Black none Radley Ladies Series 8 Cobweb Silicone Strap Smart Watch. The sports tracking is a significant step up on what you get from a smartwatch, with every detail of your workout logged and then fed through Garmin’s insightful training analysis tools to help you get fitter and faster. However, it’s the Epix 2 that stands out as the best option for people who want a mix of smarts and top-notch sports tracking, because it adds a bright AMOLED touchscreen to the Fenix 7’s feature set. Garmin leads the way in sports watches and its Fenix range has included some useful smart features in recent years too.

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