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First impressions and what can be improved.

blacky
9 months ago

Hello, Garmin team!
Hello, gang!

I changed my 7X Saphire Solar with the new 8 51mm AMOLED and I already did some trail running, swimming with the watch. 

Basically, this watch is having all the things that I wanted my 7X to have. Like a brighter display ( my eyes are getting worse, and I'm having trouble with the MIP in the shadows), diving functions and voice memos. 

So, after having a few sessions with the new watch, I notice a few minor things that may be improved. 

The first thing was the gesture response time. I really would live to have a setting for that. I'm ready to sacrifice some battery life just to have a display with a better gesture response. It happened to me to turn my wrist and the display remains dark. And when running, it happens very often. The backlight on my 7X was never failing in such situations, so I guess it is more like a software issue. 
That leads to the second issue. Since the display is a little bit laggy, I cannot use it when trail running downhill. It is simply dangerous. The time needed for me to take my eyes from the track just to wait for the watch to turn on the AMOLED ... it's just not the way this sport can be practiced. So having the ability to turn ON and OFF the always on display by SHORTCUT/HOTKEY may be the solution for this. 

Other than that I'm very excited by the new interface and the watch as overall :) Great job Garmin team! Keep up the innovations :) 

Thank you :) 

  • 0 9 months ago

    Sorry to inform you..  auto dim during activity is not a software issue. It is the way it has been since original epix release 2 years ago.

    forget about that "always-on brightness display" thing. It's never gonna happen. People have been asking for it since the first Epix Gen 2 days, like two years ago, and Garmin's official response is a big fat no. So, you gotta deal with that AMOLED screen that dims automatically. You can always use a gesture to bring the brightness back up for a few seconds, but that's it.

    That's why MIP screens are so great—they have that always-on mode or backlight that's always on.

    Still not too late for you to exchange to mip version or Enduro 3 (the better watch If don't dive).