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If current popular smartphones had sapphire screens we would see 2-4 year old phones resold without a single scratch, imagine how amazing that would be!
One advantage of the transflective screen is that it is much more visible in daylight, most other watch faces even at max brightness tend to be washed out when outdoors.
Yes exactly just look at digital watches. They have no backlight what so ever yet they are extremely visible in direct and indirect light. You can’t see them only in the dark which then requires a back light. It’s so much better in my opinion.
That's why I got a Fenix 6. It's a sport watch meant to be used outdoors where it's screen is very bright and still enable us to have a great longevity even on intense workloads. It's really a different philosophy in what matters.
Can confirm, I have a Garmin watch myself and pretty much never need to use the backlight. It's perfectly readable under even dim office lighting. The colors aren't very vibrant, but... who needs vibrant colors on a watch?
On the Garmin there is a button to backlight the display so you can see it in the dark, it’s the top left button. I personally like that you can’t see it in the dark with my Garmin forerunner 245 because when I want to sleep I never accidentally light it up. And it’s always accessible if I do want to see what my heartrate or something
In addition, the display is transflective… meaning it’s brightness is derived from the ambient light. That means that the watch has INFINITE brightness. Doesn’t matter how bright it is outside, the display will always be just as visible. I feel like Zach doesn’t understand how this works, despite him saying the type of display…
You can configure the backlight to light up as you turn your wrist. It’s way smoother experience then having to press a button. On top it is only doiing so during sunset.
@@krisvanaut you can also set it so it's always backlit if you want at which point it does lose a lot of battery but it's still like a week of battery instead of a day.
One thing to note on the Garmin. If you don't get a sapphire version, be extremely cautious with the glass screen when going to the pool. The ceramic tiles of the pool can scratch your watch glass like it's on sandpaper! Ask me how i know that. (Using a tempered glass protector for such a screen is a must IMO).
@@fewminutestudio959 i accidentally scraped the glass on a pool ceramic tile and did a whole number on the glass protector, giving it huge scratches. lucky that i had one such glass protector since i replaced it after and it was like brand new. ceramic is certainly harder than glass on mohs scale.
People often forget too that sapphire crystals on watches are very scratch-proof, but they can shatter easier than acrylic or mineral crystals. I would assume the same for a pure sapphire watch screen on phone screen
the whole benefit of saphire is the scratch resistance, a saphire screen that scratches on the same level as glass is literally useless and no longer provides the benefit of a saphire display.
@@Robstrap it’s actually a well-known trade-off amongst people who know about watches and these materials in general. If you were wearing a sapphire watch when you broke your mineral watch crystals, they most certainly would’ve shattered as well. I can say I’ve had the opposite experience as you, as have most other Watch-wearers who have had the misfortune of bumping their sapphire watch against a wooden corner :/
@@MrDanielmahaniel wow honestly surprised I haven’t broken any of my watch crystals yet. Most of my watches are sapphire and they have been smacked around quite a bit.
@@Robstrap Yes but that doesn’t mean the cause was the glass. Sapphire is going on more expensive watches that are going to have much tighter tolerances and precision cuts. Plus they likely have overall better engineered cases. All of these factors play a huge part and it cracks or not despite being a more fragile crystal. Good example is the Apple Watch. In stress tests it’s far more shatterproof than the original glass A watch but they’d bc of the design not the crystal.
fr. why compare the cheapest variant. its literally 3x less expensive than the watch ultra. and even with the watch 5 pro it's still significantly less expensive than the other ywo.
I work in rugged industries and have worn a Tag Heuer watch for the past 10 years. The sapphire glass is still in perfect condition...the stainless isn't as pretty but I love this watch. Saved for a long time to get it
Oh! Finally, this is great news! The Garmin Fenix 7X was a bit of a doubt for me as I've seen some reports online about scrates that shouldn't be there after "regular" use. Good to see someone finally testing this the way I like! Thanks!
Quality seems to vary for Garmin watches. Got through series 5-7 with the 6 having an easily scratchable coating, after polishing this away, it was pure hard sapphire again.
I’ve had a Garmin Fenix 5X on my wrist everyday for over 5 years and not a scratch on the sapphire crystal. The titanium bezel is a different story. Quite remarkable!
@barebare have you not watched his channel? He's not an apple fan for their practices + overpriced products with removed features. It's a downgrade to him.
Thanks for the video. I was actually curious about the Sapphire of the Fenix. Even the glass on the Vivoactive is very durable. I like the Garmin watches because of great battery life and durability. I'm very hard on my watches.
@@mrsoisauce9017Yes, but many of its features/integrations would be useless on Android. Straight up doesn’t make sense to buy an Apple Watch if you have an android device. Even if you didn’t need an iPhone to set it up, the experience would just kinda suck. And there’s a reason why Apple users don’t daily drive android wearables too - not the gatekeeping, the integration.
Your picks may not necessarily be catching on the crystal. Some sapphire crystals on traditional watch brands will "scratch" much easier than they should because antireflective coatings have been applied to both sides of the crystal. The coating will scratch much easier than the crystal itself.
@Hexagonian I agree, watch brands SHOULDN'T use anti-reflective coating on both sides. But companies do it anyway because it makes them look nicer on the counter. By the time they scratch, or worse - start peeling, you have already bought the watch. If you are brave enough, you can remove it with abrasive polish without damaging the sapphire itself, but given the price of the watches in question - not really something you want to do.
@Hexagonian also to be clear, not every brand does this but many do (if not for all of their watches, at least some)- including big name brands like Rolex and Tag Heuer.
There's an easy way to check of the watch crystal is made of sapphire, mineral glas or plexi/hesalite. Let the watch cool to room temperature, then put the watch crystal onto your forehead. if it feels warm, it's plexiglas. if it feels cold, it's mineral glas. if it feels like an ice cube, it's sapphire.
I've got a Garmin Tactix Charlie. I love it. 12 days of battery, durable as heck, gps maps in the watch, etc. The battery life alone makes it more than worth it. The full titanium body, 10ATM waterproof, and sapphire lens is amazing. I have had it since 2018, and haven't even had the desire to replace the watch, and the low frequency of charging means that the battery will last for many many many years to come.
@10:42 you can see that the Apple Watch and the Samsung reflect the overhead light. There is a purple iridescence that is visible above the specular highlight of the reflection of the overhead light. This is a sign that an anti reflective coating has been deposited on the sapphire using vapor deposition, an additional manufacturing step that happens in a vacuum chamber. They bombard the surface with rutile, a titanium mineral. This would diminish the hardness but improve the user experience. The Garmin is shown seconds later and it doesn’t have the purple iridescence above it’s specular highlight of the overhead light. So this test is more of an investigation of product design rather than conclusive science. If anything the first two watches will have a better user experience than the Garmin because of their brighter, anti reflective coatings.
interesting. So it would be possible to lap down that layer with a softer compound to reveal the bare crystal if it's bunged up and the only thing you would loose is the antiglare property right?
@@mick0matic wait wut? Doesn’t reflection mean that it’s bouncing the light back out? So if it’s anti-reflective, doesn’t that mean that it should let more light through? So shouldn’t you WANT and anti reflective coating on solar power?
