Garmin Fenix 5 Plus Multisport Watch with Music, Maps and Garmin Pay, Silver with Black Band

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All’ that Garmin has effectively done is to make the bezel/non-display area slightly smaller and hence the overall watch slightly smaller. The ONLY compromise is that this means that there is then room only for a smaller battery and hence battery life. Why You Would Buy This I added my Starling card via Garmin Connect mobile. There were a few foibles with that process but it was generally alright.

It’s a multisport watch that will satisfy the needs of even the most ardent athletes, but it also has the looks and smart features required to make it something you’ll want to wear all the time, even if it’s not a true smartwatch like the Apple Watch. Garmin Fenix 5 Plus review: Price and competition Garmin Elevate heart rate monitor – we are on about the 3rd iteration of this optical sensor now and it is market-leading but still needs to be further improved

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So that leaves us looking at the accuracy of Elevation, GNSS/GPS and heart rate. People tend to ‘Poo Poo’ the accuracy that other people seek from devices when that aspect of accuracy is not important to them. For example, the small minority of cyclists who use power meters (of which I am one) might have a vocal sub-minority that tend to look down on those seeking GPS accuracy or HR accuracy. Runners, in response, might cite the almost certain fact that there are a VASTLY greater number of people looking for GNSS/GPS accuracy that there are cyclists looking at the differences of between 98-99% accuracy in power meters. Take-out: Sweet. But will Galileo be dual-band and will it bring big improvements? Garmin Fenix 5S Plus I wouldn’t go as far as dying Will, but lots of people do like to run with music and, by extension, podcasts. After all, an MP3 is an MP3 is an MP3.

If you are racing and training at hard levels then you may want to know your Lactate Threshold HR (LTHR, AnT, LT2). Above this point things progressively go pear-shaped with your performance yet, if you are well-trained, you will be able to operate in this state for over an hour. Garmin/Firstbeat auto-calculate and update this periodically. It’s a very useful pacing tool, although I find it slightly over-estimates my LTHR. If I were so inclined, and just like any other reviewer, I could present you with numerous SELECTIVE screen shots of the Fenix 5S Plus’s GPS performance and either tell the story that it was brilliant or totally rubbish. It’s neither. Overall I’d say it was ‘acceptably good’ but that would be looking at the GPS performance alone. When you factor in the price of the device and the fact that it is a supposedly top-end device then, well, you might have another opinion. I’m not going to say anything. Tell me what YOU think below. UltraTrac mode (mentioned above) – records stuff less frequently. This is different to SMART recording which records only changed data ie maintaining full data quality (in theory) Edit: I have now completed formal tests. the OWS issue shaves been resolved. GPS only performance IS BEST. GPS+GALILEO can SOMETIMES be better than GAP-only but, more likely, will have bad periods that make the overall experience of GPS+GALILEO worse than GPS alone.

Why is Garmin Fenix 5S better than Garmin Fenix 5S Plus Sapphire Edition?

The special Sapphire models are fashioned with sapphire glass that cannot be scratched unlike the normal models. Rather uniquely Garmin now allows you to follow complex structured SWIM workouts. That’s a relatively recent addition – 2016 IIRC. Old image, same pool.

The most obvious point is that Galileo, in its current incarnationon Garmin, is not a mind-blowing step change for improved accuracy in open conditions. Let’s look at some more examples. The CPU is sufficiently powerful to properly handle routable navigation and all the demands that come with it

Maps for New Regions

Finally, since I know some of you will ask, the following are most definitely *not* compatible. And the reasons are simple: They don’t have the storage, or they don’t have the processing power to handle maps. The ship has sailed on all of these (read: they’re definitely not getting map support), What Garmin present in their music offering is flawed. But the same is true of nearly all of the other competitive Running-With-Music options. There’s a Looong way to go before the perfect running+music device exists, much of the delays will be caused by music licensing restrictions.