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The Lily doesn’t have GPS, offline music, or Garmin Pay built-in like Garmin’s own Venu Sq, which sells for the same price. This means you have to decide whether you like the Lily’s looks enough to make some trade-offs. Of course, none of those things are unique to this smartwatch - most of Garmin’s other smartwatches feature the fitness tracking, and there are at least two others that feature the period and pregnancy tracking. Garmin focuses a lot on fitness and wellness tracking with its smartwatches, and the Lily can track steps, workouts, sleep, stress levels, blood oxygen saturation, periods, and pregnancies. The different watch colors and editions also have different background lens designs. Additionally, you can’t mix and match bands - the colors are matched to the case. If the watch’s band design is important to you, though, you may want to look elsewhere: the Lily’s straps are proprietary, and it doesn’t seem like Garmin is selling any more on its store yet. That said, it’s probably to help preserve battery life, as Garmin claims it should get up to five days, which is pretty impressive given its size. The screen is touch-sensitive, but monochromatic, which seems a bit lacking when similarly-priced offerings from Apple, Fitbit, and Samsung all have color screens. The watch is circular, to look more like a “classic” non-smartwatch, and it has a patterned background. It’s Garmin’s smallest smartwatch, and I’d imagine it’d look comically small next to the company’s rugged Fenix watches. By my calculations, that means the Lily will cover 31 percent less of your wrist. Area-wise, that means the Apple Watch takes up 1,360 square millimeters on your wrist, while the Lily only takes 935. It’s circular, with a diameter of 34.5mm, whereas the smaller 40mm Apple Watch SE is a 40mm by 34mm rectangle. One of the Lily’s main selling points is that it’s small. To its credit, the Lily looks very much like a regular watch.
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However, as reviewer Lily Katz from Android Authority points out in her review of the Lily, the watch may have given up a few important features to achieve those looks. Garmin claims it’s “the smartwatch women have been waiting for,” which seems based on its size and design, which is very fashion-forward. The Sport Edition, which is made of aluminum and has a silicone band, costs $199, while the stainless steel Classic Edition is $250 and comes with a leather band. Garmin has released a new smartwatch called the Lily, and its main selling point is that Garmin claims it’s designed by women, for women.
