Just because I went to sleep, doesnt mean Ill automatically wake up with 100% Body Battery. For example, the Fenix 7 seems very slightly more smoothed than the Epix, though, its not clear why as both were on identical settings. You can see that it does theres a video of it on a trail within my main video at the top of the page. The battery saver mode increases that figure to 173 hours with solar. Both making the same errors and non-errors at the same time when worn together on workouts. Here I was comparing the Garmin Epix on my left wrist, the Fenix 7 on my right wrist, plus both a COROS Vertix 2 (right hand) and a Forerunner 745 (hydration pack). It applies to all Garmin watches I guess. And its literally spot-on perfect. Sure, no Fenix 7 here, as I only want one unit per wrist. Once this unit goes back, Ill go out and get my own for any future testing needs. Is the Stamina feature the same in Coros and Garmin? Is it possible to enable/disable the touch screen using the quick access buttons?

So, were going to start with a feast of watches on a route thats both easy and extremely challenging. Heres the battery chart for what each of these options do, depending on which model you have.

2. How many data fields per page in the Fenix 7S and Fenix 7? They obviously did this because they wanted to reserve the major version number (e.g. When I do so Ill see map options, elevation, as well as ClimbPro. While the thin rim around the Fenix 6 wasnt as obvious, the much wider rim on the Fenix 7 is clearly visible. Id like to know if the difference between sapphire/non sapphire is huge in term of readability. The blood oxygen and HRV measurements are junky/busted.

Thanks for any insight! Thanks. In my case Ill pick a run. Ok, with the maps downloaded, lets set out on an adventure.

So the idea being that you can perhaps use higher-level dual-band accuracy on an openwater swim or a mountain bike ride through difficult terrain, but then go with less-battery-draining options for a road bike ride, which is typically one of the easier things to track GPS-wise. Note that no function requires touch, so you can go pure button if you want to. TopoActive Hong Kong & Macau: 17MB (yes, megabytes) Trail running I also just put together my complete Gear I Use equipment list, from swim to bike to run and everything in between (plus a few extra things). I would be interested in this question as well. Been trying to decide between Fenix 7x SS and Epix 2 for a few days and just ordered the Fenix. Can you make a video or explain how these functions work on this watch? One of the major updates to the Fenix 7 is the introduction of a touchscreen, bringing it in line with more typical day-to-day smartwatches a market Garmin definitely wants to enter. I have tattoos on both wrists and I have the garmin 945 which really struggles and mostly cant read my HR from the wrist. But this is a quickly rectified issue, and I never had any wildly inaccurate readings when out recording an activity. Itd be impossible for me to outline every single nuanced sport feature. Conditions include everything from tree/building cover to weather.

In the past, when I have compared my Garmin watches to your reviews, I have never had the same performance with regards to GPS. Heres the data: I want to zoom in though on one of the longer sustained climbs of about an hour or so.

Very strange because the stamina graph is there on my iPhone for my Epix2. Garmin has also revamped pretty significantly both its base GPS mode for big battery life savings, as well as gotten rid of the GLONASS/GALILEO options. Ive got an entire dedicated video on that above, but an even more crazy-detailed post thats constantly updated with all the silly differences that might be discovered down the road.

If I dont go into activity mode however, it is totally bogus, therefore I wonder if there are different algorithms or whatever in normal mode vs activity mode. These days, the biggest banks in the US and many other countries are supported though. Practically speaking, neither was perfectly correct, they were just wrong in opposite directions and the multi-band units were clearly just very slightly less wrong. Ive been sleeping with the fenix X Series watches for several years.

Thanks for another great assessment and review.

The exception to this would be if you use the Garmin Explore app (also free), which then does allow syncing of data (namely tracks/routes) back and forth to a phone that doesnt have internet. In the case of the Fenix 6, it added almost negligible battery life for most users. Its the same hardware. A road cyclist at heart, he can be found zooming along the lanes and roads of the South West, as well as undertaking foolhardy pursuits such as overnight audax rides. After which youve got 60 seconds to complete your transaction by tapping the NFC reader: After which itll give a successful green ring of win, indicating the payment completed. After that, the run profile datafields were exactly the same on my Forerunner 945. Just a quick note for Fenix 7/Epix owners that were waiting for the FR955 features, the first chunk of them has arrived in alpha/beta (along with some totally new features). I see a pretty consistent 30-35% drop in battery per day, with a full charge only lasting 3 days.

Also, a foodpod is yet another device that needs to be charged regularly and may run out of charge unpredictably, especially when running ultra distances. TopoActive Korea: 213MB With that out of the way, the Fenix 7 series retains the same case sizes as the Fenix 6 does, which are: Fenix 7S: 42mm case (like europe can be enabled disabled on the fenix 6x pro as east, west and central europe)

I gave myself a 7ss as an upgrade from a 6s-pro. Its simple.

