This new Coros watch has 3 weeks of battery life and tracks way more - even fly fishing

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ZDNET cardinal takeaways

• 22 days of artillery beingness with optimized outdoor tracking
• Adventure Journal syncs maps, routes, photos, and dependable pins
• Lightweight 47-millimeter plan starts astatine $349

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You tin usually find a ticker connected each of my wrists, and astir of the clip they way my running, biking, and indoor rowing. However, I besides usage sports watches to seizure question erstwhile alert fishing, hiking, kayaking, and more, truthful erstwhile Coros revealed the caller Nomad bid I felt similar the institution made a ticker conscionable for me.

The caller Coros Nomad is designed for radical who bask spending clip outdoors with activities specified arsenic hiking, fishing, upland biking, and exploring quality portion besides being capable to papers those activities. For years, I person utilized Garmin sports watches with the food relation to way wherever and erstwhile I onshore trout successful rivers truthful that I tin instrumentality to the blistery spots successful the future. The Coros Nomad takes things to the adjacent level with optimization for these types of activities, and I'll soon beryllium taking it retired with my rod, reel, backpack, and eMTB.

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The Nomad joins the Vertix, Apex, and Pace bid arsenic Coros rounds retired its lineup for a scope of activities and absorption areas. The Nomad has a caller hardware constituent with a bottommost near enactment fastener to crook connected the backlight, power betwixt representation and information screens, and service arsenic a shortcut for your astir communal activity. Unlike astir modern watches, the Nomad remains focused connected artillery beingness with the usage of a third-generation memory-in-pixel show that is disposable extracurricular and stays connected each of the time.

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Coros advertises 22 days of artillery beingness with regular use, 50 hours of tracking with each systems on, and 34 hours of tracking with dual-frequency mode enabled and each GNSS on. A emblematic play with 2 days of regular use, 2.5 hours of hiking, and 5 hours of alert sportfishing should effect successful lone 20% artillery consumption, truthful enactment tuned for our real-life testing.

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Dual microphones are different caller hardware diagnostic designed to enactment signaling dependable pins and different cardinal information to papers your adventures. The 47mm diameter size is cleanable for those who privation a ample show but who besides don't privation a large, chunky watch. With a nylon band, the ticker weighs successful astatine conscionable 49 grams, truthful you tin absorption connected your activities without weighing down your wrist.

Adventure Journal 

One distinguishing diagnostic I cannot hold to trial is the Adventure Journal. It works with your ticker and phone. Before your outing, download maps and routes, make and edit routes, cheque the weather, navigate with your ticker and widen that navigation to your phone, prevention cardinal locations on the way, grounds pins with your voice, and seizure photos that volition past beryllium saved with your route. 

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After you safely instrumentality from your activity, you tin presumption the summary, presumption the trek successful 3D, and easy stock your memories with household and friends.

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Coros didn't conscionable adhd immoderate of these outdoor escapade features with names and basal tracking metrics, but it has optimized the Nomad for these activities. For example, sportfishing features see a drawback log, sportfishing clip predictor, upwind status, and more. The fig of your casts are captured, you tin pin logs and structures successful the water, and make a food log dissimilar thing I person seen before.

Availability and terms

The Nomad is disposable successful Dark Grey, Green, and Brown, with a precise tenable terms of $349. Unlike immoderate different Coros watches, it doesn't usage sapphire solid connected the show and incorporates lighter polymer materials, but the terms is right. You tin besides inactive usage it for running, biking, swimming, and overmuch more. Add a LED flashlight connected the Nomad 2, and the ticker volition beryllium cleanable for regular use.