如果您是狂热的徒步旅行者或花任何时间在野外探索荒野，那么您可能会发现自己在市场上寻找新的智能手表。
拥有一款支持GPS(GPS)的智能手表不是很好吗？它不仅可以跟踪您的健身数据，还可以在您每次探索小径时跟踪您的位置？如果是这样，Garmin Instinct Solar可能是您的完美智能手表。
在本文中，我们将仔细研究市场上排名最高的GPS 智能手表(GPS smartwatches)之一。Garmin Instinct Solar在其销售的每个在线市场上都获得了客户近 5 星评价。您将在本文中了解为什么它值得该排名。
Garmin Instinct 太阳能：您将获得什么
拆箱Garmin Instinct Solar时，您会得到手表、USB充电线、快速入门指南和说明手册。
应该预先说明这不是您的典型智能手表。不要指望华丽的屏幕或从在线商店添加您想要的所有应用程序的能力。但是，您得到的是最坚固耐用的GPS 手表(GPS watches)之一，它拥有跟踪您在地球上任何地方的位置以及监控重要的健康指标所需的一切。
(Key)Garmin Instinct Solar的(Garmin Instinct Solar)主要特点：
- 表壳由纤维增强聚合物制成
- 防刮康宁大猩猩(Corning Gorilla)玻璃
- 有多种颜色
- 高对比度显示屏，便于户外观看
- 可充电锂离子电池(lithium-ion battery)使用太阳能充电来延长电池寿命
据Garmin称，这款手表的制造符合美国军用标准 810 耐热、耐冲击和防水等级。如果您计划在极有可能出现极端使用条件的地方进行远足、露营或狩猎，这一点尤其重要。
Garmin Instinct Solar：健康(Health)传感器
如果你把手表翻过来看看背面，你会在背面中间看到一系列传感器，靠近充电端口。
这些传感器监控重要的生物特征，帮助Garmin Instinct Solar计算您的压力水平，并提供有关您的身体对诸如在健身房锻炼或爬山等活动的反应的准确反馈。所有这些生物反馈都是在不同的内置应用程序上实时提供的。
- 查看您的实时心率，以便您在锻炼时保持健康的心率
- 记录并查看您全天的心率图表历史记录
- Pulse Ox2传感器告诉您身体吸收氧气的情况，这可以帮助手表衡量您的睡眠质量或您对海拔高度的适应情况
Garmin Instinct Solar使用各种心率和氧气水平算法来衡量您当前的压力和能量水平。它以压力跟踪应用程序和“身体电池”应用程序的形式提供反馈，告诉你是否需要休息和补充能量水平。
Garmin Instinct 太阳能显示器(Garmin Instinct Solar Displays)和应用程序(Apps)
Garmin Instinct Solar似乎是一个主要缺点，它没有一些在线商店(online store)，那里有开发人员定期发布新应用程序。然而， Garmin Instinct Solar(Garmin Instinct Solar)上已经提供的应用程序库非常广泛，几乎涵盖了任何徒步旅行者、皮划艇运动员、跑步者以及几乎任何其他户外运动爱好者或运动员可能需要的所有活动和功能。
要查看这些应用程序和这款手表是否适合您，让我们深入了解Garmin Instinct Solar智能手表上的应用程序和功能。
Garmin Instinct 太阳能主显示器(Garmin Instinct Solar Main Displays)
Garmin Instinct Solar上的每个显示器起初可能看起来有点过时。想想 1990 年代的数字手表，但添加了额外的数字图形和图标。
主要的手表显示基本上是时间、日期、日出日落和电池寿命。您可以通过滚动表盘设计并选择一个来稍微改变表盘。主要区别在于您希望在主面上显示哪些数据。
按下向下按钮（机箱左侧的下方按钮），您可以滚动浏览其他显示。这些是您的默认应用程序，包括：
- 您的脉搏Ox2水平和当前心率
- 过去四个小时内您的心率日志，当天的最大值和最小值位于顶部
- “我的一天”摘要页面，显示所有健康统计数据，例如步数、爬楼数、剧烈活动分钟数等
- 专门显示当天的总步数以及您最近的锻炼
- 您所在位置的当前降水量，以及当前温度和当天的高温和低温
- 罗盘显示屏以度数显示您的方向，以及显示屏边缘的视觉罗盘
导航功能(Navigational Features)
要查看可在手表上跟踪的活动，您只需点击GPS按钮（表壳右侧的上方按钮）。这会将您带到您使用手表跟踪的活动列表。要使用GPS(GPS)在远足期间快速跟踪您的基本进度，只需向下滚动（使用向下按钮 - 机箱左下方）并选择（使用GPS按钮）跟踪我(Track Me)。
快速导航(Navigate)功能将显示您已经徒步旅行了多长时间、到目前为止您已经旅行的距离以及您当前的心率。
在远足期间了解所有这三条信息至关重要，特别是如果您正在远足健身。每次手表跟踪您的徒步旅行时，它还会为您记录所有传感器信息，以及您的位置和进度地图。
您可以通过按GPS按钮再次查看活动(Activities)、选择导航(Navigate)并选择活动(Activities)来访问该日志。
这将向您显示记录和保存的每个活动，包括总活动时间和总里程。只需(Just)滚动到该活动并选择它即可查看所有活动详细信息。
这将包括：
- 距离
- 时间流逝
- 行驶速度
- 燃烧的卡路里
- 平均和最大心率
- 徒步旅行期间上升和下降的总高度
位置跟踪是Garmin优于市场上任何其他智能手表的领域。Garmin允许您访问多个全球导航卫星系统，包括GPS、GLONASS和Galileo。这款手表将在仅GPS(GPS)可能失败的区域进行跟踪。
这款手表还包括“Trackback Routing”功能，通过向您展示如何沿着到达您所在位置的同一条路线回溯，帮助您回到起点。只要您的手表具有电池寿命，您就永远不会迷路。
其他活动 Garmin Instinct Solar Can Track(Other Activities Garmin Instinct Solar Can Track)
您不仅限于使用这款智能手表徒步旅行。包含一长串活动应用程序，您可以随时添加。要查看要跟踪的活动，只需选择GPS按钮，然后使用表壳左中部和底部的向上(Up)和向下(Down)按钮开始滚动。
预加载的活动应用程序包括：
