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For a compact speaker that’s meant to be tossed into a bag or clipped onto your backpack, the Sony ULT Field 1 holds up better than you’d expect. It weighs about 1.4 pounds and comes with a carry strap, and it’s IP67-rated, meaning that dust, sand, and the occasional splash (or dunk) won’t ruin your playlist. At $64.99 for a refurbished unit on StackSocial, it’s 50% off the original price and still comes with a one-year warranty. It’s listed as “Grade A,” so cosmetic wear should be minimal to none.

The sound won’t be mind-blowing, but better than average for something this size. You’ll get solid audio with a hint of bass, especially when you hit the ULT button, Sony’s version of a bass boost that gives the music more punch when needed—just keep in mind that maxing out the volume and toggling the bass boost will drain the battery faster. Without the boost, you can expect up to 12 hours of playtime; at full volume with ULT on, that drops closer to 3 hours. Still, for backyard hangs, bike rides, or hotel-room DJ sessions, it holds its own.

You won’t find fancy touchscreen controls or a deep companion app, but there’s a basic control panel on the speaker for volume, power, pairing, and playback, and the app gives you a simple EQ and power settings. That said, Bluetooth 5.3, Google Fast Pair, and multipoint pairing are all supported, and it works with both iOS and Android. You can even connect two of these together for stereo playback, which helps if you want a bit more depth. All things considered, for $65, this Sony speaker is perfect for casual listening or bringing music on the go.

(Washington, D.C., August 5, 2025) – U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke L. Rollins, at Faith and Fellowship Tuesday at the Great American Farmers Market, alongside Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Scott Turner, Secretary of Veterans Affairs Doug Collins, and USDA Senior Advisor on Faith and Community Outreach Dr. Alveda King, issued a statement reaffirming the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) steadfast commitment to protecting and upholding religious liberties in all public engagements and federally administered programs.

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Garmin dominates the running watch market, even as runners have an increasing number of other options to choose from, including Suunto and Coros. I’ve long been a faithful Garmin user, but I wanted to give one of these competitors a fair shake, so for about six weeks (including the full month of July), I decided to test out how well a Coros could serve as my main running watch.

So I set my daily wear Garmin Forerunner 265S aside in favor of a Coros Pace 3 and Pace Pro, swapping between them as the mood struck me. While I didn’t come out of it a convert, I did learn a lot. Here’s what I loved and hated—or at least found irritating—along the way.

How I started the switch from Garmin to Coros

I normally use Garmin to store all my personal running data. (For some people that might be their Strava account, but mine is kind of a garbage pile of data, as most of the watches I test for reviews sync their data to it, which means a bunch of my runs are double- or even triple-logged there.)

I decided that, for the length of this test, I would only use the Coros app, and not Garmin. (When the test was over, I synced my runs back over to Garmin so I would still have accurate data when I looking back at my monthly and yearly totals.) 

Before I could start the experiment, I needed to take care of my shoes. I have three pairs in rotation, and I use the Garmin app to track their mileage. One of my pairs has over 900 miles, and I’m trying to get it to 1,000 just out of stubbornness and spite, so accurate tracking is important to me. 

I looked up each shoe’s mileage in the Garmin app, then added it to the Coros app with the appropriate starting mileage. (Coros perk: I was able to set my trail shoes as the default for trail runs, and my road shoes as the default for regular runs. Garmin only lets you set one shoe as the default for all types of runs.)

I set up Coros to sync to Strava, and disconnected Garmin from Strava. I also familiarized myself with the Coros training hub, a web interface for downloading and analyzing run data that’s similar to Garmin Connect’s web version. If I were switching permanently, I would have exported all my run data from Garmin and imported it into the Coros hub. Coros has step-by-step instructions for doing that here. 

The Coros and Garmin models I compared

Both Coros and Garmin offer several models of running watches, and features vary from model to model. My everyday Garmin is a Forerunner 265S, and I also sometimes use a Forerunner 570. These served as my main reference points for comparing features, since they are solid offerings in the middle of the product range. (I’m also familiar with a few other models, including the entry-level 165, and the slightly older but still excellent 255.)

