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Need your advice for a Fenix 6x PRO solar

falconeye75
over 5 years ago

Hi,

I purchased a Fenix 5x Plus last year and I was very dissapointed by GPS accuracy, it was very, very bad and I could not train efficiently with it. After some months, I retruned it to be refunded. I was hoping a new firmware would resolve this problem but no improvment...

I am wondering about purchasing a Fenix 6X plus olar but I would like to have your feedback before.

- Is GPS accuracy better than the Fenix5X plus, do we still have the drunk man syndrom and some loops on the trace and is GPS accuracy doing well even when walking ? On the 5x Plus, at low speed, the GPS trace was very bad.

- What about Gorilla glass though ? Is is tough enough or do you have some scratches ?

- I am hesitating between the solar black and the silver one. Which one would you recommand ? I am affraid of the silver titanium scratchs. Do you think it can have more scratches than the black one ? It seems the silver version is more beautiful, is also your feeling ?

- Optical  HR : I was dissapointed with the one of Fenix 5X plus, there was always a delay betwwen the real value and the value on the watch (about 20 to 30 seconds), does it still exist on the 6x pro solar ? I read some issue winth the OHR recently but did it work well at the beginning ? Maybe it is just a bug that will be corrected.

Thanks for your help.

  • 0 over 5 years ago
    falconeye75 said:
    - Optical  HR : I was dissapointed with the one of Fenix 5X plus, there was always a delay betwwen the real value and the value on the watch (about 20 to 30 seconds),

    My belief is that OHR is better now than it was on earlier models and earlier software (I'm probably about to get shot down in flames for daring to say that) but it is still not good enough for activities where there are rapid changes of intensity. That said, even a chest strap will not respond instantly to changes of intensity because heart rate does not response instantly; it can take 10 to 15s for heart rate to catch up after a change of intensity. So, if you are doing short intervals heart rate will always lag; it's just exacerbated perhaps with the optical sensor.

    It is crucial that you wear the watch correctly at all times. Too tight and you restrict blood flow. Too loose and other light reflections will affect the reading.

    In short, FWIW, I believe the OHR is better than it has been. I will often not bother to wear a strap if I am doing steady state activities but I will wear a strap if I want better HR data from an activity.