Garmin India today launched the Fēnix 7 Series that includes the Fenix 7, Fenix 7 Solar, Fenix 7 Sapphire Solar, Fenix7X Sapphire Solar and the epix in India. These feature enhanced solar cell efficiency and longer battery life. This series also features the first smartwatch in the industry that comes with a built-in flashlight. Additionally, the Garmin epix comes with high-definition vibrant AMOLED touch screen and promise exceptional battery life along with multi-sport functions.
The Garmin Fēnix 7 series comes with a robust suite of rugged features, an inbuilt flashlight with four levels of brightness along with a red strobe light that displays an SOS signal when activated in critical situations. These feature wear-resistant, scratch-resistant and anti-reflective high standard power sapphire as well as highly permeable patented solar panel.
Due to the increased surface of the solar panels and the optimization of solar cells’ configurations and conductive materials, solar efficiency is 200% higher than in the previous generation, said the company. The Power Manager function has been upgraded, allowing the overall battery life of fēnix 7X to increase by nearly 300% , achieving up to 24 days of battery life under UltraTrac Mode, up to 122 hours in GPS mode with solar charged and up to 37 days in smartwatch mode.
These feature more than 40 advanced built-in outdoor and indoor sport modes suitable for mountaineering, running, biking, hiking, rowing, skiing, golfing, surfing, indoor climbing and more. It also comes with pre-loaded high-intensity interval training workouts, including AMRAP, EMOM, Tabata, etc. The Real-Time Stamina feature allows users to adjust their speed and intensity in real time based on their current physical strength.
Garmin Connect lets users create a route and mark waypoints. Once synced with the smartwatch, pre-set checkpoints, water stations, medical stations and other route data will be displayed to the athlete.
Garmin EPIX
The Garmin epix features an AMOLED screen with a high-resolution touch screen and buttons. Besides the scratch-resistant sapphire crystal lens, the watch has more than 40 built-in outdoor and indoor sports modes, supporting over 42,000 golf course maps and 2,200 ski resorts around the world.
Additionally, the smartwatch has Real Time Stamina. In smartwatch mode, the battery life remains up-to 16 days and 42 hours in GPS mode and up to 21 days when the Power Manager function is activated. Additionally, these offers both touchscreen and physical button usage flexibility, so its users have complete control in tough outdoor ventures.
The new Fēnix 7 Series and epix are built to US Military MIL-STD-810 specifications, at the same time, supports Multi-GNSS positioning (GPS, GLONASS and Galileo). These boast about the inbuilt broadest range of 24/7 health monitoring factors like the Body Battery Energy Monitor, Pulse Ox3, stress tracking, advanced sleep with sleep score, respiration tracking and more.
Pricing and availability
- Fenix 7 – Rs. 67,990
- Fenix 7 Solar – Rs. 82,990
- Fenix 7 Sapphire Solar – Rs. 93,990
- Fenix7X Sapphire Solar – Rs. 98,990 for Black DLC Titanium with Black Band and Rs. 1,29,990 for Carbon Grey DLC Titanium with Carbon Grey DLC Vented Titanium Band
- epix – Rs. 89,990 for Slate steel and Rs. 99,990 for Black Titanium
These smartwatches will be available from Amazon, Flipkart, Synergizer, Tata Cliq, Tata Luxury, Decathlon, Anubhava store, Bangalore and Garmin Brand Stores starting today, February 17th. The Solar models and epix will also be available from Helios and Just In Time stores.
Commenting on the launch, Ali Rizvi, Director, Garmin India, said:
At Garmin, we have always been committed to technological innovations and come up with exceptional products for our outdoor adventurers. The Fēnix 7 Series and epix are an amalgamation of premium and style, specially designed for those who love to venture into the unexplored. The smartwatches are also equipped with multiple outdoor and fitness features that will provide the users valuable insights. We thrive to engineer products that will prove beneficial to our customers and have every minute details at the ease of their wrist. Also, the Fenix 7 Solar charging lens provides hassle free use of the watch for the longer time of period.