Garmin sells millions of Fenix watches…” source of this statement? Your mind or any published data? Or just made it up? However, you’ve also got two additional data fields you can add: Distance and Time till empty. These two fields look at your current intensity and then figure out when you’re going to collapse. You’ll see a few minutes into my casual warm-up, it projects that at that pace, I can do 22KM or 1 hour and 45 minutes. Both short and long term are currently equal, cause things haven’t got crazy yet.

Note: The above photo is showing the real-time estimated hours remaining based on the current battery, which at the moment this photo was shot was 46% on a Fenix 7.) do you expect garmin to release an update to the tactix delta (tactix echo?) soon in conjunction with the 7x? Does the F7 Saphire have maps preloaded for the whole world? In Ray’s vid, the graphic of map sizes seem to total more than 32GB?

I don’t trust the wrist HR sensor for workouts. I have had too many occasions of total nonsensical readings for minute at a time. I use an H10 for every workout. As you can see, it’s quite significant – again, assuming you have the solar power. But this is only showing that 3 hours. So imagine you’re hiking in the summer across a mountain range. In that case, you’ll likely have both far more than 3 hours a day in the sun, and depending on the weather, you’ll also have way more than 50K lux conditions. Garmin says that in none of these scenarios are they claiming ‘forever power’, but the reality is, if you turn off certain features, then you can basically get there with even just a few more hours of summer sun conditions. Inversely, if you’re hammering offline music + multiband GPS in a winter snowstorm with the optical HR sensor enabled doing PulseOx 24×7, then solar isn’t gonna net you much. The Flashlight (7X Only): There are customizable training plans for runners and cyclists, which set you certain sessions to complete during the week and adjust based on your performance, plus various Peloton-style instructor-led workouts. It’s all free of charge, and there’s no indication that Garmin plans to implement a Fitbit Premium-style subscription to access it. Now, just sitting in chair, your ‘measured’ elevation can change many meters in a short amount of time. Outside, these errors can be in the tens of meters in less than an hour. So what excites me the most are the performance and benefits offered by an optional touchscreen plus the high-resolution screen of the Epix Gen 2 version. A quality screen and improved interface finally move the Fēnix closer to the smartwatch superiority of the Apple Watch. Garmin Fenix 7 Pricing

Watches in the Fenix 7 and Epix lines can also display a visual race pace predictor, which estimates your time for a 5k, 10k, half marathon, and marathon based on your current fitness, complete with a line graph showing how that prediction has changed as a result of your recent training. GPS in cities is a problem – footpods and my features like Suuno ghost Racer could be a solution for some I’ve not yet completed the new dual-frequency tests but this post gives an interesting look at GPS vs All Constellation accuracy if you want to read more detail.As a Garmin user for over 10 years, I know exactly what to expect from Garmin’s sporting prowess and it is comprehensively good, Fenix has ALL of that goodness. Barometric/GPS Fused Altimeter, Barometer & Magnetic Compass. For sports though, I would ALWAYS use a sports-focused watch like a Forerunner or Fenix. So if you consider yourself a wannabe athlete, you know what to do. Go Garmin Garmin Fenix 7 Opinion

There's also a new on-screen race predictor that estimates how your current training regime will affect your 5k, 10k, and half marathon race times. This data was already available in the Garmin Connect app, but the new chart on your wrist allows you to see how your times are trending – and hopefully dropping – thanks to your efforts. Again, this is super basic at this point. But as Garmin outlined previously, it’s merely the starting point here. Nobody was comparing those, we were all talking about electrical measurement. Unfortunately Apple did their usual thing of “inventing” a slightly worse version of something and pretending it was new. The only thing they meaningfully added was convenience and a pretty graph, but Garmin and especially Polar have had the hardware for years out in the field. Polar even have these for horses available at retail. It would be a trivial firmware update to record a higher resolution graph of the heart and send it over Bluetooth, but then all the fanboys would complain it wasn’t directly on the watch so they can use it in the pub. So when are we actually expecting the embargo to be lifted for US/Canada and Epix and Fenix 7 to be available at the major retailers? This is one of those things that at first glance didn’t make a ton of sense to me. I mean, yes, it was spot-on accurate, but why bother to spend the time on this was quirky to me. In asking Garmin, they said the intention was that for certain racing/training, such as steeper incline training, it allowed folks to start to analyze whether or not the pace/HR tradeoffs were worth it on walking versus running. Since you can overlay all those stats atop it, I can see the logic there.And for the missing ECG feature; would it in any case not make more sense to include this in a strap, which could then measure constantly while wearing during an activity? From a health/safety perspective this seems more useful than a brief reading while not in activity… Notably missing from that list is the new Stamina and Up Ahead features. Both of which I’d imagine could easily run just fine on Fenix 6 hardware, so it’s a shame to see those not being added. I suppose on the bright side, Garmin does seem to slowly be getting better about adding features to older watches. Baby steps…I guess. In the Box: