With the new Garmin fēnix® 8 47mm SOLAR Sapphire GPS multisport watch, there are more limits, even on the longest expeditions, as it boasts the most powerful battery yet. The watch is designed for serious athletes and adventurers who want to push the boundaries of their performance. It is equipped with durable sapphire glass, titanium bezel and an always-on touch display with solar chanrging lens for long battery life. With waterproof buttons and additional sensor protection, it allows diving up to 40 meters and has a rated water resistance of up to 100 meters. This is the most robust fēnix to date. Boost your body's performance and endurance and increase your resistance to injuries with the latest targeted strength training plans and a complete set of workouts for specific sports. Monitor and optimize recovery and overall well-being by tracking heart rate, respiration, stress, sleep, and other factors. The precise multi-band SatIQ technology and outdoor navigation sensors guide you during your activities in uncharted terrain and unfamiliar paths. For complete control over your daily activities, the connected functions with smart notifications, music storage, and contactless payments via Garmin Pay™ are available.

When the watch is paired with your smartphone, the built-in speaker and microphone allow for phone calls directly from your wrist. The powerful built-in LED flashlight with adjustable brightness, including a red safety light, enhances your safety when training in the dark, and you always have a light at hand. You can enjoy adventures away from civilization and without electricity for longer with the even longer battery life compared to the fēnix 7. Additional features include music storage, contactless payments via Garmin Pay, smart notifications, and more.

We recommend this watch to all athletes who want a top-notch smartwatch that combines exceptional durability with a beautiful style. While using it, the watch will allow you to record numerous sports activities and help you discover new paths with the precise positioning and navigation system.

New key features:

• ROBUST DESIGN - The fēnix 8 is built for long-lasting durability. A new sensor protection guards the essential sensors, waterproof buttons ensure 100-meter water resistance, and the watch is tested to U.S. military standards for heat, shock, and water resistance.
• SOLAR CHARGING - The SOLAR model is designed for those who need even longer battery life for outdoor adventures. With the always-on MIP screen with solar charging, the battery life is extended.
• BUILT-IN SPEAKER AND MICROPHONE - Make and receive phone calls from your watch when paired with your smartphone. Additionally, control watch functions with voice commands offline—or use your smartphone's voice assistant to reply to text messages and more.
• DYNAMIC ROUND-TRIP ROUTING - The dynamic round-trip routing feature allows you to input how far you want to go, and it then suggests routes that will get you back on time, even if you stray from the original path.
• ADVANCED STRENGTH TRAINING - Enhance your body's performance and prevent injuries with targeted strength training plans and sport-specific workouts for a variety of activities and athletes of all kinds.
• DIVING - Water resistance for dives up to 40 meters deep and waterproof metal buttons enable you to reach new depths with dedicated support for scuba diving and freediving apps.
• ADVANCED MAPPING - Explore new viewpoints with TopoActive 3 mapping with terrain shading and preloaded maps of golf courses and ski resorts worldwide.
• GARMIN SHARE - This feature allows you to easily share saved locations, planned routes, and workouts with compatible Garmin devices of your friends.
• GARMIN MESSENGER APP - This app enables two-way text communication; exchange messages with friends and family directly from your smartwatch.
• SKI DIFFICULTY TRACKING - Track how much time you spent skiing on slopes of different difficulties throughout the day—data for thousands of ski resorts worldwide.

Additional key features:

