Garmin announces New Solar-Powered Watch with 70-Day Battery Life

Technology promises new inventions day after day to make lives easier. Now, Garmin is going to bring revolution in your life when you would not be worried more about charging your watch after using one or two days.

Garmin-the fitness watchmaker has announced now a new Solar-Powered Watch which Promises 70-Day Battery Life.

So, this is unbelievable you would have to believe to have such a watch that would not require charging at least for 70 days.

The watchmaker has announced now the Instinct Crossover, a hybrid watch that would have 70-day battery life in case you have bought a solar-powered edition.

Other watches have a day or two-day battery life and hybrid watch that has hardly one month-long battery life.

The cost of the Garmin Instinct Crossover starts at $500.However, the solar-powered watch would be available at $550.

International prices weren’t immediately available, but the US price for the base model is about £435 and AU$770, and the solar model costs about £477 and AU$848.

The Instinct Crossover is a hybrid smartwatch with features of both smartwatches and regular analogue watches.Apple Watch 7 Series unveiled

Hybrid watches usually have longer battery life than regular smartwatches like the Apple Watch because they lack some features.

For example, the Instinct Crossover doesn’t have a colour display.

But it can show notifications and accept digital payments through Garmin Pay.

Like Garmin’s other Instinct watches, the new Crossover was mainly made for those people who like going outside and want a tough fitness-tracking device.

It has been launched at a time when Garmin is facing more competition from traditional smartwatch makers like Apple and Samsung, which get 29% and 9% of the overall smartwatch market, respectively, according to Counterpoint Research.

The Instinct Crossover has many of the health-tracking features you’d expect from a Garmin watch, such as sleep tracking with a sleep score, blood-oxygen measurements, heart-rate variability tracking, and VO2 Max stats, among other readings.

It can also withstand temperatures and meets the MIL-STD-810 durability standard.

Water resistance is rated at 10 ATM, which means it can withstand pressures up to 100 metres deep, like the Apple Watch Ultra.

But the Instinct Crossover seems to be most notable for how long its battery lasts.

According to Garmin, the Solar Edition should last for 70 days in smartwatch mode as it can be charged by the sun.

Garmin says the solar-powered Instinct Crossover has “infinite” battery life in battery saver mode, which keeps analogue features like the time, date, and stopwatch.

But you’ll need to make sure you meet the recommended solar charging requirements, which, according to Garmin, are three hours per day in 50,000 lux conditions.

Garmin says that the base model that doesn’t have a solar panel can also be used as a smartwatch for almost a month, which is about the same as the Instinct 2’s 28-day battery life.

Turning on GPS cuts that down to 110 hours, but that’s still a long time for it to be working.

It makes the Garmin Instinct Crossover appealing to people who want a watch they can wear every day for training and tracking sleep without having to charge it in between.

In addition to long battery life and health features, the Garmin Instinct Crossover has navigation features like GPS, TracBack for finding your way back to where you started, and Reference Point for keeping track of a location relative to where you are.

 The watch also comes in a Tactical Edition, which adds night vision compatibility, a stealth mode, dual-format GPS, and a kill switch.

The Garmin Instinct Crossover is another sign that smartwatch makers are paying more attention to battery life, especially in more expensive models that are made for athletic training.

Garmin has been a household name for a long time in the world of fitness and running watches, but Apple and Samsung have only recently started to focus more on this market.

In September, Apple released the Apple Watch Ultra, which is its biggest rival to performance watches like Garmin’s.

In addition to its larger screen, titanium body, dual-frequency GPS, and depth gauge, the Ultra’s estimated 36-hour battery life are one of the biggest things that set it apart from the Series 8.

The Samsung Galaxy Watch 5 Pro has a similar case. It differs from the regular Galaxy Watch 5 by having a titanium design and an estimated 80-hour battery life.