Had a Garmin Fenix 3 Sapphire for years and now on a 6X Sapphire - never scratched the crystal on either, despite bumping them both on various objects. Garmin claim the bezel on the newer watches is coated with ‘DLC’ - ‘Diamond-Like Carbon’. From my own experience, this seems pretty durable too. Would like to know what it is and just how hard it is.
7x solar here. Easily scratchble both the screen and bezel lol with normal daily use. No sports. Had o put a screen protector and a metal bezel on top just in case
Thanks for putting up this video! I own both the Galaxy Watch 5 Pro and the Garmin Fenix 7X Sapphire Solar. By far my favorite watch ever is the Garmin. I'm glad to see both watches use high grade Sapphire.
Garmin Epix 2 user and I wouldn’t give this watch up for anything. GPS connection is amazing. Long battery life. Excellent display. And…not locked into an ecosystem.
I’ve had my Ultra for months. I’ve hit it against walls and other hard things quite a few times in ways that definitely would have caused deep gouges in my old Watch. The titanium bezel is scuffed but not a single scratch yet on the screen. Very promising.
i’ve had my series 4 stainless + sapphire for a few years now, just today i accidentally scuffed the screen well working on a car, i panicked and thought i’d just messed up my watch but it turns out the screen itself must’ve been harder then whatever scuffed it because with a small felt polishing cloth the scuff came off entirely, meaning the screen had actually scuffed the material not the other way around, pretty impressive, not to mention me and my father bought apple watches at nearly the same time, he however didn’t spring for the sapphire version, his screen is covered in microscratches well mine is still perfect with no zero scratches, apple may not use perfectly pure sapphire but it can definitely take a beating
My previous applewatch 4, had scuffs all around the rounded edges but my applewatch ultra I've smashed against doorhandles, dropped on shower floor screen side first and I've got a few tiny chips missing out of the edge. The ultra is a tank.
I have an apple watch series 6 and it is so scratched up, the aluminium and the display is scratched and a while ago I hit a ledge making the screen to detach from the case. I'm getting the ultra 2 and hopes it will hold up way better!
The Garmins also come with varying quality of coatings on the glass, had a 6 Saphire that scratched easily, after polishing the coating away completely, it looked like new. Maybe that was also the thing with Samsung or Apple?
Here’s another happy Garmin Fenix 7 Sapphire Solar owner without any scratches or marks on the screen. However, the DLC coating on the bezel showed one tiny chip after a bump, nothing to worry about but definitely not “diamond like”. Loved the video, I waited so long for it!
My nearly 5 year old Fenix 5 Sapphire has a nearly immaculate display even to this day. There's like 2 very slight hairline scratches when looking at it from the right angle in the right lighting. The bezel is an entirely different story, hahaha. But then again, I was doing network and systems admin work the entire time I owned that watch, which at one point involved some construction on a new building my company acquired and running all the cabling, installing the entire camera system, some electric work, building out a server rack and its contents, and manhandling a ton of equipment. That watch scraped against a ton of sharp metal and all sorts of nasty construction gunk (dust, dirt, "sandy" as in scratchy stuff, etc). Not sure if the Fenix 5 (not 5X) Sapphire had "DLC" bezels or not. But the bezel is practically 2 tone from all the abuse it took, lol! I now own a Fenix 7X Sapphire Solar for the last 2-3 months, and I absolutely love it (especially the built in flashlight - total flex). Even though I've since temporarily retired from full time work to be a stay at home dad to our toddler son, my bezels are also scratched up a small bit, with "deeper grooves" along the 6 o'clock position. Probably since I am still doing a ton of house work and upgrades since we just bought our first house 2 summers ago. While I have total faith in the integrity of the sapphire glass, I just consider the "DLC" coating to be total marketing jargon and basically always have assumed as such going into my purchase, haha.
I've got the S Watch 5... I wouldn't undersale the thing, it's very good. The fitness tracking, imo anyway, is lightyears better than anyone else's. Sleep tracking is best in class too no less. Battery life requires attention and discipline for sure, but it's perfectly doable to have it last you all day and all night, every day and every night. Just takes a lil bump charge in the morning after waking up, while getting ready, and before going to sleep. Beyond that though, the things stable, got top notch software, excellent screen, excellent haptics, excellent durability, and a good deal more pros, all for quite the low cost, comparatively... a fair price really... while everyone else is just p'sos about pricing.
Garmin Fenix is an awesome watch. I bought a Fenix 6X Sapphire last year and the display glass is still like brand new. Not a scratch on it after wearing it in all conditions, including a barn renovation. And the 7 day battery life is so much better than daily charging an Apple watch!
I just can‘t get along with the systemwide stuttering of the Garmin Watches or generally most non Apple Watches👌 Performance wise it’s unfortunately like a phone from 2010.
I tried the Fenix 6 and Fenix 7, but in the end there was nothing really that convinced going with something other than another Apple Watch… To be honest the round display on the competitors is a huge downside for me. In the end I decided to went with the Apple Watch Ultra this year and it’s a massive improvement over the older Apple Watches.
As a watch collector it's is hilarious to me that all of these companies have been promoting sapphire like it's this new innovative technology. It was first used in a watch literally almost 100 years ago. It's not new and we all know how it works, the tech companies are just lying to you because they think you are stupid. Edit: ALSO 100m of water resistance does not mean you can go 100 meters under water with it. You aren't even supposed to snorkel with 100m of water resistance. For basic diving you need 200m. Jerry please correct this because it can easily destroy people's watches..
Finally you tested the Galaxy Watch5, Ive been curious about it since it came out. One thing i do wish they added is sapphire on the sensor as I already scratched on something when I placed it in my backpack. Thanks for the video Jerry and how much you spend in these, excluding sponsor.
The ultra has mobile data, the garmin is a better sports watch and has way better battery life. I eventually went with the ultra, but I still have some buyers remorse (but I do like my Ultra). If you're using Apple Pay, see if your bank is supported on the Garmin!
I‘m glad that, even though apparently it doesn’t make much of a difference to those picks, it seems to make a difference in day to day life and activities. My other Apple Watches have scratched more easily (even just by being wiped clean with my shirt) than my current Apple Watch. It still looks like it’s just been unboxed, at least the screen. In the time I’ve had it, the others have collected many micro scratches that are hard to notice but if the sunlight hits the screen just right, they’re fairly apparent.
5:24 No, it's because the outer watch face is called a crystal, and it's made of Sapphire for these. Cheap watches will have a glass crystal. Many Seiko watches feature "hardlex" crystal.
This is awesome! Being older, as well as partially disabled, I grabbed this watch today. Why? Because of the crash and fall sensors. I want something, separate from my iPhone, to aid me in getting help, if anything were to happen to me. I've also had triple bypass, so the heart monitor is important as well. I also decided on this, over the 8, because it just seems to be much more resilient, and sturdy. I don't want a watch, that's going to get scratched and banged up during normal use. Hopefully, I made the right decision...
It's such a plesent experience to watch your videos Jerry! The calm voice and your straight to the point videos, impartial and detailed are always welcomed.
I have been waiting for this video to answer that question! Also just bought a watch 5 recently and I was dead curious wether it was actually "sapphire crystal hardness" thanks Zack for the great videos 👍🏼👍🏼
I've got a Garmin Fenix 7 Solar. It has had collisions with rocks, car parts, door latches, and brick walls. The screen still looks like new. Solar charging definitely makes a difference as well!
