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Garmin Fenix GPS Watch for Geeking out in the Great Outdoors
July 12th, 2012
The latest Garmin watch takes GPS to the next level thanks to its features and connectivity. You can use it in the wilderness or the urban jungle since it includes a variety of advanced GPS functions, including navigation and tracking of your journeys. It’s perfect for you if you’re a hiker, mountaineer, mountain biker, or backcountry skier.
The Garmin Fenix GPS Watch allows you to plan trips, create routes, record waypoints and record GPS bread crumb trails while keeping them on track. It also has ANT and Bluetooth capabilities, allowing it to connect to a variety of external sensors and share data easily. It comes with an altimeter, barometer, compass, LCD display with an LED backlight.
The wristband is made out of polyurethane and it’s waterproof up to 50 meters. Battery life is rated at 50 hours in GPS mode or 6 weeks in watch mode. The Garmin Fenix arrives this fall and will retail for $400 (USD).
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Love the new features included in this version of the Garmin. Used it in our trip to the mid-west and loved it.
Awesome watch. Will be replacing my Garmin eTrex with one of these – unfortunately not on sale yet though :-)
There are some videos of the watch in action here: http://www.garminfenix.com/videos
Really want one awesome watch when can I get it