SOLAR POWER ON YOUR WRIST

Photographers, especially landscape and wildlife photographers, are amongst the most travelling professionals, trekking, hiking and at times, spending days on a trail or in the wilderness.

- Sujith Gopinath

Garmin Fenix 7X Sapphire Solar

And when it comes to trekking, hiking and outdoors, there is probably no company that has the experience of Garmin in developing devices that are practical and accurate. The Garmin Fenix 7X Sapphire Solar is their premium smartwatch that hides an efficient solar panel on the transparent cover glass.

The Fenix 7X Sapphire Solar cannot be a commonplace smartwatch if they have priced it over a lakh. It is indeed teeming with technology and features, and a good starting point could be the Power Sapphire system that is a breakthrough in solar panel tech. The watch integrates microscopic solar conducting cells into a sapphire crystal panel, resulting in a tough, scratch-resistant, transparent solar panel. The panel continues to charge even with the panel partially obscured. In fact, the device detected solar activity even with partially cloudy skies in our short period of review in the current rainy season. The device, of course, includes a charging adapter for the mains. Garmin uses a vertically integrated design with energy-efficient elements for each of the watch's components. Combined with an efficient power management system, this results in up to 90 days in battery saver mode and up to 36 hours with all satellites and multi-band features active.