Garmin has just launched the Fenix 9 and Fenix 9 Pro smartwatches, with the latter boasting the first full titanium case and largest AMOLED screen in the Fenix line ever.
The Fenix 9 has a fiber-reinforced polymer case with a titanium rear cover, and a screen with twice the brightness of its predecessor, with a sapphire crystal on top. It’s dive-rated to 40m and has leak-proof buttons. There’s also 50% more RAM than on the Fenix 8, and a more powerful map engine with 30% faster panning. The watch has 64GB of storage, twice as much as the Fenix 8.
Garmin Fenix 9 official images
The Fenix 9 is available in 43mm, 47mm, and 51mm, and it comes with Garmin Epic, a feature that groups together activities recorded over several days, weeks, or months to create an “Epic” (hence the name). You can see your health and performance data during that time, add photos, and share everything with friends. The Fenix 9 also gives you more insights during an indoor rowing session, it comes with expanded rucking features, and new stamina tracking logic with stamina zones and stamina curve.
The Fenix 9 Pro has all of that and a new design, a 3,000-nit peak brightness on its screen, a 1.5″ size display on the 51mm model, and you can get solar charging displays on “select Pro models”, which “offer weeks of battery life”, Garmin says. Also on select Pro models is inReach connectivity, with LiveTrack notifications through LTE, Garmin Locate, weather forecasts sent directly to your watch for any specific location, and emergency help from the 24/7 staffed Garmin Response coordination center if you need it.
Garmin Fenix 9 Pro official images
The Fenix 9 starts at $999.99 and gets up to 29 days of battery life in smartwatch mode on the largest size. The Fenix 9 Pro starts at $1,099.99 and gets up to 31 days of battery life in smartwatch mode on the largest size. The solar charging options get up to 57 days of battery life.