• Built-in LED Flashlight - The built-in LED flashlight with adjustable brightness and a red safety light increases your visibility in the dark and provides convenient illumination when needed. The strobe mode can even match your running cadence.
• Multi-Band SatIQ Technology - Navigate outdoors with superior positioning accuracy, thanks to the multi-band GPS with SatIQ technology and the integrated 3-axis electronic compass, gyroscope, and barometric altimeter.
• Train for Performance - Start each day with a customizable morning report that offers a summary of health and wellness information. Use the readiness for training feature, which considers various health metrics to maximize your training effectiveness and recovery while avoiding burnout.
• Health and Wellness 24/7 - Continuous all-day monitoring of health and wellness with wrist-based heart rate measurement, advanced sleep monitoring, respiration tracking, pulse oximeter, and more.
• Stay Connected - Enjoy daily wearability and stay connected with smart notifications, music storage, contactless payments via Garmin Pay, and more.
• Music - Download songs and playlists from your Spotify, Deezer, or Amazon Music accounts for phone-free listening (subscription may be required).
• Garmin Pay™ Contactless Payments - Breeze through checkout with Garmin Pay, a contactless payment solution supported by participating providers.
• Connect IQ™ Store - Download watch faces, add data fields, and get apps and widgets from the Connect IQ store on your compatible smartphone.
• InReach® Compatibility - Pair the fēnix 8 with your compatible InReach® satellite communicator, communicate via two-way messaging through the Garmin Messenger app, and even trigger an SOS from your wrist if needed.
• Endurance Points - This feature measures your endurance during prolonged efforts, combining training data from all your sports activities to help you understand how your training affects your overall endurance. This dynamic metric uses your max VO2, short-term/long-term training loads, and other factors to measure your fitness progress beyond just max VO2.
• GEN5 Wrist-Based Heart Rate Monitoring - This sensor is designed to help ensure optimal performance in any sport you engage in.
• Running Power from the Wrist - See how much power you’re using on the trail or road, allowing you to pace your effort and fine-tune your training—get running power without an additional sensor, directly from your wrist.
• GARMIN Coach - Get free adaptive running plans from expert coaches for training for a 5K, 10K, and half marathon.
• Outdoor Maps+ - Optional Outdoor Maps+ subscription offers access to premium maps (U.S. coverage only) and satellite imagery (global coverage), downloaded directly to your watch.
• Up Ahead on the Map - Quick information about selected POI points on the race route ahead. Track performance data, split times, distance, climbs, and descents, and many key trail points ahead of you.
• Race Predictor - Get an estimate of what your pace could be in a 5K, 10K, half marathon, and marathon.
• PacePro Technology - Plan your race day strategy with GPS-based pacing guidance for a selected course or distance.
• ClimbPro Feature - With the ClimbPro ascent planner, see real-time information on current and upcoming climbs, including gradient, distance, and elevation gain, as well as descents and flats on downloaded routes.
• Effort-Adjusted Pace - Get a comparable running pace for the same effort on flat terrain or when climbing.
• Training Status - Considering indicators such as HRV status, recent training history, and performance, get insights into your overall training effort and status. Know if you're training productively, at peak capacity, or overreaching.
• Performance Metrics - Evaluate your performance with training data such as VO2 max, training load, and more.
• Real-Time Stamina - Avoid overexertion and monitor this metric during activities for the appropriate level of exertion.
• Daily Workout Suggestions - View suggested workouts for the week ahead. Planned workouts adapt after each run or ride.
• Recovery Time - Get information on the time needed to recover after your last workout before engaging in another high-intensity training session.
• Morning Report - Get a morning report with an overview of sleep, recovery, and readiness outlook right after waking up, along with HRV status and weather forecast.
• HRV Status - The HRV status feature tracks heart rate variability during sleep, providing better insight into overall well-being, recovery, and training performance.
• Backcountry Skiing and Snowboarding - This preloaded activity profile can distinguish between downhill and uphill skiing. It automatically displays metrics specific to either ascent or descent, including cadence, stride length, and slope angle.
• Ski Dynamics - Paired with the HRM-Pro chest strap (sold separately), cross-country skiing power metrics help measure the actual load during your workouts.
• MTB Dynamics - Track the details of every ride with mountain biking metrics and specialized Grit and Flow measurements that rate the difficulty of the ride and how smoothly you descend; get a score to beat next time.
• Training Load Ratio - Keep your training balanced and avoid setbacks from overtraining or an improper balance of different training types.

Specifications:

• Device dimensions (W x H x D): 47 x 47 x 15,2 mm
• Frame material: Titanium
• Case material: Fiber-reinforced polymer with a metal back cover
• Glass material: Sapphire glass
• Color touchscreen
• Screen size: 1.3” or 33 mm
• Screen resolution: 260x260 pixels
• Sunlight-visible, transflective memory-in-pixel (MIP) touchscreen display
• Quickfit strap width: 22 mm
• Strap: Silicone 125-208 mm
• Weight: 85 g
• Rechargeable internal li-ion battery
• Battery life: Smartwatch: up to 21 days/28 days with solar charging; battery saver mode: up to 34 days/58 days with solar charging; GPS only: up to 67 hours/92 hours with solar charging; all satellite systems: up to 48 hours/59 hours with solar charging; all satellite systems with multi-band technology: up to 37 hours/43 hours with solar charging; all satellite systems and music: up to 13 hours; longest battery life in GPS mode: up to 132 hours/283 hours with solar charging; expedition GPS: up to 34 days/58 days with solar charging; solar charging with all-day wear of 3 hours/day outdoors at 50,000 lux; solar charging with use at 50,000 lux; solar charging with usage at 50,000 lux; under normal use with SatIQ technology.
• Water resistance rating: 10 ATM
• Built-in storage: 32 GB
• In the box: fēnix 8 47mm SOLAR Sapphire Titanium watch, USB charging/data cable, user manual, and documentation

