Anyone want the new features that the new p_lar grit x has?

Patk said:

Also I see new watches have ecg, blood pressure and even blood sugar...will garmin get this done for the new f7x?

Those are measurements for detecting medical issues - that's not the market Fenix is going for. It would be neat if Fenix could do those things, but I would not expect it any time soon. Garmin isn't in the medical diagnostics industry. Apple, and a few other companies, are trying to make their wearables be medical diagnostics tools, but Garmin is not interested in that. It's an activity tracker, first and foremost, and they do it way better than the other companies, so they'll probably just stick with doing that.

They have a few really basic tools like low and high HR alerts and HRV stress, but I doubt they'll dive any deeper than that into the medical diagnostics rabbit hole.

Sounds interesting. The issue is, Garmin has the features it offers not even under control and more features is not what we need but reliable features that work in all situations.

If you have the HR run strap Garmin will do power,  cool but really what do you do with it?) .

i mean apple isn't in the medical diagnostics industry either. nor is fitbit. the reality, though, is that these companies are beginning to offer features that people want to see in a wearable. to ignore market trends is to become the dinosaur. adapt or die, as they say

Medical devices are heavily regulated by the FDA, and subject to a lot of lawsuits.

It will be interesting as to whether Apple maintain their interest in this when they get a few large judgements against them when a plaintiff lawyer convinces a jury somewhere that the only reason their obese chainsmoking client suffered a heart attack was because their apple watch didn't warn them.

I've been looking at this watch, thing is, it's also missing a few things:

• Strength workouts can't be created with strength, rep and weight.  It's just a workout type.
• No pay or music / podcasts.
• Calorie estimates in the polar world are of fitbit accuracy (I remember doing a 1/2 mile walk, over 20 minutes, and fitbit saying I burned 300 calories).
• I don't use maps very often but there are no maps, just komoot directions.
• I don't think HR accuracy is quite there, yet, but I expect that to get there.
• Regular use battery life seems high from the reviews I've read, 4 days or so.  GPS, however, seems very good.

Power is available in Garminland but it's kind of an add-on, not much there, really.

Hill-splitter is the most interesting thing to me, as my weekly big run is up and down hills and having a clean breakout of that would be interesting.  

ECG is overrated, not that useful on the AW, more of a gimmick. BP and glucose are probably more useful, if they can get them right.  I worry about BP in a watch, a lot, but it would be cool to have it.

The price is also interesting as it's in a good place.  None of those are deal killers for me, except maybe podcasts, but I still have my AW, so I could just go with 2 devices assuming the eco-system (flow) works as well as Garmin does, or close enough.

Exactly my thoughts. Garmin watches don't need new features. They need features that actually work, and not only on paper. 

Garmin definitely don’t need bloodpressure/sugar, they complex enough already. What’s important is to get all the existing features working.

what i could wish, and many others i have seen, is a possibility to MANUALLY add bloodpressure/sugar in Garmin Connect. This has been suggested to Garmin many times, but so far no respons, not even a answer.

Edit. Sorry, tha answer was to Threadstarter, not JanH.