Garmin Fenix 7x VS Apple Watch Ultra

Which $900 Watch Will Win in this Head-to-Head Battle?

Pete Matheson
14 min readJul 13, 2023

The Apple Watch Ultra is basically a super computer strapped to your wrist. The Garmin Fenix 7x is, basically (although neither watch is particularly basic at all!), one of the world’s best fitness watches; one that I keep hearing is the Apple Watch Ultra of the Android world.

But is that anywhere near true?

After 30 days of wearing both of these watches, I need to send one of them back; and I have to do that before the returns window closes!

So… I want to share with you which of these 2 watches is the best all-round watch. One that’s good for fitness, for smartwatch integration and, I suppose, a little bit of actually telling the time.

What Android Watches Are Out There?

Now we all know the Apple Watch. Its bright AMOLED screen and all of the cool stuff that you can do with it.

We know the Galaxy watches and the Pixel watches.

But not many know about the Garmin Watches, which are quite different than anything else I’ve used before, in some fantastic ways and in some downright frustrating ways.

If Apple hadn’t invented the Apple Watch (and thus had dozens of brands essentially trying to out-do Apple with their own smart watch designs), the Garmin watch is what ALL smart watches would have ended up looking like.

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