The Garmin Fenix 7 just hit its lowest price ever with this early Black Friday deal

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The Garmin Fenix 7 is no longer the newest and best Garmin watch available, but it’s still an excellent sports watch and one that I'm looking out for in the Black Friday sales this year following the recent launch of the Garmin Fenix 8.

And right now, Amazon has set the early standard. You can get 33% off the Fenix 7 — dropping it to just $433. That's the lowest price we've ever seen!

While the Fenix 7 is an older watch, with the Fenix 7 Pro and Fenix 8 both coming out since it launched in 2022, it’s been updated regularly and has all of Garmin’s latest training analysis features. It also offers accurate sports tracking, excellent navigation tools including offline maps, and smart features like music storage and NFC payments.

Compared to the newer models, you miss out on some hardware upgrades like an improved heart rate sensor and a built-in flashlight. Plus, the Fenix 8 also has a mic and speaker and a dive-proof design.

Garmin also refreshed the user interface on the Fenix 8, an update that won’t be rolled back to the Fenix 7, though I never had a problem with the older UI during my testing.

One important thing to note is that this deal is on the steel Fenix 7, which means it doesn’t have dual-band GPS. Garmin only gave this feature to the sapphire models on the Fenix 7, whereas it is standard on the Fenix 7 Pro and Fenix 8 range.

You do still get all-systems-on GPS tracking with the Fenix 7, which I’ve always found to be very accurate as well so it’s not a huge loss. But I do like being able to use dual-band GPS in some situations, like big city races where tall buildings can make it harder to get reliable signal.

If you are keen to bag a bargain by opting for a Fenix 7 in the sales, but want more of the features that are available on newer Garmins, then the Fenix 7X sapphire solar is going for $747 down from $899. This is the top of the range Fenix 7, with a larger design that uses titanium rather than steel, and it has a built-in flashlight plus dual-band GPS and solar panels on the watch face to boost battery life.

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Nick Harris-fry is an experienced health and fitness journalist, writing professionally since 2012. He spent nine years working on the Coach magazine and website before moving to the fitness team at Tom’s Guide in 2024. Nick is a keen runner and also the founder of YouTube channel The Run Testers, which specialises in reviewing running shoes, watches, headphones and other gear.

Nick ran his first marathon in 2016 after six weeks of training for a magazine feature and subsequently became obsessed with the sport. He now has PBs of 2hr 27min for the marathon and 15min 30sec for 5K, and has run 13 marathons in total, as well as a 50-mile ultramarathon.

He runs 50-80 miles a week and races regularly with his club, which gives him a lot of opportunity to test out running gear: he has tested and reviewed hundreds of pairs of running shoes, as well as fitness trackers, running watches, sports headphones, treadmills, and all manner of other kit. Nick is also a qualified Run Leader in the UK.

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