Customer Reviews for Garmin - fnix E GPS Smartwatch 47mm Fiber-reinforced polymer - Slate Gray Steel - (2024)
Customer Rating
4
Great Value Watch
on October 3, 2025
Posted by: Jim 1983
I upgraded from a Vivoactive 4. The more advanced features are very obvious. Screen is bright and vibrant. Battery life is great. Its easy to add and launch activities for tracking and workout. Easy to activate emergency settings.
What keeps it from a 5 star review is the "flashlight". I know it isn't actively advertised as a key feature but its an absolute joke. It projects from the watchface rather than a side LED and on its brightest setting it doesn't even cast comparable light to a cell phone screen. Even in pitch black its useless. It begs the question why have it at all?
Have been wearing for almost one month and features and functionality are great. I can wear 24 hours for work business, working out and sleeping. Battery life is insane with 2 weeks!!. Golf course feature is fantastic too. Running feature give excellent data and accuracy. Love the watch.
I purchased this watch, after owning an Apple Watch for numerous years. WOW! The features, and functions, are much more in-line with my lifestyle. You have made a life-long customer in me.
I'm not an athlete, and I'm not an explorer. I'm a casual. But slowly learning what this watch can do and utilizing some of its features has been fun. It's tough. I like it just as much as my Apple watch if not a litte more.
Long time Fenix 3 user as an avid Alpine hiker and cyclist. The Fenix 3 is everything I need and more. Gives me training and every stats that I need, where the Fenix 8 would be over kill.
Not really impressed. Weather location keeps referring to past locations. Went out 40 miles in the Gulf fishing and marine aspects of it didn’t work. Compass was way off until I had to calibrate it. Overall too labor intensive to receive meaningful info. Not too sure it’s worth the money.
To give this review context, im coming from using a instinct 1. To upgrade to a fenix was a massive upgrade. I know A lot of people recommended switching to the Epix because it was so similar to this watch. To me it was important to have the most up-to-date user interface technology, without having to overspend on the fenix 8. The 8 is great but there were so many features i was not interested in. I had no use for them so the fenix e was perfect for me. I’m obsessed with it.