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For the last few weeks, I've been using what is arguably the best smartwatch on

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the market, the Garmin Venue X1. I've never used a Garmin smartwatch before.

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And right out of the gate, there were a ton of things to absolutely love [music]

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about this thing. First and foremost being the giant sapphire glass covered

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2in OLED display. As you can see, it's

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already set up, but there's really not that much to miss about the setup

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wizard. It's painless and other than one small typo, was basically just cute. It

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was as easy to set up as any modern smart device that I've used in recent

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years. It's shockingly slim for all of

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the features and sensors that it has packed into it, which really did make

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more of a noticeable difference to comfort than I actually expected and

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includes a sports style band that really

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indicates what this watch is for. On paper, I am the perfect target audience

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for this because I am techie, I'm active, and maybe most importantly, I

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can afford an $800

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smartwatch. Good god, is it ever expensive. But let's talk about what you

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get for your money. Included in the box is a

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really, you guys, 1 and 1/2 ft proprietary charging cable.

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What even is this? To its credit, it goes on pretty easily. It is reversible

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and I didn't have any issues with the interface [music] with respect to, you

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know, water getting on it and preventing it from being charged, which, oh,

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speaking of, it's water resistant to 50 m or five atmospheres, but is not as

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dive focused as something like uh Huawei's recent efforts. All right, you

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also get some documentation. I love documentation. Not charging it below 0°

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is an odd choice for something that's so

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outdoorsy focused, but maybe the hope is

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you won't be charging it that often. They claim up to 11 days in power saver

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mode, up to 8 days in smartwatch mode, and I usually got more like 2 or 3 days

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because I used the always on display because in my opinion, if [music] you

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can't always tell the time, it's not a watch. It's certainly not very smart. On

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their site, they get even more granular about what kind of battery life you can

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expect with the most demanding use case being all systems, global navigation,

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satellite mode with music playing. And they say you can get up to 7 hours. Now,

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that's not necessarily long enough for the most demanding athletic events. Like

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say, what were you saying? An Iron Man event takes longer than that. Super

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cool. Wouldn't know. Never done an Iron Man event. Uh but in fairness to them,

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that's with a lot running. GPS, Gloness, Galileo, QZSS. I've never even heard of

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that one before. They do that one. I know. Heart rate monitor, blood oxygen

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saturation monitor, barometric altimeter, compass, gyroscope, accelerometer, thermometer, and ambient

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light sensor. And they managed to pack that all into this skinny titanium

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frame. So, actually, I the display was a really high point for me as well. So,

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it's a 2-in OLED with a 448x486

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pixel resolution that I found very easy to read in basically [music]

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every circumstance. Let's have a look at the interface. Frankly, I didn't find it

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to be the most intuitive thing, but it's kind of part for the course for smart

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watches. So, you pull up to get access to a bunch of your sort of common

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functions and important data. Here's all

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your notifications. Boom. Uh, there were

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some things I really liked about the way it handles notifications. For instance,

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in Microsoft Teams, when you dismiss something from here, it's dismissed. You

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don't get harassed by that notification again when you load up your phone. But

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that is a bit of a double-edged sword. I did have a couple times that I swiped

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something away from my watch and it was like now that's gone forever. So, so

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that's cool. Then we can press this button and I went and I customized my

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various activities. It wasn't immediately obvious to me how to get rid

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of the ones that I don't want. I don't

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walk for exercise. I walk to get somewhere. Like I don't need that as an

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exercise thing. If anything, I would like it out of the way of the stuff that

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I do do. I love the stair climber, the elliptical, the rower, and then check

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this out. They got badminton. Yo, that's freaking awesome. But like, see, these

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aren't pinned, right? But they're still they're still here and they're at the

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>> we found it. >> Swiping does nothing. Whoop whoop.

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Hitting the pin does nothing. [music] Okay, these are the things that I

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assumed because I used pin, see to to

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pin the ones that I actually wanted. So I thought, well, I must be able to unp

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[laughter] if I if I had just tapped like half a

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centimeter to the left, I would have been able to say yes. Hell yeah. Okay,

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that's freaking awesome. And then if they want bonus points, they could make

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it so that I can press and hold and rearrange them. That would be even

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better. Anyway, the bottom button is back. And I

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basically didn't use this that much um because I think that this is it. This is

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the definitive nail in the coffin of me

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caring about [music] advanced smart watches. Like I said at the beginning of

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the video, on paper, I'm the perfect customer for this. It's really cool.

