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Hello 👋 Amazfit T REX-3 My Dream Watch Gift 🎁 Please 🙏🙏🙏🙏

I was going to buy a Vivoactive Active 5 but canceled my order to buy the Forerunner 165 (no music). Im not a runner but wanted for walking and hiking. Literally took me 5 days to sift through the watches to figure out which features i needed and the price point willing to pay. Our Canadian dollars are stretched to the max already, and we pay way more for garmin watches unfortunately. $600.00 for the Forerunner 265/s, Forerunner 165 is $330.00 😮

Fantastic guys super reviews

thx

What’s the watch face Des is sporting on the Garmin?

Keep the episodes coming! :)

15% of this video's runtime is them jibber jabbering about Spain. 🤦‍♂

I like the design of the T Rex 3. It looks different than a lot of others. I bought one with my FSA money left for the year with the ring. I like the ability of being able to switch between watch and ring for different activities. Since I got it, there have been 2 software updates. Hopefully they fix the readiness.

A lot of people reviewing the Fenix 8 are talking about the software being really glitchy... Did you guys experience this?

I wonder if you could ask your Garmin contacts for a statement on the ghost cross-country skiing FTP that many people-who have never done the sport-are seeing in the Garmin Connect app. I have it and can provide any info you need. A lot of people in the linked thread are saying it has dragged their cycling FTP down, so it's quite impactful. For my part, I've always thought my FTP was very low as reported in Connect (I've been using Garmin for about a year and have always had the XC skiing FTP too), but I had a bike fit and did some intervals as part of that, and the fitter was convinced my FTP was about 60 points higher than what I told him! As far as I can tell, this issue has been ongoing for about three years, with no statement or fix from Garmin. It's pretty frustrating, to say the least! forums.garmin.com/apps-software/mobile-apps-web/f/garmin-connect-mobile-ios/295578/ghost-ftp-for-cross-country-skiing-never-ever-started-an-activity?pifragment-1286=5#pifragment-1286=1

This episode just brought me joy💚.. but now I have added a bucket list item of sponsoring an episode in 2025

Des' 'euw.. wow' at 33:38 tells me he is thinking.. "hang on, what did Ray get up to without me? Was he off into town at a nightclub? Why didn't I get invited?!!"

I like how you reviewers find the smallest quirk with a $300 watch but you kinda forget to mention all the bullshit with a $900 Garmin Fenix. As Sn who has owned Garmin Fenix for about 5 years, I can tell how frustrating and inaccurate Fenix is! I guess getting free Garmins, and affiliate links is way more profitable than a Chinese $250 watch.

Awesome, collaboration, also folks it is very clear that these guys don’t cater to the brands they are fair as you can see there was a lot of push by Wahoo about the new device, and it is nice to see a fair review of this device because I was thinking of getting it despite having a 1050, it’s great to be professional and not mean and just offer an honest review. Also, your collaboration together is very insightful and nice to see. One request for non-beginners, but not professional, as far as ecosystem goes, which combination of devices would offer the best ecosystem coming out of the gate?

Oh great - another 100% Chinese (Amazfit) company, copying and underpricing (most likely subsidized by CN government and paid for by their laborers) their product to saturate the market where someone else developed, tested, promoted and basically did all the work. I will stick with who brought me to the party.

I miss the audiotrack in German

Have you guys recently raced on TrainingPeaks Virtual?

Todavía no veo un video de ustedes hablando de los errores que tiene el software del Garmin Fenix 8 y ahora que hablan del Amazfit T Rex 3 reloj que vale 1/4 del valor del Fenix 8, destacan las cosas negativas y se burlan del software jajajaajaj....decir que no tienen compromiso alguno con Garmin es reírse de todos

I'm sure amazfit would like to see you guys review trex 3 so they would know what to put as priorities for trex 4 or maybe falcon 2. I'm using amazfit balance and it's software is improving every month. They are listening to customers and your input would help the market to evolve ( as it's been in the last years for so many other brands))

Wahoo Ace is way too big/expensive in my opinion. Why would you need a 25 hour battery? I've done a non stop 30 hr ride from one side of Michigan to the other then back using the original bolt. My top tube bag has a lip stick battery that can be plugged into the unit when needed and the Bolt beeps when I need to turn. If I get lost I pull the phone out of the back pocket. If the bolt could hold my music 90% of my riding would be without the phone and all the data that these things collect is viewed after the ride.

Wax is ideal over lube. 2 high tech guys low tech, tsk tsk. lol. Thanks for the video and Merry Christmas!

Hello, make an overview of what the garmin watch sees when a person drinks alcohol. For example, how the night went after being used and how the person recovered. What a stress.

Is there a way to upload a Garmin activity to Zwift and ride it as a custom route?

This is what responsible drinking looks like..

Hey guys what's your opinion on hawei ultimate black?

