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Posted by cooloutac
 - Today at 07:06:59
Quote from: Yielar on April 25, 2026, 00:11:36AMOLED is much more popular these days. Does MIP still have a place? Sure but it's twindling rapidly. I would no longer consider buying a MIP watch without how far AMOLED watch technology has come.

because actual outdoorsmen are rare.  most people are buying fancy garmin watches,  and wearing them to work or the gym.  Mip has the advantage outdoors for better full sun visiibility.  and a True AOD for quick glances,  and you don't have to charge every day.   Garmin's AOD isn't much better than apple or galaxy,  except with less health features and a big bulky heavy giant bulging hockey puck on your wrist that you need an external HR for accuracy and uncomfortable to sleep with.   I have a Garmin Fenix 6X which is my outdoors and sports watch,  and when I'm doing rough activities, and it also doubles as my bike computer to a radar and for routing. I like the live tracking,  and the body battery.   But I actually have a galaxy watch as my comfortable every day watch,  for better visiblity indoors and for sleeping with more health metrics.


but if I could only have one watch.   I would prefer it to be a MIPS display cause that feels more like a real watch with the full AOD and long battery life. And with MIPS i can use backlight indoors,   but when outside an amoled has to brighten and never looks as good as MIPS in full sun.  Problem with my 6X, it is way too big for every day use,  and why the HR is not that accurate as the smaller watches like apple,  samsung and pixel  imho.  contrary to what biased youtubers say.   so its a catch 22,  you buying a huge bulky batter,  but you trading accuracy due to that fact.   and Garmin starts to not look that cutting edge when you realize the AOD is not as full as even samsung and Apple for most watch faces,   and even though its 3 times the size it feels,  the battery doesn't last much longer lol.

Posted by cooloutac
 - Today at 06:48:40
Quote from: Yielar on April 25, 2026, 00:13:48
Quote from: Robot37 on April 24, 2026, 11:14:41MIP is just better because you can actually use it as a watch rather than have to charge it every day. I only need 2 features, GPS and battery which is why I have a instinct solar

May want to brush up on your knowledge. Nobody needs to charge the Garmin AMOLED watches every day. They have incredible battery life. Now if you are talking about the Apple Watch yeah that's true but it's not a direct comparison and basically a smartphone watch.

MIP display is for true AOD, quick glancing,  and for full sun visibility.  with a Garmin amoled AOD,  you only looking at a couple days max,  verse a week or two.  So you not comparing honestly bud.  might as well get an apple or galaxy watch at that point for literally a quarter of the price at this point lol.    You wearing your watch indoors obviously where amoled has better visibility.  just be honest lmao.    Alot of people also don't like the glow of the amoled at night or in dark areas.  A Mips feels more like a real watch.  also not all of us are teach fashion geeks so we gonna use it for years.  I'm still using a fenix 6x sapphire and I feel lucky I have one at this point.    lol
Posted by Norgi
 - April 25, 2026, 12:21:18
Definitely Garmin needs to retain MIP or they'll just become another fashion device provider.
Posted by Yielar
 - April 25, 2026, 00:13:48
Quote from: Robot37 on April 24, 2026, 11:14:41MIP is just better because you can actually use it as a watch rather than have to charge it every day. I only need 2 features, GPS and battery which is why I have a instinct solar

May want to brush up on your knowledge. Nobody needs to charge the Garmin AMOLED watches every day. They have incredible battery life. Now if you are talking about the Apple Watch yeah that's true but it's not a direct comparison and basically a smartphone watch.
Posted by Yielar
 - April 25, 2026, 00:11:36
AMOLED is much more popular these days. Does MIP still have a place? Sure but it's twindling rapidly. I would no longer consider buying a MIP watch without how far AMOLED watch technology has come.
Posted by e-ink?
 - April 24, 2026, 13:10:04
And what about e-ink? I'd be fine updating every minute or even less, but updating instantly to the second when pressing a button.
Posted by Robot37
 - April 24, 2026, 11:14:41
MIP is just better because you can actually use it as a watch rather than have to charge it every day. I only need 2 features, GPS and battery which is why I have a instinct solar
Posted by Redaktion
 - April 23, 2026, 13:39:08
From the Garmin Fenix 8 Pro to the Venu 4 and the Forerunner 970 - more and more smartwatches from Garmin are only being offered with an AMOLED display, while models with MiP displays are disappearing despite some serious advantages. A survey shows that the majority of customers are not in favor of this development.

https://www.notebookcheck.net/Garmin-users-want-MiP-instead-of-AMOLED-smartwatches-survey-shows.1281468.0.html