Battery life, which I thought would be terrible, is actually great.

The battery life is great (around 7 days) and it keep track for all the things that I need

The battery life is great, I get about 5 % discharge a day if I never use the gps and about 10 % a

Battery life is great if you turn off Wifi Auto Upload.

Battery life is great if you turn off Wifi Auto Upload.

Easy to sinc with PC or wifi using the Garmin Connect app.

Garmin has acknowledged that the device needs GPS to provide more accurate data and recommended the use of a foot pod

I've been using for a few months now and liking it more as I use it more...recommend to anyone !

Changing from one to the other is fairly easy using the supplied tools

I got this for my husband, but he didn't feel like he would get enough use out of it, so he gave it to me instead.

I've been using this bundle for 9 months already, the product is really cool and have tons of features I use to practice several sports, like Mtb, running, skiing, hiking and watersports

Great product and the best choice for this type of watches

All in all, it's a great product, definitely look no further, it's a smart watch with a great look, and awesome training tools!

Awesome product, I regret not buying the complete kit with heart rate monitor though.

This product is awful

My titanium watch is light weight and it has an elegant and classy look

5 seconds... come on!Now, everybody's got their own likings, but to me, this is a very good looking watch

But it's a gorgeous looking watch, and the first 'wear everyday'

This is the perfect addition/accessory to this watch for a classier/work look.

A quick look at the Garmin forums will confirm the problems

It has unbelievable features

I like all the features and the ability to get additional apps

The good -I love the way this watch looks and fits, as well as the basic smart watch features.

It has great features both as a smartwatch and as a sports watch

But with this feature not working

FIRST ADVENTURE SPORT TRAINING GARMIN GPS/GLONASS WATCH, uncompromising performance meets uncompromising design

but you couldn't come up with a better design for the back of the watch?I'd like to give it 4 stars

The Fenix 3 smart watch is a very sleek, well designed tool for people who want to track their activities throughout the day or during different work outs

For watches that are designed primarily for function, it's as stylish as any I've seen

It's a little bigger than a normal watch and .the band feels a bit cheap for a device in this price category

Cheapest leather band imaginable that comes with a "made in china" sticker on it.

I ordered the leather watch band with this watch also and I love it!

love the watch, hate the stupid band that holds it to my arm, because it didn't last 9 months.

The metal band is too heavy and not a very good band for working out.

The available apps are surprisingly useful but the selection is limited

Not very many developers working on good quality apps that will add to the functionality of the Fenix

My concern for it is that, at the moment the connect IQ apps are still very limited and somewhat buggy and sometimes cause the watch to reset

Super user friendly and seems like the apps that are available are continuing to grow

There are sooo many available apps and widgets that can be downloaded to satisfy any activity you do

Once you get used it, not a big deal, and the trade off is good data

After a number of attempts with Garmin customer support, they concluded the watch remained frozen due to corrupted data.

Not worth the $600 but it is a beautiful watch, just poor execution if you actually want accurate data.

I've had in the past is the heart rate monitor collecting clearly inaccurate data.

It had really improved my training with the useful data shown

While a feature is that you can change the watch face styles and event create your own, I like the seconds displayed constantly and that only happens while using the Garmin built in watch faces

Display may be hard to read without backlight in some situations, though it's fine in daylight5

The display is do dim with such poor contrast that it's illegible indoors.

I like the watch however the display should be brighter and the watch could be a little more user friendly navigating through all the screens

Widgets and such are somewhat useful and keep it interesting, though I've so far personally found the built-in "digital" face with changeable number colors (to match the bands!) and background the most-useful yet non-dorky display.

So iPhone will glitch up your Garmin because they want you to buy the Apple watch

Garmin apparently dropped support for mapping in the fenix 3, so you can't visually view routes in the watch

I have never had issues up until now and this is also the most expensive Garmin watch I have ever owned.

We have this watch and two Garmin vivoactives in the household and needless to say we won't be buying anything Garmin makes ever again

I'm hoping Garmin figures the problem and resolves - but it's looking more and more likely to be hardware related with the antenna built into the exo-skelaton.

I am compelled to downgrade this rating to reflect the fatal flaw of this watch: its hopelessly inaccurate GPS chip.

I don't give it 5 stars because of following: The GPS is slow somehow

It is a fitness watch with great GPS, plus smart notifications from my smartphone

I do not know enough to speculate on the cause, but I can confirm from detailed experience that the GPS is inaccurate and unreliable, especially in areas with tree cover (see some photos below for examples, and no, we did not randomly run up and down the slopes off the trails).Garmin has, in my opinion, a terrific package and set of features that would make this watch the hands-down best-of-breed were it not for this issue

However, my biggest gripe is the GPS, which understates the distance by 150-250 meters ever-time I run

** Losing a few stars.

Again five stars on this product, definitely worth the money.

He loves the two bands as he uses the leather for work and the rubber for weekends.

I previously owned the Forerunner 620 which I loved (4 stars) and unfortunately the watch met an unfortunate end (left it on the top of my car); so I decided to upgrade.

** Losing a few stars.

The bezel does get scratched a bit but nothing to gnarly

It is not merely that the watch deviates a bit from the actual trail, nor is it the case that the Fenix 3 suffers from the inaccuracy inherent in all GPS devices, instead it is subject to frequent and significant errors in measuring distance (off by, literally, a mile or more in a typical day of hiking) and in tracking one's route

I have one reservation, I can't tell for sure, but it seems that at the edges of the sapphire lens, when looking at certain angles, it looks like there is a little bit of air

When I got this watch, I was a bit skeptical about it, as I could recall one review video showing that the Fenix 3 HR watches do not have "Sapphire" written on them at the back

Switching between the two bands is not done quickly, you need two screw drivers (included), I be a bit afraid on losing a nut or one of the screw

Multiple people on the garmin support forums have complained, and a number of sent it back

I had a samsung gear S before this watch, and I hated the touch screen and all the people who stopped me and wanted to know what my watch was.

People also have reported that it loses GPS track under trees - they have much older devices that have no problem with this.

If I had to hazard a guess, I'd bet that some senior executive whose bonus depended on an unrealistic release date he or she promised without consulting the technical people, forced this watch to be released before it was really ready

I've seen in other reviews that people have had problems with the screen scatching easily and that in itself almost made me not buy it, but I've had mine for 4 months and wear it daily and it hasn't scratched once

After wearing the watch for a few days, neither the weight nor the bulk bother me like I feared they might

My wife is a smaller frame female and did not like the size and weight on her wrist when she tried it on

I am also weight conscience as my daily dress watch is titanium, but the weight of the Fenix 3 is not at all unwieldy as I had feared.