Garmin vs Apple Watch Ultra: The Endurance Test

It arrived, it got set up badly, it got set up properly, and then it got used for months.

What separates a good product from a merely impressive one is what it does on an ordinary Tuesday, three months in, when you are tired and you just want the thing to work.

Filed under Smartwatches, which on this site means we care about the boring parts: whether it holds a connection, whether the app is still maintained a year from now, and whether anybody answers the phone when it breaks. The question is never whether a thing works in the shop. It is whether it still works in six months, on your network, alongside your other devices, without you having to think about it.

What follows is the good, the bad, and the part where support asked us to buy a new router.

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Tomasz Mieczkowski

Writes the wearables & style beat for Drafted Tech. Everything filed here was paid for at retail, which is the whole reason this site exists.

Comments (4)

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    Tomas L.

    Jan 12, 2026 23:00

    Thank you for saying the price out loud. Half the reviews of this thing never mention what it costs.

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    ndegroot

    Jan 12, 2026 14:00

    Fair review. I think you were kinder about the remote than it deserved.

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    ndegroot

    Jan 15, 2026 18:00

    Does it work at all offline, or is it a brick without the cloud service?

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    Priya N.

    Jan 15, 2026 00:00

    Been waiting for somebody to actually test this rather than unbox it. Bookmarked.

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