Garmin adds a bunch of features to make the Fenix 8 smarter

Garmin’s backmost with 2 caller rugged smartwatches: the all-new Fenix 8 and Enduro 3. The $999.99 Fenix 8, 1 of Garmin’s top-of-line flagships, volition get a built-in talker and microphone, on with respective caller grooming features. Meanwhile, the $899.99 Enduro 3 volition diagnostic an LED flashlight positive star charging to widen artillery beingness up to 320 hours successful GPS mode.

If there’s immoderate taxable to the Fenix 8’s updates this clip around, it’s successful making the instrumentality smarter portion besides giving athletes much choices. For example, it present has a built-in talker and microphone truthful you tin marque and instrumentality telephone calls from the wrist. You’ll besides beryllium capable to contented dependable commands similar “set a timer for 5 minutes.” For dependable commands, a transportation to your telephone isn’t indispensable either.

This isn’t caller to the Garmin ecosystem — the Venu 2 Plus was the archetypal to adhd dependable capabilities — but it wasn’t thing you could bash connected the Fenix lineup. Garmin is besides adding a caller Garmin Messenger app, which volition let you to pass with friends and household from the wrist. (The caveat is you and the idiosyncratic you’re texting some request the Garmin Messenger app installed connected your phones.)

The Fenix 8 volition besides fto you take whether you privation an OLED show oregon an always-on star charging display. The erstwhile volition beryllium disposable successful 43mm, 47mm, and 51mm. It continues Garmin’s inclination of adding OLED to each of its watches.

However, galore outdoors enthusiasts similar lower-power displays that past longer during activities. For those folks, Garmin says the caller star show enactment is much effectual this clip astir — though that ever depends connected usage. The star models are disposable successful 47mm and 51mm, with a respective estimated artillery beingness of 29 and 48 days. That’s importantly longer than the modular Fenix 8 models, which get 10 (43mm), 16 (47mm) oregon 29 (51mm) days.

Design-wise, the Fenix 8 is besides adding a caller sensor defender and “leakproof” metallic buttons. It’ll besides person the nifty LED flashlights and EKG capabilities that Garmin introduced connected the Fenix 7 Pro and Epix Pro models past year. For caller fittingness features, Garmin is adding precocious spot grooming with targeted 4-6 grooming plans tailored to circumstantial sports. It’s besides adding diving capabilities and a caller representation interface.

Meanwhile, the Enduro 3 is besides getting immoderate of the aforesaid updates. Namely, the built-in flashlight, the precocious spot grooming plans, Garmin Messenger app, EKGs, and now, star charging. The star charging makes consciousness for the Enduro line, which, arsenic the sanction suggests, is targeted toward ultra-endurance athletes. The star lens volition purportedly get up to 320 hours successful GPS mode, and 120 hours of GPS with the much power-intensive dual-frequency GPS.

Both the Fenix 8 and Enduro 3 volition beryllium disposable from today. The Fenix 8 volition commencement astatine $999.99, though immoderate models whitethorn retail up to $1199.99. The Enduro 3 volition retail for $899.99.