Why fenix chronos does not support permanent seconds

Hi

All is in the titlle

Why F5S with same characteristics , less performance, same memory same support CIQ2 have this option and Chronos with a price of $1,499.99USD doesn't have

With SDK it's not hard to make this option.

At first the S60 with the watch face had only 58K of available, now it has 92K, so you do what you want if you wish.
[h=1]f?nix® Chronos[/h] [h=2]With Titanium Hybrid Band[/h] [h=3]PART NUMBER: 010-01957-01[/h] $1,499.99USD

Thanks for us

Didier

jim_m_58 over 8 years ago

There are hardware differences with the display hardware in devices that support "seconds all the time" - the ability to only update a part of the display. The f5 devices were the first to have this new HW. The Chronos came out prior to that and still has the older display HW.

So, it's that the Chronos doesn't have the correct HW to do seconds all the time and it isn't a SW thing..

riedid74 over 8 years ago

I'm not sure it needs a specific hardware to display the seconds permanently. The Chronos can do it as standard with Garmin faces, so it has all the hardware to do it. I think more of a marketing case than a hardware problem

jim_m_58 over 8 years ago

native watchfaces are very different than CIQ ones, and native WFs on things as old as the f5920 would display seconds all the time.

For CIQ, 1hz came about with the 2.3.0 beta SDK, and at that time there were posts about the difference in HW, and why the early CIQ2 devices (vahr,735, Chronos) couldn't support 1hz.

While the Chronis is pretty much like the f5s, there are differences in things like this as well as the version of the OHRM.

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