Garmin fenix 6S Pro, Ultimate Multisport GPS Watch, Smaller-Sized, Features Mapping, Music, Grade-Adjusted Pace Monitoring and Pulse Ox Sensors, Black with Black Band

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All of this is of course synced to Garmin Connect via WiFi (on the Pro models) or via Garmin Connect Mobile (via Bluetooth Smart on your phone). Or, you can use USB and Garmin Express. Or, you can just go off the grid and ignore all that stuff. If you’ve set up synchronization to 3rd parties like Strava or TrainingPeaks, it’ll instantly send there as well. Here’s how it looks on Garmin Connect Mobile (aka GCM): This is some of our favorite data, and a huge reason to invest in the Fenix 6. As runners, we’re addicted to the Training Effect and Training Status data, which is a great way to evaluate sessions.

I liked that I didn’t have to do anything special to enable sleep mode — the sensors automatically figure out when you fall asleep and wake up, as well as when you’re in light sleep, deep sleep, and rapid eye movement, or REM, sleep. With all that set, let’s go to loading up a course and get hiking. In my case, I just created my course on Garmin Connect. That allowed me to validate against the popularity data more easily. You can do the same these days on Garmin Connect Mobile (smartphone app) as well, though it continues to be a bit clumsy (but is faster than before). The Fenix 6S also features the same TOPO mapping – and while it's a nice feature to have, we still have reservations about its usefulness and usability. The GPS performance has been extremely disappointing from day 1 – performance pales in comparison to my 3+ year old Suunto Spartan Trainer Wrist HR.Essentially it’s as if Garmin is refreshing the base Fenix 5 lineup with the base Fenix 6 lineup, while the Fenix 5 Plus becomes the Fenix 6 Pro series. Roughly. To start a workout though you’re going to simply tap the upper right button. This will give you a list of sports that you can customize and set favorites. The goal of the solar here isn’t to fully power the watch, under GPS or otherwise. Instead, it’s to provide incremental battery life. Garmin notes this in their super-detailed battery life chart. Note specifically the assumption of 3 hours per day of solar light at a pretty high intensity (full sun basically). That goes both ways though. If you’re mid-summer and spending the day at the beach (or workout side), then you’ll way overachieve here. Versus if it’s mid-winter and you’re indoors…then not so much. Attaching another run and marking all the crazy errors which have shown up. Also forgot to mention that the watch is on 1 second recording. And again, don’t forget you can make your own product comparison charts here with all the products in the database. Summary:

This feature estimates your blood’s oxygen saturation. By default, it’s turned off to save battery life, but you can change that if you prefer it to run constantly.

While they can’t compete with bright screens you get on a smartwatch, the Fenix 6 Pro is easy to read in all conditions, and by using transflective memory-in-pixel (MIP) technology Garmin is able to offer extra-long battery life across the range. The 6 and 6 Pro offer up to 36 hours of GPS and 10 hours of GPS and music, while the 6X Pro delivers a hardly believable 60 hours of GPS and 15 hours of GPS and music. Even the smaller 6S and 6S Pro offers 25 hours of GPS and six of GPS and music, according to Garmin.