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Garmin Fenix 5 Plus GPS Watch 2018 review

We want to ensure that whether you’re spending £10K on a new lightweight race bike, £2 on a cycling water bottle or £495.99 on Garmin Fenix 5 Plus GPS Watch 2018, that you’re getting the very best you can get for your money. In today’s Garmin Fenix 5 Plus GPS Watch 2018 review we’re going to look at why it scores 9.0/10 in our review and why we recommend it over many of the other 116 products in the GPS category. We’ve started by giving you a top level score for each of the key areas when it comes to reviewing these products, these scores include a quality score, price score, review score and an overall score.






Quality

8.6

Price

9.9

Reviews

8.4

Overall

9.0

 

Garmin Fenix 5 Plus GPS Watch 2018 reviews

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Garmin Fenix 5 Plus GPS Watch 2018 Specification

Garmin Fenix 5 Plus GPS Watch 2018 specs

Garmin Fenix 5 Plus GPS Watch 2018
Feature 1

Up to 7 days of battery life

Other GPS found with this feature: 9

Feature 2

Integrated navigational sensors

Other GPS found with this feature: 2

Feature 3

Garmin Pay ready

Other GPS found with this feature: 3

Feature 4

Music enabled

Other GPS found with this feature: 2

Feature 5

1.2’’ sunlight-readable display

Other GPS found with this feature: 2

Feature 6

Waterproof to 10ATM certification

Other GPS found with this feature: 2

Feature 7

Stainless steel bezel, buttons and rear case

Other GPS found with this feature: 2

Feature 8

240 x 240 pixel display

Other GPS found with this feature: 2

Feature 9

Weighs 87g

Other GPS found with this feature: 3

Feature 10

Dimensions: 47 x 47 x 16mm

Other GPS found with this feature: 1

Spec 1

Colour: Silver

Other GPS found with this spec: 9

Price

£495.99

Number of Reviews
Review Score

/ 5

Average score in category: 4.3

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  • Garmin Fenix 5 Plus GPS Watch. The ultimate, all-rounder Garmin watch which comes with an integrated heart-rate monitor, Garmin Pay, and music storage for up to 500 songs Navigation. Built for adventure Garmin‚Äôs Fenix 5 Plus comes with a fully integrated navigational system that will help you to stay on track even when you‚Äôve left the path long behind. Full-colour TopoActive Europe, which is built-in to the watch, provides preloaded map data which is optimised for at-a-glance navigation and locating tracking High Performance. The GPS watch is built for the harshest and most hectic of environments and has therefore been designed to withstand the elements. The watch comes with a stainless steel bezel, buttons and rear casing which will protect the device against impacts and high impacts. Also the Fenix 5 Plus comes with a water resistant rating of 10 ATM which means it can still be worn during water sports, swimming, and when conditions become torrential Performance Metrics. Monitor your performance with greater accuracy and range than ever before with physiological metrics, running dynamics, anaerobic training effect, overall training load and more. The watch also comes with tailor made modes for specific sporting activities that give you the metrics you need for running, swimming, biking, hiking, skiing, rowing, paddle boarding and much, much more Heart Rate Monitor. The Fenix 5 Plus comes with an integrated heart rate monitor which is integrated into the wrist of the device. This provides 24/7 heart rate monitor in a convenient and user friendly design that provides you with your accurate, real time heart rate. This can provide key insight into your general fitness and stress levels throughout the day and night Music. Music has always been one of the greatest motivators of any workout. Therefore, to streamline your devices, the Fenix 5 Plus allows you to store and play 500 songs with the use of additional Bluetooth headphones (sold separately) Garmin Pay. Another new Garmin feature that also helps you to streamline your essential kit. Garmin Pay allows you to make contactless card payments in seconds allowing you to leave your cards and cash at home Connectivity. The watch can easily be paired to your smartphone or tablet device for an automatic connection that allows you on-lock multiple other features and options. You can gain full access to the Garmin Connect app which allows you to track and share all your performance information. You can also receive your smartphone‚Äôs notifications right to your watch face including texts, emails, phone call alerts, and more Features. Up to 7 days of battery lifeIntegrated navigational sensorsGarmin Pay readyMusic enabled1 2‚Äô‚Äô sunlight-readable displayWaterproof to 10ATM certificationStainless steel bezel, buttons and rear case240 x 240 pixel displayWeighs 87gDimensions: 47 x 47 x 16mmBuy Garmin GPS from Chain Reaction Cycles, the World‚Äôs Largest Online Bike Store.
  • Product codes: 753759207069
  • 010-01988-11

No matter what type of bike product your buying, from the simple accessories through to the full setup of your custom built road bike, there are lots of important considerations that you should take into account, especially when you’re shopping online and unable to test the product first. This is especially true when you’re buying products like GPS.