Great video as always, but sapphire actually occurs in nature. It is aluminum oxide and has a variety of colors depending on traces of other ingredients inside the crystal. Like diamonds, it can also be created artificially.
I think something people forget often is that the harder and more scratch resistant something is, the more prone it is to cracking. Sapphire would be very fragile on a phone, and I’d prefer scratches over cracks any day. Hence why we use hybrids, that help a little in both directions.
@@MrBuzzoVerde probably more to do with the build of the titanium and the cover the actual glass has. I know you’re not questioning physics, at least I hope you’re not. The ultra cracks less because it’s designed that way. It had to be or else people would complain the “super strong glass” cracks easier.
Very interesting video, thank you! I just got my first Apple Watch and your video made me wonder about getting a screen protector since the “sapphire” is not the highest quality and may get scratched. I use a scree protector for my phone and hardly notice it. I’m sure there are videos on this topic to check out but it would be really interesting to get your perspective on using a sacrificial screen protector to preserve a pristine screen vs how well the “sapphire” screens in these watches hold up in real life?
I have a Rhinoshield case that doesn't have a back because I think the back of my phone looks cool. No one else sells cases without a back. I've had no damage to my phone for 3 years
I've had the Galaxy Watch 5 since it launched in late August. In daily use, I haven't seen a single scratch. Meanwhile, my old Galaxy Watch Active 2 accumulated quite a few scratches over it's lifetime. I am very impressed with the scratch resistance on all these watches!
I own a 13 years old Citizen Promaster solar watch with titanium and sapphire. The titanium has marks, but the sapphire is completely clear. The watch costed 420 euros
There's a good chance that there's an anti-reflective coating on top of the sapphire which is scratching as opposed to sapphire itself. Most watch manufacturers include such a coating on their sapphire, so it wouldn't shock me if Apple and Samsung do the same. Especially considering that you're reading an LCD which glares in the sun way more than a real watch dial.
Awesome video. I totally did not expect the sapphire meter to find proper sapphire on the Apple Watch, considering their track record on marketing. Wonder how Garmin manages both solid sapphire and solar panels underneath!
It's not a "sapphire meter", as Zack said, it's only a thermal conductivity test... it does not quantify the level of purity. So the "sapphire" on the ultra, is probably the same Apple have been using.
It may very well not be as pure sapphire as other watch makers, but a company the size of Apple doesn't claim something is sapphire if it isn't and more importantly can't defend it in a court of law. there is a reason there aren't class actions against them for lack of real sapphire, and that's because they use real sapphire. now I don't know if they use slightly lesser purity or polishing of their sapphire to save money or because they can't get the highest quality sapphire at the scale they need (NONE of these other companies has the volume of need Apple does) but those are both possibilities. a true story: around the time of the iPhone 5 Apple paid billions to a company to develop a new factory to produce mass amounts of the sapphire screens for *iPhones* to replace Gorilla Glass with a more premium material. after years of effort and billions spent Apple abandoned the effort because the technology just couldn't make enough flawless screens to meet the quantity of demand Apple would need for an iPhone, much of the screens produced had flaws. The company went out of business and to this day just one small niche company makes a smartphone with a sapphire screen.
I have a feeling the reason they do hybrid saphire is because it survives drop tests better. I'd love to see this tested because the old early saphire phones make of been completely different.
If that’s true then it kind of makes sense, dropping a phone is probably the most likely way for it to break. I don’t drop phones often, I also use them case-free. Annoyingly dropped my iPhone 13 mini twice in the past week (out of character for me) and the phone survived both. One was from standing height onto bathroom tiles, the other was from a seated position in car onto concrete. Was pretty surprised it survived in both cases made me think maybe Apple aren’t talking crap when the last few years they’ve been saying iPhones are durable. I used to see people daily with smashed phones a couple years back
@@DanielHarrisCodes yeah I've always had android without a case. Why car how a phone looks if you're gonna put it in a case. Quality android phones always survived a few drops, I always had metal backed phones. Iphone wasn't so good in the early years but I think they're all pretty good now.
As a competitive runner, I'm definitely team Garmin when it comes to watches. I don't need my watch to take phone calls, I need it to track my mileage and heart rate without having to charge it every day. I'm not surprised it has the better sapphire out of these
@@alexander_the_great_1975You realize not everyone buying a smart watch is a runner, right? Obviously a Garmin is going to be better for that because that’s what it’s designed for. And it’s worse at doing other things an apple watch is good for.
I've always been waiting to see a Jerryrig-style Garmin durability test. I have a Forerunner 945 and 255 and they've both held up well in my daily usage. You should try durability testing a Garmin Epix gen 2, its basically a Fenix 7 with a amoled screen
I bought a fenix 7 but returned it due to the poor light coming from screen. I replaced by an Epix 2, that has a far better screen, with a long battery life too. And the EPiX2 Sapphire is at the same price level of Apple watch ultra.
@ Ethan Chen Have you noticed any battery life issues on the 255? I’m seriously considering one but I’ve heard that there are some major battery drain issues and some people are getting as low as one day of battery life.
@@RidingBikes07 The battery life on the 255 is doing great so far, lasting about 2 weeks at 20% Brightness. The 945 is the one with the battery issues, lasting less than a day and returning home with 30% battery left after around 40 minutes of music playback and 1 activity tracking session
@@RidingBikes07 You should also consider a standard instinct two, they are currently still the same price with much better battery life (28 days), 100-meter water resistance, a more rugged build, and buttons that are less prone to damage if you don't mind the screen. The buttons on my 255 are as of now broken because a month ago I went to Sanya (In china because by my last name, you can probably tell I'm asian) and when I got out of the ocean, the up and down buttons have lost their click and i'm regretting not choosing the instinct 2
@9:45 Dan (What’s Inside) did not just lose a normal Apple Watch… That thing was the $10,000 gold edition one. I don’t know what would possess him to keep that on while cliff jumping. But I have indeed already watched that video, and was impressed you were able to bring life back into it.
I repair watches for a living and a sapphire crystal replacement is as cheap as $2 wholesale. So Apple intentionally using cheap coated sapphire glass makes no sense to me.
I would be very interested in testing sapphire screen on Coros watches as almost all of them features sapphire screen and are quite affordable. I am curious if build quality level is on par with Garmin 🙂
Watch ultra is something I seriously considered switching to iPhone for. Not quite I had to tame my impulses but it's that impressive. Pixel watch is a complete drag but the Xperia 1iv and pixel 7 pro and Zenfone 9 are sublime devices.
I used Apple watch series 5 for years, after switching to Ultra, I miss my regular series 5. It's just not worth it for regular user, only good things about it is battery life (compared to series 5,6,7,8) and looks. Nothing else for an average user.
Wonderful video, and now we know! It always amazed me that a loved company like Apple could never get their sapphire act together, but a company like HTC could. Funny that Apple licenses technology from HTC (like live photos), but never got their help in the screen and audio departments.
