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Amazon is currently offering a great Black Friday deal on the feature-packed Garmin Fenix 7 Pro Solar smartwatch with a discount of $250. The standard version is our top-rated running watch. However, the Pro Solar model brings additional features that make it a seriously impressive smartwatch for cycling, swimming, and a host of other sports.
Buy the superbly equipped Garmin Fenix 7 Pro Solar for $549 in this Black Friday Amazon deal.
The smartwatch scored 4.5 out of 5 stars in our Garmin Fenix 7 review and is the top model in our best running watch guide. The current 31% discount off the regular price at Amazon makes the Fenix 7 Pro Solar the cheapest it has been since launch.
Save $250 on this superbly featured smartwatch. The Garmin Fenix 7 tops our best running watch guide and combines an array of useful functions with impressive battery life. This Pro Solar version comes with an in-built flashlight and solar charging.
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The Fenix 7 Pro Solar is still an advanced training tool packed with deep and useful features. If you're a runner, cyclist, swimmer, or triathlete, the smartwatch provides an analysis of whether you're training effectively or not at the end of every session. You'll also get suggestions on how to improve areas in which you're lacking when connected to the Garmin Connect smartphone app.
For less athletic users, the Fenix 7's health-tracking features give you lots of interesting data too. Metrics such as Sleep Analysis and Body Battery are useful and easy to understand. The watch can also monitor blood oxygen saturation levels (though this does use a lot of battery life when turned on), track your heart rate, step count, and a whole lot more.
Mapping is very good and it's easy to follow routes displayed in full color on the Fenix 7 Pro Solar. You can download area maps directly to the watch using Garmin Connect.
This Pro model gets double the storage capacity of the standard Fenix 7 (32 MB compared to 16 MB), which allows you to store additional maps and music. It comes with a really useful in-built flashlight from an LED that sits on the leading edge of the watch. The torch has four brightness settings, strobe effects, and a red light.
Depending on sunlight intensity and time spent outdoors, solar charging can extend the Fenix 7 Pro Solar's battery life for up to 22 days — four days longer than the non-solar models. For mains recharging, the watch comes with a Garmin port to USB-A cable.
Key features: 47 mm face, water resistance to 10 ATM, touchscreen, solar charging, built-in flashlight, 32 GB storage, weight 79 g.
Product launched: May 2023.
Price history: Before the current deal, the lowest sale price the Garmin Fenix 7 Pro Solar has been this year on Amazon was $729. With the smartwatch now at $549.99 for Black Friday, this is its lowest price yet.
Price comparison: Garmin: $549.99 | QVC: $549.99 | REI: $549.99
Reviews consensus: The Fenix 7 is the top-rated model in our best Garmin watch guide, while T3 rates it as the best outdoor Garmin watch. All the reviews praise the Fenix 7 for its accessible features, battery life and touch controls.
TechRadar: ★★★★½ | Toms Guide: ★★★★½ | T3: ★★★★★
Featured in guides: Best running watch, best Garmin watch
✅ Buy it if: You want an advanced fitness and health tracking watch with solar charging and a 31% discount.
❌ Don't buy it if: You want the most up-to-date version, the Garmin Fenix 8, which comes with advancements such as a bright AMOLED screen, the ability to make calls via your watch, and voice control.
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Rich has been a journalist and editor for over 25 years, beginning his career in Future's videogames division. He's spent the last 12 years working in cycling media and, until recently, was the editor of BikePerfect.com.
Rich is a keen mountain biker, surfer, and all-round fitness enthusiast. Away from journalism he also works as an on-call firefighter and holds a Level 3 Certificate in Fire Engineering Science from the Institute of Fire Engineers.