Review on ⌚ Garmin Fenix 5S Sapphire Wi-Fi Smartwatch in Black by ng Hong Dng ᠌
Everything about the product satisfied me, the price is perfect.
Garmin Fenix 5S is close to Forerunner 935 and offers a full range of features to the demanding user, packed in a "civilian" durable steel case. Garmin watches in the premium segment have a built-in NPR sensor. If the watch is not removed from the hand, a complete set of data for 24 hours is obtained - the duration of sleep, the pulse throughout the day, the number of steps taken. Navigation - in the watch you can download or create any track, and run in unfamiliar places where someone else has been, or you can repeat the track that you ran before, but have already forgotten. You can detect the direction, return to the previously saved coordinates or return to the start. There is no map as such in the watch, only the track line and you need to navigate along the arrow. The watch will provide a stream of data to help track progress - VO2max, lactate threshold, aerobic performance, anaerobic performance, fitness level; level of training load; recovery time. In the phone, all your indicators are always at hand. Through a Bluetooth connection, you can turn your watch into a smart watch and receive messages from your phone on the screen. In the IQ Connect store, you can download various applications, widgets, watch faces. The watch works with smartphones not only via Bluetooth, but also via Wi-Fi, which is very convenient. You can forget about synchronization - everything happens automatically as soon as you get into the network coverage area. The Garmin Fenix 5S offers a sleek design, durable case and sapphire crystal, and a full range of essential features for an active lifestyle. The Fenix 5S can claim a permanent place on the wrist of people who want an elegant watch, but at the same time are ready for any activity - go for a run on a business trip, go skiing, rent a bike. Special quick-change straps also contribute to this: changing a business style to a sport style is a matter of a few seconds.
- Multisport watch for sports and everyday life. Great watch for runners. You can get a huge amount of data - depends on your creativity and training goals, what data you display (s) - there are fields for timer, distance, pace, speed, heart rate, running dynamics, cadence, temperature, altitude, compass data, navigation data and others (calories, battery level, GPS strength, laps, sunrise and sunset, barometric pressure). I especially liked the accuracy of the recording without GPS. For outdoor running there are, of course, running functions with GPS, but it is also possible to record all parameters (except for recording the track on the map) with the functions "treadmill" and "treadmill". In both cases, GPS is turned off and the watch works on the basis of the built-in accelerometer - the watch "guesses" the speed by the movements of the hand and the whole body. On my test "polygon", the difference between the distances with and without GPS was only 1.3%, the accuracy is high.
- The built-in NPR sensor will work very well for tracking fitness functions, but for the training process, experienced trainers insist on using a chest NPR sensor. This is a more reliable way to track a key metric. The sensor on the hand did sometimes get "strange" numbers, especially in severe frost, when the pulse soared at a calm pace. I didn’t find any particular shortcomings, of course, when directly compared with the more modern (and more expensive) Fenix 5X, some amenities are missing, such as maps for navigation or Garmin Pay.