Sensors:

• GPS
• GLONASS
• Galileo
• QZSS
• Baidou
• SatIQ Technology
• Garmin Elevate™ Wrist-based Heart Rate Monitor
• Pulse Oximeter Acclimation
• Barometric Altimeter
• Electronic Compass
• Gyroscope
• Accelerometer (calculates indoor workout distance without requiring a foot pod)
• Thermometer
• Ambient Light Sensor
• Depth Sensor

 
Clock Features:

• Clock (12/24 h), calendar (day/date)
• Time synchronization with GPS
• Automatic daylight saving time adjustment
• Alarm
• Timer
• Stopwatch
• Sunrise/Sunset times

Health  Wellness Monitoring:

• Continuous wrist-based heart rate monitoring
• Daily resting heart rate
• Abnormal heart rate alerts (high and low)
• Respiration rate (24/7)
• Body age (in-app)
• Body Battery™ energy monitor
• All-day stress tracking
• Relaxation timer with breathing exercises
• Breathing exercises
• Sleep (advanced monitoring)
• Sleep guide
• Nap detection
• Hydration
• Women's health tracking
• Health snapshot
• Fatigue advisor

Everyday Smart Features:

• Bluetooth® Smart, ANT+™, and Wi-Fi® connectivity
• Connect IQ™ (downloadable watch faces, data fields, widgets, and apps)
• Smart notifications
• Text response/reject call with text (Android™ devices only)
• View notification images on the watch (Android^™ only)
• Morning report
• Smart calendar
• Smart weather information
• Real-time settings sync with Garmin Connect^™ mobile app
• Battery saver - customizable power-saving watch mode
• Music control
• Music playback
• Find my phone function
• Find my watch function
• Find my phone during GPS activity
• Garmin Messenger compatibility
• VIRB® camera control
• Smart trainer control
• Garmin Connect™ Mobile compatibility
• Smartphone compatibility: iPhone®, Android®
• Stocks
• Support for phone calls and voice assistant via BLUETOOTH technology
• Voice control
• Red shift mode
• Garmin Share
• Garmin Pay™ (click to view countries and banks where it is available) 

Activity Profiles:

• Available gym activity profiles: Strength, HIIT, Cardio, Elliptical training, Stair climbing, Rowing machine, Jump rope
• Multisport: Swim/Run, Triathlon
• Wellness: Walking, Indoor walking, Pilates, Yoga
• Indoor training: Treadmill running, Indoor track running, Virtual running
• Outdoor running: Running, Outdoor track running, Trail running, Ultra-running, Obstacle racing
• Available outdoor recreation profiles: Hiking, Indoor climbing, Bouldering, Climbing, Hunting, Horseback riding, Golf, Disc golf, Archery
• Available cycling profiles: Cycling, Road cycling, Mountain biking, Gravel biking, Commuting, Bike touring, E-biking, Mountain e-biking, Indoor cycling, Cyclocross, BMX
• Available swimming profiles: Pool swimming, Open water swimming
• Water sports: Stand-up paddleboarding, Rowing, Kayaking, Surfing, Kiteboarding, Windsurfing, Fishing, Boating, Sailing, Sail racing, Waterskiing, Wakeboarding, Wakesurfing, Tubing, Freediving, Expedition sailing, Whitewater
• Motorsports: Motorcycling, Overlanding, Motocross, ATV riding, Snowmobiling
• Racket sports: Tennis, Pickleball, Badminton, Squash, Table tennis, Padel, Platform tennis, Racquetball
• Snow and winter sports: Skiing, Snowboarding, Snowshoeing, Cross-country skiing (classic), Cross-country skiing (skating), Backcountry skiing, Ice skating
• Team sports: Basketball, Volleyball, Hockey, Ice hockey, Soccer, American football, Lacrosse, Rugby, Ultimate frisbee, Cricket, Softball, Baseball
• In the ring: Boxing, Mixed martial arts
• Diving: Scuba diving (single gas), Freediving, Depth gauge
• Other activity profiles: Jumpmaster, Tactical activities, Rollerblading

Safety and Tracking Features

• Incident detection during selected activities
• Event detection alert on the wearable device's phone
• Assistance
• LiveTrack
• Group LiveTrack
• Live event sharing

Diving Features:

