Garmin Fenix Hiking GPS Watch with Exclusive Tracback Feature

by Garmin

Product Features

• Fenix is a high-sensitivity GPS navigator + ABC adventure watch
• Very easy to use with altimeter barometer and 3-axis compass with automatic sensor calibration
• Worldwide basemap
• Waterproof to 50 meters
• Mark up to 1,000 waypoints and store up to 10,000 track points and navigate to them

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Product Description

The Garmin fēnix is the first GPS navigator+ABC wristwatch to include Garmin GPS navigation. Designed for outdoor enthusiasts, it satisfies the lofty requirements of the serious adventurer. It’s very easy to use and packed with many of the same features found on our popular outdoor handheld GPS products. As a true GPS navigator, it can guide you off the trail and back to the safety of your vehicle, trailhead, campsite or home. All while conveniently strapped to your wrist.

You can create and follow routes, mark up to 1,000 waypoints, store up to 10,000 track points and easily navigate to them. Share data wirelessly with other compatible Garmin GPS units and smartphones. Naturally, as a navigating GPS+ABC watch, it also includes an altimeter, barometer, 3-axis electronic compass and temperature sensor. Rugged, stylish and waterproof to 50m (164 ft), it’s as comfortable in the cement, steel and glass jungle as it is escaping the beaten path to life’s greatest adventures.

Navigate Your Way

No other navigator GPS+ABC wristwatch offers you the GPS navigation capabilities of Garmin — The world’s most trusted name in GPS navigation. fēnix tracks where you have been, but it also can guide you into the wilderness and, more importantly, guide you back out again. After all, what good does it do you to collect data, if you can’t use it to find your way back to your computer to download it?

It records a track log creating a GPS “bread crumb trail” as you move. It also allows you to mark waypoints, such as your campsite, vehicle location or other POIs (points of interest). With fēnix, you can create and follow routes, mark up to 1,000 waypoints and store up to 10,000 track points. You even can create routes that can be downloaded to fēnix from BaseCamp™, free trip-planning software, from a computer. Then, follow the navigation arrow to waypoints. To get back, just have TracBack® show you the way.

Enjoy Wristwatch Convenience

Rugged and attractive, the fēnix also is a highly accurate timepiece that can be worn everyday. It includes settings for alarms, chimes and vibration alerts. It also functions as a timer, stopwatch and world clock.

Features:

Altimeter

fēnix has a built-in barometric altimeter that provides accurate elevation information so you can keep track of your ascent and descent.

 

Barometer

The built-in barometer can help you monitor and predict weather changes by showing you short-term changes in the barometric air pressure. If the barometric pressure begins a steady decline, this could be a warning of an impending storm.

Compass

fēnix includes a 3-axis electronic compass that keeps your bearing whether you’re moving or not. Sight a bearing and be confident fēnix will keep you headed toward your goal.

Be Ready for All of Life’s Adventures

• Temperature Sensor - gain insight into temperature trends from the built-in temperature sensor. Knowing how rapidly the temperature is rising or falling can help you determine clothing and shelter needs or whether it’s time to turn back.
• Wireless Unit-to-unit Communication - easily share tracks, waypoints, routes and paperless geocaches wirelessly with other compatible Garmin GPS units and smartphones. fēnix is equipped with both ANT™ capabilities and Bluetooth® technology. That means you can also pair fēnix with several external devices, such as the tempe™ external temperature sensor, Garmin heart rate monitor and speed/cadence sensor.

What's in the Box:

• fēnix
• USB cable
• AC adapter with plug
• Manual

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

26 of 28 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars it's a GPS in a Watch November 20, 2012

By DudaPrado

Amazon Verified Purchase

I've been using my Fenix as a everyday wrist wacht for over 3 weeks now. I work in the Brazilian Agriculture and I'm also a Pilot and a GPS enthusiast, you could say a Garmin enthusiast. My father and I are pilots, we go boating quite often and we use Garmin products in various situations since 1993 (even when we don't need a GPS).

I've always expected the day Garmin would put it all in our wrist, or at least a good part of what Garmin has to offer. I'm in the farm, driving around our crops and wonder what area did we harvested already, my Fenix will tell me, and don't need to get back to HQ to grab my GPS. A doy long boat ride in my friends cabin, leave the tracking on (UltraTrac mode to save you battery) and you will have your way home even after dark (I have evicted getting lost in our lakes at least a dozen times). Before the Fenix I would have to pull my Garmin 76 CSx from my backpack, leave it somewhere safe, where people wouldnt mess with it, and so on. And also to get that fuzz from the jealous guys who doens't know what a GPS can do, besides giving the image of a nerd/geek to girls you've just met!

