Picked up a Instinct watch about a week ago and have to say this watch is kind of cool. Watch pairs with your phone to get notifications of calls, texts and calendar info. Theres a bunch of training and exercise functions on the watch that pair with a phone app called connect.
The coolest thing is the watch is a stand alone GPS unit that tracks and navigates. Watch pairs with a phone app called explore which is a cut down version of the Earthmate app but still capable of handling maps, photos and private land info. All my Earthmate app way points transferred right into the Explore app then I can tell the Explore app which way points and routes I want sent to the watch. If a point or track is created on the watch it shows up in both the explore app and Earthmate. Right now I'm keeping all my mapping data on the Earthmate app for phone GPS work and have just loaded the basic maps into the Explore app to have something in there beside a blank screen, its to bad that the Explore app won't pull from the 10 GB of Earthmate map data I have on my phone SD card but it doesn't seem to.
Another nice feature of the Instinct watch is it will run the InReach Mini unit. Send and receive InReach messages right from the watch. I don't have a Mini yet so I haven't played with this feature yet. Just an FYI the watch doesn't pair with older InReach units, the watch and InReach communicate via ANT+ what ever that is and the SE+, Explorer+ and older Delorme units don't have this. I would hope the watch would pair with the new Garmin GPS/InReach unit that just came out.
Anyway I think the Instinct watch will be a handy addition to my hunting gear with it's sunrise / set tables, moon phase, barometer, altimeter, weather, compass and navigation features. Heck it even has a heart rate monitor so it will probably tell me when I'm dead before I figure it out.
The coolest thing is the watch is a stand alone GPS unit that tracks and navigates. Watch pairs with a phone app called explore which is a cut down version of the Earthmate app but still capable of handling maps, photos and private land info. All my Earthmate app way points transferred right into the Explore app then I can tell the Explore app which way points and routes I want sent to the watch. If a point or track is created on the watch it shows up in both the explore app and Earthmate. Right now I'm keeping all my mapping data on the Earthmate app for phone GPS work and have just loaded the basic maps into the Explore app to have something in there beside a blank screen, its to bad that the Explore app won't pull from the 10 GB of Earthmate map data I have on my phone SD card but it doesn't seem to.
Another nice feature of the Instinct watch is it will run the InReach Mini unit. Send and receive InReach messages right from the watch. I don't have a Mini yet so I haven't played with this feature yet. Just an FYI the watch doesn't pair with older InReach units, the watch and InReach communicate via ANT+ what ever that is and the SE+, Explorer+ and older Delorme units don't have this. I would hope the watch would pair with the new Garmin GPS/InReach unit that just came out.
Anyway I think the Instinct watch will be a handy addition to my hunting gear with it's sunrise / set tables, moon phase, barometer, altimeter, weather, compass and navigation features. Heck it even has a heart rate monitor so it will probably tell me when I'm dead before I figure it out.