On the Coros side, I had two watches to play with: the smaller, lighter, and slightly older Pace 3, and the somewhat newer and fancier Pace Pro. 

Here’s my best stab at ranking these models, from the most basic to the most full-featured: 

• Garmin Forerunner 165 ($249.99): an entry-level watch with a bright AMOLED touchscreen but no dual-band GPS. Some of the more advanced analytics are also missing. One size (43 mm).

• Garmin Forerunner 255 (around $240 these days; originally $349.99): More features than the 165, and more accurate GPS, but it has the older style reflective MIP screen. Comes in small and large sizes (41 and 46 mm).

• Coros Pace 3 ($229): Similar to the 255 in both features and display type (MIP). The Pace 3 has a touchscreen, though, while the 255 requires buttons for navigation. One size (42 mm).

• Garmin Forerunner 265 ($449.99 but often on sale): Like a 265 but with an AMOLED touchscreen. Comes in small and large sizes (42 and 46 mm).

• Garmin Forerunner 570 ($549.99): Like a 265 but with voice calling, heat acclimation, and some other convenient features like automatic finish line trimming. AMOLED touchscreen. Comes in small and large sizes (42 and 47 mm).

• Coros Pace Pro ($349): Doesn’t have the voice features or some of the analytics of the Garmin 570, but it does have onboard maps, which aren’t available on any Garmin watches in its price range. AMOLED touchscreen. One size (46 mm).

• Garmin Forerunner 970 ($749.99): Like a 570 but with maps and an LED flashlight. AMOLED touchscreen. One size (47 mm).

The Coros Pace 3 is a little more basic than the Garmin 265 and 570 I’m used to, and the Coros Pace Pro is arguably a little nicer—mainly because it has maps, which come in handy on my trail runs.

Now that we’ve got our bearings, let’s go for a run. 

Accuracy and other basics are excellent on both Garmin and Coros

I know that my job is to uncover the minute differences between different models of fitness tech, but honestly, for most purposes any of the watches will do the job. If the world only had Coros, you wouldn’t miss Garmin, and vice versa. 

I know from reviewing both sets of watches in detail that they both make excellent running watches. Let’s narrow down the stable to just the Forerunner 570 and the Coros Pace Pro. Here’s what I already know:

Both watches have excellent GPS accuracy. On paper, that’s because they connect to multiple networks and have dual-band capabilities for better accuracy among trees and buildings. In the real world, I know they’re good because I’ve pored over maps after running with both, and they all track my actual path very closely. 

Both watches have good heart rate accuracy. An optical sensor will never be perfect, but anytime I have a good snug fit on the watch, I get heart rate readings that are nearly identical to what I get from a chest strap, my gold standard. I have sometimes found that larger watches don’t fit me as well, thus giving slightly glitchier data. This would be a minor caveat to the Pace Pro, which only comes in a larger size. (The Pace 3 is smaller, and the 570 comes in two size options.) That said, I still get good readings from both of these. 

You can pair a chest strap to either watch. If you’re so interested in accuracy that you care about the subtle differences between watches that all do the job well, what you really want is to pair an electrical (not optical) chest strap. All of the Garmin and Coros watches I’ve tested can pair to pretty much any chest strap on the market. I use a Coospo. 

Both displays are legible in pretty much all lighting conditions. AMOLED watches provide their own light. They are great in dim to medium conditions, and OK in bright sunlight. MIP watches reflect brilliantly in bright sunlight, suffer a bit in shadow, but can be used with a gesture-triggered backlight in the dark. The Pace 3 has a MIP screen, and the Pace Pro and the 570 are both AMOLED. If you want to dig into the differences between these display types, I have a detailed breakdown here. Bottom line, both are good. 

With the basics taken care of, let me tell you about the things that stood out to me as new and different (either in a good or bad way) between Coros and Garmin.

Hated: Coros can’t control the music on my phone

I’ve never cared for onboard music on a running watch. I’m going to bring my phone with me anyway (for safety, if nothing else) so I don’t need to store music on the watch. Many Garmin watches, including the 570, can download playlists from Spotify (although they can’t stream directly). Coros can only play MP3 files that you’ve loaded onto the watch.

