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Welcome. In front of me I have the Garmin Instinct 2X Solar and I'll go over unboxing along with a
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quick look at this watch. Anyway, let's just get straight into it. It looks like I actually want
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to do this. We don't care about the instructions. I'm just going to eat that back in the box and
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move over to the watch. Now, looking at it, it does kind of resemble some of those old watches
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Timex ones or whatever. Used to be very bulky, a lot of plastic and all that stuff and this looks
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very reminiscent of that. Now, this is supposedly a solar charged device. At least the name would
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imply so but to be completely honest I don't see where the solar panels are
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Now, let's see how to turn it on. I probably need to plug it in. I would hope that Garmin would finally move away from this garbage plug because let's be honest
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no one wants to clip it in and have it just stick out. It's a very, well that causes problems
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it's a very crappy design. I need to take this off the camera and plug it into my charger on the ground
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There we go. Okay, so now that it's plugged in or was plugged in, it's gonna boot up
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As I think this is the only way to turn it on, although I might be wrong. Now, you can obviously see this isn't a touch display
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I am really curious where the solar panel actually comes in. Unless the solar is just a fancy name of misleading people which is very possible
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but on their website, meaning the Garmin site, it does have a section where you get to pick the
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watch right and a couple different versions. You have the sizes be anywhere from 40 millimeters
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to 50 millimeters. This is the 50 millimeter one. Though keep in mind this doesn't reflect the size
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of the display. I am pretty sure this reflects the size of the entire watch. So the display right
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here is a little bit on a smaller side compared to other watches, while the build of it is still
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pretty chunky as you can probably see. Now, another tab here is the solar power. I think that's how it
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loosely translates because for me it is showing in Polish. And you can have either yes or no
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choice. This one is supposedly yes. If you go with no, it wouldn't be called 2x solar
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it would just be called Instinct, I believe, too. So this one supposedly is solar charged
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Though, like I said, I don't see anywhere where the actual solar panels here are located. So I
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could guess that maybe it's in the like black ridges right here. I don't really see it too
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clearly. After all, it is pretty dark. Or maybe Garmin did devise some kind of like new tech
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So it is kind of like under the display and shining partially through it. So we don't
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actually see it, but it could be under there. Like I said, I'm just kind of guessing right now
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So take that with a grain of salt. It is supposedly a solar charged device, though I don't really know
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how. Now, moving on to just a couple specs right here. So the display right here boasts 176x176
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pixels. It is a 1.1 inch display. And it has a whopping 40 day battery life
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And it is stated to be unlimited with solar. So this is a really low power device probably going
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through the setup, you would probably figure it out pretty quickly how low power this is. It is
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using a very, you know, like, how the data display for this, which I'm not saying this as a negative
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thing. I'm saying this more like a actually a positive thing specifically for battery life
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You don't need your watch to have like 4k resolution all at the displays really
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It's a watch after all supposed to give you the time and in my opinion, watch is better if it can
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last longer and be less of a hassle to constantly keep it you know, charging all that stuff. So if
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this device can literally last you unlimited amount of time if you keep charging it or if it
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keeps charging itself through solar, though keep in mind there's not really much info on how
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efficiently it's charging it. So there's probably somewhere, somewhere in like with an asterisk
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written that you need to spend like x amount of hours in sunlight to have it charged, but
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I'm not really going to go into it. It is solar charged. That's what I'm going to stop at
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Now another thing to say it comes with 10 atmosphere resistance. So 10 refers to I
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believe 100 meter depth in water. So that is really insane for a watch, especially a smart one
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So yeah. Anyway, so this is the Garmin Instinct. And it's a basically like a throwback to a classic
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watch. But bringing you some more modern features for a watch, allowing you to kind of still
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utilize it and current time with a little bit more functionality than a typical watch from the
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throwback era would have. So yeah, pretty interesting choice design. Yeah, if you found
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