Nomadic Pro 2 went live earlier this month. It's the rebuild of my original Nomadic Pro and the flagship of the range, so I wanted to put it in front of the people who'll actually spot what's wrong with it.
Nomadic Pro 2 is built for AMOLED, with layouts drawn per resolution — 454×454, 416×416 and 390×390 — rather than one layout scaled down. 40 devices supported.
What's in it:
Seven on-watch touch zones.Time colour, data field cycling, data font size, view toggles and quick info are all changed on the wrist. For key color/datafield changes - no phone, Connect IQ Mobile, no settings round-trip. Deeper options are in the IQ app though.
15 selectable data fields across multiple zones — weather (conditions, humidity, wind speed and direction, precipitation chance, daily high/low, daily precipitation,barometric pressure trend), plus elevation, dual time zone and last-known coordinates.
Six 3D time colourways, each available in 12 *and* 24 hour — New Blue, Red, Green, Red/Blue, Bronze, Steel Gray. Getting all six rendered in both formats was more work than the first version, where 24 hour was an afterthought.
The part I'd most like feedback on is the other two editions, because they're essentially the same design pushed onto very different hardware:
Nomadic Pro MIP ($2.99) is not the AMOLED build with a fallback path — it's a from-scratch rebuild for transflective displays. The 3D time digits were reprocessed for MIP's 64-colour palette, over solid backgrounds tuned for sunlight legibility, and it handles both touch models and button-only watches. No AOD, no dimming, no stripped-down layout — every field stays visible all the time, which is the entire point of MIP. 14 devices across fenix 7, Forerunner 255/955, Enduro 3 and fenix 8 Solar.
apps.garmin.com/.../c4a650d2-3b3a-4385-a998-ecdfe6ebcb93
Nomadic Pro Lite ($1.99) went the other way — same family, deliberately fewer decisions. Three 3D metallic digit sets, dual time zone with DST calculated automatically across 21 named zones, and a tap-to-cycle weather field.
apps.garmin.com/.../c9108b28-8b12-4137-beb6-4e9503a5c287
Reprocessing the 3D digits for a 64-colour palette without them going flat was the hardest single problem in the whole set, and I'm still not certain I've landed it on every background. If anyone here has shipped 3D-styled elements to MIP, I'd genuinely like to compare notes.
More images and detail for all three at https://nomadicdesigns.biz
Happy to answer anything about the touch-zone implementation or the AOD element control. And if something looks wrong on your device, tell me — I'd rather hear it here than read it in a review.
