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Garmin Fenix 5S Silver with Black band (010-01685-02, EU) GPS, Running Watch
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K. A. robinson –
cycling and walking – the sensor suite is fine and consistent meaning I get good insight into changes …
Natalie Bryan –
Nice!!
Maria Luisa Ogliari –
This watch is brilliant dose everything
Michael Henriques –
I bought this watch as an upgrade from Garmin Forerunner 235 primarily for running. Fenix 5S quickly became my everyday watch which I can wear with a suit thanks to its acceptable size. GPS pick-up is usually fast compared to other Garmin models that I owned previously although tracking can sometimes be a hit and miss but this is not a big issue for me.My runs are synced ‘usually’ seamlessly with the app which I find to be very good and quite motivating. After more than a year’s regular use I have one tiny little scratch over the bezel so in my opinion the sapphire version may not worth the extra ££.If the resolution was better, this would have been the perfect everyday watch. If you need a GPS watch for running which you can also use as an everyday watch, I fully recommend this watch.
Samuel Riley-Gunn –
Ive had a few of the Garmin watch range over the years and I upgraded to this. Its robust and smart looking. The screen is clear in both daylight and night. Not had a problem with any of the functions. Its a bit heavy compared with the forerunner equivilant. But this watch will take a knock. The battery life is good considering i use it daily during the day and training at night.
debbie ann fenn –
The Fenix 5 is a beautifully crafted and constructed device with a lot of features and the capability to store information for activity and health tracking. Battery performance is excellent and the always on display works well in bright sunlight.Unfortunately, the Fenix, like all Garmin devices, relies on the Garmin Connect app and there lies a big problem. My original plan was to use Connect only to sync my run and bike data straight into Strava. However, the Fenix and Connect App have terrible connection problems that make syncing unreliable. I should say that my iPhone6 has no connection problems with a host of other devices. When the Fenix can’t communicate to your phone, you then lose all phone notifications, which was one of the main reasons I got the Fenix, so notifications cannot be relied on.Also, the LiveTrack cannot be relied on as it also doesn’t work reliably. The Connect App has grown into a huge (244Mb) IOS monster of an App that takes forever to load up. Also, it seems to throw a No Internet connection warning when all you want to do is sync from the Fenix to the Phone and the internet should not be required. You will go around and around chasing settings between the Fenix and Connect.Bizarrely, the ConnectIQ App is a separate app to load watch faces and Apps and not part of Connect so even more software is needed to get the most out of the Fenix. URL links in the ConnectIQ App don’t work and cannot be copied to paste elsewhere, so it is grim experience using the ConnectIQ App.In addition, Connect does not allow weight data to be read from Apple Health, and this is just unacceptable for a device that is supposed to allow you to track health.Other issues also arose:The stairs climbing never worked as it should. In a typical day I would climb 12 actual flights of stairs and the Fenix would typically report that I had climbed 2 stairs and descended 37! I would test it, and even though the Altimeter would display a 3m rise in altitude as I climbed a flight of stairs, it would not record a stairs climbed.Similarly, the Altimeter does not work well and has a far from perfect manual or GPS auto calibration which is nowhere as good as the system used in my Garmin Edge 500 (10 years old) by using preset values you enter for know locations (such as your home).The Ascent feature (Total Ascent) discards up to the first 5m of every hill climbed, and produces a total climbed value which is a massive 10-20% to low. Again my old Edge 500 does it perfectly. So as a bike tracker for those interested in recording total ascent, the Fenix is a show stopper.GPS tracking even with GPS + Glonass enabled, is nothing special and no better that my 10 year old Edge 500. This is not really an issue, but doesn’t seem to bear out the Fenix advertising that talks a lot about the new GPS technology they have designed into the Fenix. Picking up a GPS signal was acceptably quick.Charging the Fenix was a bit hit and miss, because sometimes there was no indication that the Fenix being charged, even though the special charging cable was firmly clicked in. Other times there is a clear charging and battery level at the top of the screen. One night, even though it was plugged in, it didn’t charge.Sleep tracking was poor, and I could find no way to view my last nights sleep pattern on the device. So even though your HR and movement can be monitored every second, throughout your sleep, there is no widget to show a visual analysis of your sleep and the Connect Sleep analysis is very basic. By contrast my Misfit Ray tracker, has a much more attractive and informative sleep tracking app that is easy to use and understand.Widgets get lost and restored to the default selection and order, when other events occur such as using Garmin Express or making changes to the watch settings. This is very frustrating, because you have to re install these widgets and then reorder and configure them every time this happens.So ultimately, the Fenix 5 is let down badly by the software. Unfortunately, reading the Garmin forums, there is a long sad tale of these issues not being fixed, despite being reported nearly 2 years ago. Some proper after sales support that listens to these issues and resolves them once and for all, is needed to finish this product off in my humble experience using this device. When new firmware is released, it seems to fix one issue and introduce 2 more.For these reasons, I returned the Fenix as not working as advertised. I should say that my 10 year old Garmin Edge 500 is a fantastic bit of reliable, accurate and utterly dependable kit (that doesn’t require Connect). So I will carry on using my trusty Edge 500 and just carry my iPhone with me for the other stuff, until Apple hopefully release a more rugged sports focused watch in the future. Big shame really and this has put me off Garmin devices.PS ClickElectronics have been super easy to deal with.
