It is reasonable to say that last week was the riot for Garmin owners, to put it mildly. All over the world, the Garmin Watches-from them on our Best Garmin Watches list for running at Entry-Level as Garmin Forerunner 55, suddenly began to get stuck in boot mode. Even some other Garmin devices, like bicycle computers, were affected.
We spent most of last week reporting on the Garmin break and your E emails came flooded. We got at least 500 E emails from Belated Garmin users, helped us expand our lists of affected devices and provide useful reports that corrections worked. You also shared stories about your broken down devices that affect the weekday’s running clubs and snowboarding honeymoons. In guys stepped up.
A week later, the dust has settled down and people’s units went back to normal. However, we have not heard from Garmin about what actually caused the power cut. Now that we have had some space from the incident, I would ask another question to you, our readers, in the comments below this article – Want to trust Garmin again?
A few of your mentioned e emails are switching to a rival best running watch brand, such as Suunto, Coros, Apple and Samsung. Are you still planning to change, and if so, who are you going to? Or do you consider this an isolated event and will stick to Garmin in the meantime?
For myself, a usual Garmin user, my instinct (sorry word game) was originally to stick to Garmin. From the life of the battery to the layout, a Garmin watch has been my loyal companion on almost every major long-distance race I have been running.
But when I think of the possibility that such a interruption happens again and imagine that it happens on the threshold, let’s say, the London Marathon, I can imagine the thousands of disappointed, paniced runners who wanted them to have changed marks. If it happened in the middle of a long cycle or hike, you can’t sit without navigation tools, but the physical things you have with you and your phone’s compass app.
My way forward will be to continue using my Garmin watches and holding a Coros Pace Pro, or another of the best cheap running watches on hand in case of failure. However, I am in a very privileged position: If I want to test a device, I grab it out of Techradar -vaults. In addition, these devices work best when you each are your primary wearables and access your data to tell you more about your performance.
If you are a Garmin user, what will you do?
- Hold onto the brand
- Grab a cheap backup -ur
- Change Allosians Hero (and if so, which brand will you change to)?
- If you planned to get a Garmin and not already have it, has this operating drama exposed you?
Tell us that in the comments below! I will be in there and answer your posts and we will even have your thoughts in a future article.