• Maximum operational diving depth: 40m
• Single gas diving mode
• Freediving mode
• Decompression model: Bühlmann ZHL-16c with gradient factors
• Nitrox support
• Gas mixes: Air, Nitrox (21–40% oxygen)
• PO2: Up to 1.6 with customizable decompression settings
• Automatic dive start/end
• Dive time interval after last dive - from 20s to 10min
• Safety stop: customizable: off/3 min/5 min
• Deep stops: based on custom gradient factors
• Adjustable conservatism: low/medium/high or custom based on gradient factors
• Dive ascent/descent rate indicator
• Automatic altitude adjustment
• No-fly time
• Dive planner: basic no-decompression limit and gas planner
• Tides
• Screen illumination: adjustable intensity; always on
• Automatic logging of dive entry and exit locations
• Sync dive logs with Garmin Dive^™ app
• Alerts and alarms: vibration only
• 3-axis dive compass - with adjustable heading, quick 90-degree right/left turn, and reverse direction. Displays degrees and heading back to the set direction.
• Missed decompression lockout - the option can be disabled before the dive with user confirmation
• Diver status surface widget - surface interval, no-fly time, N2 saturation, CNS, oxygen toxicity units, and tissue compartment status

Activity Tracking Features:

• Dual-grid coordinates for tactical activities
• Wearable remote control for auxiliary motor in marine functions
• Step counter
• Move alerts (appear on the device after a period of inactivity; reset by walking for a few minutes)
• Automatic goal (learns your activity level and assigns a daily step goal)
• Calories burned calculation
• Floors climbed
• Distance traveled
• Intensity minutes - the watch automatically records minutes of moderate and vigorous activity throughout the week and displays them as intensity minutes
• TrueUp™
• Move IQ™
• Body age
• Body Battery™ energy monitor
• All-day stress tracking
• Garmin Connect™ Challenges app (optional Connect IQ app)
• Sleep monitoring (tracks total sleep time and periods of movement or restful sleep)

Cardio Workouts:

• Available gym activity profiles: Strength training, HIIT, Cardio workouts, Elliptical training, Stair climbing, Stair stepping, Rowing machine, Pilates, and Yoga
• Cardio exercises
• Strength training exercises
• HIIT workouts
• Yoga workouts
• Pilates workouts 
• On-screen workout animations
• On-screen muscle maps for workouts
• Automatic rep counting 

Training, Planning, and Analysis Features:

• Customizable screens
• Downloadable workout plans
• Course guidance
• Heart rate zones
• Heart rate alerts
• Calories based on heart rate
• % maximum heart rate
• % heart rate reserve
• Recovery time
• Automatic maximum heart rate
• Quick overview/competition widget
• Heart rate variability status
• Heart rate variability test - measures heart rate variability while standing still for 3 minutes to assess stress level; scale ranges from 1 to 100, with lower values indicating lower stress levels (with compatible accessory)
• Heart rate broadcast (broadcasts heart rate data over ANT+™ to paired devices)
• Respiration rate during exercise (with compatible accessory)
• GPS speed and distance
• Customizable activity profiles
• Auto Pause® (pauses and resumes the timer based on speed)
• Interval training (sets up intervals of exercise and rest)
• Enhanced interval (includes an indefinite number of repeats, interval data page, rest screen, and automatic detection)
• Advanced workouts
• Power modes – customizable battery settings during activity
• Run pace and distance with HRM
• Auto Lap® (automatically starts a new lap)
• Manual lap marking
• Rest timers
• Customizable lap alerts
• Heat and altitude acclimation
• VO2 max estimate (running)
• Highest VO2 (running, trail running)
• Real-time endurance data
• Endurance score
• Load ratio
• Training load (combines heart rate and VO2 max estimates to gauge intensity over a 28-day period, helping you stay within the optimal range to reach your goal)
• Training status (analyzes training data like VO2 max and anaerobic threshold to see if you're training effectively)
• Training load focus
• Workout effect
• Anaerobic workout effect
• Primary benefit (training effect labels)
• Workout suggestions
• Customizable alerts
• Audio prompts
• Multisport auto transition
• Finish time
• Virtual Partner® (train against a digital person)
• Virtual Racer®
• Automatic sport mode switching (switch between sports with one button press)
• Multi-sport
• Garmin Live segments
• Strava features (beacon, live segments)
• Round-trip course creator (running/cycling)
• TrendLine™ popularity routing
• Screen and/or button lock
• Shortcut keys
• Auto scroll
• Activity history on the watch
• Physio TrueUp
• Unified training status

Running Features:

