Fenix 8 - 43mm AMOLED Smartwatch

• RUGGED BY DESIGN: Built to endure, this premium design is dive-rated and features leakproof buttons, a metal sensor guard cover and bright 1.3″ AMOLED display with options for a scratch-resistant lens and titanium bezel. It’s tested to U.S. military standards for thermal, shock and water resistance.
• BUILT-IN SPEAKER AND MICROPHONE: Make and take phone calls from your sports watch when it’s paired to your smartphone. Plus, control watch functions with off-grid voice commands — or use your smartphone’s voice assistant to respond to text messages and more.
• BUILT-IN LED FLASHLIGHT: A true integrated flashlight with variable light intensities and a red safety light gives you greater awareness in the dark, providing convenient illumination when you need it. Strobe mode can even match your running cadence.
• GARMIN COACH: Prepare for your next race, train for a milestone, or simply improve your fitness with Garmin Coach adaptive or prebuilt running, cycling or strength training plans. For more personalised workouts, select plans even adapt based on your performance and health metrics.
• KNOWLEDGE IS POWER: Begin each day with a customisable morning report offering a summary of health and wellness information. Use the training readiness feature, which looks at a variety of health metrics, to maximise your training efficiency and recovery2 — to help prevent burnout.
• ENHANCED MAP NAVIGATION: A dynamic round-trip routing feature lets you enter how far you want to go — and get suggested routes that will guide you back on time. You can also view terrain contours on TopoActive maps3 and access preloaded maps for golf courses and ski resorts around the world.

What You'll Love

• Sleep Score and Insights: ✓
• Battery life (smartwatch mode): Up to 10 days (4 days always-on)
  
• Built-in mapping: ✓
• Pulse Ox Blood Oxygen Saturation: ✓
• Garmin ECG App: ✓
• LED flashlight: ✓
• Garmin Pay™: ✓
• Multi-band GPS: ✓
• Music storage: ✓
• Make calls and send texts via voice: ✓
• Training Readiness: ✓
• Training Status: ✓
• Watch display type: AMOLED
  
• Touchscreen: ✓
• Water rating: 10 ATM

General

• Strap material: Silicone
• Lens material: Corning® Gorilla® Glass or sapphire crystal
• Bezel material: Stainless steel or titanium
• Case material: Fibre-reinforced polymer with metal rear cover
• QuickFit ™ watch band compatible: Included (20 mm)
• Physical size: 43 x 43 x 13.8 mm
  Fits wrists with the following circumference:
  Silicone band: 108-182 mm
  UltraFit band: 108-189 mm
  Suede band: 108-175 mm
  Metal band: 108-180 mm
  
• Weight: Stainless Steel: 66 g (case only: 50 g)
  Titanium: 60 g (case only: 44 g)
  
• Leakproof inductive buttons: ✓
• Built-in speaker/microphone: ✓
• Display Size: 33 mm (1.3”) diametre
• Display Resolution: 416 x 416 pixels
  
• Colour display: ✓
• Large font option: ✓
• Battery type: Lithium ion
• Battery life: Smartwatch: Up to 10 days (4 days always-on)
  Battery saver watch mode: Up to 15 days
  GPS Only: Up to 28 hours (22 hours always-on)
  All Satellite Systems: Up to 23 hours (18 hours always-on)
  All Satellite Systems + Multi-band: Up to 21 hours (16 hours always-on)*
  All Satellite Systems + Music: Up to 6 hours
  Max Battery GPS: Up to 49 hours
  Expedition GPS: Up to 10 days
  *Assuming typical use with SatIQ technology
  
• Charging method: Garmin proprietary plug charger
• Memory/history: 32 GB
  

Clock features

• Time/date: ✓
• GPS time sync: ✓
• Automatic daylight saving time: ✓
• Alarm clock: ✓
• Smart wake alarm: ✓
• Timer: ✓
• Stopwatch: ✓
• Sunrise/sunset times: ✓

Health & Wellness Monitoring

• Wrist-based heart rate (constant, every second): ✓
• Resting heart rate: ✓
• Abnormal Heart Rate Alerts: Yes (high and low) ✓
• Respiration Rate: ✓
• Fitness Age: ✓
• Body Battery™ Energy Monitor: ✓
• All-day Stress: ✓
• Relaxation Breathing Timer: ✓
• Meditation: ✓
• Breathwork: ✓
• Sleep: Yes (Advanced) ✓
• Sleep coach: ✓
• Breathing variations: ✓
• Nap detection: ✓
• Hydration: Yes (in Garmin Connect™ and optional Connect IQ™ widget) ✓
• Women's Health: Yes (in Garmin Connect™ and optional Connect IQ™ widget) ✓
• Health Snapshot: ✓
• Skin temperature: ✓
• JET LAG ADVISER: ✓

