New Garmin Watches / Bike Computers in 2022
Two years ago I compiled the first list of Garmin products that were to be expected in 2020. The article began with “Corona is currently determining world affairs” – sad to see that this article could make reuse of the very same sentence.
2021 has been like a roller coaster in many aspects and so has been for global productions and logistics. Microprocessors, integrated circuits and chipsets are still rare and affect the wearable industry.
This may be the main reason for Garmin only having announced a couple of new smart and sports watches. 2022 will be different and there are several new products waiting to hit the shelves. The Garmin fenix 7 being among them.
| Product Family | Device | Comment | Estimated Release Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Garmin fenix 7 | fenix 7S Solar fenix 7 Solar fenix 7X Solar fenix 7S Sapphire Solar fenix 7 Sapphire Solar fenix 7X Sapphire Solar fenix 7X Sapphire Solar Titan | Released 18 January 2022 | Q1/2022 |
| Garmin tactix 7 | tactix 7 tactix 7 Pro tactix 7 Pro Ballistics | Released 7 April 2022 | Q1/2022 |
| Garmin Instinct 2 | Instinct 2S Instinct 2 Instinct 2S Solar Instinct 2 Solar (Camo, Surf, Tactical Edition) | Released 9 February 2022 | Q1/2022 |
| Garmin vivomove Sport | vivomove Sport | Released 18 January 2022 | Q1/2022 |
| Garmin Edge | Edge 540 Edge 540 Solar Edge 840 Edge 840 Solar Edge 1040 Edge 1040 Solar | Released 8 June 2022 (Edge 1040) | H2/2022 |
| Garmin Forerunner | The launch of the Forerunner 255 and Forerunner 955 is imminent. | H2/2022 | |
| Garmin vivosmart | You may believe it or not, but Garmin is preparing the launch of the vivosmart 5. The vivosmart 4 has been release in September 2018. | H2/2022 |
Kids LTE smartwatch (highly speculative)
- Eight month ago someone on the Garmin forum asked if it’s possible to create a kids LTE watch (Link). I thought this would be very useful and a lot of parents are willing to pay the extra fee for an LTE subscription.
- In late July ’21 a new product has been listed at the FCC, which makes use of LTE, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and ANT+ but didn’t support NFC / Garmin Pay. The lack of NFC being pretty unusal for a sophisticated smartwatch or sports watch. Rumors spread that the documents might relate to the fenix 7 – but you can bet there won’t be a fenix 7 without Garmin Pay. Therefore it must be another product.
- To be honest, the product described fits a kids smartwatch very well. There hardly is any need for kids to use NFC, but there are tons of to use Wi-Fi and Bluetooth. In addition the watch’s buttons are named A and B. B given in one of the documents. In my opinion this describes a rather simple kind of usage.
- Last but not least, the wearable seems to have a rectangular screen, which resembles the vivoactive jr. 3.
As soon as there are new information I will add them here, so you are invited to come back later to check for any additions.
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