So, cutting to the chase, you have routing, tracking, waypoints, trip data (avg speed and so on) altimeter, compass (it goes from magnetic compass to GPS heading once you start moving, just great!), termometer, barometer, navigating capabilites, I'm using in our single engine plane as a back up (it gives me vertical speed, headings, bearings, courses, altitutes, ETA, ETE, distance to destination and so on)! It does it all, and it also works as your daily watch, that gives you sunrise, sunset, moorise, moonset, moon phases and your heartrates! After a run, using basecamp, it will give you a graph with you instant speed over you heartrate along your run, you can check how fast your heart accelerates when you go from walking to running, and how fast does it slows down after you star walking again (my "big" GPS doesn't do this).

Garmin made it!... made all this into a nice size wrist watch. It looks cool (sporty) but doesn't get TOO much attention, which is good. Because of it's size, it DOES have it's limitations. The (i) screen is obviously small (it's watch after all), the (ii) processor is a bit slow, just don't rush into pressing buttons and it will never fail or freeze, if it does, just restart it, it happened to me once, enough for me to learn how to properly opearate it, and (iii) it takes a little to understand how the menu works, what's the logic behind it, but after awhile you will master it!

Technical stuff:
- battery lasts long enough for me! over 14 hours on most intense tracking or too long when the GPS is off.
- the flashlight is pretty strong and it does help you! in the farm, where electricity goes off, my Fenix will light a living room and help you to find your flashlight.

If I lose my Fenix, I will get another one in the same day!

22 of 24 people found the following review helpful

2.0 out of 5 stars Garmin Fenix NOT WATERPROOF to 4.5 inches (never mind 50m) March 3, 2013

By Nom De Plume

I'm a long time Garmin owner I must have had at least 15 products from them over the years. Most are excellent well designed and engineered and I've kept them until they died of old age. But the fenix - I got this one Feb 18th 2013 and worn it every day for nearly 2 weeks - and everything was great until, I submerged it in a glass of water - 4.5 inches to be precise - for half an hour. The garmin website state waterproof to 50 meters - that's 164 feet.
But after the test dunking, sadly to my horror, there was a mist INSIDE the glass. Oh shute.
Other than that I really liked all the features and it even passes as a daily wear watch.

Either Garmin needs to fix the waterproof to 50 meters (the say WATERPROOF not water resistent) or the next watch is going to be the Suunto Ambit.

Disclaimer - This was was purchased from REI and not Amazon.com

*** UPDATE on 3/6/13 ***
FYI I returned my watch to REI and purchased the Suunto Ambit instead but I don't like it so much... So, I'd like to get a fenix that's the re-worked version, so I called Garmin Tech Support and asked them how to tell the re-worked fenix, and I was informed that anything after serial number 040383 is good.

*** UPDATE on 5/14/13 ***
I returned the Suunto Ambit and got another Garmin Fenix with a serial number 05xxxx and re-did the waterproof test... half an hour in a 5 inch glass of water... This time it passed with no problems and is working well ever since.
So i should up the review to at least four stars as a result.

10 of 11 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Great All Purpose Watch November 30, 2012

By M. Pajo

The Garmin Fenix is an awesome all purpose watch for everyday use. A GPS watch that is Rugged, water proof, shock resistant properties, and long battery life (50hrs). The best watch I ever owned, I'm finally able to shed my backup watch. I used to use a Garmin forerunner, however my experience was limited by the forerunner battery life and poor water resistance.
The Garmin Fenix is perfect for the military person. Software update 2.90 and above provides detailed fit history of distance pace and time. Great when preparing for the Army Army Physical fitness test.
Temperature, elevation sensors, sun moon data is perfect for field training exercises.
MGRS aids in Land navigation, makes it easy for use with military 1/50th scale maps and for quick orientation reference.
Because of this watch I can go to (Fort Polk, LA) (JRTC)and NTC (Fort Irwin, CA) without having to pack a spare lensatic compass, a dagr (Army GPS), worry about forecasting the sun moon light data as advanced as possible due to lack of internet access.
Watch is more maintenance friendly to the user, watch band is easy to replace, once again this is great for the outdoor man or military person.
Price is very fair without sacrificing quality, 200 dollars cheaper than the competition.