The Garmin Forerunner 955 is out now, with one version packing a Power Glass solar charging lens, which helps extend the Forerunner’s battery life, and another version without the solar lens. The battery life and coating aside, there are a few other ways the Garmin smartwatch beats Apple's offering when outdoors. Also: The best Garmin watches: Fenix, Forerunner, Venu, and more compared Also did some Comparison runs with the two watches in the last few days with the following non-scientific results: Fenix7x Pro Solar Sapphire - 60 min Run with - 30 minutes of strong direct sunlight, music playing via bluetooth headphones, GPS at All Systems battery went from 85.5% to 81.2% (4.3% drain including any boost from solar). Tactix A Garmin fēnix 7 GPS smartwatch PLUS advanced tactical features makes this the best tactical watch of 2022. This new class of purpose-built tactical smartwatch offers a powerful responsive touchscreen, a dedicated multi-LED flashlight, superior battery life, multi-GNSS support plus mulit-frequency positioning for the most accurate tracking. Garmin Fenix 7 Pro vs Epix Pro Battery life; Header Cell - Column 0 Fenix 7S Pro Fenix 7 Pro Fenix 7X Pro Epix Pro 42mm Epix Pro 49mm Epix Pro 51mm; Max battery (smartwatch) 14 days: 22 days : 37 While that’s not quite as fast as the latest gen Apple Watch units, it’s on the faster side of things for Garmin (compare that to a Garmin Fenix/Epix unit that takes nearly two hours). When it comes to real-world battery life, we’ll start with the battery specs from Garmin, and then go from there to what I’m seeing in the real-world. As with the Epix, battery life is good. With the always-on display enabled, I got about 3.5 days with an average of 30–45 minutes of GPS activity per day. Not amazing but solid when you consider The Apple Watch Ultra has twice the battery life of the regular Apple Watch. And while this is great, it still pales in comparison to Garmin. Let’s take a look: Battery Life: Apple Watch Ultra: Up to 3 days; Garmin Epix: Up to 10 days; Garmin Epix Solar: Up to 17 days; Garmin Fenix 7: Up to 18 days; Garmin Fenix 7 Solar: Up to 30 days The FR955 features a 46.5 x 46.5 x 14.4mm, while the FR965 actually manages to reduce the thickness and also grow the overall case slightly - it comes in at 47.2 x 47.2 x 13.2mm. The change in the Always on display mode. Up to 2 days. Note that the Garmin Venu 2 also has a smaller variant, the Garmin Venu 2S. This watch is similar to the original, but has a slightly worse battery. In smartwatch mode, it will last 10 days. In GPS mode, you have a battery life of 19 hours. IjfBzkV.