BTW I created few courses using very accurate maps where I could include route side, cutting curves and there is no significant different compare to Garmin courses, Google. In a lot of places though, its just virtually identical: It is also true that both the COROS Vertix 2 and Garmin Epix/Fenix 7 units in multiband, outperformed the FR745 (using just GLONASS). Garmins very specific (more reasonable) claim is 3 hours of 50K Lux sun.

Will you test our product before release? The temperature function suffers from the same issues Alex outlined, where body heat could influence its readings. All of Garmins figures for battery assume 3 hours a day at 50K. However, areas like descending on a bike caused inconsistencies, as did some lifting (but not all).

It really does not work at all when doing this. Wanna save some cash and support the site? This did mean I could wear the watch over my jersey or jacket because it no longer had to have contact with my skin, which was welcome in the cold or rain.

In this case, Garmin calls them Course Points, but its effectively the same. I dont think so. Garmin says that theyll soon support enumeration within Up Ahead (explainer in a second) from 3rd party files. Keep in mind that this chart is really a starting point. I ended up pairing the watch with a chest-strap heart rate monitor for my rides, which defeated some of the utility of the watch when cycling. I have had this issue in my 935 and seen others comment the same on the fenix. This includes all three core models, as well as its Epix sibling. But none of which are new to the Fenix 7, so for now were going to keep cookin. Revamped GPS only mode for far more battery life savings So consider this a shorter primer to a slate of changes Garmin has made. Multi-band GNSS. I always try to ensure the unit is above water for at least 10 seconds (with green sat lock) before pressing start, and then I wait about 3-5 seconds before my first stroke (keeping watch above water) to ensure first position is locked.

As a general rule of thumb, the lighter/smaller a watch is, the more accurate its optical HR sensor will be. No option for it.. The Fenix 7 comes with more than 60 activity profiles loaded onto the watch, covering everything from cycling to climbing and gym work to parachuting. So, I wanted to see if that held any implications if I compared the Fenix 7S on my left wrist to a Fenix 7X on my right wrist. Is the battery life as long as advertised? kind regards. So I rode down the road and back with the watch on OWS mode. Curious why you are staying on the 745 if you just bought a Fenix 7 and the Epix, 945 LTE, and others are out. Those watches were never really designed to pull in settings from the phone app. Next, lets head into the jungle for a hike/trail run. Now I hope for a toggle to hide street names and map POI, because they can render the map useless sometimes.. Yeah, you can save a tiny bit more if you ditch some of the other map components: A) SkiView: 23MB Very strange indeed, Just wanted to let you know that I still cant see the stamina graph on the app, but its now visible on the website (same for the others that were having this issue on the forums, visibility on website but not on the app). The only real way to validate accuracy is a swim buoy/swim cap method with another unit in bike/run mode.

Navigation and tracking ! While there are many different sports and activity profiles to choose from, my thoughts on the watch are largely in the context of testing it while road cycling. Arent there more differences with the GPS as well on the Sapphire vs the Power Glass? Awesome article as always. Those are strong words.

