Setting it up for regular sensing throughout the day burns the battery and offers limited practical value. Body Battery, stress tracking, offline music streaming support, Garmin Pay, smartphone notifications and smart replies Android , incident detection and alerts, and much more are present on the Forerunner Collecting the data is important, but using that data for tracking trends, improving performance, challenging friends, and identifying problem areas is also very important.
Garmin offers the Garmin Connect app for iOS and Android and it is a powerful and capability application that closely matches the Connect website experience.
When you first launch the smartphone app you will see a screen called My Day. This is a dashboard and completely customizable to your preferences. Simply scroll to the bottom and choose to Edit My Day. Here you can choose from the following cards: Heart rate, steps, intensity minutes, floors, sleep, stress score, weight, and calories. There are also toggles to see yesterday's stats and the last 7 days of stats.
In addition, when you record an activity run, bike ride, etc. Tapping any card takes you into much more fine detail for that measurement.
Other tabs in the smartphone software include challenges, calendar, news feed, and notifications. Tap on the tab icon to see more details for each of these. You can also tap the upper left menu icon to jump to insights, activity stats, health stats, workouts, course, segments, gear, connections, groups, LiveTrack, Connect IQ store, Garmin devices, settings, and help. This menu and user interface matches what you see on the website as well. You can view data over different time frames, see your records, view the badges you earned, see totals and averages, and much more.
There are options to control phone notifications during your activity and at all other times when you are not recording data as part of activity. You do not have this per app control when connected to an iPhone. With a paired Android phone, you can also select to reply to messages with text you have already setup in advance on your phone.
This includes customized text responses. Once you select the Garmin Forerunner in the devices list, you can then access all of the specific settings that will appear on the watch. Through this utility you can organize which apps, widgets, and watch faces appear and in what order. You still need to work directly on the watch to customize data fields and such, but this helps you control the Connect IQ part of the experience. The Garmin Connect website experience is very similar to what you see in the smartphone application, with even more capability to generate reports, import or export data, setup connections to other applications such as Strava, RunKeeper, and MyFitnessPal , and more.
Similar to the snapshots interface on the phone, you have a dashboard on Garmin Connect that you can customize. I received a black one to test out with the new HRM-Pro. The HRM-Pro is the latest heart rate strap that provides six running metrics and works in the water too.
The Pace 2 also has crazy long battery life 30 hours and is very light weight. Another worthy competitor is the Polar Grit X that also offers running power on the wrist, extensive smart coaching features and a powerful website to help you analyze your data, FitSpark training guide, and advanced sleep tracking.
The has music, Garmin Pay, and an app store so there is a lot to like with the Garmin solution. Also: Garmin Forerunner review: Music, mapping, payments, pulse, and incident detection.
I would love to sit down at a table in Kansas and find out how decisions are made on which sports and activities are supported on the various Garmin watches. The new Forerunner offers support for more than 35 types of activities, but golf did not make the cut.
I guess Garmin needed something to differentiate between the Forerunner so maps and golf were left to the larger, more expensive wearable. The Garmin Forerunner is a solid, well-constructed GPS sports watch and will likely appeal to more athletes than the because it is quite a bit smaller and a few grams lighter.
It offers the latest software features that we should eventually see on the Forerunner too. The new Track Run feature surprised me as it beat the Coros track option when it comes to viewing the GPS track on top of each other. Coros has algorithms that "force" the data to match the track, but the GPS track doesn't match actual conditions as well as Garmin does with their new outside track functionality.
That said, Garmin provides an extremely capable smartphone app, website for running all kinds of reports, Garmin Pay, offline music support, and other features that the competition does not offer so the Forerunner is sure to do well. Doogee S80 hands-on: A waterproof, rugged walkie-talkie phone. You agree to receive updates, promotions, and alerts from ZDNet. You may unsubscribe at any time.
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