Sensors

• GPS: ✓
• GLONASS: ✓
• Galileo: ✓
• QZSS: ✓
• BeiDou: ✓
• SatIQ™ Technology: ✓
• Garmin Elevate™ wrist heart rate monitor: ✓
• Pulse Ox Blood Oxygen Saturation Monitor: ✓
• Barometric altimeter: ✓
• Compass: ✓
• Gyroscope: ✓
• Accelerometer: ✓
• Thermometer: ✓
• Ambient light sensor: ✓
• Depth sensor: Yes (to 40 m) ✓

Daily smart features

• Connectivity: Bluetooth®, ANT+®, Wi-Fi®
  
• Connect IQ™ (downloadable watch faces, data fields and apps): ✓
• On-device Connect IQ™ Store: ✓
• Smart Notifications: ✓
• Text response/reject phone call with text (Android™ only): ✓
• View images from notifications on watch (Android™ only): ✓
• Morning report: ✓
• Evening report: ✓
• Calendar: ✓
• Weather forecasts: ✓
• Realtime settings sync with Garmin Connect™ mobile: ✓
• Battery Saver - customisable low power watch: ✓
• Controls smartphone music: ✓
• Plays and controls watch music: ✓
• Find my phone: ✓
• Find my watch: ✓
• Find My Phone during GPS activity: ✓
• Compatible with Garmin Messenger app: ✓
• Smart trainer control: ✓
• Compatible with Garmin Connect™ Mobile: ✓
• Smartphone compatibility: iPhone®, Android™
  
• Stocks: ✓
• Bluetooth phone calling and voice assistant support: ✓
• Voice command: ✓
• Red shift mode: ✓
• Garmin Share: ✓
• Passcode: ✓
• Calculator: ✓

Workout and Training Plans

• Daily Suggested Workout - Running (Pace and Heart Rate Based): ✓
• Daily Suggested Workout - Cycling (Pace and Heart Rate Based): ✓
• Garmin Running Coach: ✓
• Garmin Running Coach Experts: ✓
• Garmin Cycling Coach: ✓
• Garmin Coach - Prebuilt Cycling Plans: ✓
• Garmin Coach - Strength: ✓
• Garmin Triathlon Coach: ✓
• Multisport workouts: ✓
• Cardio workouts: ✓
• Strength workouts: ✓
• HIIT workouts: ✓
• Yoga workouts: ✓
• Pilates workouts: ✓
• On-screen workout animations: ✓
• On-Screen Workout Muscle Map: ✓

Activity profiles

• Gym: Strength, HIIT, Cardio, Elliptical Training, Stair Stepping, Floor Climbing, Indoor rowing, Jump Roping
• Multisport: Swimming/Running, Triathlon
• WELLNESS: Walking, Indoor Walking, Pilates, Yoga
• INDOOR RUNNING: Treadmill Running, Indoor Track Running, Virtual running
• Outdoor running: Running, Outdoor Track Running, Trail Running, Ultra Running, Obstacle Racing
• Outdoor recreation: Hiking, Indoor Climbing, Bouldering, Climbing, Hunting, Horseback Riding, Golfing, Disc Golf, Archery
• Cycling: Biking, Road biking, Mountain Biking, Gravel biking, Bike commuting, Bike touring, eBiking, eMountain Biking, Indoor Biking, Cyclocross, BMX
• Swim: Pool Swimming, Open Water Swimming
• On the water: Stand Up Paddleboarding, Rowing, Kayaking, Surfing, Kiteboarding, Windsurfing, Fishing, Boating, Sailing, Water Skiing, Wakeboarding, Wakesurfing, Tubing, Snorkeling, Whitewater
• Motor sports: Motorcycling, Overlanding, Motorcrossing, ATVing, Snowmobiling
• Racket sports: Tennis, Pickleball, Badminton, Squash, Table Tennis, Padel, Platform Tennis, Racquetball
• Snow & Winter: Skiing, Snowboarding, Backcountry Snowboarding, XC Classic Skiing, XC Skate Skiing, Backcountry Skiing, Ice Skating, Snowshoeing
• Sport profiles: Basketball, Volleyball, Field Hockey, Ice Hockey, Soccer, American Football, Lacrosse, Rugby, Ultimate Disc, Cricket, Softball, Baseball
• In the ring: Boxing, Mixed martial arts
• Dive: Scuba Diving (single gas), Apnea Diving, Depth App
• Other activity profiles:Inline Skating

Safety and tracking features

• Incident Detection during select activities: ✓
• Incident detection alert on phone for wearables: ✓
• Assistance: ✓
• Live Event Sharing: ✓

