The Garmin Fenix 8 in Large
Friday - 13 September 2024
The largest of the New Garmin Fenix 8 watches evokes a huge wrist presence and packs a whole load of features centred around health and fitness to ensure you get the very best out of an active lifestyle. Read all about the new Fenix 8 here at Jura Watches.
There are smartwatches and then there a smartwatches. Garmin excels in everything related to this kind of wrist-worn technology and has a huge catalogue of designs that appeal to different kinds of collectors. Whether you want a modern tool to assist you while playing golf or an expert diving companion, you can be sure to find whatever you are looking for in Garmin’s selection of smartwatches.
The Fenix Is an Exceptional Sports Watch
Watches from the Garmin Fenix collection offer a whole host of desirable features for sport and health-focussed individuals. Take, for example, the brand’s V02 Max feature that acclimates according to heat and altitude and its PacePro feature for guiding you while out on a hike. You also get features like MapDisplay, which ensures legibility via contrast options and dark mode options, a Climb Pro feature with a colour display graph, and Trendline Popularity Routing which shows heat maps and popular routes that are situated near your current location, wherever you are. Standard versions of the Garmin Fenix line feature Corning Gorilla glass and stainless steel bezels with silicone bands, offering optimum comfort, 24/7. Other higher-end models feature sapphire crystal glass and offer solar-powered capability for extending battery life. Titanium and DLC-coated carbon cases take things up a notch, offering a more premium wearer experience.
Why is Garmin So Reputable?
Whichever Fenix 8 watch you choose from the Fenix line. You can be safe in the knowledge that Garmin is a specialist in this niche field of sports and outdoor technology. The company was founded in 1989 and first began producing instruments for navigation and aviation. It is this dedication to creating cutting-edge technology that has put the brand in such good stead for its reputation in smartwatch supremacy. A precise design language, combined with innovative features bind together effortlessly to create exceptional tools for every eventuality. Over the years, the brand has been focussing on expanding its sports and outdoor products. Its impressive work includes excelling in cycling computers, sports watches and fitness trackers. These innovations carry out several cool features, including tracking heart rate, providing GPS navigation, and assisting with sports metrics. The new Garmin Fenix 8 51 combines all of these features and more into a tidy 51mm package that can be worn every day and anywhere. Available to order here at Jura Watches, we have all the information you’ve been wanting to know about the new smartwatch for outdoor goers.
The New Garmin Fenix 8 Smartwatch
The new Garmin Fenix 8 Smartwatch comes in three different sizes. The 43mm – the smallest of all – comes in a steel or titanium bezel and displays information on a 1.3-inch AMOLED screen. The next size up -the 47mm, offers a titanium 1.4-inch bezel and 1.4 AMOLED display – all features that it shares with the larger 51mm model. If you consider yourself a serious athlete or a sports enthusiast, the new Fenix 8 smartwatch for 2024 is definitely for you. With features that naturally encourage you to push yourself beyond your normal limits, it features a powerful built-in LED flashlight for after-dark visibility and a built-in speaker and mic to assist you with taking and making calls while you’re on the go. You can even use your smartphone’s voice assistant feature to respond to text messages and calls, as well as an off-grid voice command feature that lets you carry tasks out via your watch without a smartphone connection.
Back to the outdoor features of the Fenix 8 smartwatch and if you’re looking for complete assurance when you’re out trialling new routes, this smartwatch has your back. It allows you to navigate the great outdoors with multi-band GPS and SatIQ, not to mention 3 built-in sensors comprising a gyroscope, altimeter and compass. For dynamic round-trip routing the Fenix 8 smartwatch lets you incorporate your workouts into your routes. You can set target distances and use the watch’s turn-by-turn directions feature to ensure you never go off track. The Fenix 8 51mm watch also promises TypoActive maps in combination with relief shading to offer not only built-in maps but also access to thousands of maps all over the world, including golf maps and ski resorts while you’re away on vacation.
In terms of health and fitness, the Fenix 8 keeps you on track and fully focused on your fitness goals. As well as the usual Garmin features you’d expect of a smartwatch (including Garmin Pay and Bluetooth connectivity), you get to enjoy a fully loaded menu of health and fitness features. You can improve your training performance with the watch’s targeted strength training plans, along with real time stamina tracking and even specific sports workouts. While doing this, you get access to 24/7 health metrics that include sleep tracking, heart rate, and stress levels. The Fenix 8 will also advise you on recovery intervals to ensure you’re training to optimum levels.
Of course, none of these features would be of any use without sufficient battery power and this is thankfully an area that Garmin excels in. With the large-sized 51mm Fenix 8 smartwatch, you get a total of 29 days of battery power in smartwatch mode and 84 hours in GPS mode.
If you’d like more information on the new Fenix 8 51mm watch by Garmin, or the 43mm and 47mm models, call and speak to a member of our Jura Watches sales team today at 01335 453453 or email us on help@jurawatches.co.uk
