Garmin’s New $450 Intuition 2X Photo voltaic Has ‘Limitless Battery Life,’ LED Flashlight and Extra

Relating to smartwatches with the perfect battery life, Garmin tops the listing. For years, the corporate has made health trackers with smartwatch options that final for weeks without having to be charged. It is simply launched the newest addition to its Intuition sequence with the Intuition 2X Photo voltaic and Intuition 2X Photo voltaic Tactical Version. 

On the floor, they appear just like the Garmin Intuition 2, launched final 12 months, Garmin’s added a number of new options. The Intuition 2X Photo voltaic is offered beginning proper now, with a retail value of $450. The Tactical Version will run an additional $50, making it $500. 

So, what does the Intuition 2X Photo voltaic do this final 12 months’s Intuition 2 could not? The massive addition right here to the {hardware} is that the Intuition 2X Photo voltaic now comes with a multi-LED flashlight, just like the one discovered on the Enduro 2, which may gentle in each white and a inexperienced to assist keep away from from the overly brilliant gentle messing together with your imaginative and prescient at evening. It has a bigger bezel, makes use of Garmin’s Energy Glass photo voltaic charging lens on the show to maximise battery life and comes preloaded with a ton of latest impediment course actions, together with working, snowboarding and extra.

The Intuition 2X Photo voltaic additionally provides a number of of the perfect fitness-related options from different current Garmin fashions, together with Coaching Readiness, Morning Report and extra. It is the primary within the Intuition line to have Impediment Course Racing as an exercise and likewise has TracBack routing, extra sport-specific apps and heart-rate variability monitoring.

In smartwatch mode, which gives notifications for each Android and iOS customers, now you can get “limitless battery life.” Garmin makes this declare based mostly on all-day put on utilization with a median of three hours per day outdoors in 50,000 lux situations. In areas which can be very sunny, it might take lower than three hours to achieve that, whereas different areas might require extra gentle to satisfy the 50,000 lux situations. That does imply that you could be discover the battery drop at instances, however in the event you spend sufficient time outdoors you will by no means actually have to fret about charging the watch or disabling options to get longer battery life.