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10 / 15 days! No way. I have owned multiple garmin watches over the years and none of them have ever lasted 10 days, even when brand new. Even if you don't actually use them for recording activities I can't see them ever lasting that long.
My current watch is admittedly 4 years old at this point so I expect some degradation but I average 3 recorded activities a day and the battery will last 3 days at the absolute best and that is running it down to like 2%
I like garmin hardware but struggle to believe anyone is getting 10 days or more from a single charge!
A solar Instinct can go for weeks. With gps tracking 3-5 hours a week.
Just had a look at this, interesting, although it is bolstering its battery life with solar power.
Do you have real world experience with it? Does it last as long as it claims? I have to charge mine every 2 - 3 days as it is right now.
Mine is a Venu 2, 3 years old, and it lasts 11 to 12 days. I record activities 3 times a week only though.
Judging by all the replies it seems like the Venu watches have exceptionally good battery life in comparison to all the forerunner models I have had!
routinely get nearly two weeks out of my Venu 3
Are you not recording any activities / using any GPS?
Obviously everyone has different use cases and experiences so I don't want to disregard other experiences it just seems so far out of reach for me compared to the experiences I have had across 5 or 6 different models of their watches over the years.
I have mostly used different iterations of the forerunner range and a Vivosmart which was fucking trash IMO.
I use it as a step counter and a sleep tracker every night (with plugin), don't use any of the built-in activities though
That makes more sense I guess as I know the GPS is a major battery drain. Maybe that model is also better with battery in general as I know for sure none I have ever owned would last that long just using it as you do. :)