When I’m listening to music on my phone, the watch has one function: I like being able to see what song is playing from the watch, especially if I’m shuffling a big playlist. Garmin can do this without a problem, and provides controls to pause, play and skip; so can the Suunto Run I tested. But these two Coros watches can only play their own music, not display or control what my phone is playing. 

Loved: Coros gives you maps at a much lower price point than Garmin

During my summer of Coros, I ended up doing a lot of trail running. The trails are shady and comparatively cool when it’s hot everywhere else, and the local trail running group had a fun challenge going. To participate, I’d download GPX route files created by the group, and follow them through the woods. 

All of the Garmin and Coros watches I mentioned above can do basic navigation. The process is the same on both brands: download a route file on your phone, use the share button to “open” it in the Coros or the Garmin app, save the route, and then tell the app to send the route to your watch. When you start a run, you can select a saved route to follow.

With the basic display (on the Forerunner 570 and below, or on the Pace 3), you just see a line on a black background showing the route you’re supposed to follow, a different color of line showing where you actually went, and a marker showing where you are right now. On the 570, for example, the route is pink and my own path is white. So as I’m running, I just have to glance down at my wrist, and as long as the pink and the white lines are tracking together, I’m on the right path. 

In this view, neither watch knows where the trails actually are. I’ll get an “approaching right turn” alert when the path I’m following turns right, whether or not I have an option to go any other way. If the trail branches into two forks, and my path is more or less straight forward, the watch doesn’t know I’m trying to make a decision, and provides no help. 

On a watch with maps, you get more help. It still may not know all of the trails in the area, but at least it’s easy to tell when you’re supposed to cross a road or pass a big obvious landmark like a pond. The Pace Pro is a $349 watch that gives you full-color maps right on your wrist. In the Garmin world, you don’t get that feature on a new watch unless you splurge on a Forerunner 970, for $749.99, more than twice the price of the Pace Pro. 

Hated: Coros pauses the run after your workout is finished

This is a tiny, itsy micro-peeve that I’m almost embarrassed to note here for how minor it is, but MY GOD COROS CAN’T YOU LEAVE THE ACTIVITY RUNNING AFTER THE WORKOUT FINISHES??? Garmin spoiled me for this. 

Let’s say you’re using a Garmin to track a structured workout that covers 3.5 miles or so. After you finish the workout, you jog a long cooldown because you’d like to add some more mileage to your day, so why not? Garmin just starts a new lap when the workout finishes, so that when you get to the end of the run for the day—let’s say you went five miles—you’ll see a 3.5 mile workout and a 1.5 mile cooldown logged in the same activity. 

Coros, by contrast, pauses the activity when the workout finishes. On several occasions I heard the end-of-workout beep and thought nothing of it. I kept running, enjoying my cooldown, only to realize five or 10 minutes later that my last five or 10 minutes of running hadn’t been logged at all.

If I had been trained on Coros and moved to Garmin, this wouldn’t bother me. But coming from Garmin, I kept forgetting that I needed to resume my workout after it “finished.” I lost some miles in my tracking. I’m mad. That is all. 

Loved: Coros’s training status feels less insulting

Here’s another subjective one: I love Garmin’s training status, but mostly because I chase the thrill of earning a “productive” status, and get disappointed every time it tells me I am just “maintaining.” (I want to get a good grade in Garmin, something that is both normal to want and possible to achieve.) 

Garmin’s harsh judgements are the stuff of memes, but it does sting sometimes to be told that your hard work isn’t moving the needle. Coros also has a training status feature, with similar terms, but they seem to be defined differently. 

Here’s Coros’s explanation of its training status terms. “Maintaining” is still in there, but I didn’t see it show up on my watch very often. More often, I’d get “optimized,” provided I’d been working pretty hard. That explanation from Coros also shows how you can look at your training status in a few different ways from the training hub dashboard: If your load impact is higher than your base fitness, you’re doing pretty good. Garmin doesn’t have graphs like this, or at least, nothing so easy to access and read. 

Ultimately, does this affect my training? Not really. But I find Coros’s approach more interesting and more encouraging.

