When you're in the great outdoors, it helps to know where you're going and where you've come from. The Garmin fenix 3 Sapphire GPS watch not only tracks a wide range of activities - from skiing to canoeing to hiking - but also has excellent battery life as well as a bevy of sensors that tell you...

Extremely durable; Long battery life; Loaded with sensors; Tracks a wide range of activities; Smartphone notifications

Expensive; Heavy; Many activities don't show up on mobile app

I purchased the Fenix 3 (pronounced Phoenix, little did I know!) to replace a Garmin Forerunner 610. The previous watch was an investment in getting up and over the marathoning hurdle, and was more than capable of meeting all of those needs.

Rugged; Good Value; Simple; Lightweight; Reliable; extreme battery life; forefront of technology

If you have a loved one who is into outdoorsy activities (and I don't mean walking to Waitrose rather than driving), this could be the watch for them, even if they've already embraced such wearable gadgetry.

Looks good, colour screen and number of options Time to configure

Looks good; colour screen and number of options

Time to configure

Parfaite pour mes courses en sentier. La montre est très solide. J'utilise le bracelet de caoutchouc inclus pour mes courses compétitives car beaucoup plus léger. Je peux aussi la porter au travail et avec son bracelet métallique, elle a un très beau look!

très solide; très jolie; facile d'utilisation; la meilleure sur le march

un peu lourde avec le bracelet de métal; j'aurais aimé qu'il y ait un ensemble avec hrm-run; prix assez élev

As a (relatively) young tech journalist, you often find yourself reviewing gadgets that you could never feasibly afford on your salary. It's something you try not to think too much about - you'd go mad if you did.

Have the watch for a month, really like it. It takes some time to learn the functionality (which I am still learning) but once you learn how to navigate the menu it's pretty easy to use.

Syncs witj my Samsung S5 no problem

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The standalone GPS market just isn't what it used to be, and as such, Garmin has done what any Business 101 graduate would almost certainly suggest: diversify. For the Kansas-based company, that means wearables , wearables, wearables.

Mashable Choice highlights the best of everything we cover, have experienced first-hand and would recommend to others. The Garmin Fenix 3 is a $500 rugged sports watch with almost every sensor imaginable. It's also big and bulky as hell. The color Chroma display offers simple bursts of colors.

I run, bike, swim, surf, snowboard, paddle, hunt and ride motorcycles. Not only is the Garmin Fenix 3 the first smartwatch capable of keeping up throughout all those activities, but it's also the first to genuinely help me become better at them.