Tactical features

• Dual grid coordinates: ✓

Diving features

• Dive activity maximum operating depth: 40 metres
• Single-gas mode: ✓
• APNOEA mode: ✓
• Decompression model: Bühlmann ZHL-16c with gradient factors
• Nitrox support: ✓
• Gas mixes: Air, Nitrox (21-40% Oxygen)
• PO2: Up to 1.6 with customisable Deco settings
• Auto start/end dive: ✓
• Custom end-dive timeout: Yes (20 sec to 10 min) ✓
• Safety Stop: Yes (customisable off/3min/5min) ✓
• Deep Stops: Yes (using custom gradient factors) ✓
• Customisable conservatism: Yes (Low/Medium/High) ✓
• Dive ascent/descent rate indicator: ✓
• Automatic altitude adjustment: ✓
• No fly time: ✓
• Dive planner: Yes (Basic NDL & Gas Planner) ✓
• Tides: ✓
• Backlight: Yes (configurable intensity; always on) ✓
• Automatically saves dive entry and exit locations: ✓
• Sync dive log to Garmin Dive™ Mobile app: ✓
• Alerts & alarms: Yes (vibration only) ✓
• 3-axis dive compass: Yes with adjustable heading, quick change to 90R, 90L, and Reciprocal. Indicates degrees and direction back to set heading. ✓
• Missed Deco Lockout: Yes (can be disabled prior to dive with user acknowledgement) ✓
• Surface diver status widget: Yes (Surface Interval, no fly time, N2 loading, CNS, OTU, and Tissue Compartment status) ✓

Boating features

• Wearable trolling motor remote: ✓

Activity tracking features

• Step counter: ✓
• Move alerts (displays on device after a period of inactivity; walk for a couple of minutes to reset it): ✓
• Auto goal (learns your activity level and assigns a daily step goal): ✓
• Calories Burned: ✓
• Floors climbed: ✓
• Distance travelled: ✓
• Intensity minutes: ✓
• TrueUp™: ✓
• Move IQ™: ✓
• Garmin Connect™ Challenges app: Yes (optional Connect IQ app) ✓
• Automatic rep counting: ✓

Training, planning and analysis features

• Customisable screen(s): ✓
• Downloadable training plans: ✓
• Course guidance: ✓
• HR Zones: ✓
• HR Alerts: ✓
• HR Calories: ✓
• % HR Max: ✓
• % HRR: ✓
• Recovery Time: ✓
• Auto Max HR: ✓
• Race glance/widget: ✓
• HRV Status: ✓
• HRV stress test (measures your heart rate variability while standing still, for 3 minutes, to provide you with an estimated stress level; the scale of this is 1 to 100; low scores indicate lower stress levels): Yes (with compatible accessory) ✓
• HR Broadcast (broadcasts HR data over ANT+® to paired devices): ✓
• Respiration Rate (During Exercise): Yes (with compatible accessory) ✓
• GPS speed and distance: ✓
• Customisable activity profiles: ✓
• Auto Pause® automatic timer halt: ✓
• Interval training: ✓
• Improved interval (includes open repeats, intervals data page, rest screen and auto detection): ✓
• Advanced workouts: ✓
• Power Modes - customisable in-activity battery settings: ✓
• HRM running pace and distance: ✓
• Auto Lap® interval tracking feature: ✓
• Manual lap: ✓
• Rest timer: ✓
• Configurable lap alerts: ✓
• Heat and Altitude Acclimation: ✓
• VO2 Max (Run): ✓
• VO2 Max (Trail Run): ✓
• Realtime Stamina: ✓
• ENDURANCE SCORE: ✓
• Load ratio: ✓
• Training Load: ✓
• Training load focus: ✓
• Training Effect: ✓
• Training Effect (Anaerobic): ✓
• Primary benefit (Training Effect labels): ✓
• Workout benefit: ✓
• Customisable alerts: ✓
• Voice alerts: ✓
• Multisport auto transition: ✓
• Finish time: ✓
• Virtual partner: ✓
• Race an activity: ✓
• Multi-sport: ✓
• Garmin Live Segments: ✓
• Strava Live Segments: ✓
• Round-trip course creator (running/cycling): ✓
• Trendline™ Popularity Routing: ✓
• Touch and/or button lock: ✓
• Shortcuts: ✓
• Auto scroll: ✓
• Activity history on watch: ✓
• Physio TrueUp: ✓
• Unified Training Status: ✓

Running features

• GPS-based distance, time and pace: ✓
• Running dynamics: ✓
• Step speed loss: Yes (with compatible accessory) ✓
• Vertical oscillation and ratio: ✓
• Ground contact time and balance: Yes (GCT balance with accessory) ✓
• Stride length (real time): ✓
• Cadence (provides real-time number of steps per minute): ✓
• Running tolerance: ✓
• Running economy: Yes (with compatible accessory) ✓
• Running power: ✓
• Grade-adjusted pace: ✓
• Performance condition: ✓
• Lactate threshold: Yes (with compatible accessory) ✓
• PacePro™ Pacing Strategies: ✓
• Run workouts: ✓
• HILL SCORE: ✓
• Trail run auto climb: ✓
• Race predictor: ✓
• Course- and weather-specific race predictor: ✓
• Projected race time: ✓
• Foot pod capable: ✓
• Run/Walk/Stand detection: ✓

