Garmin Fenix 7

Expected by all the most demanding multisport athletes, the Garmin Fenix 7 lands on the market with the best features of the top of the range GPS sports watches of the American brand for the practice of outodoor sport with an innovative design so that there is no day of the week without which you have the option to take a new challenge, and get your best version in each new adventure you face.

This new Garmin Fenix 7 GPS multisport watch has it all. Or rather, almost everything, because the innovative solar charging system is excluded from the equation of this Fenix 7, and to wear it on your wrist you will have to make a larger investment to purchase the premium models of the Garmin Fenix 7 Solar or the Garmin Fenix 7 Shappire Solar. That said, the great features of the Garmin Fenix 7 are obvious:

• Unlimited battery life: Up to 18 days in smartwatch mode.
• Health monitoring, thanks to heart rate at the wrist and pulse oximetry (useful for calculating the degree to which the body absorbs oxygen).
• Navigation sensors: GPS, GLONASS and Galileo.
• ABC sensors with barometric altimeter, compass (three-axis electronic), plus accelerometer, gyroscope, and even thermometer.
• Tracking of all training statistics.
• Smartphone-freemusic storage and playback with subscription services on Amazon Music, Deezer, and Spotify.
• Smart notifications with text messages and alerts.

Thus, the premium materials incorporated in this Garmin Fenix 7 are put at the service of the most demanding athlete to adapt to their most active lifestyle, thanks to that stainless steel bezel. It is also important to note that this Fenix has the military standard in reference to thermal performance, as well as resistance and waterproofness.

What's new in the new Garmin Fenix 7?

Also, this top of the range Garmin Fenix 7 has as a great argument in favor that its design has been updated, being a little lighter (just 79 grams); and also making it more resistant, because it includes a polymer housing, which comes reinforced with 47 mm fiber, as well as a large screen of 13 inches in diameter, a resolution 260 x 260 pixels and full color.

Touch screen

Speaking of the new features of this Garmin Fenix 7, the first point we can highlight with respect to its previous version of the Garmin Fenix 6 is in the inclusion of the touch screen of this latest version. It is not something excessively new if we consider that much of the Garmin smartwatches have it, but nevertheless, it is a first in this top of the range outdoor models.

Garmin product developers have continued to bet on what works well for them, and as with the Garmin Fenix 6, the lens material continues to use the exclusive Corning Gorilla Glass DX system, high impact resistance, while mounting a screen visible to sunlight, transflective, and even with memory at the pixel level (MIP).

On the other hand, together with this innovative touch screen, an aspect that does not go unnoticed is that this Garmin Fenix 7 also brings with it a very practical and functional button control, perfect for moving in any environment, and that facilitates access to all functions of the watch with works in any libre environment.

Charging and battery life

We come to the strong point of the Garmin Fenix 7, the autonomy of its battery. Being aware of the demands of major sporting challenges, this is a section that the American brand has worked very well, and in fact this Fenix 7 has an exceptional battery life, apart from its innovative Solar charging series. In this sense, the different battery modes of this watch are summarized in:

• Smart watch: up to 18 days.
• Energy saving watch mode: up to 57 days.
• GPS only: up to 57 hours.
• GPS: up to 40 hours.
• GPS and music: up to 10 hours.
• GPS with maximum battery usage: up to 136 hours.
• Expedition GPS: up to 40 days.

It is also important to note the significant increase in memory and storage capacity that has this Garmin Fenix 7 from 64Mb of its previous version to 16Gb of this latest model.

More comprehensive analysis of your physical activity and health

This Fenix 7 also stands out for that comprehensive tracking of health and physical activity. Like all premium GPS sports watches it comes with pre-installed activity profiles for running, trail running, swimming, cycling, hiking, rowing, skiing, golf, surfing, indoor climbing and many more. What's more, it also includes tracking of high-intensity interval training (HIIT) sessions, and even suggestions for your daily workouts, which adapts to your preferences, but also to your current fitness level.

Not to mention that whole catalog of advanced performance metrics with running dynamics, VO2 max, trail running setting, as well as recovery control, among others. It also takes into account training intensity and factors such as stress, daily activity and sleep. In addition, these metrics and statistics of the Garmin Fenix 7 are adjusted for both altitude parameters and heat acclimatization.

Navigation maps and music on the watch

Lovers of doing sports to the rhythm of music are in luck because the entire Garmin Fenix 7 series have a large memory capacity with many more Gb of storage, and also with the option of playback without the need of the cell phone. This way, you can enjoy all your favorite playlists; stored on the watch or from premium accounts Deezer, Spotify or Amazon Music. In addition, point in favor of the Garmin Fenix 7 Sapphire Solar, the top version, is that it is the Garmin device with the largest storage capacity, as it offers up to a total of 32Gb of storage space.

On the other hand, this high-end training device also includes map navigation functions. These details - navigation and music playback/storage - make it an even more premium GPS multisport watch.

Garmin Fenix 7 features

We will not dwell on each of the details that brings this Garmin Fenix 7, because we would make an almost infinite product sheet, but then we highlight some of the most important features of the Fenix 7, and that are brand of the house:

• Race forecast: estimated pace for the distance to be run, based on history and your current fitness level.
• stamina level in real time to manage and track your effort.
• Climbpro function for slope planning.
• Pre-installedskiview maps and Topoactive maps of Europe.
• Hydration tracking.
• Smart notifications and music apps.
• Contactless payments with Garmin Pay.

Garmin Fenix 7 series, all versions and models available.

As for the price of this Garmin Fenix 7, which is already available on its official website, this new release comes with different versions: Garmin Fenix 7, Garmin Fenix 7S, Garmin Fenix 7 Solar, Garmin Fenix 7X Solar, Garmin Fenix 7S Solar. In addition to the three standard diameter size in the premium edition Shappire Solar. From a more affordable price, but without losing the perspective of a top of the range watch, ranging from 700 € of the Garmin Fenix 7S, the most basic, to the most premium version of the Garmin Fenix 7X Shappire Solar, which reaches up to 999.99 €.