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Garmin routinely stops all development for even the flagship model just a few years back, bugs be damned my Fenix6 still doesn't work correctly, no more update
by ck2 1y ago
Garmin routinely stops all development for even the flagship model just a few years back, bugs be damned
my Fenix6 still doesn't work correctly, no more updates
People dropping $1000+ on a Garmin better understand that's just for a few years, not a decade
- jtbaker 1y agoon the flip side, my 12 year old garmin fenix 3 still works great. I finally upgraded to an instinct crossover last year because I wanted the mechanical hands and a smaller face, but the old Fenix is still great.
- ck2 1y agoI always thought it would be a really neat, very progressive idea if Garmin would "open source" firmware for models that are several generations back The fenix3 would be fascinating as an open-source test model
- hengheng 1y agoOn my Fenix 6, Bluetooth volume control broke after a few years, and now the volume slider does nothing, which the hivemind confirmed. So, it is in fact worse than not getting upgrades, the software actually deteriorated over its lifecycle.