Garmin ‘Play Harder’ LIVE: Fenix 9 expected to be announced today
We’ll be bringing you all the news as it happens
How to watch!
There's less than an hour to go, so a reminder of how to watch the Garmin Play Harder event. The event will stream live on YouTube, so you can follow along live, or just keep an eye on our Live Blog if you don't want your boss to see you watching at your desk. Your secret is safe with us.
What about the Enduro 4?
What about the Enduro 4? While the screens on the new Fenix 9 models are likely to get brighter, the Enduro range has traditionally been a MIP watch with the best battery life in the Garmin line-up, and we’d expect that to be the case with the Enduro 4.
The fact that the YouTube invite features a photo of a man surfing, we can expect this launch to focus on rugged, outdoor watches, and the Enduro fits this brief.
Here's what I'm hoping for from the Fenix 9
I realise I never introduced myself: I'm Jane McGuire, the Fitness Editor here at Tom's Guide, and I've been writing about Garmin for the past decade.
As a female marathon runner, I've said it time and time again — don't put all the best recovery and safety features on watches that are huge on our wrists! I'm hoping for a return of the 43mm Fenix 9 Pro, which wasn't available for the Fenix 8 Pro.
Hopefully, I'm in luck. A leak spotted by Fitness Tracker Test suggested that three sizes would be available for both watches — 43mm, 47mm, and 51mm — with AMOLED and MIP versions of the Pro watch.
What have Garmin said so far?
Garmin typically keeps pretty tight-lipped about leaks and launches, yet there's another reason to think this isn't the rumored Cirqa smart ring dropping. Garmin's CEO Cliff Pemble said earlier this year that there would be a “significant number of new product introductions” in the outdoor category in the second half of 2026.
What are we predicting?
What are we predicting? According to our resident Garmin expert, Nick Harris-Fry, the Garmin Fenix 9 and Enduro 4.
Why? Firstly, the timing of the event. It's been a couple of years (almost to the day) since Garmin put on a similar event to launch the Garmin Fenix 8 and Garmin Enduro 3 and it ties in with UTMB in Chamonix, France, which is one of the biggest weeks on the ultramarathon running calendar.
