Hi everyone welcome! to wesknows tech news and reviews! we do get a lot of questions about the
gps accuracy of the smartwatches sport watches and fitness trackers that we review on the western's
channel and hence today we are going to be testing two smartwatches and one multi-sport watch from
garmin on the gps accuracy and hence today we've got the garmin venu sq, the honor magic watch 2,
as well as the Amazfit gtr2 in a gps comparison! if you are new to Wesknows tech news and reviews
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the way! before we get into the comparison and analysis of the data let me explain how i set the
benchmark and what we are actually testing against the rules of engagement were i went out for a walk
on christmas day for one hour and i covered just over five kilometers now i actually used my iphone
12 gps and recorded via the polar beat app and we're going to look at the specifics just now
now alongside this gps accuracy test i was doing a heart rate accuracy test using the polar h10 chest
strap but you will find the link to that review in the link below or in the end screen at the end of
the video just before i started the walk i started off the four devices so three trackers as well as
the mobile phone simultaneously and went off on the walk and the results are quite interesting
polar beat shows that within the one hour and three minutes as recorded i covered 5.28
kilometers that's the map of my route first up is the garmin venu sq after all it's more of
a sport watch rather than a smartwatch and we can see that the watch recorded 4.99 kilometers
the map looks similar in shape and make particular notice of the route segments where i'm walking in
parallel to the main route 4.99 kilometers that's 5.6 percent off the mark considering that you're
trying to maximize your health and fitness under-reporting the distance is probably more
prudent than over-reporting now let's take a look at the results on the amazon gtr 2.
but just before we do that let me remind you that we have previously already done a gps accuracy
test and we have actually used the gts the initial version versus the likes of garmin honor
and huawei and the most interesting thing is is that the gts actually showed us the most
accurate result out of the four smartwatches in terms of gps accuracy in terms of this test
the gtr2 measured 5.03 kilometers and that is 4.7 below the 5.28 kilometers mark
but it's a better result than garmin venu showed the gtr2 actually has dual inbuilt gps glonass and
gps receivers also note the accuracy of the route map and now let's see what the honor magic watch
2 came up with and here we see a distance of 5.61 kilometers that's an overstatement by 6.3 percent
so it's the farthest out from the 5.28 kilometers and on top of it all it's an overstatement
now if we look to the map we can see that the gps has recorded the route incorrectly
and the signal seems to be wandering off in more than a few places let's discuss the results now
and see if we can get to any conclusions the atmosphere gtr2 was the closest to the 5.28
kilometers recorded by iphone 12 gps garmin venu sq was second the difference between the gtr 2
and the sq was just 40 meters and that's not significant enough to say that garmin sq gps
is less accurate than amazfit gtr2 but what it does say is that the stigma in the market that
amazfit sensors are incorrect is not true! not true at all! because this is the second test we do
and twice the first generation and now the second generation do show the best results in terms of
gps tracking the honor magic watch 2 quite frankly disappoints the only positive is the consistency
second time in a row it comes in third place thank you all for watching i hope you did find the video
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