Review on 🏃 Renewed Garmin Fenix 5X Sapphire - Slate Gray with Black Band: Top Performance at an Unbeatable Price! by Jongil Baek ᠌

Name: 🏃 Renewed Garmin Fenix 5X Sapphire - Slate Gray with Black Band: Top Performance at an Unbeatable Price!
Item: 🏃 Renewed Garmin Fenix 5X Sapphire - Slate Gray with Black Band: Top Performance at an Unbeatable Price!
Rating: 4

December 20, 2022

I expected mediocre quality, but the product was pleasantly surprised.

7. Data screens for workout modes disappear. Those. you spend time setting up data screens, and then you start the activity, one or two screens just don't show up. You go into the settings, thinking that you forgot to set something up, but no - everything is set up, only the data is not visible .

As you can see, these are all childhood mistakes that Garmin stubbornly refuses to fix. New firmware arrives regularly, but they do not solve problems.

In general, I am satisfied with the watch, especially in the absence of worthy competitors. Hopefully, these shortcomings will be corrected in subsequent ates. The device is not the cheapest, and there is no particular desire to be a beta tester for 750 bucks somehow.

Pros

There is no point in talking about the merits, the network is full of (video) reviews where all these merits are savored. In short, a solid case, high-quality assembly, an abundance of sensors, sapphire crystal, a huge battery life.

Cons

There are not so many cons, but I still want to talk about them. In order of discovery, not importance. Hardware: 1. Weak vibration response to notifications from a smartphone, as well as during training. 2. There is no way to increase the volume of notifications. You can only enable and disable the sound of notifications / alerts. 3. Looks for satellites for a very long time and builds routes even longer. Software: 1. Incorrect operation of the pedometer when driving in a car. For example, I recently traveled 1000 km to the north, where the road, to put it mildly, is not very good. So the clock counts every bump as a step, or even several. That's how I managed to "pass" 12936 steps without even getting up from the car seat. :) In my opinion, the problem is solved in an elementary way: it is enough just to take into account the readings of the heart rate monitor, which just correctly determines the lack of physical activity. 2. Incorrect operation of the pedometer when swimming. Why the hell do steps in the water count at all?! And this is with a manually included lesson - "swimming in the pool." I came into the pool, there were about 500 steps on the clock, I got out - more than 3000 steps . Is it really difficult to turn off the pedometer in this mode? 3. Inadequate operation of the backlight. When you raise your hand to look at the time, the backlight turns on every other time. More often, even when the hand has already lowered. Damn, even Apple watches can do this normally. 4. The built-in heart rate monitor does not display data during training. Those. displays, but for this you need to go to the settings menu and disable and enable the sensor again, only then the data will be visible during training. 5. There is no way in the smartphone companion app to customize the standard watch faces, as well as see how they will look on the watch. The main thing is that for third-party dials it is, but for built-in ones it is not. 6. Built-in widgets do not always work correctly. For example, the weather widget. It turned out to configure it only after a complete reset of the clock.