{"id":237257,"date":"2025-07-04T11:19:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-04T11:19:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/237257\/"},"modified":"2025-07-04T11:19:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-04T11:19:09","slug":"sick-of-charging-your-smartwatch-the-garmin-instinct-3-solar-has-the-best-battery-life-on-the-market-and-is-reduced-ahead-of-prime-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/237257\/","title":{"rendered":"Sick of charging your smartwatch? The Garmin Instinct 3 Solar has the best battery life on the market and is reduced ahead of Prime Day"},"content":{"rendered":"

I test a lot of smartwatches and sports watches and if there\u2019s one thing I\u2019d improve about almost all of them, it\u2019s the battery life, because who would ever say no to more battery life?<\/p>\n

However, one watch that it\u2019s hard to fault on this front is the Garmin Instinct 3<\/a>, and in particular the 50mm solar model of the watch, which can last indefinitely on a charge in sunny conditions.<\/p>\n

That exact model is currently reduced ahead of the Prime Day sales, with the Garmin Instinct 3 Solar 50mm dropping to $399 on Amazon<\/a>, just a couple of dollars more than the lowest price I\u2019ve ever seen it.<\/p>\n

I tested the 45mm AMOLED version of the Garmin Instinct 3 myself, and even that impressed me with its battery life, lasting a week on a charge when running every day.<\/p>\n

The 50mm Instinct 3 Solar model in the sale has a memory-in-pixel display, which boosts battery life, and also has solar panels on the watch face.<\/p>\n

Spend three hours a day outside in sunny conditions and these panels will harvest enough energy from the sun for the Instinct 3 Solar to last indefinitely in watch mode.<\/p>\n

Even if you fire up the GPS regularly to track outdoor activities, you\u2019ll still get incredible battery life from the Instinct 3 Solar, which offers up to 260 hours of GPS tracking in sunny conditions.<\/p>\n

The Instinct 3 Solar doesn\u2019t just offer battery life either. It\u2019s a rugged sports watch tested to military standards that tracks pretty much any kind of activity in great detail, and provides useful training analysis to help you get fitter.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a fairly new watch too, having launched at the start of 2025, so it\u2019s not one I necessarily expected to be in sales already. If you need a watch that can handle some truly epic adventures, this deal is well worth considering.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"I test a lot of smartwatches and sports watches and if there\u2019s one thing I\u2019d improve about almost…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":237258,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3160],"tags":[1685,53,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-237257","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-gadgets","8":"tag-gadgets","9":"tag-technology","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114794697054403954","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=237257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237257\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/237258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}