- Garmin announced the Garmin Forerunner 570 and Garmin Forerunner 970, as well as a new HRM 600
- The two watches include equipment from the new-to-to-to-to-form line
- The 970 offers new measures such as the economy in progress
Garmin has announced the release of two new watches, the Garmin Forerunner 570 and Garmin Forerunner 970, as well as a new Garmin HRM 600 heart rate monitor. The two watches have “the most brilliant AMOLED screen of Garmin to date and other new features of the Foreunner series such as a speaker and a microphone, allowing you to take calls during a race without touching your phone, As well as evening report to add to the functionality of the existing morning report of Garmin.
Read the rest to see our initial impressions and if they will be worthy of a place in our best list of Garmin watches.
Garmin Forerunner 570
The Gamrin Forerunner 570 is at the price of $ 549.99 / £ 459.99 $ 999 at the 42 mm and $ 549.99 / £ 459.99 $ 999 for the largest 47 mm watch. With 11 days of battery life in smartwatch mode (the shortest of all watches in the latest generations of precursors), it has a selection of new jazzy colors, including slate gray aluminum, raspberry aluminum and cloudy blue aluminum, all with new translucent silicone bands.
In addition to the brightest screen to date, the evening report and the combo in a speaker / microphone, the watch seems to share a large part of the DNA with the rest of the precursor line. This includes access to Garmin Coach training programs, health measures such as skin temperature and a pulse oximeter sensor, and the usual Garmin design with five ends.
Unlike many other best Garmin watches, there is no solar energy option with a duller pixel memory screen to keep the battery life. You are stuck with a maximum of 11 days, which is likely to complete a little over a week realistically with repeated GPS training sessions.
Garmin Forerunner 970
The Garmin Foreunner 970 is available in a single size, 47 mm, at a price of $ 749.99 / £ 629.99 $ 1,399 at, with an amoli screen of 1.4 inch which keeps this distinction “ the most brilliant of all time ”. It lasts up to 15 days in SmartWatch mode: an improvement compared to the 570, but it seems that screen technology sucks more battery life than other front precursors.
The 970 packs in all the features of the 570, with additions, including the LED light views on the Garmin Epix Pro and Garmin Instinct 3. The new metrics include the economy in progress, the loss of speed of steps (which require the two new Garmin HRM 600 to work) and the tolerance to the race, which indicates the limits of your body and recommends a mileage weekly. It looks like a useful feature worthy of one of the best watches running.
It also sports the ECG functionality, more premium materials such as sapphire glass on the lens, and is presented in different colors, including the titanium in soft gold and the Gray DLC titanium in carbon. Clearly, Garmin wanted to mention a little more luxury here.
Garmin HRM 600
The HRM 600 is the last and the best cardiac frequency monitor in Garmin, at the price of $ 169.99 / £ 149.99 $ 299 in. It is compatible with the two new precursors above to allow their widened race dynamic measurement, as well as with other smart watches, Garmin cycling computers, or can be worn alone.
It is able to send rhythm and distance data (interior training only), steps, time and calories burned at Garmin Connect, allowing you to synchronize your training sessions with your smartwatch. This can be done for greater precision, or during training where it is not appropriate to wear a smartwatch, such as boxing or climbing.
