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Looking at getting a smart watch of some sort in the very near future. Not sure whether to go for a golf specific watch, garmin s20 or similar, or go for a full on smart watch like the Galaxy and put a golf app on it. Anyone got any experience pros/cons of either?
 
I've got the garmin vivoactive 4 and it's got everything I need it for and more.

I think you can add the golf app onto it aswell.

Boss piece of kit though.
 
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I had a basic Garmin which only showed me distance to front, centre and back of the green. It was OK but I much prefer the app (Tag Heuer) I run on my Apple Watch as it shows detailed hole layout and I can easily get distances to hazards. It has the ability to do scoring but I find that too much of a faff. Of course the Apple Watch can do so much more than this, e.g. workout tracking, heart rate monitoring, notifications etc. I would never go back to a dedicated golf watch.
 
Posted the other day on a thread. I have got the s60 and it’s brilliant. Pretty pricey, but keep your eye on fleebay. I got mine for a steal!
Great smart watch plus hole images as well as distances...
 
fundy said:
can you store music on the watch on the 4, or do you have to get a different "music" version as you did with the 3?
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I'm pretty certain you can but I've not.

I only use the tracker for when I'm in the gym, its wasted on me in all honesty.
 
fundy said:
i had the original vivoactive, used it for golf and exercise but would love to put music and £30 on the watch for when I walk the dog via the pub so dont need the phone or wallet :)
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Sorry mine is the vivoactove 4, I think you can link it to play music through spotify if that makes sense?
 
Stuart_C said:
Sorry mine is the vivoactove 4, I think you can link it to play music through spotify if that makes sense?
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i know

the model before was the vivo 3. they then bought out a vivo 3 music that you could store music on directly rather than listening from your phone so didnt have to have the phone present, was wondering if the 4 had that (might be easier to look at the specs ;) )
 
fundy said:
i know

the model before was the vivo 3. they then bought out a vivo 3 music that you could store music on directly rather than listening from your phone so didnt have to have the phone present, was wondering if the 4 had that (might be easier to look at the specs ;) )
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Haha I'm not very techy but I've just uploaded spotify onto it?
 
@fundy you can upload and store music and play it but you need a computer or laptop to load it.

Got there in the end ??
 
Karl102 said:
Posted the other day on a thread. I have got the s60 and it’s brilliant. Pretty pricey, but keep your eye on fleebay. I got mine for a steal!
Great smart watch plus hole images as well as distances...
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Same here. Do you practice on the range? If so, it's got a swing tempo reader built in, and also ( not used it myself), if you buy an extra, it can read your swing and analyse it.
 
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