About The Latest Garmin Watches - Forerunner Series
Friday, November 25th, 2011Garmin Watches of the Forerunner variety are by far the most advanced in the GRP watch category, period. These Garmin Watches can therefore track pretty much everything from distance and pace to speed and elevation with pinpoint accuracy. Plus, Garmin Watches aren’t just GPS devices for your wrist; they also feature the sports performance features you expect from a top of the line sports watch.
So, what differentiates the six varieties of Forerunner Garmin watches from one another?
Similarities Between Garmin Watches
Every one of the Garmin Watches are wrist-mounted, all-in-one GPS devices. That sets the watches apart from many of the other GPS watch makers that require an additional GPS device to be mounted to you externally. Forerunner Garmin Watches only require that you wear the watch itself in order to get GPS benefits.
Garmin Watches also boast some pretty exciting sports watch features. A few are only available in particular models, but for the most part, all Forerunner watches feature:
Virtual Running Partner
Auto Stop/Auto Resume
Auto Lap
Easy Work outs
Pace & Speed Alert
Alerts for Time and Distance
Tools for Interval Training
Customization Features For The Screen
Garmin Watches: The Differences
Next, let’s walk through the differences between the Garmin watches, not just in terms of the generations of the watches but also in how the various watches within those generations stand apart from one another. For instance, the newer watches appear to have much more accuracy, thanks to a stronger GPS signal pickup. That said, the older watches do have some better attributes. For instance, the newer watches can only store 1,000 laps in their memory chips as opposed to the 5,000 laps the older ones can. The newer Forerunner Garmin Watches also allow you to compete against your times in previously recorded runs; something the older Garmin Watches don’t. The display for the older Garmin Watches also shows three real-time fields of data on its screen. The second and third gen Garmin Watches have four. The 4th generation has a smaller screen and is back down to 3 readouts.
The more recent Garmin Watches are also different amongst one another. For starters, the 2nd generation doesn’t support a heart rate monitor or foot pod device add-ons like the 3rd and 4th generations do. You can use a USB data transfer with each of the watches, but just the 4th generation let you do so wirelessly to an ANT USB device. The 2nd and 3rd generation are square and bulkier than the 4th generation, which is rounder and more watch-like. The 405, strangely enough, doesn’t support GPS navigation, however; while the 205 and 305 Garmin Watches do.
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