My 235 is almost 10 years old, I get a week on a charge still of notifications (events, texts, alarms, reminders) sleep tracking, HR. An hour workout with GPS takes it down about 20% now. Recharges in about 45 minutes from 50%.
Almost every watch I've seen since has worse battery life, with the same or less functions other than a color touchscreen. I'm happy to skip that to get all the rest of the battery life. Also Garmin is a pretty strong corporate player in protecting user privacy and data.
I saw a mrwhosetheboss video going over the Huawei tech we’re missing out on in the states and their smartwatches really impressed me besides the small stuff like lacking an app store on them
I have to be honest, my first and only smartwatch before this one was the watch 2 i think it was called. I bought it used and the battery was only good for a day or a day and a half tops. It was also slow and not very responsive, so i was truly blown away by this one. Always having emergency earbuds on hands is really nice too, although i haven't used them as much as i thought i would. I don't know about the app store thing, because i have all i need on it pretty much stock. Now in hindsight i would've probably been better off with one of those ink screen watches where the battery lasts a month or so. But otherwise i'm very happy, i wear it every day.