Apple Watch Series 2 vs Garmin 735 XT vs TomTom Spark 3 - Battery & GPS test By TechRadar

Hi YouTube Gareth here it's seven o'clock in the morning I'm a little tired, and I'm, going to try something a little different. So I've got the Apple Watch ?, that's the new re-enabled version from Apple I want to do really is to see if Apple's claims really do bear fruit. So we've got a possibility of a five-hour battery life, apparently according to Apple that, so you can maybe put some slope. You might want a complete marathon in about five hours. That's what this is designed for. So Apple says it can last the marathon for most people, but we're test against two others.

We've got here the Garmin 735 AT and the new TomTom so part three. These are dedicated running watches. Obviously this has got GPS. This has got GPS. This has got GPS, so what we do is run for five hours, maybe a little of walking in the way as well.

Try and chat to you guys and see just how far they get on battery life. I'll see you on the other side now I was realized that, while I can check the time of the year back to life on the Apple Watch, can't do it so much on the Garmin and Tom's and I can see. Isn't it about 2 meters so take a quick look and see how that to the Hobby ups, so Apple work first. Here we can see to half an hour a time set about. You only know from st.

gone, as you can see here also doing very well going bailiffs anything TomTom, simmer I'm, actually thinking that Apple's going to be overextending it. So let me set after now: that's not a lot! So let's go down a little further, and we'll see how you get only one wear out, but so it's horizon now I've gone about 23 kilometers and what just seemed to be holding up pretty well, actually, which is a bit unfortunate in order to do this test to failure. Don't that's going to happen now, because otherwise, I think I'll be running for seven hours straight I. Don't really want to do that, but let's take a look and see how that books are holding up. So that's 70 percent battery you're running for just over two hours now two hours, four minutes.

Think as you can see the corner there, the work iPhone still going looking at the Garmin and the comm tom spark three, so Tom a little worse things in the top right corner, Garmin, absolute tanks, still going so yeah, it looks like we're going to get to about I, take 20 miles it distances, take we'll get to work, and we'll see how we get on right, probably unfair. That I should give you a good idea of what we're actually testing here, so you're going after watch, ? I've said the new watch from Apple. What done is basically put that on GPS mode not attached to the phone so just running by itself? You know the optimal conditions. Well, what's done is turned off the heart rate monitor at the back, which Apple says when you go to longer life again. Both of these got the same LED lights in the back towards your heart rate, but I've turned them off as well, so everything to equal so different terms of screens we've got an OLED screen from the Apple Watch here on the Garmin.

We've got a pink display, as you might see, on something like the pebble, for instance, and it's just a basic monochrome on the TomTom spark three right, so you just cost over three hours and seven minutes -. We want to find a base that you do this video. Let's have a look at the battery scores on the doors so with the Apple Watch, we're down to only 57%, given it running for three hours, and I've gone just about nearly 22 miles. That's quite a lot! That's actually only 43% drop, given that Apple says this for the last five hours. I think that's even actually a very underestimating stat, so Apple Watch battery for this run, while I only got to say another mile or so to go.

I, don't think it's going to drop 57% in that time, so very good work for Apple in terms of the government and these TomTom take you down here to have a look says to the TomTom. There that's got I'd say about a third of actually gone as you see there again, the Garmin perfect back to it. I've only lost I'd say about 15%, then just over 20 miles gone and about a mile and a half left to go. So, let's see how that goes, and I'll see you in a few minutes. So that's it.

That's the run done that was three and a half hours 22 miles from home. All the way here to work at tech radar towers, pretty hard again I've heard in the morning and testing out, which is always a fun part the job. But let's have a look at the batteries and see how well they go on, so I started going for what Oh humblebrag, humblebrag. It's just a few awards there to get through. So you see here, 50 percent battery, so three and a half hours, 50 percent battery, as I mentioned.

Wasn't running with heart rate, monitor Apple said that that was the only way to get to five hours. Clearly, this mote rate it would get to seven hours the car which had tested with the heart and water underneath it might do that in the future, was clearly can handle it. That's an extra metric. However, the heart rate monitor on the Apple Watch so far hasn't been great. It's not really been the most accurate palmtop to really high levels.

Really easing doesn't quite catch. The actual accuracy that heart rate strap will give you there's a fit. The other watches ? here we've got the Garmin 75 AT, as you can see, 81 percent there, that's actually amazing. Less than just 20% gone with three and a half hour run again wasn't using the heart monitor underneath. So it's still a very good, a very good example there, the TomTom I'd say that's about sixty percent, so I'd say what if 40 percent done so again, a little in the Apple Watch begin it's doing fewer things, that's actually not a bad result.

So that's the big test of the Apple Watch, 2 versus the Garmin 75 X, T vs, the TomTom, SPARC 3, and also one of the great things was all three of these watches have very similar stats. All of them landed just about 36 kilometers, given that so yeah three and a half hours worth of running a very long distance to be the anchor within a sort of few hundred meters of each other is very good and shows that Apple especially has mailed how to put a GPS chip in a watch and make accurate, even if you know we're running through anything past buildings running through trees, that kind of thing it still worked out really well and kept within. You know professional sport watch, so there we go that's the test. As you can see, the Apple Watch did pretty well for a watch. That's had if you betcha life in the past, if you got any more thoughts, but how would you test these watches, please let us know in the comments below and as ever.

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