I collect watches and relatively often some lower quality manufacturers in the watch scene will advertise "sapphire" or "sapphire-coated" and will use sapphire coated mineral glass. It does seem like this is what the Samsung and Apple watch are using which is what can cause the "snagging" feeling when you scratch it with the Mohs hardness picks as it is scraping off the layer of sapphire and beginning to scratch the softer mineral glass underneath on very low quality crystals (like Invicta uses) it can even cause flaking if the sapphire coating chips off and exposes the glass underneath. The reason the Tissot and Garmin don't have that feeling is because they use a solid piece of sapphire so there isn't a softer material underneath for the pick to grip onto and cause resistance until it hits an 8 or 9. The only real way to test it would be to remove the crystal and try either scratching the back side or the side of the crystal to see if scratches appear at a 6 or 7. Really cheap coated crystals will only have the face of the crystal coated and the back side will be uncoated mineral glass, higher quality will have the back side coated, but it is very unlikely either of them will have the side of the crystal coated unless they are individually coating the crystal after manufacturing which is much more costly and rather uncommon. A sure-fire check would be to look at them from the side sapphire coated mineral glass will also appear slightly blue like regular mineral glass when viewed from the side instead of slightly yellow or pinkish like solid sapphire would. Realistically under normal use this is probably good enough, but with prolonged use it can (after many years or even a decade or more) cause some surface level scratches to appear long-term as the sapphire layer gets damaged or chips off. For a smartwatch it is probably considered fine as these aren't really designed to be used for any truly significant amount of time as the batteries will decay long before this becomes an issue, but it would be nice to know if they are using an inferior and cheaper material.
Do you think it's better to have a sapphire coating on glass? Generally the harder the material the more brittle it gets, so maybe a solid piece of sapphire might be worse off for durability and crack upon falling compared to glass. Having glass with a coat gives you the best of both worlds. Just my speculation though.
@@jesselam5867 That was the original justification given when it was created in the 1970s. Sapphire is structurally a very hard and brittle material, a good smack to a sheet of sapphire will crack or shatter it much easier than regular glass would. Coating the glass in sapphire creates a nice hybrid material with a tough hard outside and a softer more malleable interior. It is not as scratch resistant as solid sapphire though and will eventually have micro scratches or in some cases pretty sizable chips, but there are some sapphire coated glass types that get close though and have a high enough quality coating for it to hardly matter
I was always superior weather you say it or not. Also thanks for shading so much hate on Apple since I stated to see your video. You still didn’t stop. It’s nice to know
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nice, except they only offer cases for iPhones? Pretty close minded if you ask me. They don't even have cases for the S22U.
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Can we just appreciate even 300$ price tag on Galaxy watch still keeping pace with those expensive watches?
Glass is glass
And glass breaks!
Unless it’s made from Sapphire
Nope!
Gas, grass, glass or 🍑
@@shekharmoona544 lol 😂
If current popular smartphones had sapphire screens we would see 2-4 year old phones resold without a single scratch, imagine how amazing that would be!
Current economic rules don't reward longevity. Humanity is on it's full way to burn all the ladder steps which could get us out of this pit.
@@RedOneM 💯
What use is a 2-4 year old unscratched phone screen if it’s no longer usable and costs more?
@@RedOneM the harder glass gets - Easyer for it to brake from falling on the ground. If glass is flexible - easyer for it to scratch
@@Shell_out Easier, break. Skipped elementary school?
One advantage of the transflective screen is that it is much more visible in daylight, most other watch faces even at max brightness tend to be washed out when outdoors.
Yes exactly just look at digital watches. They have no backlight what so ever yet they are extremely visible in direct and indirect light. You can’t see them only in the dark which then requires a back light. It’s so much better in my opinion.
That's why I got a Fenix 6. It's a sport watch meant to be used outdoors where it's screen is very bright and still enable us to have a great longevity even on intense workloads. It's really a different philosophy in what matters.
That’s ok because we have this thing called a second hand, and you can use it to cast a shadow over your watch……
Can confirm, I have a Garmin watch myself and pretty much never need to use the backlight. It's perfectly readable under even dim office lighting. The colors aren't very vibrant, but... who needs vibrant colors on a watch?
Would be nice if a watch can have both options by clicking one single button.
On the Garmin there is a button to backlight the display so you can see it in the dark, it’s the top left button. I personally like that you can’t see it in the dark with my Garmin forerunner 245 because when I want to sleep I never accidentally light it up. And it’s always accessible if I do want to see what my heartrate or something
In addition, the display is transflective… meaning it’s brightness is derived from the ambient light.
That means that the watch has INFINITE brightness. Doesn’t matter how bright it is outside, the display will always be just as visible.
I feel like Zach doesn’t understand how this works, despite him saying the type of display…
I have to tap the screen of my Vivoactive 3 to light it up for 3s.
Love Garmin watches, last for weeks.
You can configure the backlight to light up as you turn your wrist. It’s way smoother experience then having to press a button. On top it is only doiing so during sunset.
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@@krisvanaut you can also set it so it's always backlit if you want at which point it does lose a lot of battery but it's still like a week of battery instead of a day.
"If i ever find myself 100 meters under water, something's really wrong" 🤣🤣🤣 you should definitely test that claim as well 🤣🤣
Looks like he doesnt know that 100M rating is 10ATM which is Snorkeling, not actually 100 METERS down in the water
One thing to note on the Garmin. If you don't get a sapphire version, be extremely cautious with the glass screen when going to the pool. The ceramic tiles of the pool can scratch your watch glass like it's on sandpaper! Ask me how i know that. (Using a tempered glass protector for such a screen is a must IMO).
I don't plan to get a smartwatch, but do they sell glass protectors for them?
@@SayAhh yep. Slap a glass protector and you're good to go. You can get them cheap in bulk and they work wonders
ceramic i believe is close to a level 8 on the mohs hardness scale so i would honestly be careful with both in that situation.
@@fewminutestudio959 i accidentally scraped the glass on a pool ceramic tile and did a whole number on the glass protector, giving it huge scratches. lucky that i had one such glass protector since i replaced it after and it was like brand new. ceramic is certainly harder than glass on mohs scale.
Only last night I looked for Jerry doing such a test and couldn't find anything, few hours later and this pops up. He must have known
I love his durability tests and teardowns.
I had the exact same reaction lol I searched for this about an hour before he uploaded.
He's a man of the people
His name is not jerry
In every video I learn something new thank you
Me too!
when I read your name, my furniture started floating
@@rehany3401 lol why , its a unique name xd
@@rehany3401 its like a spell 😂
People often forget too that sapphire crystals on watches are very scratch-proof, but they can shatter easier than acrylic or mineral crystals. I would assume the same for a pure sapphire watch screen on phone screen
Debatable. I've had many sapphire and normal glass watches. Only ever had normal glass watches break.
the whole benefit of saphire is the scratch resistance, a saphire screen that scratches on the same level as glass is literally useless and no longer provides the benefit of a saphire display.
@@Robstrap it’s actually a well-known trade-off amongst people who know about watches and these materials in general. If you were wearing a sapphire watch when you broke your mineral watch crystals, they most certainly would’ve shattered as well. I can say I’ve had the opposite experience as you, as have most other Watch-wearers who have had the misfortune of bumping their sapphire watch against a wooden corner :/
@@MrDanielmahaniel wow honestly surprised I haven’t broken any of my watch crystals yet. Most of my watches are sapphire and they have been smacked around quite a bit.