• GPS-based distance, time, and pace
• Running dynamics - accelerometer measures indoor workout distance, personal records
• Vertical oscillation and ratio - the degree of "bounce" in your running motion and the cost-benefit ratio in relation to stride length
• Ground contact time and balance  - shows how much time your foot is on the ground during your running motion and not in the air, helping you check your running symmetry (with compatible accessory)
• Real-time stride length 
• Cadence (real-time number of steps per minute)
• Running power
• Grade-adjusted pace
• Performance condition (after running 6–20 minutes, compares your real-time condition to your average fitness levels)
• Lactate threshold - analyzes pace and heart rate to estimate the point where muscles start to fatigue quickly (with compatible accessory)
• PacePro™ pacing strategies
• Running workouts
• Climbing score
• Auto climb recording during trail running
• Race predictor
• Race prediction for individual courses and weather conditions
• Speed/cadence sensor
• Run/walk/stand detection

Outdoor Recreation Features:

• Point-to-point navigation
• Real-time breadcrumb trail
• Back to start
• TracBack®
• UltraTrac™ mode
• Around Me mode
• Up Ahead
• NextFork^™ navigation
• Elevation profile
• Distance to destination
• Barometric trend indicator
• ClimbPro™ ascent planner
• Auto climb recording during trail running
• Vertical speed
• Total ascent/descent
• Rest timer (ultra running only)
• Auto rest
• Upcoming elevation plot
• Preloaded road and trail maps (Sapphire edition only)
• Preloaded ski resort maps
• Downloadable map support
• GPS coordinates
• Sight 'N Go
• Area calculation (in Connect IQ™ store)
• Hunting/fishing calendar
• Projected waypoint
• Sun and moon information
• Tides information
• Quick tide check
• GPS expedition activity
• XERO™ locations
• Storm alert

Cycling Features:

• Available profiles: Biking, Road biking, Mountain biking, Gravel biking, Commuting, Bike touring, E-biking, Mountain e-biking, Indoor cycling, Cyclocross, BMX
• Courses
• Cycling lap and lap power (with power sensor)
• Race an activity
• Time/distance alert (triggers an alarm when you reach your goal)
• Functional Threshold Power (FTP)
• Power curve and FTP percentage workouts
• Garmin Cycle Map (routable cycling-specific street map)
• Mountain biking grit and flow
• Advanced cycling dynamics
• Compatible with Vector™ and Rally^™ sensors
• Power meter compatible (displays power data from compatible third-party ANT+™-enabled power meters)
• Compatible with Varia Vision™ (in-sight display)
• Compatible with Varia™ radar (rear-facing radar)
• Compatible with Varia™ lights
• Power guide

Swimming Features:

• Available profiles: Pool swimming, Open water swimming, Swim/Run, Triathlon
• Open water swimming metrics (distance, pace, stroke count/stroke rate, calories)
• Pool swimming metrics (lengths, distance, pace, stroke count/stroke rate, calories)
• Stroke type detection (e.g., freestyle)
• Workout logging
• Basic rest timer (up from 0)
• Rest timer with auto-repeat
• Auto rest (pool swimming only)
• Time and distance alerts
• Pacing alerts (pool swimming only)
• Countdown start
• Swimming workouts
• Critical swim speed
• Wrist-based heart rate monitoring underwater
• External heart rate monitor (real-time during rests, interval and session stats during rests, and automatic heart rate data upload after swimming with HRM-Tri, HRM-Swim, HRM-Pro, or HRM-Pro Plus)

Golf Features:

• Preloaded with 43,000 courses worldwide
• Distance to F/M/B (front, middle, and back of green)
• Distance to layups/doglegs
• Automatic shot measurement (calculates precise yardage for shots from anywhere on the course)
• Digital scorecard
• Custom targets
• Stat tracking (strokes, putts per round, greens and fairways hit)
• Garmin Autoshot™
• Full vector map
• Auto CourseView updates
• Green view with manual pin positioning
• Hazards and course targets
• PinPointer - compass-like feature that always points to the flag
• PlaysLike distance
• Touch targeting (touch target on display to see the distance to any point)
• Handicap scoring
• SwingTempo (measures backswing and downswing timing as a ratio)
• TempoTraining (audible tones express the ideal 3:1 swing ratio)
• Round timer/odometer
• Compatibility with automatic club tracking (requires accessory)
• Wind speed and direction (requires connection to golf app)
• Virtual caddie
• Garmin Golf app compatibility
• Tournament legal
• Green contour data (with Garmin Golf membership)

Kid Tracking Features:

• Toe-to-toe™ challenges (optional Connect IQ app)

* An electronic device (watch, sensor) that has been turned on is considered used and cannot be returned

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