Two Sapphire Fenix 6 Pro’s, backlight / contrast issues

I bought two fenix 6’s today, both are the Carbon grey DLC coated with sapphire glass.

Have a look at these photos, my wife's is on the left hand side and mine the right. Her looks very yellow compared to mine which looks far crisper and sharper. Both have backlight set to 50%.

Any thoughts on if there’s a setting other than backlight that could cause this before I go back to the shop where I bought them?

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0 Former Member over 5 years ago in reply to Former Member

I wasn't aware, my bad. I would like to see more pics of this particular watch to determine how the viewing angles are, but your right, that looks pretty blue. I am able to make my Delta look blueish in certain lights, but the viewing angles is the ultimate test!

0 Former Member over 5 years ago in reply to jarivee

Definitely lack of competition.

I love the navigation by map utilizing the round trip function. Where I live is semi rural and it shows up tracks across farms I would not normally see. Going down these different routes makes each run interesting.

I haven't found another product which offer this unfortunately which surprises me.

Do no other watches have online map navigation?!

0 Former Member over 5 years ago in reply to jarivee

I think the "problem" is that the Fenix series started to become more popular and more of a lifestyle watch that a specificaly sport oriented product. Garmin is a victim of its own selling volume.

0 HeiniFalk over 5 years ago in reply to jarivee

Technically Yes and No. We are removing the bad quality out of the equation as Garmin / Retailer cannot resell a sent back watch as a new product. That way if you burn though 10 returns Garmin sits with 10 watches that cannot be repackaged or resold as new due to this.

Long term effect; Garmin sits with a heap of blue tint screens watches no one wants and considering this forum is owned by them maybe a moderator needs to catch a wakeup and alert them of this so they can fix it or they will end up with only selective "Quality" Fenix 6 watches being kept by their consumers.

Garmin is playing dumb here and hoping the mayority dont notice it so they replace the odd 500 units ppl return so this wont phase them until EVERYONE start sending them back and demanding the quality thats supposed to come with a 900$ watch

Look at the end of the day the Blue Tint is the same as all the previous versions so only someone who has seen a perfect screen will want a perfect screen. To the rest it looks great

0 Former Member over 5 years ago in reply to HeiniFalk

Eventually this catches up to companies. It happened to most of the majestic tech companies of the 80's and 90's like Philips and Panasonic. This will burn then and burn them hard.

0 3704102 over 5 years ago in reply to Former Member

This is my first (and likely last) Garmin product. I expected much more for an $800 watch.

For those of you more familiar with Garmin products, is this what you can expect from them? Poor QC? Not to mention the HR monitor issues that they remain silent on.

0 Former Member over 5 years ago in reply to HeiniFalk

Got them both and BOTH are awesome.

Strangely one is just slightly better than the other even though they are only 10 apart in their serial numbers.

Here are some links and I also made a (poorly made) Youtube video

0 HeiniFalk over 5 years ago in reply to Former Member

That's awesome. You finally got the watch you deserve... and paid for :) Big difference hey?

0 Former Member over 5 years ago in reply to HeiniFalk

Definitely.

Very pleased.

Thanks mate!

0 Former Member over 5 years ago

Asking again.. still no good 6S sapphire? :(