@@Robstrap Yes but that doesn’t mean the cause was the glass. Sapphire is going on more expensive watches that are going to have much tighter tolerances and precision cuts. Plus they likely have overall better engineered cases. All of these factors play a huge part and it cracks or not despite being a more fragile crystal. Good example is the Apple Watch. In stress tests it’s far more shatterproof than the original glass A watch but they’d bc of the design not the crystal.
It would be interesting to test the Galaxy Watch 5 Pro against the regular version as the Pro is supposed to have a harder sapphire screen.
fr. why compare the cheapest variant. its literally 3x less expensive than the watch ultra. and even with the watch 5 pro it's still significantly less expensive than the other ywo.
@@yoshiharatoshiaki3650 It's still better than the apple watch tho lol
@@Urstupidumbass no.. I don’t know about the phones but Apple makes better watches than Samsung
Thought the watch 5 and watch 5 pro had the same kinda sapphire screen
@@nuzzky5563but if I have an Android which would I use
I work in rugged industries and have worn a Tag Heuer watch for the past 10 years. The sapphire glass is still in perfect condition...the stainless isn't as pretty but I love this watch. Saved for a long time to get it
The downgrade your phone to upgrade the watch comment was pure gold lol
That's my favorite thing he said this video
True 🤣🤣🤣🤣
was searching for this comment
Totally!! Which phone does he use..s22 ultra??
@@PercussiveMaintenance i think its s9 or s21 he uses old phone personally
Oh! Finally, this is great news! The Garmin Fenix 7X was a bit of a doubt for me as I've seen some reports online about scrates that shouldn't be there after "regular" use. Good to see someone finally testing this the way I like! Thanks!
The plastics will most likely easily scratch
I've had mine for many months now, still as crystal clear as when I got it.
Quality seems to vary for Garmin watches. Got through series 5-7 with the 6 having an easily scratchable coating, after polishing this away, it was pure hard sapphire again.
I’ve had a Garmin Fenix 5X on my wrist everyday for over 5 years and not a scratch on the sapphire crystal. The titanium bezel is a different story. Quite remarkable!
Garmin watches are the absolute best smart watch I've ever tested
"Its a shame I have to downgrade my cellphone to upgrade my watch" 🤣🤣🤣
And it’s the. Note 10+ the cellphone he uses lmao 😂. That’s hard on Apple 🍎
He could just get a newer iPhone I guess? Or perhaps he doesn’t really like apple that much?
an apple watch is cheap compared to a regular watch like patek or vacheron
@@peeratatr1492 yeah, and a thousand times more capable:)
@barebare have you not watched his channel? He's not an apple fan for their practices + overpriced products with removed features. It's a downgrade to him.
Thanks for the video. I was actually curious about the Sapphire of the Fenix. Even the glass on the Vivoactive is very durable. I like the Garmin watches because of great battery life and durability. I'm very hard on my watches.
How much is it?
I appreciate you briefly informing us on how Sapphire is made
"I shouldn't have to downgrade my phone just to upgrade my watch" 🤣🤣
Man, Jerry hit me hard with that statement 💪🏽
It’s an iPhone accessory, not a smartphone accessory
@@mrsoisauce9017Yes, but many of its features/integrations would be useless on Android. Straight up doesn’t make sense to buy an Apple Watch if you have an android device. Even if you didn’t need an iPhone to set it up, the experience would just kinda suck. And there’s a reason why Apple users don’t daily drive android wearables too - not the gatekeeping, the integration.
Your picks may not necessarily be catching on the crystal. Some sapphire crystals on traditional watch brands will "scratch" much easier than they should because antireflective coatings have been applied to both sides of the crystal. The coating will scratch much easier than the crystal itself.
Also, oleophobic coatings are commonly added to make fingerprints easier to wipe off.
true, considering sapphire is 20% more reflective then glass it would make sense that they would put a coating on it
If that's true, what the hell is the point in using sapphire if it's not the outer most durable surface?
@Hexagonian I agree, watch brands SHOULDN'T use anti-reflective coating on both sides. But companies do it anyway because it makes them look nicer on the counter.
By the time they scratch, or worse - start peeling, you have already bought the watch. If you are brave enough, you can remove it with abrasive polish without damaging the sapphire itself, but given the price of the watches in question - not really something you want to do.
@Hexagonian also to be clear, not every brand does this but many do (if not for all of their watches, at least some)- including big name brands like Rolex and Tag Heuer.
8:54....Downgrade my cellphone to upgrade my watch.....🤣🤣
There's an easy way to check of the watch crystal is made of sapphire, mineral glas or plexi/hesalite.
Let the watch cool to room temperature, then put the watch crystal onto your forehead.
if it feels warm, it's plexiglas. if it feels cold, it's mineral glas. if it feels like an ice cube, it's sapphire.
thx for tip. It actually works. My citizen sapphire feels much cooler then the rest of my watches,
What is the room temperature?
@@Rusikulya Around 298 Kelvin
@@cyfralcoot65 Thanks
I can't believe I watched the all video without skipping, give me back my data. You so good at narration
I've got a Garmin Tactix Charlie. I love it. 12 days of battery, durable as heck, gps maps in the watch, etc. The battery life alone makes it more than worth it. The full titanium body, 10ATM waterproof, and sapphire lens is amazing. I have had it since 2018, and haven't even had the desire to replace the watch, and the low frequency of charging means that the battery will last for many many many years to come.
@10:42 you can see that the Apple Watch and the Samsung reflect the overhead light. There is a purple iridescence that is visible above the specular highlight of the reflection of the overhead light. This is a sign that an anti reflective coating has been deposited on the sapphire using vapor deposition, an additional manufacturing step that happens in a vacuum chamber. They bombard the surface with rutile, a titanium mineral. This would diminish the hardness but improve the user experience. The Garmin is shown seconds later and it doesn’t have the purple iridescence above it’s specular highlight of the overhead light. So this test is more of an investigation of product design rather than conclusive science. If anything the first two watches will have a better user experience than the Garmin because of their brighter, anti reflective coatings.
interesting. So it would be possible to lap down that layer with a softer compound to reveal the bare crystal if it's bunged up and the only thing you would loose is the antiglare property right?
@@Noise-Bomb yes you could. Removing an AR coating could be tough. And polishing sapphire would definitely be challenging.
You wouldnt want an AR coating on a screen that needs sunlight to be visible and charge. Thats why theres no coating on the Garmin I think.
@@mick0matic You're absolutely right. If it reflects the sunlight it won't absorb as much of the sunlight to charge the device.
@@mick0matic wait wut? Doesn’t reflection mean that it’s bouncing the light back out? So if it’s anti-reflective, doesn’t that mean that it should let more light through? So shouldn’t you WANT and anti reflective coating on solar power?
I have the Epix Gen 2 with the Sapphire screen and love it. Permanently benched my Apple Watch in favor of the Garmin.
Had a Garmin Fenix 3 Sapphire for years and now on a 6X Sapphire - never scratched the crystal on either, despite bumping them both on various objects. Garmin claim the bezel on the newer watches is coated with ‘DLC’ - ‘Diamond-Like Carbon’. From my own experience, this seems pretty durable too. Would like to know what it is and just how hard it is.
