- Garmin has revealed his Garmin Instinct Crossover Amoled
- It’s an instinct 3 -variant with analog hands in front of the display
- The original Garmin Instinct Crossover received great praise (from me anyway)
I loved the original Garmin Instinct Crossover. A robust smartwatch with analog hands, the used Revodrive technology to get accurate timing information from Garmin’s satellite network, which adjusted the hands accordingly. When you wanted to use the Smartwatch features, a button made his hands out of the way on the screen. It was brilliant in its simplicity.
As someone with a soft spot for both Casio G-Shocks and the best Garmin watches, instinct-crossover felt like a marriage to the two in the best possible way. I gave it 4.5 stars in my Garmin Instinct Crossover Review, and so did my list of the best hybrid smartwatches to buy.
It was impractically thick – it stuck out on my wrist and was very intrusive – and probably too expensive for what it was, but I honestly didn’t care. I just thought it was cool.
Imagine my enthusiasm as I learned that Garmin is doing another! Just as the original instinct crossover was a version of the Garmin Instinct 2, the Garmin Instinct Crossover Amoled Amoled Amolede’s designedthos of the Garmin Instinct 3 – which I also evaluated very high in my Garmin Instinct 3 review. It gives up the digital watch-style memory memory-in-pixel display in favor of a lighter AMOLED screen and packs the Garmin Instinct 3’s built-in LED flashlight.
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A feature that is new to Garmin watches is lifestyle logging that allows users to detect triggers such as caffeine and alcohol in the same way as our tagging system or Whoop’s journal. This can help provide context for erratic heartbeat and sleep readings. The life of the battery is strong, but not surprising for Garmin, 14 days in Smartwatch mode.
However, the real attraction remains the physical analog hands driven by Revodrive technology, and the charm of having a ‘proper’ watch that still packs all the functionalities of a Garmin. When users train, sleep and recover, they still get all the advanced readings that a Garmin watch delivers. The Revodrive hands are a nice trick and they are mostly cosmetic in function -they actually limit the information shown on the new AMOLED screen.
But the fuck, it looks cool and I want one, especially in the new black-orange colorway. It reminds me of a powerful piece of construction equipment.
Garmin Instinct Crossover Amoled is available now that starts at $ 649.99 (approximately £ 475 / AU $ 975). A tactical edition with Garmin’s military functionalities as an instant killing contact is available that costs $ 749.99 (about £ 550 / AU $ 1,100).
