Garmin Adds 25+ New Features to Fenix 7/Epix/Instinct 2, Shifts to Quarterly Features Updates

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First up, is that Garmin started rolling out this week an update for Fenix 7 & Epix series watches, including some 28-50 different new features (depending on how you want to count them). And I think it’s largely a good thing, especially combined with some other changes I’ll be writing about in the coming days that show the company gathering maturity in the software development cycle that it lacked just a few years ago. Specifically, head of Garmin’s Venu & Vivo lines, Phil McClendon stated that the company will “absolutely break-off and do bug fixes as normal more frequently”, which is what already happens today. – Improved wording of sleep mode touch setting to be “auto” and “off.” – Removed haptic feedback for watch face data fields that do not launch anything (i.e. “Epix” logo.) • Added new alert to display after this SW update to inform user that Wi-Fi networks configured to WEP security are no longer supported.

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