The Garmin Fenix 7 is a great watch with excellent tracking capabilities and a transflective screen that looks like a normal watch indoors. It has an impressive battery life, customizable watch faces, and supports Asian languages. However, it can be difficult to start and stop activities, the maps cannot be zoomed in on, and navigating the device can be unintuitive.

Verdict

The Garmin Instinct Solar is a great hybrid of a rugged G-Shock and a GPS watch. It has an impressive battery life, with the solar power feature allowing for even longer use. The watch is also compatible with Amazon Prime, making it more affordable for those who have the membership. However, some users have reported skin irritation from the silicon band.

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Battery Life

Perfect, except the music player

Battery life is great, tracking is excellent, and I'm really impressed by everything it does and how well. Also a huge fan of the transflective screen vs AMOLED. Indoors, it looks like a normal watch and not my phone. In bed, I can check it without being blinded

3/5

2 years ago

amazon.com

One of the best adventure watches on the market, with one serious design flaw

The battery life is incredible, as long as you're not running the GPS constantly. I've gotten ten days on one battery charge with intermittent, manual GPS fixing while hiking in extremely remote places. The watch face is serenely simple. The two tone display couldn't be improved in any way, for me

4/5

5 years ago

amazon.com

Price

very overpriced for the quality

it does a lot of things but...$800 are really not worth it, especially when a lot of those things are done at half the price from other smartwatches - even from the same manufacturer! after a few days I have returned it

2/5

2 years ago

amazon.com

A GOOD BUY. This is a survival smartwatch in a traditional watch body. Really great.

The Garmin instinct is the one I chose. It doesn't look as fancy as the Fenix models, but the Instinct is so much better as a practical smartwatch for the price. The Vivoactive 3 is terrible compared to the functionality and durability of the Instinct. The Instinct does not have a fancy touch screen, but it makes up for it in terms of features

5/5

5 years ago

amazon.com

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