

That kind of battery life wasn’t just Garmin stuffing a bigger battery into it. The Enduro’s baseline battery claims start off at 80 hours of normal GPS-on time with solar enabled (and optical HR enabled too), but then soar up to 300 hours of GPS battery life in certain configurations. When the dust has settled this week – the Fenix 6 & Enduro watches will have virtually identical software.īut that hides what’s actually happening under the covers. At first glance you might think this is merely another variant of the Fenix 6 series, and in many ways you’d be right. It’s even got new features that Garmin has formally introduced here (yes, they’re coming to existing watches, more on that in the next section).

Which isn’t to say the watch is bad – far from it. And Garmin is betting that you’ll pay extra for that feature over and above a normal base Garmin Fenix 6 unit. Be it GPS battery life or daily watch use battery life, there’s no Garmin watch that goes as long as the Enduro. Let’s just get this out of the way upfront: There’s precisely one reason – and ONLY one reason to buy the Garmin Enduro: You want really long battery life, and are OK with that at the expense of any other feature.
