Garmin launches new flagship Fenix 8 Pro – at astonishing worth

Garmin has launched a brand new flagship smartwatch – with a hefty worth.

The Garmin Fenix 8 Pro prices as much as £1,729 for the top-end mannequin.

As the identify suggests, it’s a high-end model of the Fenix 8, launched nearly precisely a yr in the past.

The new model brings satellite tv for pc and web connectivity to the watch, so that folks can talk with emergency providers wherever they’re with out the necessity for a telephone.

The high finish mannequin additionally brings a MicroLED show to the watch, which Garmin says is a primary. That expertise permits it to be particularly shiny in addition to high-resolution, the corporate mentioned.

It can be out there to order from 8 September, in keeping with a listing on Garmin’s website.

The new watch brings Garmin’s inReach expertise to the wrist for the primary time. That permits customers to entry satellite tv for pc networks to speak with the world, which can be utilized when in distant areas that aren’t coated by conventional mobile service.

But the watch additionally has an LTE connection in order that it will probably join with the identical networks utilized by telephones. That was first launched with the Forerunner 945 in 2021, and Garmin has sporadically added the expertise to different watches – together with the earlier Fenix 7 Pro – over time.

Garmin’s Fenix watches are meant to be the flagship outdoor fashions in its line-up, and include the entire firm’s high options. They aren’t nevertheless the costliest of the corporate’s watches – its Marq sequence of luxurious fashions, as an illustration, can value as a lot as £2,799.