Verge Editor’s Choice: Garmin Fenix 5S

The Garmin Fenix 5S isn’t the sports watch for everyone, given how expensive it is and how granular its activity-tracking features are. But for people looking for a specific kind of smartwatch — one that’s more focused on fitness than literally any other feature — it’s the best one out this year.

The Garmin Fenix 5S is as notable for what it isn’t as for what it is. It’s not a massive, overbearing, tactical-looking thing like the Fenix watches of Garmin’s past. With the Fenix 5 series (there are three models in this series; I wore the 5S), Garmin managed to shrink them significantly from the previous line, the Fenix 3. And the 5S is the smallest of the new series, designed specifically for people with smallish wrists, like me.

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