Hated: Coros doesn’t have an app store

Garmin’s ConnectIQ store is a place to find watch faces, but also little mini-apps to do specific jobs. Most people won’t download many apps, but when you need one, it’s very cool to be able to grab the right one. 

For example, to use the Core temperature sensor that I’m using to monitor my heat tolerance, I went to Garmin’s ConnectIQ store and downloaded the data field created by the developers at the company that made the sensor. I did have to manually add it to the activities where I wanted to track my temperature, but then it was there. I could see my core temp, skin temp, and heat strain index all on one screen, and this data was logged in my workout results. 

The Core sensor also works with Coros, but not nearly as well. I can view my core body temperature during the run, but not skin temperature or heat strain index. (The heat strain index is the most valuable to me, and I missed having it available at a glance.) There’s no way to download an app for more functionality.

There are still plenty of watch faces and useful tools built into the Coros app and the devices themselves, but it would be nice if there were third-party possibilities out there too. 

Loved: Coros watches lock the display in a nicer way

The Pace 3 and Pace Pro both have a scroll wheel. Both of them, by default, use a screen lock that requires you to either hold in the scroll button, or—my preference—scroll the wheel one full turn before being able to do anything on the watch. 

I like the scroll version. I just start scrolling up, and as the watch unlocks, I can keep scrolling and see my widgets, which is often what I’m unlocking the watch to check. (You can turn off this lock if you don’t want it.) You can still see the time while it’s locked or while you’re in the process of unlocking.

Garmins, on the other hand, don’t have quite the same feature. You can turn on the device lock, but then any time you tap the screen or push a button, the time disappears and you see a message telling you to unlock the device. You can also set a shortcut to turn off the touchscreen, which is handy if you keep bumping it when you don’t mean to.

I like the Coros version better.

The bottom line

Garmin and Coros both make great watches. I was neither disappointed nor excited to return to Garmin at the end of the month. I’m glad the workouts won’t end without me pressing a button anymore, and I like that I’ll be easily able to see what music is playing. But I’ll miss the maps on the Pace Pro, and the kinder and more transparent training status. 

When ChatGPT officially launched in late 2022, it kicked off a historic AI race we’re still living through today. The following year saw most of the biggest tech companies launching their own AI products: Google released Bard (now Gemini), Microsoft debuted Copilot, and Anthropic dropped Claude, even as OpenAI only continued to iterate on ChatGPT. One of the biggest players was infamously absent from this roster, however: Apple.

Despite being among the most valuable companies in the world, Apple has had a rough go of it when it comes to AI. Its big push into the space didn’t come in 2023 at all, but in 2024. Even then, Apple Intelligence has been a bit of a disaster. The company’s ostensible show-stopping feature, an overhauled, AI-powered Siri, was supposed to debut with iOS 18, but we’re still waiting—and it won’t arrive with iOS 26 this fall.

Apple does have generative AI features you can use today, including an image generator, a writing assistant, and an image editor. But what Apple Intelligence lacks is a dedicated chatbot: Siri will not engage in a conversation with you, and ChatGPT integration with iOS 18 is skewed more towards assisting you with tasks than holding a dialogue. If you want a chatbot experience on your iPhone, you need to use one of the dedicated third-party services available on the App Store or on the web.

Apple’s new “chatbot”

That’s now changing, however—at least, as long as you only want to chat about technical issues. Apple recently updated its Apple Support app with a new “automated chat feature.” Indeed, if you tap on the “Chat” tab, you’ll be greeted by a “Chat with Support” splash screen that confirms the feature is experimental and in early preview.

MacRumors originally spotted the update, as well as a change to the company’s Terms of Use for the Support Assistant, which now reads: “Support Assistant uses generative models…You understand and agree that generative models may occasionally generate incorrect, misleading, incomplete, offensive, or harmful outputs.”

When you start a chat, you’ll see a similar warning at the top of the page: “You are chatting with Apple’s automated Support Assistant. This experimental feature may make mistakes. Verify important information.” From here, it’s like any chatbot experience you’ve probably had before—only much more limited in terms of topics. As advertised, the bot is really only concerned with helping you with your tech issues, and to that end, it actually seems to work well.

