Garmin Fenix 9: what Garmin actually announced
Announced 25 August 2026. The prices and battery figures Garmin published, what is being repeated without a source, and whether your watch faces follow you onto it.
Read → Story · 2026-07-22 · 5 min readAMOLED vs MIP: the two screens Garmin refuses to choose between
Why Garmin still sells both in 2026, what actually differs (color, sun, battery, always-on), and how to pick the screen that fits how you use a watch.
Read → Story · 2026-07-22 · 4 min readWhy your Garmin lasts weeks when your smartwatch lasts a day
The unglamorous engineering behind Garmin battery life, the display, the chip, doing less, and where your watch face actually fits in.
Read → Story · 2026-07-22 · 4 min readThe quiet rise of the budget AMOLED Garmin
The most interesting Garmin story is not the Fenix. It is the cheap, bright AMOLED watches where most people, and most watch faces, actually live.
Read → Story · 2026-07-18 · 4 min readNew Garmin watches in 2026: what has shipped and what is coming
Forerunner 70 and 170 shipped in May, the Fenix 9 is expected in the fall window, and Enduro 4 plus a CIRQA band have left traces in code. The 2026 scorecard, updated as news lands.
Read → Story · 2026-07-18 · 4 min readWhy every watch ad shows 10:09 (ours included)
The sad-face era of 8:20, the smile that sells, the research behind it, and the honest reason every render on this site reads ten past ten.
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