Review on ⌚️ Coros PACE 2 Premium GPS Sport Watch with Heart Rate Monitor, Long Battery Life, Barometer, and Multiple Connectivity Options by Jerry Eintertainment

Here is my review after about 5 months with this watch. In short, the good things are the amazing battery life, the watch's light weight, and the many features available on the watch. The bad part is the altimeter accuracy and sleep tracking limitations. Advantages: 1. It is very light and comfortable to wear even when sleeping.2. It has amazing battery life. I've used it for a full 12 days on a single charge, worn it all day, with 40 minutes of daily aerobic activity that was mostly indoors (very little GPS use) - and even when I started charging it still had it 10% battery charge. . At 10% it starts asking for charging.3. It has a great always-on display that is very clear even in direct sunlight.4. It has very good GPS.5. It connects to many Bluetooth devices very easily and reliably, and with an amazing battery life, you don't have to worry about this Bluetooth connection consuming too much battery (compared to my previous sports watch - Xiaomi Stratos).6. It's a matter of personal taste, but I like the Crown interface. Works great!7. The configuration of the different training data screens is amazing! You can set up multiple screens for each workout type, which you can toggle between using the digital crown button, and up to 6 data items per screen.8. Coros support is great! They often provide Android app updates with bug fixes and new features, and firmware updates with bug fixes and additional features. Cons: Watch features: 1. Sleep tracking is not always good. You have to set the sleep start time manually (an inconvenience, not a big deal) and the watch will stop tracking sleep if you wake up more than 6 hours after your sleep start time, even if you wake up just 1 minute and then go back to sleep. Sleep tracking was way worse when I started using this watch 3 months ago and seems to be getting better all the time but still has these limitations.2. Heart rate monitoring is very useful during exercise when heart rate is not changing rapidly and frequently. If your heart rate is changing rapidly, it may take some time for the watch to register the change. because of the way I wore the watch on my wrist. In order to get the best results from the watch, you need to put it on your wrist so that your finger doesn't get between the watch and your skin. It's not very comfortable at first, but you get used to it very quickly. On the plus side, I can force the watch to use a chest strap and then it will report the correct heart rate and as a result other reported data (like calories and training load) will also be more accurate.3. Counting calories: This is a complex topic. In some sports (like cycling) it's very similar to other devices, while in others it's MUCH different (it shows about 30% fewer calories than other devices; for example, a 20-minute indoor run might show me 300+). Calories on my other devices, but around 200 on the Pace 2 - even with the watch showing the correct heart rate). Additionally, the calorie count on the display updates periodically during activity (about once every 90 seconds), unlike almost every other device that updates every second or two. And when you finish an activity, the last calories shown on the display remain the activity's calories (even if you finish near the end of that 90 seconds and the calories are about to "jump" by the number of calories). four. Floor Climbed: Some days the reading is fairly accurate, other days it's EXCELLENT (e.g. I'm seeing 6 floors today while climbing at least 12). I can't say why. I mean just climbing stairs in a building. However, the Coros website has video tutorials on how to troubleshoot such issues and suggests calibrating the barometric altimeter daily with outdoor GPS, which seems to solve the problem. The "elevation difference" calculated by the watch is not accurate and is often more than 20% less than the actual elevation difference (calculated from topographic maps).5. Sport selection and configuration: This is somewhat limited. For example there is "cycling" but there is no difference between road cycling and mountain biking, there is no "elliptical trainer" (for which I have to use the generic sport "Gym Cardio"). There is "indoor running" where I can choose the speed of the treadmill, but it's limited to speeds of 3-20km/h with 0.5km/h increments in between. My treadmill can B. only jump every 0.2 km/h, I can drive 11.4 or 11.6 km/h, but this speed cannot be selected by the watch - only 11/11.5/12.6. Using automatic gesture highlighting or GPS activity will have a significant impact on battery life. With more of this, I had to charge the watch after about 1 week (compared to 12 days with no backlight or GPS activity). Even 1 week is cool, but it takes its toll on battery life.7. The heart rate display itself during activity isn't color-coded; You can set the watch to show a semi-circle with colors corresponding to heart rate zones, with an arrow pointer showing where your heart rate is within that circle. However, this only works if you display up to 4 data on the training screen. . If you're showing 6 data, you don't have that circle and you don't have a heart rate zone display. Cons of the Coros app for Android: 1. The app shows most of the information about the watch (but some things like "Lift to the ground" are only available on the watch itself), but it doesn't provide detailed information on how to improve .2. The device screen (the rightmost button in the app) has a suboptimal layout that has resulted in me accidentally removing the device more than once because the delete button is at the very bottom, very close to the menu buttons of the app phone . Luckily it's very easy and quick to add it back, but it got me thinking for a few minutes about what happened the first two times. Coros EvoLab: This is supposed to provide a lot of important training insights, but it takes a week of outdoor running for about 5 km each to get started. For someone like me who rarely walks outside, this is useless. Maybe it's a great feature but this month I've done 2 outdoor runs with the watch and it only shows me 9% progress until I start using EvoLab. What about those who don't run and want to use this watch to track their athletic performance? Update: In the end, after enough outdoor runs, I got it working and the data shown seems completely unreliable. For example, I've had several 4-hour cycling sessions after which I've been shown that I need a day's rest before a hard workout. And then I had a 2 hour bike session that wasn't any harder than that 4 hour session and it showed me that I needed to rest 80 hours (!) before a hard workout.