7x solar here. Easily scratchble both the screen and bezel lol with normal daily use. No sports. Had o put a screen protector and a metal bezel on top just in case
0:50 we can all see Jerry trying not to laugh while saying it
The Garmin Epix gen 2 would be a great alternative to the Fenix 7 if you want a brighter display. It also rocks Sapphire as well.
cellphones scratch at level 6 and deeper grooves at a level 7? man, I'm learning new things everyday.
Thanks for putting up this video! I own both the Galaxy Watch 5 Pro and the Garmin Fenix 7X Sapphire Solar. By far my favorite watch ever is the Garmin. I'm glad to see both watches use high grade Sapphire.
How is the display on the Garmin vs Samsung? I was thinking about going with Garmin. I have a Watch 5 Pro now.
Garmin Epix 2 user and I wouldn’t give this watch up for anything. GPS connection is amazing. Long battery life. Excellent display. And…not locked into an ecosystem.
You mentioned that the apple watch uses an LCD display but in reality it uses an amoled display just like the samsung, but great video!
11:22 the burns keep on coming 😬🔥🔥
huge thumb up for informative tests on expensive toys. Respect
I’ve got a Fenix 6X Sapphire and after three years the screen is still immaculate! Really impressed
I’ve had my Ultra for months. I’ve hit it against walls and other hard things quite a few times in ways that definitely would have caused deep gouges in my old Watch. The titanium bezel is scuffed but not a single scratch yet on the screen. Very promising.
i’ve had my series 4 stainless + sapphire for a few years now, just today i accidentally scuffed the screen well working on a car, i panicked and thought i’d just messed up my watch but it turns out the screen itself must’ve been harder then whatever scuffed it because with a small felt polishing cloth the scuff came off entirely, meaning the screen had actually scuffed the material not the other way around, pretty impressive, not to mention me and my father bought apple watches at nearly the same time, he however didn’t spring for the sapphire version, his screen is covered in microscratches well mine is still perfect with no zero scratches, apple may not use perfectly pure sapphire but it can definitely take a beating
My previous applewatch 4, had scuffs all around the rounded edges but my applewatch ultra I've smashed against doorhandles, dropped on shower floor screen side first and I've got a few tiny chips missing out of the edge.
The ultra is a tank.
I have an apple watch series 6 and it is so scratched up, the aluminium and the display is scratched and a while ago I hit a ledge making the screen to detach from the case. I'm getting the ultra 2 and hopes it will hold up way better!
The garmin watch is exactly the kind of watch I've been looking for.
The Garmins also come with varying quality of coatings on the glass, had a 6 Saphire that scratched easily, after polishing the coating away completely, it looked like new. Maybe that was also the thing with Samsung or Apple?
The wear 5 didn't show scratches at 6 or 7 though, right?
Here’s another happy Garmin Fenix 7 Sapphire Solar owner without any scratches or marks on the screen. However, the DLC coating on the bezel showed one tiny chip after a bump, nothing to worry about but definitely not “diamond like”. Loved the video, I waited so long for it!
My nearly 5 year old Fenix 5 Sapphire has a nearly immaculate display even to this day. There's like 2 very slight hairline scratches when looking at it from the right angle in the right lighting. The bezel is an entirely different story, hahaha. But then again, I was doing network and systems admin work the entire time I owned that watch, which at one point involved some construction on a new building my company acquired and running all the cabling, installing the entire camera system, some electric work, building out a server rack and its contents, and manhandling a ton of equipment. That watch scraped against a ton of sharp metal and all sorts of nasty construction gunk (dust, dirt, "sandy" as in scratchy stuff, etc). Not sure if the Fenix 5 (not 5X) Sapphire had "DLC" bezels or not. But the bezel is practically 2 tone from all the abuse it took, lol!
I now own a Fenix 7X Sapphire Solar for the last 2-3 months, and I absolutely love it (especially the built in flashlight - total flex). Even though I've since temporarily retired from full time work to be a stay at home dad to our toddler son, my bezels are also scratched up a small bit, with "deeper grooves" along the 6 o'clock position. Probably since I am still doing a ton of house work and upgrades since we just bought our first house 2 summers ago. While I have total faith in the integrity of the sapphire glass, I just consider the "DLC" coating to be total marketing jargon and basically always have assumed as such going into my purchase, haha.
Can you see the differences in a microscope? That would be interesting
I've got the S Watch 5... I wouldn't undersale the thing, it's very good. The fitness tracking, imo anyway, is lightyears better than anyone else's. Sleep tracking is best in class too no less. Battery life requires attention and discipline for sure, but it's perfectly doable to have it last you all day and all night, every day and every night. Just takes a lil bump charge in the morning after waking up, while getting ready, and before going to sleep. Beyond that though, the things stable, got top notch software, excellent screen, excellent haptics, excellent durability, and a good deal more pros, all for quite the low cost, comparatively... a fair price really... while everyone else is just p'sos about pricing.
Garmin Fenix is an awesome watch. I bought a Fenix 6X Sapphire last year and the display glass is still like brand new. Not a scratch on it after wearing it in all conditions, including a barn renovation. And the 7 day battery life is so much better than daily charging an Apple watch!
well considering there is very little stuff that is harder than saphire it makes sense xd
I just can‘t get along with the systemwide stuttering of the Garmin Watches or generally most non Apple Watches👌
Performance wise it’s unfortunately like a phone from 2010.
I tried the Fenix 6 and Fenix 7, but in the end there was nothing really that convinced going with something other than another Apple Watch… To be honest the round display on the competitors is a huge downside for me.
In the end I decided to went with the Apple Watch Ultra this year and it’s a massive improvement over the older Apple Watches.
As a watch collector it's is hilarious to me that all of these companies have been promoting sapphire like it's this new innovative technology. It was first used in a watch literally almost 100 years ago. It's not new and we all know how it works, the tech companies are just lying to you because they think you are stupid.
Edit: ALSO 100m of water resistance does not mean you can go 100 meters under water with it. You aren't even supposed to snorkel with 100m of water resistance. For basic diving you need 200m. Jerry please correct this because it can easily destroy people's watches..
11:05 "Far superior to the average person" Why thank you!
I was wondering this about my Galaxy Watch 5. Thanks for the check with the hardness picks. I'm still running a screenprotector though.
It has been a long time we need another transparent phone video
Finally you tested the Galaxy Watch5, Ive been curious about it since it came out. One thing i do wish they added is sapphire on the sensor as I already scratched on something when I placed it in my backpack. Thanks for the video Jerry and how much you spend in these, excluding sponsor.
I'm using watch 5 with screen protector earlier purchased but then i removed screen protector and still no scratch at the glass
@@The555kim Lol I still have a screen protector on my Watch5🤣 I dont want to get it shattered
@@PrimePixelTH-cam display screen still no scratch but the back glass got one scratch 😅
@@The555kim Haha same🤣🤣🤣
@@catboy3471 Lol how
I'm literally choosing between Garmin epix (same as fenix in many aspects) and Apple Watch Ultra right now - timing couldn't be better!
The ultra has mobile data, the garmin is a better sports watch and has way better battery life. I eventually went with the ultra, but I still have some buyers remorse (but I do like my Ultra). If you're using Apple Pay, see if your bank is supported on the Garmin!
Check out suunto, way nicer looking watches.
