Spacetalk Adventurer 2 vs Garmin Bounce - Price, Features and Safety Comparison

Let’s see how the humble, Australian-based Spacetalk stacks up against international giants, Garmin.

There’s about $100 difference between the Spacetalk Adventurer 2 and the Garmin Bounce. Both smartwatches come with several SIM plans to choose from, so you can select the plan that best suits you and your child’s needs. 

While both the Spacetalk Adventurer 2 and Garmin Bounce are available in several colours, the Spacetalk comes in a few extra colourways to suit your child’s taste.

Featuring tough screen glass, both the Spacetalk Adventurer 2 and Garmin Bounce have been built for durability, so they can withstand almost anything your child throws at them. With that said, if your little one is a fan of swimming, the Garmin Bounce features a higher water resistance rating, meaning it’s fine for use in the shower and while swimming and snorkelling.

With the Garmin Bounce, you can only manage up to 20 approved contacts. Interestingly, you can’t make or receive calls with a Garmin Bounce. Instead, the main forms of communication are text and voice messages. With this in mind, the Spacetalk Adventurer 2 offers a greater choice when it comes to connecting with your child. You can choose to call, text or use video chat to reach out to them.

The Spacetalk Adventurer 2 and Garmin Bounce both share the same connectivity features. Both devices are 4G compatible and they also have Bluetooth and wifi connectivity.

As a parent, the safety of your children is your top priority. The Spacetalk Adventurer 2 and Garmin Bounce both make it easy to keep an eye on your child from afar with their range of safety and tracking features. With real-time GPS tracking and the ability to set up safe zones, you can monitor your child remotely to check that they’re exactly where they should be. And if they accidentally misplace their watch, you can also use remote monitoring to see where the last known location of the device was, making it easier to track down.

If there’s one thing we all know, it’s how easily distracted kids are. But with school mode, you can switch your kid’s smartwatch to a regular old watch face during class hours.

Kids in Adelaide took the Spacetalk Adventurer 2 for a spin and noted that when you set the smartwatch to school mode “the features continue to work in the background so parents can still track their location if need be and it continues to count their steps and heart rate (if this is something important to you and your child).”

Both the Spacetalk Adventurer 2 and the Garmin Bounce have been designed with fitness and functionality in mind. Boasting a range of health apps and extra features, these smartwatches can be used for almost anything, from counting your kids steps to adding important events and reminders to the calendar.

Based on a recent review, Be A Fun Mum says, “The Spacetalk Smartwatch has all the features you’d expect from a modern watch, like the date and time, as well as a calendar and a stopwatch. You can also set up alarms and customise when they repeat to suit your child’s schedule.”

If you love receiving photo updates from your kids throughout the day, then the Spacetalk Adventurer 2 is the obvious choice. Despite offering a range of features and functionalities, the Garmin Bounce hasn’t been designed to include a camera.

Besides this oversight, the Spacetalk Adventurer 2 and the Garmin Bounce a fairly comparable when it comes to their technical specifications.

The Spacetalk Adventurer 2 and Garmin Bounce share many of the same features. From durability and connectivity to a focus on health and wellness, you can count on either of these smartwatches to keep track of your little ones while you’re not around.

For many parents, the ability to call and chat with their child is a huge bonus, which is why the Spacetalk Adventurer 2 beats out the Garmin Bounce in terms of connectivity. Plus, the Spacetalk Adventurer 2 also features a camera that can be used for video calls, whereas the Garmin was designed without a camera altogether.

If you’re keen to connect with your kids via talk, text or video calls while they’re out and about, check out the Spacetalk Adventurer 2.