tomyg –
When you pay a lot of money for something, and it satisfies your expectations, it makes you feel good.The Garmin Fenix 5 makes me feel good. I got this as replacement for my Suunto Ambit 3 which had terrible connectivity issues when syncing with my iPhone. It rarely uploaded my running stats to my phone so I just gave up.I’ve had no such problems here. Synced no problem. I also enjoyed customizing the watch face and other bits and bobs. It looks the part too.In terms of performance…well…it measured my stats as expected. I took the heart rate stats with a pinch of salt, but have now synced it to a 3rd party heart rate belt.Anyway, great piece of kit.
dlboyce –
Fenix 5567017757Unexpected health issue – The watch is so large it overhangs my wrist and you can see daylight through the sides, so is very difficult to wear as snugly as recommended.It’s also very heavy, which combined with the overhang gap means the strap at the back is tight even when the face has gaps.And then out of the blue, after just over 4 weeks I developed contact dermatitis next to the back loop, with broken itchy red weeping skin. When I googled this, a lot of other people are suffering dermatitis from the Fenix5 bands. For the last 3 years I’ve worn a Fitbit blaze and ionic 24/7 without incident.I’m 5 days over the return date or else I would have sent it straight back.I urge you to check your own wrist size before buying, I’d hate anyone else to get hurt like this.The tracker itself is also not intuitive for me. I’ve tried every week to use it for Olympic Weight Lifting class, but it ends up in rest mode when I’m lifting and reps when I’m resting. It’s intermittent with the reps it can count, I’m doing Snatch, clean and jerk and it will sometimes count some reps and ignore whole sets, not necessarily a problem, since I only really wanted to see what my heart rate was doing, so I tried setting it in a different mode, but then it was bleeping at me as I was setting up to lift, which is incredibly off-putting so I was better off taking it off.With pool swimming there has not been one occasion out of what is now 15 pool swims where it will accept that I’m swimming in a 30m pool. It insists on reverting to 33.3m. So all stats are wrong. And I’m better off counting my strokes per length and looking at the clock on the wall. Kayaking it sort of works, but when compared to my husband on the same route with his Fenix5 there can be up to a 20% discrepancy in distance. I can show 10k, hubby on 8k, no way to check which if either is accurate.Indoor rowing seems good – all numbers tally with my Concept 2 read out.All in all this is not a good tracker for me, I can not trust it’s data and I’m having some sort of skin reaction to it. I know loads of people love it.But for me, it’s counterintuitive, inconsistent, frustrating, hard to get instructions for (Reddit is the best place), damaging to my skin because of design choices around size and strap constitution.I deeply regret buying two of these, one for me and one for my husband.
G. C. Bland –
I’m writing from the perspective of a casual exerciser, not a sportman. I understand those at the top of their game have concerns about the accuracy and suitability of the wrist-based HR sensor.For my purposes – daily activity tracking, cycling and walking – the sensor suite is fine and consistent meaning I get good insight into changes in my health / performance, which was what I was after.For the 90% of my life that I’m not cycling/walking/otherwise exercising, this watch is absolutely *superb*. The watch face is large, clear and easy to read (because it’s always-on), the gesture for backlight is (mostly) OK, the “smartwatch” features do a great basic job (All I really wanted was notifications on my wrist, and I get those just fine. Calendar, weather, music control etc I view as bonuses). And we must not forget the absolutely fantastic battery life: In “Smartwatch” mode I’ve had it last well over the advertised 2 weeks (bearing in mind I’m still getting step, heart-rate and sleep tracking in this mode).It’s a pricey piece of kit, but it looks good on your wrist and it’ll track just about any activity you can think of while performing as a useful adjunct to your phone. And you don’t even need to take it off when you shower.
Kelly Sells –
Nice