GPS Training Podcast – number 68

GPS Training Podcast

We look and review the new Garmin inReach 2 and the Garmin Instinct 2 GPS watch, plus Andy's Top Tips. In this month’s podcast We look at the new Garmin inReach Mini2We then look at the new Garmin Instinct 2 series of GPS WatchesAndy’s top tips 1. The first thing on this month's Podcast is a look at the Garmin inReach mini 2What is a Garmin inReach mini? Contract needed for it to work – like a mobile phone contract We have had the Garmin inReach mini (1) for a number of years,now we have the inReach mini 2 The key differences – Battery Life Trackbacks Navigational experience on the Garmin inReach mini 2 Digital Compass Multi-GNSS Garmin Explore App Compatible with other Garmin devices To find out more about the new Garmin inReach mini 2 go to our website – gpstraining.co.uk > GPS Store > Two-Way Satellite Communication 2. The next thing on this month’s podcast is another new product from Garmin – the Garmin Instinct 2 watch What is a Garmin Instinct GPS Watch? Four models Battery Life Garmin Pay Connect IQ Store Built-in Sports Apps VO2 Max Recovery Time MTB Dynamics Sleep monitoring Respiration tracking Fitness Age Intensity minutes Women's health tracking The Instinct 2 & 2s ranges are still packed with all the great original features of the 1st Generation Instinct watches.Multi-GNSS support Follow a Course ABC Sensors Trackback Routing Mark a Waypoint Safety and tracking FeaturesSmart notifications Wrist-based heart rate Stress Tracking To find out more about the range of Garmin Instinct Watches please go to our website – GPSTraining.co.uk > GPS Store and then GPS Watches 3. The next thing on this month’s GPS Training Podcast is Andy’s top tips Fenix Watches not displaying in Finder on Macs -Garmins watches that now use MTP (Media Transfer Protocol) this tends to be the watches that can have music stored on them such as the Fenix 6 range are not being detected in Finder by Macs, this is due to Apple being compatible with MTP transfer protocol, whether apple will change this in the future we don’t know but from MAC forums a free to use programme that lets you see the Fenix watch on your Mac to manually copy and paste files to can be downloaded from - www.android.com/filetransfer InReach mini 2 – Battery safe Tips Brightness lower to save battery – Pwr button once – scroll down to Brightness Ok, up down arrows lower or increase 25% normally fineSettings – System – Display – also has brightness + Timeout 15, 30 secs, 1 min etc Settings – Tracking - Activity Recording Standard better battery, high detail better for more accurate track back but more batterySettings – tracking – Send interval – Off - 10, 20, 30 mins, 1hr , 2hr, 4hrSettings – System – GPS , GPS Better battery , Multi GNSS more accurate , quicker fix but more battery To find more top tips please do sign up for the GPS Training online resource, this is packed full of video top tips. Go to our website – gpstraining.co.uk and click on the – Online resource – on the top menu bar And Finally Many thanks for listening to this month’s Podcast.If there are any subjects you would like to cover in future Podcast’s, please do get in touch – ASK US SOMETHING!Give us a call especially if you are thinking of a new GPS unitPlease do look a look at both our physical GPS courses and also our webinars, just go to GPSTraining.co.uk and click on – GPS Training courses.Please do tell your friends about the podcast and GPS Training and encourage them to subscribe to it on whichever Podcast app they are using.AND don’t forget to give us 5 star rating on iTunes and Google Podcasts, for Android users, just look in the Playstore and download this app, search for the GPS Training Podcast and subscribe to it.If you can also snazzy review on whatever platform you listen to us on it would be appreciated.