Been waiting for this. As a long time Garmin owner and casual runner/hiker, my Trex gives me exactly what I need: accurate GPS, great battery, ruggedness all while looking like a Fenix 8. I don't care about sleep and other gimmicks. Love the collab. Merry Christmas from Uganda! 😊

I think Huawei watches deserve your attention. And GT5 series I think is very good. Yes, they aren’t popular in US, but they have big market share in Europe.

Still waiting for the Roam V3.

To be fair, Wahoo released a firmware update on december 19th fixing a few issues you've talked about (they added strava live segment, elevation profile as shown on the box etc...)

I mean you could also say that Garmin benefitted by your two not generating content on the Amazfit back when the fenix 8/enduro 3 launched. We arent talking about folks in the garmin ecosystem with flagship $1000 watches making the switch, but you better believe there are plenty of consumers watching your stuff debating a forerunner 265 vs T-Rex. Competition makes for better garmin products.

You have to be pretty dumb to compare watch which is priced under 300$ with 1000$ watch and expect to be the same. Stop comparing with Fenix 8. ;)

Wahoo Ace for me is way too big. Kinda disappointed, was looking forward to a better Wahoo bike computer.

I can't help but wonder why the Enduro 3 doesn't also have the mil-spec testing?

That path projects top is amazing. I bought a green one and then a few months later bought a blue one. I wear them on regular basis even not running. So comfortable! Not the cheapest getting it to Canada though. Also have the ultralight version (good technically but not as soft for daily wear). Oh yeah, good video lol. Merry Christmas and a happy new year!

I hear that Wahoo are planning to launch the first ever handlebar mountable widescreen TV in 2025 😂

Here's to 2025! you guys are the best out there, thanks for the amazing content this year. Season's greetings!

Cheers guys! You are awesome!

I have the Amazfit Balance and it gets constantly updated. New sport modes or random things get added. The app just got completely redesigned a couple months ago. I think it would be unfair to say they don’t support the watches for very long. The Falcon, Trex Ultra, Cheetah Pro all just got Zepp OS 4. Better than Garmin not releasing their new software on the Fenix 7 and Epix Gen 2 for no reason since they are basically the Fenix E

That wind sensor is for people which do not know how to find position behind a rider in front of them, for anything else is not usable. Ace is a computer for a people who have money, but no cycling experience, no real plus in comparison with any other cycling comp, but few big minuses; size, battery life, weight.

You didn't end the wine glasses!!!! :D :D :D

One other thing I noticed - why would it be strange that the T-Rex gives you a readiness score without a sleep record? A Garmin does the exact same thing! When I don't wear my Instinct 2X (or any other Garmin that I owned over the years) at night, it will still give me a readiness score 😂. How is that a problem on an Amazfit but not on a Garmin? Not even mentioning the bad sleep tracking on Garmins in general or the ridiculous sleep schedule that only works for children who have to be in bed at the same time each day. No offense, I love both your channels but you really need to take off the rose tinted Garmin glasses. Garmin has problems for years because they simply rested on their laurels for way too long.

Collaboration with iFixIt on the Ace?

When it comes to the readiness score - I normally run 10k for six times a week with Sunday off. When I switched to the elliptical for 4 days because of some muscle strain, after I started running again and did my usual 10k which wasn't a problem at all, my Garmin claimed I needed 3 days of rest after that 😂. So much for "superior" metrics on Garmin. The training readiness is absolutely useless IMHO. In regards to heart rate - so far I only tested the older Cheetah Square by Amazfit and used my Garmin Instinct 2X on the other wrist - the Cheetah annihilated the Garmin when it comes to the reaction time and precision of the heart rate sensor (it was obvious because of the elevation profile of my run which has lots of uphill and downhill passages and the heart rate graph on the Cheetah matched those perfectly while the Instinct 2X missed some of the peaks). For me as a hobby runner - Amazfit is a Garmin killer. And just for reference - I used Garmin products for years and had /have Fenix 1, Forerunner 25, the old Vivoactive, Instinct 1, Fenix 7 Pro and 7X, Instinct 2X.

Considering that my Garmin thinks I'm still sleeping while I'm making coffee - even the humble Huawei Fit 3 for 140€ has better sleep tracking than a Garmin 😂.

Great review. Thank you ❤ I switched to the 1050 and I think I will keep that for the next few years. The screen is just awesome for my aging eyes.

Sadly nobody talks about how bad written the Garmin software is currently...

23:50 for sure they escaped hype of Black Friday to stand out with release in media. And they know that it's not ready for sales so it would be disaster

what happened to the audio

Respect/Trust!!

I had the TREX 2, and I loved it: except for one major quirk, and that had me go back to Coros. It does not send elevation data to Strava forcing Strava to use inaccurate Topo data to define elevation. When you’re training for a vertical ultra race, not having your Strava data be accurate was a big beef of mine. Even though the Zepp app shows the data correctly, having one place like Strava for all that info across all my watches is still premium for me. I should also say I reached out to Amazfit and they have no current plans to address it even though they recognize it. I so badly wanted to get the TREX3 2 years later with the hopes they addressed this: nope! Same answer from them.