Our aim is simple, help you get the very best products for your budget. Whether that’s Garmin Fenix 5 Plus GPS Watch 2018 or an alternative, we’ll do our best to find you unbiased, genuine customer reviews to help you make your decision. We’ve found 116 different products in the GPS category at Chain Reaction Cycles and we’ve also managed to find 88 products from Garmin (although only 54 of the 88 are in the GPS category).

Our first piece of advice is for you to spend some time really getting to know what it is you’re looking for. An important feature for one person might be totally pointless and irrelevant to you, so get a good idea of what you want and need from your GPS. Note down this list of key features that your product must have, that way when you’re comparing alternatives you have a starting point to decide whether one product meets your needs or not.

Price is the next and probably one of the most important factors of a purchase, so it’s really worthwhile spending a bit of time analysing the price of Garmin Fenix 5 Plus GPS Watch 2018 and seeing how it stacks up against those offered by different brands or even other alternatives from Garmin. Below we’re going to get into the detail of Garmin Fenix 5 Plus GPS Watch 2018 to help you see how the prices stack up.

We start this price analysis by looking at the price you can expect to pay for GPS. There are 116 different products available at Chain Reaction Cycles, and of those 116, the average price is £204.13. There’s quite a variance in price in this category too with the lowest priced product we found at £1.5 and most expensive was £759.99.

The next stage we went on to, was to look at the price of products from the brand: Garmin. The average price was £232.29 and we found that the price varies right from as little as £8.99 up to £764.99 with Garmin products.

And finally we thought it would be good to give you an idea of Garmin products that appear specifically in the GPS category. So you can see that the price of Garmin Fenix 5 Plus GPS Watch 2018 at £495.99 is great value considering the average price of Garmin GPS is £243.71 and the price varies from £8.99.

It’s also worth bearing in mind that we managed to find Garmin Fenix 5 Plus GPS Watch 2018 during our price scan of several cycle retailers, for the amazing price of £495.99 which represents a £104.00 or 17% saving against RRP. If you think Garmin Fenix 5 Plus GPS Watch 2018 ticks all of your boxes in terms of quality and features then it’s more than likely going to be a winner bearing in mind the price.

Garmin Fenix 5 Plus GPS Watch 2018 Reviews

Reviews are obviously a key part of the buying process when buying any cycle gear, and that goes for GPS too. Reading reviews if going to be the closest insight you get into how good Garmin Fenix 5 Plus GPS Watch 2018 is, without actually trying or buying it. Over at Chain Reaction Cycles we managed to find reviews scoring it out of 5. That’s a great result considering the price and quality and the fact that it’s a product made by Garmin. In fact when you consider those points and combine it with the fact that the average review score in the GPS category is 4.3 and the average score of products from Garmin is 4.4 it’s a steal. And actually, if you look specifically at products from Garmin in the GPS category the average review score is 4.3.

That’s why you can see it was easy for us to give Garmin Fenix 5 Plus GPS Watch 2018 such a high overall score of 9.0 / 10. It seems to have the perfect combination of features, quality and price making it a great all-rounder.

So our last piece of advice that we can offer is to take your time reading plenty of reviews now, you can see that there are reviews for Garmin Fenix 5 Plus GPS Watch 2018 which score it , so it’s really worth spending a few minutes reading through lots of these to see what the key advantages or dislikes are. It will really reassure you when you come to buying online.

If you do go on to buy Garmin Fenix 5 Plus GPS Watch 2018 or in fact any of the other GPS, we would love to hear from you. Sharing your views will really help us to write more comprehensive reviews and we will share these thoughts with customers just like you that are looking to read reviews before they commit to buying.