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

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Finally, you get to run with the album art possibly shown in all its low-res glory. The sound quality is pretty good if you have good earbuds like the Jabra ( Jabra Elite Active 65t Review ed here in lots of gory detail). Sound quality is determined by a lot of factors. Fixed an issue where lap time and total time could differ by a few milliseconds on the first lap of an activity.

Round-trip course creator (running/cycling) – this has some foibles when in use but is ideal for holiday and exercising or exploring unfamiliar areas. Garmin also has the ability to create complex structured workouts on CONNECT which can then be executed on the watch. Complex intervals can be constructed and there are various add-on functions that improve the workout experience such as alerts and countdown timers. Sometimes complex workouts are a bit too, err, complex and so there is also an on-watch feature to create and follow simple intervals (that’s the feature that competing watches tend to add to demonstrate their support for intervals) Garmin also includes a race predictor. This really tells you what you might be able to achieve if you trained appropriately for the distance in question. A 2:49 marathon would be nice… Forerunner 645 Music Shown Fixed an intermittent issue where the device could crash when fetching calendar information from the smartphone.The main feature sets in the Fenix 5S Plus cover running, cycling, swimming, triathlon, golf and general outdoors/hiking. Some of the individual features work across sports. Sports Features Covering All Sports Planning & Preparation Features

The cynic would say that it was either for Garmin to make more money or to silently fix a hardware issue in the 5/5s. Barometric trend indicator with storm alert – at a defined rate of change in pressure, a storm alert is issued ie does not require smartphone connectivityElevation profile – It’s simple enough to imagine a plot of your entire workout by altitude – there’s nothing new there. But there is the new ClimbPro functionality which gives you specific information about the current and next planned/navigated climb in your workout. Other concerns can be raised about the offline, storage-based offering from Garmin. Is there enough space? Is offline storage the way to go long term? Once it’s done copying, you should now see that file sitting in the Garmin folder. The names will be similar, but it’s the one ending in ‘Supp’ (like ‘supplementary’):

You can also create custom workouts in the Garmin Connect app and sync them to the watch, or create simple interval workouts from the Fenix 5 Plus itself. I use Garmin’s workouts feature a couple of times a week with whichever of its watches I’m testing and I’ve yet to find another app from another sports watch brand that makes it as easy as Garmin Connect does. GPS is the American satellite system, GLONASS is the Russian satellite system, and GALILEO is the European satellite system. The whole Fenix 5 Plus collection now has access to the GALILEO satellites. By activating the GALILEO satellite system, you will now experience much more accurate navigation and measurements. The key difference with the Fenix 5S Plus is that the ‘S’ is for small. If you prefer a smaller watch format then this is the one you would go for. However you might be concerned that you are missing out on something because of the smaller size format.Here we have a steady-state run followed by 10 minutes above threshold and then some 30-60 second faster efforts with recovery. The Fenix 5S is the worst of the 4 but only VERY marginally so. I’d say this was more than acceptable. The following run wasn’t so good and, surprisingly that was at a lower pace. Although I was running for much of the time on uneven ground which was probably the cause of the 5S letting Garmin down a little. It’s worth bearing in mind that VIBRATIONS will af It looks like there is NOT a new Forerunner 935plus. Although note that you can pair a 935 to BLE headphones…you might ask “Why would that be?” It’s mostly the addition of these routable maps that distinguish the changes to outdoors/navigation functionality over the previous Fenix 5 model. All the previous outdoorsy functions have carried forwards to the 5S Plus (eg compass) Point to where you want to go and be directed. (old function) Much of the other interest in this section comes with what other sensors can be paired TO the Fenix 5S Plus. But the main thing to note is that the earlier non-Plus version of the Fenix 5 had CONNECTIVITY PROBLEMS. These are now resolved with the Plus series. ie don’t think that you will get a few less features by going for the non-Plus version…that’s true but you will also get stuff that doesn’t work. GET THE 5 PLUS NOT THE 5 non-PLUS Headphones And from a different run where the 5S again seems to outperform the 935, both with Galileo enabled (colours reversed). 5S Plus Red w/Galileo – 935 Blue w/Galileo

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