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Like it can do all this stuff. But what I found more than anything else was that

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I used it to set a timer for like footwork drills and stuff. I probably

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could have done that for a lot less than $800 US. And there were some areas where

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the Venue X1 did fall short for me

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compared to other smart watches that I've used. For instance, it doesn't have

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any cellular connectivity. So, you can't just go out and leave your phone at home

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if you expect to get any calls. And making matters worse, its integration

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with databased calling apps was not

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perfect. I got a team's call once while I was in the bathroom. TMI, sorry. And I

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had left my phone at my desk and I was like, "Oh, I will simply take action and

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I will let them know that I no, I will do absolutely nothing." I couldn't take

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the call and talk to them through my wrist. And I wasn't even able to send a

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message that said be right there or give

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me a sec or you know, whatever. Here, Belle, do you want to call me on Teams?

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>> Yes. >> Do you really want to though? You don't sound like you want to.

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>> Yeah. >> Don't you love his enthusiasm, folks? incoming call. Okay,

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so my options are

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decline call. [laughter]

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Okay, and that's on Android. Some iOS

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users have pointed out that [clears throat] the integration with iOS

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and notifications and whatnot is not as good as it is on Android. However, it is

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important to lay the blame for that where it belongs and it lies with Apple.

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Apple, get your together. If people want just an iPhone, that's okay. If

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people want just AirPods, that's okay, too. I promise this video is not going

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to turn into an Apple rant. See? See my discipline? I'm done. [music] Anyway,

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no, no, I'm not quite done. The uh Pebble co-founder who recently

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relaunched Pebble was talking about how flipping difficult Apple makes it for

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third party accessories to work as well as the first party ones. Apple, get your

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together. Sorry, I'm done. I'm done. This is the coolest feature of this watch, though. This is something I've

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never actually seen before on a watch. CHECK THIS OUT. WA! IT HAS A BUILT-IN

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FLASHLIGHT. AH, how cool is that? It

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doesn't look that bright right now because we're under studio lighting. But

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let me tell you, this got me out of some binds. I did not use it that often. Used

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[music] it like three times, but man, what a rush. What a rush those three

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times, you guys. Flipping amazing. And you know what? The comments are going to

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be full of people who get a ton of value out of this stuff, right? That's like so

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cool. And um I love it for you. Oh,

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played some crazy badminton last night.

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Way way way more than I probably should have cuz I have training again today.

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Oh, that's one thing the Venue X1 can help you with theoretically. It can like

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help you plan your optimal recovery time and tell you when you're good to go

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again. I just like went hard with the massage gun, had a long bath, and then

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got really hydrated in hopes that I will somehow survive today. They've got like

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pace tracking for if you're a cyclist or a runner. Climb pro, which I don't know

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if you're going to like free climb a skyscraper or something. Maybe that'd be

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useful. Maybe it wouldn't. I wouldn't know. Never done it. Oh, they've got a

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bunch of cool tennis stuff, which presumably the Australian Open would ban

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anyway. They got a bunch of golf stuff, including course view maps for 43,000

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golf. Did you know there's 43,000 golf courses on Earth? Wow. Golf. Yeah.

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Wow. We can have a look at the app if you guys want. There's my body battery

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in case anyone cared about that. So, some days I start pretty low and other

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days I start high and I go low. I've never been able to understand this cuz

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like I eat a thing of pad thai like

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every other day for lunch at work that has got to be like 2500 calories. It's

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like a family style like pad thai serving for the table. And apparently I

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only burn like 2,000 calories every day. But I eat other meals. I don't

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understand the math of this. You guys look at that day. What day was that?

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Good lord. Wednesday CES

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22,000 steps. I like going for a walk at

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the end of the day. Um, you know, to take my mind off all the walking around

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that I've done that day during CES. So, I end up walking a flipping [music] ton

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during the show. Last comment, I don't know if they got any like antimicrobial

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whatever in it, but the strap didn't get super stinky, which normally is a

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problem for me. Thanks for watching ShortCircuit. Sup,

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Garmin fans. Hopefully I uh

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didn't displease you. Please don't yell at me in the comments forever.