I struck up a conversation with it, pretending my iPhone was running hot, and it listed some scenarios in which that could happen, and asked whether I received a temperature warning or whether it was just warm to the touch. I went with the latter, which prompted the bot to ask if the phone was experiencing any other issues, like screen dimming or slowdowns. I reported my iPhone was running slow as well, and the bot suggested it could be an app running haywire, and offered specific instructions for force-quitting an app.

In another attempt, I acted like my MacBook Pro’s fans were running too fast. I was surprised to see the bot ask which of the two MacBook Pros attached to my Apple Account was having the issue (it noted the newer Pro was still covered under AppleCare+). I decided to say my older MacBook Pro was the one with the issue. After I told the bot the fans were not blocked, it offered detailed instructions on resetting the System Management Controller (SMC), a common piece of advice for resetting functions like fan speed on Intel Macs.

These are simple tests, but I’m honestly kind of impressed. Apple has a huge backlog of support articles to lean on, and it makes sense to be able to share these pieces of advice as customers ask relevant questions in real time, and the experience is pretty smooth. Throughout the exchange, the bot offers links out to different apps and services: If you’re asking about a broken iPad display, it’ll offer you an in-app setup experience to book a repair appointment. If you’re asking about a buying decision, it might offer a link to the Apple Store app.

I don’t have a real tech issue to test the bot’s usefulness, so I can’t really put it through its paces, but I’d definitely try it the next time I have a serious problem with one of my Apple devices.

Don’t expect more than tech support

If you try to talk to the bot about anything other than Apple tech support, you’ll be hit with the following: “I cannot help with that. I can answer questions or offer help with certain Apple products and services.” All of my attempts to chat with the bot about things you might ask ChatGPT failed. The bot doesn’t appreciate levity, either: When I told it my iPhone was running hot again, and it asked what I was doing just before I noticed it, I said “putting it in the microwave.” The bot told me to call 911 if this was an emergency, and gave me the option to talk to a human representative.

Apple seems to have implemented this bot with serious guardrails to prevent misuse, as I can’t get it to take the bait for anything outside the scope of tech support. Maybe someone out there with more experience in manipulating LLMs can engineer a prompt clever enough to bypass these restrictions, and I’d love to see how Apple’s bot would fare. But for now, the only way to experience Apple’s first generative AI chatbot is to ask it about your Apple devices. How fitting.

I was poking around on Poshmark last night like I always do, looking to see if I could make offers to interested buyers or find other ways to promote my listings, when I saw a button on my profile I had never tapped before. That isn’t the first time I’ve run across an unknown button, and the last time it happened I found a bunch of useful features that have helped me boost sales, so I hit this one right away. Simply called My sales report, the menu gave me the option to download all of my sales data into a spreadsheet. I’ve been analyzing the resulting export all morning, and I’m thrilled with how helpful it is. Here’s what you need to know.

How to download your Poshmark sales data

Exporting my sales data was simple (and reminiscent of when I did the same thing for my Peloton data). I tapped my Profile button on the bottom right of the Poshmark app, then scrolled down to My seller tools and found My sales report within. From there, you’ll have three options: Last full year, Year to date, and Custom range. After selecting one (and, if you choose to use a custom range, inputting it), all that’s left to do is hit Email report. For me, the reports I’ve generated all came in under three minutes.

Credit: Lindsey Ellefson

You can also request these using a browser. Tap your Profile picture on the top right, then Order activity. Find My sales report in the left-side menu and follow the same steps as before.

The link to download each report came to my email inbox. After downloading the CSV file, I stuck it in my Google Drive so I could open it in Google Sheets.

What the data includes

The spreadsheet this generates includes a lot of information, including:

• Listing date

• Order date

• Order ID

• Listing title

• Department (Women, Men, etc.)

• Category (Accessories, shirts, bags, shoes, etc.)

• Subcategory (Phone cases, tees, polos, heels, crossbody bags, etc.)

