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Assuming you’re using the Garmin for fitness related reasons — are you really carrying your phone around with you for music? I guess it works if you bike?

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Some clothes have this technology called "pockets".

lmao this is the most HN comment ever

running with a phone in your pocket is hell

This person gets it.

It was fine up till the 13 mini. Every iPhone after that is too big and heavy to fit in a running belt without jostling.

I used to have my phone on a strap around my arm. Even that stopped working

I run with phone clenched in hand.

I run daily with a 13 mini easily. My shorts have a pocket in the liner that makes it trivial.

I don't fully understand people that carry their phone in hand when running.

Why did you downgrade from your 13 mini? It's supported until 2030.

I bought a series 11 with the esim option for this very reason and it just - doesnt - work. The airpod connection drops randomly, spotify stops working, navigation randomly stops working, the apple health app doesnt respect my other workout app, etc.

I'm really unsatisfied with this device.

A lot of garmin watches let you download YT / Spotify or your own mp3s

Gotcha! Been a minute since I’ve looked it up.

Battery life on Garmin’s is genuinely terrible as soon as you have music running though. Less than the apple watch.

The plot thickens. Frankly even if it did get music right it would be tough to replace streaming my own Plex music library directly on my Apple watch. 100% worth paying for cellular.

The interface is terrible I've never actually remember to use spotify like this on my garmins and I've worn like 4 over the last decade. Maybe if you use it for a week straight it'll be muscle memory, but I only accidentally play music on it.

It can download and sync playlists and you connect bt headphones to it.

I'll keep buying garmins but I do hate the ux.

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