Garmin fenix 8 47mm

Garmin Fenix 8 47mm

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The Garmin Fenix 8 offers a choice between an AMOLED display and solar charging, as well as other upgrades like a built-in mic and speaker and a dive-capable design.

Design

It has a bright AMOLED display and I do find it a big upgrade on the classic memory-in-pixel Garmin screens, especially when indoors or under cloud or tree cover outdoors. In bright sunlight, the AMOLED screen is still clearly visible, and if you use the raise-to-wake feature to increase battery life the display turns on rapidly when you turn your wrist.

There are several new watch faces to use on the Fenix 8 and you can customize the colors and data shown extensively, with Garmin adding more color choices in particular with the new watch. You can also add more watch faces using the Connect IQ app store.

The new leakproof buttons on the Fenix 8 feel slightly different from past models, but still click reliably and satisfyingly, and there’s a small haptic buzz to reassure you that you have hit the button.

sports tracking and training analysis

The sports tracking experience on the watch is similar to that of other top Garmins like the Epix Pro and Fenix 7 Pro, which is to say it’s excellent indeed.
There are sports modes for pretty much everything, including a dedicated track run and triathlon modes, with the latter including an auto transition feature for when you switch sports. You can customize all these sports modes to show the stats you want, and you can also follow structured workouts and full training plans on your wrist.

GPS & HR accuracy

In very hard GPS environments, like the center of big cities, the pace stats on the watch will jump around a little, but the Fenix 8’s accuracy is good even under tree cover. The heart rate accuracy has also mostly been very good.

Battery life

The big advantage to the larger 51mm Fenix 8 AMOLED is that it offers significantly longer battery life than the 47mm model, and even with the screen set to always-on during and outside of activities the watch can last up to 13 days.

The big advantage sports watches like the Fenix have always had is battery life, so it’s good to see that they can still offer such long battery life even with AMOLED displays.

Maps and navigation

The Fenix 8 has routable maps that will create routes for you on the fly, and clever round-trip and back-to-start features that will guide you home even if you get lost mid-run.

You can create routes in the Garmin Connect app and sync them to the watch, or ask the watch to create some routes for you based on popular courses used by others. One of Garmin’s standout features is ClimbPro, which shows all the climbs and descents on your route individually so you can judge your effort accordingly.

smart features

For a sports watch, however, it is pretty smart, offering contactless payments through Garmin Pay, you can add music to your Garmin and there’s the ability to connect to streaming services Spotify, Amazon Music, and Deezer, and a modest selection of apps in the Connect IQ app store.

It’s a sports watch first and foremost, but the smart features on the Fenix 8 are enough to put it ahead of most other sports watches, which don’t offer payments or music storage. The AMOLED display is also bright and engaging, and the touch controls are fluid on the watch with no lag.