Golfing features

• Preloaded with 43,000 courses worldwide: ✓
• Yardage to F/M/B (distance to front, middle and back of green): ✓
• Yardage to layups/doglegs: ✓
• Measures shot distance (calculates exact yardage for shots from anywhere on course): Automatic
• Digital scorecard: ✓
• Custom targets: ✓
• Stat tracking (strokes, putts per round, greens and fairways hit): ✓
• Garmin AutoShot™: ✓
• Full vector map: ✓
• Auto CourseView updates: ✓
• Green View with manual pin position: ✓
• Hazards and course targets: ✓
• PinPointer: ✓
• PlaysLike distance: ✓
• Touch-targeting (touch target on display to see the distance to any point): ✓
• Handicap scoring: ✓
• Swing Tempo: ✓
• Tempo Training: ✓
• Round timer/odometer: ✓
• Automatic club tracking compatible (requires accessory): ✓
• Wind speed and direction (requires connection to the golf app): ✓
• VIRTUAL CADDIE: ✓
• Pairs with Garmin Golf app: ✓
• Tournament legal: ✓
• Green Contours (with Garmin Golf membership): ✓

Outdoor recreation

• Point-to-point navigation: ✓
• Bread crumbtrail in real time: ✓
• Back to start: ✓
• TracBack®: ✓
• UltraTrac mode: ✓
• Explore Nearby: ✓
• Up Ahead: ✓
• NextFork™ navigation: ✓
• Elevation profile: ✓
• Distance to destination: ✓
• Barometric trend indicator with storm alert: ✓
• ClimbPro™ Ascent Planner: ✓
• Vertical speed: ✓
• Total ascent/descent: ✓
• Rest Timer (Ultra Run only): ✓
• Auto Rest: ✓
• Future elevation plot: ✓
• Preloaded road and trail maps: Yes (Sapphire Editions only) ✓
• Preloaded ski resort maps: ✓
• Downloadable cartography support: ✓
• GPS coordinates: ✓
• Sight 'N Go: ✓
• Area calculation: Yes (via Connect IQ™) ✓
• Fish forecast: ✓
• Projected waypoint: ✓
• Sun and moon information: ✓
• Expedition GPS Activity: ✓
• Tides: ✓
• Tides Glance: ✓

Cycling features

• Courses: ✓
• Bike lap and lap maximum power (with power sensor): ✓
• Race an activity: ✓
• Alerts (triggers alarm when you reach goals including time, distance, heart rate or calories): ✓
• FTP (Functional Threshold Power): Yes (with compatible accessory) ✓
• Power curve and % FTP workouts: ✓
• Garmin cycle map (routable cycling-specific street map): ✓
• MTB Grit & Flow: ✓
• Advanced cycling dynamics: ✓
• Compatible with Vector™ and Rally™ (power meters): ✓
• Compatible with Varia Vision™ (head-mounted display): ✓
• Compatible with Varia™ radar (rear-facing radar): ✓
• Compatible with Varia™ lights: ✓
• Compatible with Varia headlight camera: ✓
• Speed and cadence sensor support (w/sensor): ✓
• Power meter compatible: ✓
• Power guide: ✓

Swimming features

• Open-water swim metrics (distance, pace, stroke count/rate, stroke distance, swim efficiency (SWOLF), calories): ✓
• Pool swim metrics (lengths, distance, pace, stroke count, swim efficiency (SWOLF), calories): ✓
• Stroke type detection (freestyle, backstroke, breaststroke, butterfly) (pool swim only): ✓
• Drill logging (pool swim only): ✓
• Basic rest timer (up from 0) (pool swim only): ✓
• "Repeat on" rest timer (pool swim only): ✓
• Auto rest (pool swim only): ✓
• Time and distance alerts: ✓
• Pacing alerts (pool swim only): ✓
• Countdown start: ✓
• Pool swim workouts: ✓
• Critical swim speed: ✓
• Underwater wrist-based heart rate: ✓
• Heart rate from external HRM (real-time during rests, interval and session stats during rests, and automatic heart rate download post-swim): Yes (with HRM-Tri, HRM-Swim, HRM-Pro or HRM-Pro Plus) ✓

Security and Legal Information

• Security updates until at least (YYYY-MM-DD): 2026-08-27
• EU Data Act Information - Wearable, Fitness Measuring and Heart Rate (HRM) Devices: ✓

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