• Brand

• Color

• Size

• Whether the order was made in a bundle with other listings from your storefront

• Whether the order was purchased after a discount offer was made, either by you or the buyer

• Whether the item was NWT, or “new with tags”

• The order price

• The lowest price you ever had the item listed for

• Any shipping you paid (if you offered a shipping discount to the buyer, which the seller covers with their own earnings)

• Your total earnings

• The state the buyer lives in

• Their zip code

• Their username

• The sales tax paid by the buyer

Why this data is valuable

I am a dedicated Poshmark user, but I’m not a full-time seller or anything resembling a professional. All I do is sell my own stuff so I can get new stuff, relying on my own version of the “one in, one out” decluttering method. I don’t go thrifting to find clothes to sell, take high-quality photos, or really do much of anything serious or special, but I still sell enough that I’m making two to four trips to the post office in an average week. This isn’t my actual job or a real money-making endeavor for me, but it is generating payment consistently, so it’s good for me to pay attention to any trends in my selling that I might not be noticing in real time. I might as well optimize my approach to the extent possible, even though I’m pretty casual as far as sellers go. Still, I’ve been on Posh for over a decade and only really got serious with my sales in 2023, so I created a custom range for two and a half years when I downloaded my data.

Right away, I identified some valuable categories in the data. The listing date and order date are pretty key because they can give you insight into how long things are sitting in your storefront without being sold. By using the spreadsheet to figure out how many days were between listing and sale for each sold product, then sorting them by lowest to highest, you can get an idea of which brands or categories you’re selling are more popular. Then, you can list more of those kinds of things.

I was also interested in the discrepancy between the final price that was paid and the lowest price the listing ever was. The majority of my sales have been made after I sent the buyer a discount offer or they sent me one and I accepted it, so seeing how big the difference really is between what I want to earn on a sale and what I actually end up earning is valuable. I do wish, however, there was a column dedicated to highest listed price to accompany the data Poshmark provides on lowest listed price. I’d be interested in knowing how big the differences between what I originally valued an item at, how low I discounted it after it didn’t sell, and what I ultimately accepted for it are.

Credit: Lindsey Ellefson

I was also interested in the details of which states my shipped sales go to most often. I made a quick bar chart to show me which states have the most buyers for me and found that I’ve sent a ton to California. I don’t really know where my sales go most of the time because I use the QR code Poshmark generates when I make a sale and just show it to the post office cashier; I never print labels myself, let alone actually look at them. Other popular destinations for my goods, unsurprisingly, included other states with high populations, like Pennsylvania, New York, and Texas—but I’ve also made eight sales to Wisconsin, which was fun to learn. There isn’t much I can do with this data, considering I have no way to target buyers in certain regions, but I did find it interesting.

I repeated that process on the column containing my most-sold brands. I knew SHEIN and other fast fashion would be well-represented because I have seen such an uptick in interest in those since tariffs went into place, and other results weren’t surprising either: Higher-end goods from Gucci and Louis Vuitton have sold more than, say, Gymshark or Salt Life, but there’s probably some selection bias in there, since I’m more likely to list the products I know will bring in higher amounts of money. Still, it was validating to see all the random and unexpected brands that have sold. It reminded me that there’s value in listing any and everything since somewhere out there, a potential buyer does want it.

I’ll spend some time making detailed graphs over the next few days so I can really pinpoint what I should be listing and promoting, but even from a high level, the data here is useful. I did notice that though I set my end point on the date range to yesterday, the last listed sale in the data set I received is from two weeks ago, so there’s a delay in reflection. I’ve made a significant number of sales since then, partly thanks to my decision to spend a little money promoting my listings, so I’m eager to see the breakdown of those sales factor into my overall stats. I’m thinking, then, I’ll need to download this every month or so to make sure I have the best and most up-to-date information on trends as they relate to my sales. Honestly, I’m kind of excited to do it.

WASHINGTON, August 5, 2025 — Back-to-school shopping usually means backpacks, notebooks and lunchboxes. But don’t forget to add food safety to the list.

Young children, especially those under age five, are more likely to get seriously sick from foodborne illness. The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is reminding parents, caregivers, and anyone packing school lunches to follow a few simple food safety steps.