如果您到达列表的末尾并且没有看到您感兴趣的活动，您将看到最终的添加(Add)屏幕，您可以使用GPS按钮选择以将更多活动添加到您的列表中。
其他特性
除了上面列出的所有功能外，只要手表通过蓝牙(Bluetooth)与智能手机配对，您还可以在手腕上访问电子邮件、文本和警报通知。您还可以访问您存储在智能手机上的日历事件和详细信息。
最后，您可以将手表与任何 inReach 卫星通信设备配对，以发送或接收卫星信息、获取天气警报(get weather alerts)或发送紧急信息。
Garmin Instinct Solar不是一款智能手表，它拥有最新的花里胡哨或华丽的应用程序，让您可以从手腕上浏览社交媒体。但它的用途是，它做得非常好。这是您所有户外活动的导航和活动跟踪。如果您是户外运动爱好者，拥有Garmin Instinct Solar(Garmin Instinct Solar)不会让您失望。
Why the Garmin Instinct Solar Is the Best Hiking Smartwatch
If you’re an avid hiker or spеnd anу time explоring the wilderness off-the-grid, at one point or another you may find yourself in the market for a new smartwatch.
Wouldn’t it be nice to have a smartwatch that is GPS enabled, and has the ability to track not only your fitness stats but also your location every time you’re exploring the trails? If so, the Garmin Instinct Solar may be the perfect smartwatch for you.
In this article, we’ll take a close look at one of the top-ranked GPS smartwatches on the market. Garmin Instinct Solar gets nearly 5-star reviews from customers on every online marketplace where it’s sold. You’ll learn in this article why it deserves that ranking.
Garmin Instinct Solar: What You Get
When you unbox the Garmin Instinct Solar, you’ll get the watch, a USB charging cable, a quick-start guide, and an instruction manual.
It should be stated up front that this isn’t your typical smartwatch. Don’t expect flashy screens or the ability to add all of the apps you want from an online store. However, what you do get is one of the most rugged, long-lasting GPS watches that has everything you need to track your location anywhere on earth as well as monitor important health metrics.
Key features of the Garmin Instinct Solar:
- The case is made of fiber-reinforced polymer
- Scratch-resistant Corning Gorilla glass
- Comes in a variety of colors
- High contrast display for easy outdoor viewing
- Rechargeable lithium-ion battery uses solar charging to extend battery life
According to Garmin, this watch was built to U.S. military standard 810 thermal, shock, and water resistance ratings. This is especially important if you plan to take the watch hiking, camping, or hunting where the odds of extreme use conditions are much more likely.
Garmin Instinct Solar: Health Sensors
If you flip the watch over and look at the back, you’ll see a series of sensors in the middle of the backing, next to the charging port.
These sensors monitor important bio-metrics that help the Garmin Instinct Solar calculate your stress levels and provide accurate feedback about your body’s response to activities like working out at the gym or climbing a mountain. And all that biofeedback is provided in real-time on different built-in apps.
