{"id":15983,"date":"2024-09-23T06:37:52","date_gmt":"2024-09-23T04:37:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/09\/23\/garmin-fenix-8-review-best-adventure-watch-becomes-smarter\/"},"modified":"2024-09-23T06:37:52","modified_gmt":"2024-09-23T04:37:52","slug":"garmin-fenix-8-review-best-adventure-watch-becomes-smarter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/09\/23\/garmin-fenix-8-review-best-adventure-watch-becomes-smarter\/","title":{"rendered":"Garmin Fenix 8 review: best adventure watch becomes smarter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bright OLED screen, voice control and a torch only add to go anywhere, track anything ability, but price increase stings<\/p>\n<p>The Fenix 8 is a landmark moment for Garmin. By adding voice control, an OLED screen and other niceties, it has merged its top Fenix and Epix adventure watch lines to better compete with increasingly advanced smartwatches from Apple, Samsung and other major players.<\/p>\n<p>The Fenix has always been where Garmin debuts its technology and features first before trickling them down into other products, such as the popular Forerunner series. It certainly feels more modern, but at \u00a3870 (\u20ac1,000\/$1,000\/A$1,699) \u2013 a \u00a3120 or so increase over its already pricy predecessor \u2013 these new advances including diving tracking and AI assistant access do not come cheap.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2024\/sep\/23\/garmin-fenix-8-review-best-adventure-watch-becomes-smarter\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/5e83fc1b0106deb1341eb738eb8ef93ff4f46114\/227_405_4936_2961\/master\/4936.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=ebbdb1ec8e9603b4077b22cee472b4ec\" title=\"Garmin Fenix 8 review: best adventure watch becomes smarter\" \/>Bright OLED screen, voice control and a torch only add to go anywhere, track anything ability, but price increase stings<br \/>\nThe Fenix 8 is a landmark moment for Garmin. By adding voice control, an OLED screen and other niceties, it has merged its top Fenix and Epix adventure watch lines to better compete with increasingly advanced smartwatches from Apple, Samsung and other major players.<br \/>\nThe Fenix has always been where Garmin debuts its technology and features first before trickling them down into other products, such as the popular Forerunner series. It certainly feels more modern, but at \u00a3870 (\u20ac1,000\/$1,000\/A$1,699) \u2013 a \u00a3120 or so increase over its already pricy predecessor \u2013 these new advances including diving tracking and AI assistant access do not come cheap. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bright OLED screen, voice control and a torch only add to go anywhere, track anything ability, but price increase stings The Fenix 8 is a landmark moment for Garmin. By adding voice control, an OLED screen and other niceties, it has merged its top Fenix and Epix adventure watch lines to better compete with increasingly &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/09\/23\/garmin-fenix-8-review-best-adventure-watch-becomes-smarter\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Garmin Fenix 8 review: best adventure watch becomes smarter<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":15984,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15983"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15983\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}