Garmin Fenix 3 HR
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Pros and Cons
Pros
- Metal case and glass cover
- Wi-Fi for syncing directly, without battery draining bluetooth enabled on phone and watch
- Map display of waypoints and current track works like a charm
- Highly customization of display features
Cons
- Optical HR measurement does not work for me when sweating (HR=199 bpm at low pace is at least 40 bpm wrong, so no minor inaccuracy)
- Sleep diagnostics does not use HR data
- Sleep is only detected once per day, so no afternoon nap possible in the data model
- No build in way to manage and transport waypoints in Garmin Connect (two 3rd party apps help to fill the gap, see below)
- PC tool "BaseCamp" and USB cable required for editing tracks and waypoints
- PC tool "Garmin Express" and USB cable required for setting Wi-Fi Password
- 3rd party watch faces are very slow (several seconds delay when browsing through display pages)
Low hanging fruits for Garmin Connect app
- Sleep diagnostics using HR data and allowing for more than one sleep / nap per day
- Enable Garmin Connect to manage and transport waypoints to phone
- Enable Garmin Connect to set Wi-Fi passwords
Send Waypoint from Phone to Watch
- Install Watch App IQ Map Receiver
- Install Android App IQMapReceiver
- Turn on Bluetooth on phone and watch
- Use Goggle Maps to share a location and select IQMapReceiver as target
- In IQMapReceiver settings you might have to enable internet connection
- Use envelope button to send Waypoint to watch
- On watch select app IQReceiver (below running and other activities)
- Start it and press the button to save the waypoint
Create and Send GPX Track from phone to watch
see [1] Basic: It seems that gpx files can nowadays be opened by Garmin Connect app.