It has 15 new sport profiles compared to Forener 965, including backcountry snowboarding, pickles and even some motor sports. This list is not as comprehensive as Fenix 8, however, which can track surfing and now serve as a full-knot clock for entertaining scuba and freeding. This actually seems that the deficiency is just to distinguish between the forearm and the phenix lines, as a software update can do it.
Fortunately, the map features have been crimbed from the phenix 8, and they are excellent. It comes with extensive topographical maps. The maps are colorful, bright, and easy to navigate by pinch and tapping. A new feature is round trip routing, which has improvement (theoretically). If you are in an unfamiliar city, you can tell the clock that you want to score 5-mile and it will suggest a loop for you. If you mistakenly take a wrong turn or see something beautiful that you want to go out, it will re -prepare you to bring you back to your hotel by killing your goal distance (within reason, of course).
This is a great idea, but I never found it to work. If I walked out of the route, the whole clock would crash, and I had to take it to power. Hopefully, this is something that can cure germin in future software updates (update comes almost once a month). On the contrary, I found GPS performance accurate, even among trees, rocks and long buildings.
A lot of competition
Photograph: Brent Rose
It is worth noting that Garmin also launched a new, midrange Priority 570It has a small battery life, low premium content (Gorilla Glass 3 vs Sapphire, Aluminum Bezel vs. Titanium), 8 GB vs 32 GB low memory, no built -in maping and no flashlight. Although you get the speaker and mike, and there is an option of 42 mm display instead of only 47 mm, which is good for people with small wrist.
Everyone said, many of these features are available at Fenix 8. Phenix 8 has more expensive materials, such as a full titanium body; The same hardware, such as mic and speaker, and better battery life. There are some features that are currently not available, such as running tolerance, but they are coming through A huge new software update That garmin only announced.
The Fenix 8 fenger is more expensive than 970, but is also very old. If the phenix 8 goes on sale, as it is occasionally, it is a no-grain to achieve it. Forerunner 970 is a premium clock with advanced features that will provide you a lot of insight and help if you are trying to go to pro, but it can be an overcome if you are not and you like to surf sometimes instead.