- See your real-time heart rate so you can maintain a healthy rate while exercising
- Keep a log and see a charted history of your heart rate throughout the day
- The Pulse Ox2 sensor tells how well your body is absorbing oxygen, which can help the watch gauge your sleep quality or how well you’re acclimating to the altitude
The Garmin Instinct Solar uses various heart rate and oxygen level algorithms to gauge your current stress and energy levels. It provides feedback on this in the form of a stress tracking app, and a “body battery” app that’ll tell you whether you may need to rest and recharge your energy levels.
Garmin Instinct Solar Displays and Apps
It may seem like a major drawback that the Garmin Instinct Solar doesn’t have some online store where there are developers regularly releasing new apps. However, the library of apps already offered on the Garmin Instinct Solar is so extensive that it covers nearly all of the activities and functions any hiker, kayaker, runner, and nearly any other outdoor enthusiast or athlete may need.
To see if these apps and this watch are right for you, let’s dive into the apps and features you’ll find on the Garmin Instinct Solar smartwatch.
Garmin Instinct Solar Main Displays
Each display on the Garmin Instinct Solar may at first appear a bit dated. Think 1990s digital watch, but with extra digital graphics and icons tossed in.
The main watch display is basically the time, the date, sunrise and sunset, and battery life. You can alter the watch face slightly by scrolling through watch face designs and choosing one. Mostly the differences are what data you want to be displayed on the main face.
Pressing the down button (lower button on the left side of the case), you can scroll through other displays. These are your default apps and include:
- Your pulse Ox2 level and current heart rate
- A log of your heart rate over the last four hours with the max and min for the day at the top
- A summary “My Day” page showing all health stats like steps, floor climbed, minutes of vigorous activity, and more
- A display dedicated to total steps for the day as well as your most recent workout
- Current precipitation at your location, as well as the current temperature and the day’s high and low temps
- A compass display showing your direction in degrees, as well as a visual compass around the rim of the display
Navigational Features
To see activities that are available to be tracked on the watch, you’ll just need to tap the GPS button (the upper button on the right side of the case). This takes you to a list of activities you track using the watch. To quickly track your basic progress during a hike using GPS, just scroll down (using the down button – lower left side of the case) and select (with the GPS button) Track Me.
The quick Navigate feature will bring up a display showing how long you’ve been hiking, the distance you’ve traveled so far, and your current heart rate.
All three of these pieces of information are critical to know during a hike, especially if you’re hiking for fitness. Every time the watch tracks your hike it also logs all of the sensor information for you, and a map of your location and progress.
You can access that log by pressing the GPS button to see Activities again, selecting Navigate, and selecting Activities.
This will show you each activity logged and saved including the total activity time and total mileage. Just scroll to that activity and select it to see all of the activity details.
This will include:
- Distance
- Time elapsed
- Speed traveled
- Calories burned
- Average and max heart rates
- Total altitude ascended and descended during the hike
Location tracking is an area where Garmin excels better than any other smartwatch on the market. Garmin lets you access multiple global navigation satellite systems including GPS, GLONASS, and Galileo. This watch will track in areas where GPS alone may fail.
This watch also includes a “Trackback Routing” feature that helps you return back to where you started by showing you how to backtrack along the same route you took to arrive where you are. So long as your watch has battery life in it, you’ll never get lost wearing it.
Other Activities Garmin Instinct Solar Can Track
You aren’t limited to hiking with this smartwatch. There’s a long list of activity apps included that you can add at any time. To see activities to track just select the GPS button and start scrolling with the Up and Down buttons on the left middle and bottom of the watch case.
Preloaded activity apps include:
- Swimming
- Running
- Biking
- Hiking
- Rowing
- Strength Training
- Much more.
If you get to the end of the list and don’t see the activity that you’re interested in, you’ll see a final Add screen you can select with the GPS button to add more activities to your list.
Other Features
In addition to all of the features listed above, you’ll also have access to email, text, and alert notifications all on your wrist, so long as the watch is paired with your smartphone via Bluetooth. You can also access your calendar events and details that you’ve stored on your smartphone.
Finally, you can pair your watch with any inReach satellite communication devices to send or receive satellite messages, get weather alerts, or send an emergency message out.
The Garmin Instinct Solar isn’t a smartwatch with the latest bells and whistles or flashy apps that let you browse social media from your wrist. But what it is intended for, it does exceedingly well. That is navigational and activity tracking for all of your outdoor activities. If you’re an outdoor enthusiast, you won’t be disappointed owning the Garmin Instinct Solar.
