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Review on 🏻 Garmin fēnix 5 - Premium Multisport GPS Smartwatch with Sapphire Glass and Metal Band by Ananta Crowley

Revainrating 4 out of 5

Navigating the interface is easy. Looks good

You will find many detailed video reviews of this device. I'll limit myself to a few interesting things that I appreciate about it. First, you can fully customize the watch face by choosing from 10 different watch face designs. So during the day I use the traditional hour hands and at night I switch them to numbers (HHMM). Each watch face has at least four different spots where you can choose different data items to display (date, altitude, battery level, etc. or nothing). It needs GPS for my bike rides much faster than my moto. Financial assets. I just climbed it in 4th grade in Colorado and its metal band has no noticeable wear. Navigating the interface is easy. It looks good; I wore it to dates. I'm sure people more knowledgeable than me have done research on this, but the accuracy of the HRM and wrist altimeter is questionable. There were times during the climb when I was pretty sure my heart rate was higher than it was reading. Sure, a chest strap would help, but who wants to wear one on a hike? It's nice to have something right in both departments, though, and I don't know if any of Garmin's competitors have superior technology in either of those areas.

Pros
  • Nice packaging
Cons
  • Don't know