Welcome to another gear review at Trailred Nation Scott. What are we looking at today? We are looking at the Magellan Echo Watch. Now this watch is kind of a unique watch. It's not a standalone GPS watch. It is, according to their website, the first sports watch that utilizes smartphone fitness apps to their full potential by wirelessly connecting them to your wrists. So, wait, wait, wait, so what you just said there's got was we have a watch on our wrist that connects to our phone. Right. Okay. Wirelessly connects to your phone. So you can use whatever smartphone app you want, whatever one you like, you pick one. And if you like that watch, I mean that app, then it connects wirelessly to this watch. So you don't have to be pulling out your smartphone every time to see what your heart rate is or how far you've gone or what your pace is. You can look at your watch. So some pretty cool idea. So some of those apps you're like map my my run like Strava, like some of these things that we're using out there on the trail or the road, we can use this watch to monitor instead of looking at the phone itself. And you know how fast apps change. They're always updating apps or coming out. And this watch is designed to sink with all of those apps. I think even apps have not even been created. Well, that's why they're called apps got their app to change. Oh, or you can use Wahoo. Wahoo. I've never heard of Wahoo. Well, that's for works great with Echo. Okay. So we've invited someone to test it that this is our this is our techie. Our trail runner nation tech smartphone genius Don's mom. Yeah. Well, know Scott and I looked at the watch and said we don't we're not currently using map my run in these types of things And I don't even know I when I heard Strava I thought that was some kind of prescription and So we went over to our like you said our technology expert Judy Freeman and we said hey mom you're using these apps and And here's a cool watch so we brought it over and let you try it out so

Tell us a little bit about this watch when you look at it your first glance you said I'm opening up this Magellan

Echo watch and you knew the name Magellan the name. Yeah love Magellan love all the techie stuff for running keep track of your heart rate keep track of your pulse Comes with a nice band for your heart rate around your chest So it came with a heart rate monitor, right? Yeah, okay. Yeah, and Look at it and thought wow new fun color. It's blue Goes good. Do you have shorts that match it?

No. No, OK. No, didn't have shorts match. But it's blue, a blue band that's really nice. It clicks in. So it stays. You know it's not going to fall off your arm. And so what are some of the things that the watch shows you? You're able to see. Gives you your pace that you're going. gives you your speed that you're going, gives of course your heart rate.

And the time of day. If you want to just avoid looking at all the pace and the speed and all that, you can just push the top left button to go back to search and it will just tell you the time. So you can essentially set your iPhone or whatever your device is, get it going, put it in your pocket out of the way, and then monitor the details, the data from your watch. Right, on your wrist. So I would assume that there's gotta be some kind of a setup process, or where you have to sync. Tell us a little bit about that. There was a setup because I wanted to use

Matt Myron, which is my go-to all the time and that was tracking or you can go to Wahoo, which seemed to be a little more popular to use with Echo. So it has buttons on the side 4 and ones to push for searching to find, to connect all your devices. And then the other one was you can even have a great super feature feature. I thought was upper right hand corner is the button you push to get your music. You can control your music on the watch. No way. Oh. Yeah. But you don't, but you don't connect your headphones to the watch. You can fact that connect that to your iPhone. iPhone. Yeah. And you are using the iPhone just to make certain people know which smartphone you're using. Right. And so if you don't like that song, you just push that button and it goes forward. It skips it. Oh, I like that. Yeah. Yeah. And, or you can stop it right there, kind of like your... A pause or something? Yeah. Yeah. And then the bottom right is to move between your different features. Okay. So, it was funded to set it up. Now during set up, you had the opportunity to call and get some assistance good good customer service Did you create customer service she was over the top trying to help me because in island there isn't really Instruction book that comes with it. They send you to their echo Magellan app, you know dot com and that has the instructions on how to set it up. But I had questions. And so I called the their number. And she was all over the top wanting to help me answer any questions I had. Good. Well, you know, it's nice. My first impression, I thought it was a GPS watch and then realized that it was just a connection, a link between the current iPhone or Android or whatever you're using, your smartphone and the watch. And I thought that's a unique idea and a good idea because when I'm running, if I have two handheld bottles, I don't want to mess around with trying to look at my arm or trying to figure out where I've got this iPhone stash. So I think there's a space in the market for this and I look forward to learning more about how it works. I have one question. You have your smartphone, it's in your Fanny Pack or in your pocket or whatever when you're running.

What if a phone... for to learn more about how it works. I have one question. So you have your smart phone, it's in your fanny pack

or in your pocket or whatever when you're running.

What if a phone call comes in? Can you answer it by pushing a button on your watch? Do you know? No. Oh, okay, you can't do that. That's the echo 2.0. Yeah, that's the new version, right? Yeah. They probably just heard that and would go, I said good.

Well, thanks for testing that out.

And thanks for wearing it around town and around the trails

and good luck in your racing because I know that you have been out there logging in some miles and so you've genuinely tested this watch out. So thank you very much. You're welcome. Anytime. Go to MagellanGPS.com and check it out. List price, 149.99.

Good.

Cheaper than a smartphone, Scott.

Yeah, thanks Judy for your review.

You're welcome, anytime.

Bye.

Thank you.