Fenix 8 Pro out, will Mk4 be based on Fenix 8 or Fenix 8 Pro?

jmto 1 month ago

What are you thoughts/guesses about this?

As like, waiting for a year for Mk4 and getting all the Fenix 8 Pro things might be doable.
Waiting for year and disappointing not getting any of the Fenix 8 Pro features would be pretty meh.

On the other hand after Mk4 is released Fenix 9 is also out or at least near release.
So then if it's disappointing one could get Fenix 9 for daily-driver and keep Mk3 as dive-only.

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0 davestern 7 days ago in reply to spatty999

other factor is given the gymnastics needed to use satellite communication to get the antenna properly oriented and that the sat system used for the 8 pro isn't global coverage, for me, the inreach mini 2 is still the most reliable satellite-based communication method at sea (stranded diver, etc). I would love it if the mk4i had at least cellular coms so I could use it full time as my activity watch. bonus if it has all diving features and sat / LTE but I do think the case would need to be fairly large.

0 7000518 7 days ago in reply to davestern

Most diving is in the sea making this ideal, though use will likely kill battery, I agree inreach is better and good to have for additional redundancy, the main issue is currently garmin wont let you have more than one comms device per account

0 Maruzko 5 days ago in reply to davestern

davestern said:
gymnastics

LOL