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by BytesAndGears 843 days ago
Actually my Garmin does do points of interest, and supports either driving, walking or cycling directions, all fully offline. For two entire continents! All on device.

I concede that the experience looks a bit less polished than the nice UI of an Apple Watch, but it’s genuinely impressive the level of features in this thing.

The only one I miss is voice recognition, where it would be nice to just say “navigate home” and have it go. And I’m not sure if that’s possible on the weak processors

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Yeah. It's surely rough around the edges UX wise, but people consistently underestimate what you can do with such a low powered processor. If Garmin hired UI designers & worked on getting more companies to make apps for it, it could easily be the best smartwatch.