Tuesday, May 15, 2012

Garmin Approach S1 review

Garmin Approach S1 review

Garmin Approach S1 Waterproof Golf GPS Watch

Three holes in the first round with my new watch. (Christmas presents), I realized that this is cooler than I thought. I predicted two years from now, this is a new rangefinder.



Over the years I've been a big proponent of a laser rangefinder to discuss with my friends, that the laser is more accurate GPS rangefinder for the pin. After this round I'm not sure I pulled out my new laser. The comfort is incredible. I just looked at my wrist and I have my way down the front and back. I was in a wheelchair or one leg and remove the extra distance. No access for wheelchairs in the glove box or fumbling around for equipment.


Despite the cold and a lot more than I expected as a function of the distance of the shot, I measure my Just press a button and select "The shoot me" and then walk, or take the ball away and I started doing that with all my pictures, just to get an idea of ​​how much time I hit the ball with each club Pretty cool.

I have a cold - you can measure the distance from what you can actually walk on the field. And other activities, such as the distance of your mother in law's house on Christmas is something similar.

Clock is convenient and can be read by a large number of clean as I started wearing my watch regularly.

The only negative I can say, there is no danger at a distance, etc. I suspect they will in the next generation.

Only in the past. But I can tell, this is a keeper.

Update:.

After about 4 months of heavy use, I have my own ideas.

I also think it is a good product. But I use the laser to be exact yardage. I am looking for a watch as I pulled up the ball for the club, the club has won the right to shoot lasers and to confirm the exact distance to the pin distance is not perfect when using it. Hole few people off as much as 10 meters, I wrote about my course and I would say that Garmin will be mapped using Google Earth or something like that. The distance is very good with the latest updates. Garmin on your page to look around there is a link to his comments about the course yardages.

Charger is a kind of pain. Hook it on your wrist and you have to do to my Jigger start charging. Not that I have not had the opportunity to sell to the right place - that is easy to see. You have to crawl to get the possible start. Charger, I definitely need to upgrade or not.

Battery life is good, I played 36 holes the other day and I did not finish the day. Usually do not play 36, so it's a big problem. But note that it is only the cost of a round.

But I still love him.

Update the following year:.

A couple of ideas to add - first of all, I was wrong on the connector. I'm waiting for the bar to start jiggling when I finally realized that it only takes 5 seconds or so, stick to start regardless. Therefore, no jiggling required, be patient.

It 'just hung up with customer support that I have a problem with the map update. (My computer froze in the middle of the update and I can not do an update later) and I just want to add support for Garmin is awesome, no bs technology support, care for my time. I have said anything at all. You can actually find someone who knows the clock and the software quickly and tell you how to solve the problem. Everyone I talked to people who have the knowledge - he sounded like a software developer. I have no idea if it does not. But it was a quick and pleasant.