Garmin Fenix 6 Pro, Premium Multisport GPS Watch, Features Mapping, Music, Grade-Adjusted Pace Guidance and Pulse Ox Sensors, Black
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If you run your GPS for two hours a day, you should be fine for at-home navigation. Before you have to charge again, you should wait at least 10 days. I completed eight 60-minute workouts. Since the last full charge, I've done 90 minutes of activity and the battery is still good for another 5 days.
When pairing with an iPhone, you'll need to set your phone notifications to "always on" or "when unlocked" for all of the alerts you want to see on the watch. The notifications will not appear on the watch if this is not done.
No, the Fenix 6 does not support Beidou GPS. It does, however, support GPS, GLONASS, and Galileo.
Local taxes on international shipments aren't included, to be sure.
Selected User Reviews For Garmin Fenix 6 Pro, Premium Multisport GPS Watch, Features Mapping, Music, Grade-Adjusted Pace Guidance and Pulse Ox Sensors, Black
Don't believe the hype from reviewers who get free Garmin review units and use them for two weeks before writing a review. This timepiece is broken. Advantages: br>br>
- It's a fantastic golf app. Nothing could be done any better, in my opinion.
- The majority of the hardware is excellent. Physical buttons are ideal for exercise and the screen is daylight readable. br> If you exercise every day, the battery will last about a week.
- Tracking for running and cycling is excellent. br>br>Cons:
- Garmin releases software updates with broken code on a regular basis. br> - Only "waiting for data" appears in the Weather App. Pulling out your phone is faster than constantly troubleshooting your watch.
- The most recent update caused the alarms to stop working. I'm not joking when I say that.
- Since the most recent update, sleep tracking has been disabled.
- All of Garmin Connect is down right now as I write this.
- In the last month, the Garmin Express software has been unusable.
- It's a joke to scroll around a map using two digital buttonsbr> - Entering a 0-value using two digital buttons It's a joke that you have to enter a 9-pin number before you can pay for your Garmin. Pulling out a credit card is a LOT faster. br> - The proprietary charger is terrible, and it wore out the pins on a previous fenix model I owned in less than a year.
- There is no way to replace the battery. If anything goes wrong, this is a $600 paper weight. br> Garmin customer service takes days to respond, and then only responds with one-sentence responses that aren't very helpful.
- Tracking your strength training is ineffective. The rate of my heart is fluctuating wildly. Rep counting is erroneous. The identification of lifts is frequently incorrect. Given the watch's limited input options, there's not much else that can be done. br>br>I assume the software in this watch is so badly broken because Garmin has to write updates for like 47 different models. You will not receive any new feature updates for the fenix as soon as a new model is released, unlike an Apple Watch, Fitbit, or Wear device. This means you're paying $650 for a nice watch that doesn't work, can't be serviced, and will be obsolete in a year. br>br>UPDATE: br>br> For four days, Garmin Connect was down. They didn't say why, but the fact that they were hacked is now widely known. They haven't said whether the hackers who broke into the Garmin network had access to passwords, personal information, or anything else. I wouldn't put any sensitive information in this company's hands that you don't want malicious actors to see. Man. br>br> Garmin is a scumbag of a company.
I don't do reviews very often. However, I wanted to make sure that others were aware of the situation. br>I would have kept it if everything worked as expected.
But. The messages were not delivered. Calls were only received on rare occasions. br>By spending $700, you can get: It ought to be improved upon. It has a number of flaws. br>And I only had to pay $500 because I had a gift card. br>And he didn't even bother to keep the watch. br>It has to work for me in order for me to justify the money.
It takes some time to get used to this watch. I still haven't figured out how to use all of the features or navigate the menus. Because there are essentially no instructions, it's a good thing there are good You Tube videos on how to set it up. However, it works well with the Garmin Connect app, and I like the clear graphics. Certain earbuds do not work well with the music player, so if you have Apple earbuds, be aware that you will be unable to adjust the volume. Others may be able to communicate with it more effectively. I like that you can set and adjust audible alarms for when you're in certain heart rate zones while working. It is highly adaptable. I know because I had a sleep study that the sleep tracking is remarkably accurate. The pulse ox is a little finicky, and it requires you to be completely still in order for it to take a reading.
I don't usually write reviews, but I'd like to let others who are debating whether or not to buy it know what I've discovered to be the advantages and disadvantages. This watch is fantastic, and it has exceeded my expectations in every way. Here are a few suggestions that may be useful: The display is not made of LEDs. It's a little difficult to see in a dark room or outside in the shade. It does, however, have a backlight that is extremely useful in this regard, particularly at night. If you're looking for an Apple Watch, however, you'll have to look elsewhere. You might be disappointed if you type on a computer screen. I get about ten hours out of the battery. 12 days. This is based on a 15-minute use of the GPS. 20 hours on a single charge (using it to track my hikes and golf) with the continuous heart monitor and pulse oximeter turned on only while sleeping. It connects to my iPhone without a hitch, and I haven't missed any text messages or phone calls as a result. It took me a little while to figure out how to navigate through all of the menus, but after about two weeks, I was confident in my ability to use all of the features - There are quite a few of them. I was hesitant to spend this much money on a watch at first, but now that I have, I am glad I did. It is well worth the money.