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Michael L Hicks

COROS APEX 4 fitness test: Rolling back to the old ways, with new perks

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A photo of the COROS APEX 4 on the author's wrist showing a topographic map with turn-by-turn navigation showing a right turn in 387 feet.

Testing out the COROS APEX 4 for the past couple of weeks has given me flashbacks to wearing the 2022 Garmin Forerunner 955, my favorite running watch before Garmin and its rivals began shifting away from MIP displays. Plenty of fitness watch fans detest this trend, like my 955-wearing brother-in-law. While I'll admit I prefer AMOLED displays, the APEX 4 is a great watch for the holdouts.

COROS's last watch, the NOMAD, challenges the Garmin Instinct 3 in a narrow category: affordable, rugged hiking watches with weeks of battery life. An MIP display felt like the right fit.

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