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  • undone@lemm.eeEnglish
    18·
    15 hours ago

    Don’t love the closed-in ecosystem but Garmin watches with MIP display do almost all you just said.

    • Touch screen + also Buttons for 100% touch-free interaction
    • Battery life of around 3 to 4 weeks (depending on what you are doing)… more with the Solar models
    • Media control is there, but don’t really use that

    Podcast ad skipping sadly not a thing.

    Price might be an issue though. The top end models with all the whistles come at a smartphone flagship price point.

    • Darren@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      3·
      1 hour ago

      I have a Vivoactive 4 that I picked up used from Facebook a couple of months back. It’s a few years old now, and the regular LCD screen looks pretty janky once you’ve got used to OLED. But it cost me £50, works perfectly well with GrapheneOS, and the battery still lasts a week.

      It’s left me pondering upgrading it to a new one with an OLED screen.

      • hydration9806@lemmy.mlEnglish
        1·
        1 hour ago

        To offer a counter point: I’ve owned 3 different VivoActive 3 Music watches for about 2 years each. All of them had the screen stop working. Could be my bad luck, but I wasn’t super rough with them (never wore them in water)

    • turmacar@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      8 hours ago

      The Garmin Instinct is what I switched to when my Pebble died. Recently upgraded to the Fenix.

      You can absolutely skip ahead through ads with the music controls. Automating it would be the job of the app.

      • undone@lemm.eeEnglish
        1·
        5 hours ago

        You are right. I think I read that wrong. I thought automatic segment skipping like YouTube SponsorBlock. You definitely can fast forward using buttons.