The Garmin Epix Gen 2 smartwatch was launched on Tuesday, there are three color variants of the new Garmin smartwatch and all models come with a 1.3-inch AMOLED touchscreen display and offer up to 32GB of storage. The Garmin Epix Gen 2 has a Round dial. Garmin’s new wearable has 10ATM water resistance certification and is said to offer a battery life of up to 16 days in smartwatch mode and up to 42 hours in GPS mode. The new smartwatch has support for smart notifications. It enables users to call, message or check social media notifications directly from the wearable when paired with a smartphone. Apart from basic health and fitness features, the Garmin Epix Gen 2 also offers advanced features like PacePro, real-time stamina, wrist-based heart rate, respiration, sleep tracking, and more.
Garmin Epix Gen 2 price, availability
Garmin Epix Gen 2 Is Offered Available in Black Titanium Sapphire, Slate Steel and White Titanium Sapphire options. The Black Titanium Sapphire and White Titanium Sapphire are priced at $999.99 (approximately Rs 74,500), while the Slate Steel model costs $899.99 (approximately Rs 67,000).
Garmin Epix Gen 2 Specs, Features
As mentioned, the new Garmin The Epix Gen 2 smartwatch sports a 1.3-inch AMOLED (416×416 pixels) touchscreen color display. The wearable has support for always-on display. The casing of the wearable is made of stainless steel or titanium. The entry-level slate steel model comes with Gorilla Glass DX protection while the other two get sapphire crystal material.
It offers Bluetooth connectivity, Wi-Fi and ANT+ connectivity and works with both iOS and Android platforms. The Garmin Epix Gen 2 also comes with 10ATM water resistance certification.
The wearable has interchangeable straps with bands available in metal, leather, suede, and silicone. As mentioned, the Garmin Epix Gen 2 comes with wrist-based health monitoring features like heart rate, respiration, Pulse Ox blood oxygen saturation and stress tracking, and more to let users know about their body’s energy levels. Provides body-battery functionality. The wearable also offers Sleep Score.
The Garmin Epix Gen 2 comes with preloaded activity profiles for trail running, swimming, running, biking, hiking, rowing, skiing, golfing, surfing and indoor climbing. It supports and tracks outdoor activities such as hiking, bouldering, climbing, mountain biking, skiing, surfing, jumpmaster, tactical, tennis, pickball and more.
The smartwatch packs a free virtual personal trainer. The wearable prepares runners for race day with customized training plans from Garmin Coach. PacePro and Real-time Stamina are other training features offered by the smartwatch. They suggest daily workouts.
For connectivity, the Garmin Epix Gen 2 smartwatch features multi-band frequency and multi-GNSS support to ensure GPS positioning. It includes many sensors like barometric altimeter, compass, gyroscope, accelerometer, thermometer and ambient light sensor.
As mentioned, the Garmin Epix Gen 2 is said to offer battery life of up to 16 days in smartwatch mode and up to 42 hours in GPS mode.
Users can download songs on the Watch through third party music apps. It supports streaming from Spotify, Amazon Music and Deezer. Users can find new apps and install them over Wi-Fi directly from the watch via the Connect IQ Store On Device. The Garmin Epix Gen 2 packs Garmin Pay for incident detection and assistance, and contactless payments for emergency message alerts.
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