The newly-named Amazon Prime Massive Offers Day is formally underway, and proper now, Garmin’s top-tier smartwatch, the Fenix 7X Photo voltaic will be purchased at a best-ever worth of £539.99.
With a saving of round £200 (extra on the specifics of this under), it is by far and away the most cost effective I – or any of my colleagues – have seen it wherever on-line. When you do not belief our collective recollections, I do not blame you, however you may belief the information as a result of in keeping with price-checker Camelcamelcamel (I’ve no thought why they known as it that nevertheless it’s an amazing instrument for checking historic Amazon costs), it is £50 cheaper than it is ever been bought at Amazon earlier than.
The Fenix 7 (in all its three dimension guises) is a genuinely unimaginable piece of equipment, and sits on the high of our information to the perfect biking watches for that very cause. After all, it is not only for biking although, removed from it. It is a a real 24-7 health tracker that may monitor dozens (nay, lots of) of various sports activities. You possibly can even create your individual, as I’ve performed for bikejoring with my canine!
It has all of the bells and whistles in Garmin’s arsenal, inlcuding Garmin Pay, Spotify integration with storage, the total suite of navigational options reminiscent of multiband GPS, barometric altimeters and extra. There’s additionally the optical coronary heart charge sensor and the related well being and health metrics reminiscent of Vo2 Max and Pulse Fee, and many others.
After which we get to the photo voltaic charging, which does have its downsides. I’ve frolicked utilizing each the Epix and the Fenix 7 Photo voltaic, and located the photo voltaic panels provide round an additional 3-4 days of battery life (Epix lasted round 7-10 days on common, Fenix lasted roughly 10-14 in combined use). However the show on the non-solar Epix had a lot better distinction. When you do not thoughts charging and also you get the same worth, bear that in thoughts.
I additionally wish to present some context across the worth, for readability. Amazon has the retail worth set at £779.99, which suggests a saving of £240. Nevertheless, the identical watch at Garmin retails for £739.99 (right here). The value of £539.99 remains to be the perfect we have ever seen, there isn’t any getting round that, however the low cost is not fairly the 30% being promoted.
Additionally, we’re purchasing in a particular area of interest right here. Clearly in case you’re not after a full-function smartwatch at this worth, then spending over half a grand on a smartwatch most likely is not… good. However in case you’re after a brand new smartwatch and need all that Garmin has to supply, aside from the brand new AMOLED display and torch characteristic that got here on the Fenix 7 Professional that launched this 12 months, then this deal might be not going to be overwhelmed all weekend.
Additionally, apologies to anybody studying this from outdoors the UK. So far as we are able to discover, there isn’t any such comparable deal on the Fenix 7 past the British shores on the time of writing. We’ll completely maintain our eyes peeled, however for now, here is a dwell worth tracker for all the assorted Fenix 7 and Fenix 7 Professional fashions.