Is there any good watch outside doing GPS for position and time, minus all the body survzeilance things?
I have an Amazfit Balance 2 and it does GPS just as well as any other smartwatch and you can turn off all the body surveillance.
Una GPS smart watch – Repairable, USB-C charging, developer-friendly
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#62They hardly even mention the software, but isn't that half the value of Garmin devices?
More than half imo, my Forerunner 265S is pretty much a full-blown coach that fits on my wrist. It adapts training to my sleep (such a great feature when you've just had a baby) keeps track of load, low aerobic, high aerobic, etc...
It's been a fragile piece of hardware, I am on my 3rd one in as many years (always replaced under warranty though), but I still probably wouldn't switch to anything else. When it breaks out of warranty I'll just buy another one.
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#63Nice, this might be the right thread to ask a question i have had on my mind for a while: is there a watch that can track some biological metrics (heart rate, steps, sleep data etc) but allowing my to pull data off it without using some proprietary platform? Basically i want to store my data in my own database.
Might this be it?
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#64Is there any good watch outside doing GPS for position and time, minus all the body survzeilance things?
Apple Watch is great for that, and you can turn off whatever you don't like.
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#65Windows only for dev SDK simulator - not too sure many devs rockin Windows in 2026!
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#66EUR 240 if someone’s pondering the cost-benefit equation ..
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#67I really want to like this watch. Price is certainly right, and it does all of the things I'd want out of a Garmin or Apple Watch Ultra. But what problem does this solve for me? In the Apple Watch use case, a replaceable battery would be nice. But in contrast to Garmin, I've never replaced a Garmin because the battery wouldn't hold charge anymore. I've never broken a screen (if one has a habit of that, Garmin and App…
For me, I want an open API I can pull my data from. Last I checked, you have to be a business to use Garmin's API. Apple certainly doesn't let you. My goal is to have a cron that runs on my homelab that pulls my health data into a DB I own, from various sources, and visualize it in Grafana.
Depending on what data you want, you can try Withings watches. I'm currently reversing the protocol and it mostly works.
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#68Love the idea, but I can't handle the big screens on these smart watches. To me it feels like having a fisher price toy on my wrist. Hopefully a more open alternative to Withings will emerge
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#69Windows only for dev SDK simulator - not too sure many devs rockin Windows in 2026!
Quite a lot of developers use Windows.
https://commandlinux.com/statistics/developer-os-preference-...
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#70How is USB a feature?? Everything done via USB-C can be and should be entirely wireless for a watch.
>Gone are the days of brand specific charging cables.
Returned are the days of worn-out, broken ports and searching for another charging cable.