It works reasonably enough while sweaty or in the rain, though precision tends to be slightly less. If the sapphire glass is as resistant to scratches as gorilla DX glass. Switched to glass-covered optical HR sensor (versus plastic with a coating), which increases durability I dont look at the screen all that much when out, but its perfectly visible to me when I do. link to garmin.com, How much of the 16gb memory is free before you download ay Topoactive maps ? To me it looks like its very easy for Garmin to set up in GMC for other watches too. . On a solar series watch, you can check the current solar income either through various watch faces or widgets. I mean, yes, it was spot-on accurate, but why bother to spend the time on this was quirky to me. Nonetheless, I used both just fine and didnt get lost in the jungles, mountains, or volcano lava rock. solar CIQ 3.3 (or higher) for devices currently on 3.x Note: Not all watches support Running Dynamics/Swimming HR backfill, check your watch first! It has a number of upgrades from the Fenix 6, including the touchscreen, solar charging with a reinforced screen for the first time, and improved positioning. This one had it all! Like the Fenix 6, the barometric altimeter on the Fenix 7 still fluctuates if the watch hasnt had a GPS signal in a few days or you havent used its altitude-calibration feature. For example, there are common ones like following routes, then semi-common ones like creating one-off spontaneous routes, and then lesser-used features like calculating the area of a plot of land. Garmin claims 22 days battery life in GPS mode if you expose the watch to three hours of sunlight per day in 50,000 lux conditions. In looking at the Hotkeys options, both sleep-mode and Touch are options you can assign to hotkeys for quick enablement/disablement. Is it possible to choose different notification pattern?3 vibrations, 5 vibrations, vibrations until picking up the phone call, etc? The base model of the Fenix 7 series have 16GB of space and the Sapphire units have 32GB of space, but you lose of course plenty of space to maps, depending on what youve downloaded. Just in case. I still get (smartphone) notifications during workout while I switched them off in the settings. Will all the Fenix 7 features that are coming to the Fenix 6 also get ported to the 945 LTE? This is a real bummer. I have an Epix and a 7X and like to rotate them for exercise and daily wear. In that case, when I got to the crossing point, I tried to decipher which way to go, but Garmin wasnt clear. Stopped the activity and started a new one. At least in my experience. In my case, the settings were definitely transferred/synced from my Fenix 7 to my Forerunner 945. They did not make the 7X display smaller. Maybe it just wasnt recording at the precise right times, maybe it just wasnt trying very hard. These will undoubtedly change slightly over time, but shouldnt change too dramatically over the years: TopoActive North America: 8.9GB But in short, everything gets boiled down to this: Fenix 7 Base (7S/7): Music, Garmin Pay, WiFi, downloadable maps, 16GB storage, touchscreen, plus all software features One thing thats grown on me as more annoying is the lack of arrows or chevrons on the Fenix series routes. In one other scenario where I passed under a giant chunk of the Hospital, the FR745 zigged, while all the other units zagged. Arkadiusz Lewicki thats the main reason why I recently returned a beautiful Polar Grit X Pro. I was surprised to see the very long/extensive list of course point types in your screenshot. Could you perhaps post a photo of the 7X on your wifes wrist?

Havent heard from Garmin, but my guess is that it might get fixed when the connect iOS app is updated So in efforts to combat the amount of emails I need to sort through on a daily basis, Ive complied this My Photography Gear post for your curious minds! And again, this has no impact on viewing any of these stats on your watch itself, but only if you were spending extended periods of time without internet, analyzing your stats on the smartphone Garmin Connect app would not be possible. Use Backcountry.com or Competitive Cyclist with either the coupon code DCRAINMAKER for first time users saving 15% on applicable products. The scenario where I find it gets things wrong is when Ive had a quiet week of training, and then quickly ramp up. I would be interested in this as Well. It looks at your recent load and training focus areas, and figures out what the next logical workout should be to slightly increase your fitness. Those can be specific data fields for a sport (like strokes for paddling, or cadence for cycling), as well as sport-specific calorie burn, or the sensor types which they connect to.

It doesnt even show calendar items which were synced earlier. The display looks better. It can flash white and red as you run, matched to your cadence specific to showing white lights while forward-facing, and red lights rearward facing. But to each their own! Appears to be similar to my Fenix 6 pro sapphire. You can use 3rd party apps (like Strava or such), and then have the Fenix 7 broadcast your HR to that app. Thanks. In my case, Ive got reasonably good eyes, so just a bit more visibility to pick out harder to define tree roots on a dirt path is really all I need. The top portion of the page, titled Stamina, is your short-term potential. Added touchscreen display (and can still use buttons for every function) can we expect a deep and sincere comparaison paragraph update between Gorilla Glass, Solar Power Glass and Sapphire Solar Glass ? Youll see the immediately next waypoint listed (distance), with its name and icon. I find I tend to prefer the popularity one the most, but the one titled System is the default. Note that the usual smart-recording or 1-second recording option is still in the settings (and still annoying defaulted to Smart Recording), but that has no bearing on the GPS reception timing/display, its purely what it writes to the recorded file. The distance is wildly inaccurate. (Sorry Im late in mine, they went to junk mail). My Garmin pre-installed analog watch faces on Fenix 5 plus keep ticking always & I prefer that.

For super simple context compared to the other top-dog in the battery space, the COROS Vertix 2, their key claims are: GPS-only: 140 hours You can see how that looks here: This actually does then auto-categorize the interval run times and paces if you check out the gallery of screenshots from Garmin Connect, it has a line item called interval run pace, so thats kinda neat. With that, weve covered the majority of the core sport-specific features. For that you either had to pay $20-$30 to download maps from Garmin (which was cumbersome, at best, using a desktop computer), or, you had to download similar free maps which was also cumbersome. The scenario Im imagining is being out on a hike and finding myself without a light and needing to navigate back in the dark. I understand that there might be challenges when the device is wrist mounted, but surely they can add a setting that indicates the device is fitted to the handlebar and only then enable the metric? I saw a lot of images on reddit and garmin forum where people were complaining about the glare on the sapphire screen.



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