I‘m glad that, even though apparently it doesn’t make much of a difference to those picks, it seems to make a difference in day to day life and activities.
My other Apple Watches have scratched more easily (even just by being wiped clean with my shirt) than my current Apple Watch.
It still looks like it’s just been unboxed, at least the screen. In the time I’ve had it, the others have collected many micro scratches that are hard to notice but if the sunlight hits the screen just right, they’re fairly apparent.
5:24 No, it's because the outer watch face is called a crystal, and it's made of Sapphire for these. Cheap watches will have a glass crystal. Many Seiko watches feature "hardlex" crystal.
Yes, however it's like that for all devices using sapphire.
Perfect timing since I just bought a Fenix 7! Thanks for always having high quality content bud
This is awesome!
Being older, as well as partially disabled, I grabbed this watch today.
Why? Because of the crash and fall sensors. I want something, separate from my iPhone, to aid me in getting help, if anything were to happen to me.
I've also had triple bypass, so the heart monitor is important as well.
I also decided on this, over the 8, because it just seems to be much more resilient, and sturdy.
I don't want a watch, that's going to get scratched and banged up during normal use.
Hopefully, I made the right decision...
I guess Apple watch ultra has LTPO Oled panel .. in the video it was mentioned retina LCD Display
Indeed. No Apple Watch has had an LCD
It's such a plesent experience to watch your videos Jerry! The calm voice and your straight to the point videos, impartial and detailed are always welcomed.
His name is Zach, not jerry :)
“But I shouldn’t have to downgrade my smart phone to upgrade my watch”
Looooool casual shots fired
I have been waiting for this video to answer that question! Also just bought a watch 5 recently and I was dead curious wether it was actually "sapphire crystal hardness" thanks Zack for the great videos 👍🏼👍🏼
@Jisoooya 👑 bro a watch 5 is $300 that's like 3 days of work even if you make minimum wage
@@propersod2390 not everyone lives in USA or England, that's literally a whole month for someone on minimum wage here in my country
@@Bastian-Silva-Gutierrez I make 20x my country's minimum wage
@Jisoooya 👑 get a job bruh
@@Bastian-Silva-Gutierrez where r u from? Venezuela?
7:35 good one Jerry, lmao
I've got a Garmin Fenix 7 Solar. It has had collisions with rocks, car parts, door latches, and brick walls. The screen still looks like new. Solar charging definitely makes a difference as well!
Great video as always, but sapphire actually occurs in nature. It is aluminum oxide and has a variety of colors depending on traces of other ingredients inside the crystal. Like diamonds, it can also be created artificially.
I think something people forget often is that the harder and more scratch resistant something is, the more prone it is to cracking. Sapphire would be very fragile on a phone, and I’d prefer scratches over cracks any day. Hence why we use hybrids, that help a little in both directions.
Don’t know. The ultra drop test have been better than normal apple watch
@@MrBuzzoVerde probably more to do with the build of the titanium and the cover the actual glass has. I know you’re not questioning physics, at least I hope you’re not. The ultra cracks less because it’s designed that way. It had to be or else people would complain the “super strong glass” cracks easier.
Very interesting video, thank you! I just got my first Apple Watch and your video made me wonder about getting a screen protector since the “sapphire” is not the highest quality and may get scratched. I use a scree protector for my phone and hardly notice it. I’m sure there are videos on this topic to check out but it would be really interesting to get your perspective on using a sacrificial screen protector to preserve a pristine screen vs how well the “sapphire” screens in these watches hold up in real life?
The Fenix line of watches are amazing, I wouldn't recommend any other smart watch.
The jokes and references you slip into your videos might just be my favourite thing about your channel
Haha agreed! The “ I shouldn’t have to downgrade my phone just to upgrade to an Apple Watch” was funny!
I have a Rhinoshield case that doesn't have a back because I think the back of my phone looks cool. No one else sells cases without a back. I've had no damage to my phone for 3 years
I've had the Galaxy Watch 5 since it launched in late August. In daily use, I haven't seen a single scratch. Meanwhile, my old Galaxy Watch Active 2 accumulated quite a few scratches over it's lifetime. I am very impressed with the scratch resistance on all these watches!
YES! Been waiting for this!
I own a 13 years old Citizen Promaster solar watch with titanium and sapphire. The titanium has marks, but the sapphire is completely clear. The watch costed 420 euros
Love technology..so glad I found your channel a while ago. Your videos are always so informative! Happy Thanksgiving to you and your family!
There's a good chance that there's an anti-reflective coating on top of the sapphire which is scratching as opposed to sapphire itself. Most watch manufacturers include such a coating on their sapphire, so it wouldn't shock me if Apple and Samsung do the same. Especially considering that you're reading an LCD which glares in the sun way more than a real watch dial.
I believe most of these use OLED displays
@@Dauthdart Yeah my bad I mean LED.
Requesting a video with sapphire manufacturing process!!
I just shit myself laughing at 7:32-7:42...those ironic statements are just golden
"I dont wanna downgrade my phone to use the watch" Savage! and so real
“if i ever find myself 100 meters under water, somethings really wrong” 😂 7:40
Awesome video. I totally did not expect the sapphire meter to find proper sapphire on the Apple Watch, considering their track record on marketing. Wonder how Garmin manages both solid sapphire and solar panels underneath!
Why did you think that? Their fake iPhone camera glass also picked up on the diamond meter and was as fake as this stuff
It's not a "sapphire meter", as Zack said, it's only a thermal conductivity test... it does not quantify the level of purity. So the "sapphire" on the ultra, is probably the same Apple have been using.
It may very well not be as pure sapphire as other watch makers, but a company the size of Apple doesn't claim something is sapphire if it isn't and more importantly can't defend it in a court of law. there is a reason there aren't class actions against them for lack of real sapphire, and that's because they use real sapphire. now I don't know if they use slightly lesser purity or polishing of their sapphire to save money or because they can't get the highest quality sapphire at the scale they need (NONE of these other companies has the volume of need Apple does) but those are both possibilities. a true story: around the time of the iPhone 5 Apple paid billions to a company to develop a new factory to produce mass amounts of the sapphire screens for *iPhones* to replace Gorilla Glass with a more premium material. after years of effort and billions spent Apple abandoned the effort because the technology just couldn't make enough flawless screens to meet the quantity of demand Apple would need for an iPhone, much of the screens produced had flaws. The company went out of business and to this day just one small niche company makes a smartphone with a sapphire screen.
If Apple were using pure synthetic sapphire in the Ultra, then you would see no scratches at 6 or 7, yet there it is.
@@Steviewayright true just like Garmin, that rugged phone. Even Samsung did better than apple's fake sapphire which to me was unexpected.
I have a feeling the reason they do hybrid saphire is because it survives drop tests better.
I'd love to see this tested because the old early saphire phones make of been completely different.
If that’s true then it kind of makes sense, dropping a phone is probably the most likely way for it to break.
I don’t drop phones often, I also use them case-free. Annoyingly dropped my iPhone 13 mini twice in the past week (out of character for me) and the phone survived both. One was from standing height onto bathroom tiles, the other was from a seated position in car onto concrete. Was pretty surprised it survived in both cases made me think maybe Apple aren’t talking crap when the last few years they’ve been saying iPhones are durable. I used to see people daily with smashed phones a couple years back
@@DanielHarrisCodes yeah I've always had android without a case. Why car how a phone looks if you're gonna put it in a case.
Quality android phones always survived a few drops, I always had metal backed phones. Iphone wasn't so good in the early years but I think they're all pretty good now.
@@Commander_ZiN to be fair every phone back in the day is incredibly tuff
@@apdroidgeek1737 yeah, it's like they make to be needed to be replaced often these days...
Just want to let you know, I admire you so much. The way you talk is flawless. I’m trying to mimic the way you talk. It sound calm and professional 🔥🔥
As a competitive runner, I'm definitely team Garmin when it comes to watches. I don't need my watch to take phone calls, I need it to track my mileage and heart rate without having to charge it every day. I'm not surprised it has the better sapphire out of these
Apple watch is for those "weekend Instagram runners" 😄
@@alexander_the_great_1975You realize not everyone buying a smart watch is a runner, right? Obviously a Garmin is going to be better for that because that’s what it’s designed for. And it’s worse at doing other things an apple watch is good for.
Samsung and apple probably have anti reflective coating. Those scratches easily
I’m using Rhinoshield now for my iphone 14pro max, and I absolutely loved it!
I've always been waiting to see a Jerryrig-style Garmin durability test. I have a Forerunner 945 and 255 and they've both held up well in my daily usage. You should try durability testing a Garmin Epix gen 2, its basically a Fenix 7 with a amoled screen
I bought a fenix 7 but returned it due to the poor light coming from screen. I replaced by an Epix 2, that has a far better screen, with a long battery life too. And the EPiX2 Sapphire is at the same price level of Apple watch ultra.
@ Ethan Chen Have you noticed any battery life issues on the 255? I’m seriously considering one but I’ve heard that there are some major battery drain issues and some people are getting as low as one day of battery life.
@@RidingBikes07 The battery life on the 255 is doing great so far, lasting about 2 weeks at 20% Brightness. The 945 is the one with the battery issues, lasting less than a day and returning home with 30% battery left after around 40 minutes of music playback and 1 activity tracking session
@@EthanChen-wt3wb Thanks for the reply, that’s good to know!
@@RidingBikes07 You should also consider a standard instinct two, they are currently still the same price with much better battery life (28 days), 100-meter water resistance, a more rugged build, and buttons that are less prone to damage if you don't mind the screen. The buttons on my 255 are as of now broken because a month ago I went to Sanya (In china because by my last name, you can probably tell I'm asian) and when I got out of the ocean, the up and down buttons have lost their click and i'm regretting not choosing the instinct 2
@9:45 Dan (What’s Inside) did not just lose a normal Apple Watch… That thing was the $10,000 gold edition one. I don’t know what would possess him to keep that on while cliff jumping. But I have indeed already watched that video, and was impressed you were able to bring life back into it.
No it was a normal one that he gold plated for him. No where near $10000
Can you test a Garmin sapphire glass watch- specifically the Garmin 7X sapphire pro solar
Been waiting for that Garmin Fenix teardown since Fenix 5 so for more than five years. Slowly getting there :)
I repair watches for a living and a sapphire crystal replacement is as cheap as $2 wholesale. So Apple intentionally using cheap coated sapphire glass makes no sense to me.
Jerry, any chance to see a disassembly of the Garmin? I would love to see that thing from the inside, especially the MIP-display.
Honestly this is the video I totally wanted to see ever since the AW Ultra⌚️ came out. Cheers from Italy 👋🇮🇹
I would be very interested in testing sapphire screen on Coros watches as almost all of them features sapphire screen and are quite affordable. I am curious if build quality level is on par with Garmin 🙂
I would love to see a durability test of the Samsung Watch Ultra too
Watch ultra is something I seriously considered switching to iPhone for. Not quite I had to tame my impulses but it's that impressive. Pixel watch is a complete drag but the Xperia 1iv and pixel 7 pro and Zenfone 9 are sublime devices.
I used Apple watch series 5 for years, after switching to Ultra, I miss my regular series 5.
It's just not worth it for regular user, only good things about it is battery life (compared to series 5,6,7,8) and looks. Nothing else for an average user.
Wonderful video, and now we know! It always amazed me that a loved company like Apple could never get their sapphire act together, but a company like HTC could. Funny that Apple licenses technology from HTC (like live photos), but never got their help in the screen and audio departments.
What about some watch teardowns and durability tests?
My Oneplus 3t already had real sapphire on its camera back in 2016
I 👍 like...."of I find myself 100 meters under water something is really wrong". Lol
Idk what it is but that brick of sapphire is so satisfying
9:00 the jab at Apple tho
I collect watches and relatively often some lower quality manufacturers in the watch scene will advertise "sapphire" or "sapphire-coated" and will use sapphire coated mineral glass. It does seem like this is what the Samsung and Apple watch are using which is what can cause the "snagging" feeling when you scratch it with the Mohs hardness picks as it is scraping off the layer of sapphire and beginning to scratch the softer mineral glass underneath on very low quality crystals (like Invicta uses) it can even cause flaking if the sapphire coating chips off and exposes the glass underneath. The reason the Tissot and Garmin don't have that feeling is because they use a solid piece of sapphire so there isn't a softer material underneath for the pick to grip onto and cause resistance until it hits an 8 or 9. The only real way to test it would be to remove the crystal and try either scratching the back side or the side of the crystal to see if scratches appear at a 6 or 7. Really cheap coated crystals will only have the face of the crystal coated and the back side will be uncoated mineral glass, higher quality will have the back side coated, but it is very unlikely either of them will have the side of the crystal coated unless they are individually coating the crystal after manufacturing which is much more costly and rather uncommon. A sure-fire check would be to look at them from the side sapphire coated mineral glass will also appear slightly blue like regular mineral glass when viewed from the side instead of slightly yellow or pinkish like solid sapphire would.
Realistically under normal use this is probably good enough, but with prolonged use it can (after many years or even a decade or more) cause some surface level scratches to appear long-term as the sapphire layer gets damaged or chips off. For a smartwatch it is probably considered fine as these aren't really designed to be used for any truly significant amount of time as the batteries will decay long before this becomes an issue, but it would be nice to know if they are using an inferior and cheaper material.
Do you think it's better to have a sapphire coating on glass? Generally the harder the material the more brittle it gets, so maybe a solid piece of sapphire might be worse off for durability and crack upon falling compared to glass. Having glass with a coat gives you the best of both worlds. Just my speculation though.
@@jesselam5867 That was the original justification given when it was created in the 1970s. Sapphire is structurally a very hard and brittle material, a good smack to a sheet of sapphire will crack or shatter it much easier than regular glass would. Coating the glass in sapphire creates a nice hybrid material with a tough hard outside and a softer more malleable interior. It is not as scratch resistant as solid sapphire though and will eventually have micro scratches or in some cases pretty sizable chips, but there are some sapphire coated glass types that get close though and have a high enough quality coating for it to hardly matter
Just loved the way you speak, calm, composed and so precise. Loved it
The $60 aliexpress special watch I bought 2 years ago has a sapphire crystal.
I was always superior weather you say it or not. Also thanks for shading so much hate on Apple since I stated to see your video. You still didn’t stop. It’s nice to know
I’m so glad you put that last case on, ocd satisfied