It is a major update of his outdoor watches that Garmin has just deployed. The latest beta version allows the integration of anything less than 28 new products.
Regularly, Garmin updates his connected watches to take advantage of new features, new scores or simply fixes resolving a bug. But rarely the American brand will have offered an update as wide as that offered since Tuesday.
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Indeed, as the site reports DC RainmakerGarmin announced this week an important beta update for his latest outdoor watches, the Garmin Fenix 8 Solar, Garmin Fenix 8 Amoled, Garmin Fenix E, Garmin Enduro 3 and Garmin Tactix 8. What to allow them to enjoy anything less than 28 new products.
28 New for Fenix, Tactix and Enduro
Obviously, not all the news offered are equal and some will be more important than others. Overall, we will thus find functions already carried on the latest Forerunner 970 and Forerunner 570, certain functions launched with the Garmin Venu X1, as well as previously unprecedented new products on Garmin watches.
Concretely, Garmin’s outdoor watches can now take advantage of all of these new features:
- possibility to access the list of applications by sliding to the left from the dial
- application calculatrice
- personalized focus modes
- modification of previous rehearsals for strength training
- clavier emoji
- Evening report support
- Extended morning ratio support
- Garmin alerts in the notification center
- Golf TV settings menu
- Japanese Kana keyboard
- More layouts of the QWERTY keyboard
- Multisport training support
- Music options on the music control page
- Help dialogues for breathing variations
- Updates of performance overviews
- Provisional arrival point support
- Countdown account field for nautical racing activities
- Race economy support
- Integration of racing power into the lactic threshold page
- running tolerance support
- intelligent alarm clock
- Speed speed of ground impact
- Support for the display of track/road transitions
- Assistance data page on board transfer in nautical activities
- Thai keyboard
- Track racing option for daily training suggestions
- Support for adaptive training plans for triathlon
- Support for racing events for triathlon
In detail, we will thus find the new scores integrated into Forerunner watches, such as the loss of ground impact on the ground, the score of racing economy, the provisional arrival point which will put the activity in break when you have passed the finish line, or the evening report.
Among the new products that are still unprecedented on garmin watches, the beta update allows for example to automatically chain a road outing and track training. This is also the case of the new shift to the left to access the various activities and applications, without having to press the upper right button.
An open registration for the beta program
This update is available now on the Garmin Fenix 8 Solar, Garmin Fenix 8 AMOLED, Garmin Fenix E, Garmin Enduro 3 and Garmin Tactix 8. However, it requires registering the watch on the Garmin beta program. To do this, go to Garmin Connect, then on the page linked to your watch, at the top right, then click on ” join the beta program ».
Be careful, on the other hand, the inscription of the watch on the beta program will make him lose certain functions such as the electrocardiogram measurement and the diving functions.
These new features should be available in the future for all users once the beta phase is finished.
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