Garmin Forerunner 645 Music, Gps Running Watch With Garmin Pay Contactless Payments, Wrist-Based Hea
Garmin Forerunner 645 Music, GPS Running Watch With Garmin Pay Contactless Payments, Wrist-Based Heart Rate And Music, Rose Gold
- Easily download up to 500 songs to your watch, and connect with Bluetooth headphones (sold separately) for phone free listening
- Syncs music from select streaming services for offline listening
- Garmin Pay contactless payment solution lets you make convenient payments with your watch, so you can leave your cash and cards at home
- Provides advanced running dynamics, including ground contact time balance, stride length, vertical ratio and more
- Uses wrist based heart rate to offer performance monitoring features, including evaluating your current training status. Battery life: up to 7 days in smartwatch mode; 5 hours in GPS mode with music
Brand : Garmin
Category : Electronics,GPS, Finders & Accessories,Sports & Handheld GPS,Running GPS Units
Rating : 4.5
ListPrice : US $449.99
Price : US $399
Review Count : 745
Garmin Forerunner 645 Music, GPS Running Watch With Garmin Pay Contactless Payments, Wrist-Based Heart Rate And Music, Rose Gold
- I\'ve been learning how to use this for a month now. Some things work very well, though it can be hard to navigate the menus correctly. The full manual that you must download, is dreadful. It is not logically organized and information on many exercises is totally inadequate. I like to judge exercise by HR and Calories. It took help from Support to figure out how to add calories to each of my preferred exercises. Set up is difficult and it takes a while that there are different menus accessed in different ways. One is activated from the Power button, one from the Start/Stop button and another from the Up button. The Menus are a bit of a rabbit warren to navigate.Walking outside--works very well.Treadmill. There is little guidance for how to calibrate it. Even once calibrated it doesn\'t track well with my tread mill but captures HR and calories well.Bicycling: seems to work fine.Stationary Bike: I\'m waiting on an ANT+ sensorUpdate: the ANT+ sensor would continually connect and disconnect but never would record speed or distance. I returned the sensor.Swimming: Very problematic. The minimum pool distance is 15 yards--45 feet. How many people have a pool that long? Mine is 40 feet--13 1/3 yards so I can\'t set it for that. HOWEVER, it reports distance in feet and is 100% accurate, just doesn\'t record laps. It cannot record HR or Cals but that is at least clearly indicated.Strength Training: This is easily the WORST functioning exercise. It doesn\'t record reps properly.Tthere\'s ZERO guidance on what kind of motion is captured which seems to require, by trial and error, sharp stops, which goes against recommended slow and deliberate motion. There is no guidance on how to change exercises. You seem to have to end and restart the app, not just for changing exercises but changing sets. Plus its recording of calories is useless.While you can see eMails and texts, it only shows some of it, but that\'s not really a problem.Out of the blue, even when you don\'t want or need to connect to the phone app, it was hector you to connect.I tried the sleep app once. It flat-out didn\'t work. Period.Connection for weather is a well-known buggy app.The one thing I find utterly irritating is the constant pressure to connect and compare and compete with other people even complete strangers. Why would anyone in their right mind want that? Far too much of the phone app is dedicated to that and I suspect other competitive watches do the same. So I guess that\'s more of a criticism of the group.But i can wear this watch anywhere because it looks like a good-looking watch unlike Apple or FitBits that don\'t look like watches, and I picked an analog face. The charge seems to last forever--haven\'t run out of battery yet. While when you just click to get your heartrate it\'s not initially accurate and takes a while to give your actual HR. But when exercising it is totally spot on.This is the 2nd smart watch I\'ve tried. The first was a Samsung Galaxy to match my phone and it was so buggy and inconsistent and unreliable that I had to return it. I\'m hoping some of the future firmware updates will fix some of the problems.Just ordered tempered glass screen protectors and extra charging cords.It has now been 2 years that I\'ve had this watch and it (mostly) does what I need it to do. The ANT+ for our stationary bike was replaced with Garmin\'s own and works very well, although it seems to overstate speed and distance--hard to tell, but it connects nicely. I\'ve also added a Vario rear radar (again, a Garmin product) and it connect very well to the watch, giving my wrist a buzz when a car is approaching. It tells me to check the rear view mirror.The watch links well to the Android App, allowing me to keep family members apprised of where I am. I use WALK, BIKE, INDOOR BIKE, TREADMILL and POOL. TREADMILL requires you to swing your arms or buy a shoe ANT+ sensor.I replaced the plastic band with a black metal band that makes the watch look more like a dress watch and less like a sport watch, and the metal doesn\'t irritate as the plastic did. I also keep a several screen protectors on hand as I tend to scratch, star, and break them--better than the crystal! I must have gone through 7 or 8 so far. Battery life seems to have diminished a little in 2 years, but not enough to be troublesome.I never figured out how to download music or play it, because I almost always have my phone present. It\'s still not perfect--but I upped a star and it\'s a pity Garmin doesn\'t make any of the Forerunners anymore with the rose gold bezel.
- This is my first Garmin smart watch. I bought it for the heart monitoring and workout metrics provided.I have a pacemaker and postural orthostatic tachycardiac syndrome and this watch has been a life saver. The stress measurement tool (hrv) is a great indicator of my POTS flares. When my stress level registers as high on the watch I am usually having a flare.After my workouts the watch indicates how many hours I need to recover before the next workout - this has been life changing for me. I dont always feel bad after an intense workout. Before I got this watch I would do well on a run and get excited because I didnt have a flare and felt good afterward. I\'d try again the next day and have an awful run followed by several days of pots flares (up to a week). Since starting to use this watch and following the recovery time recomendations, I have not caused a single exercise induced pots episode that has lasted for more than one day.I have learned to manage my pots better by monitoring my stress and heart rate trends in the Garmin app and adjusting my activity accordingly. Before the watch I never understood why I was having flares or what I was doing to trigger them, it just seemed random. Now I have learned to recognize red flags in the Garmin app data that warn me a flare is coming and I can adjust my activity to recover quicker instead of making it worse.I dont like the sleep tracker, it is rarely accurate. It says I\'m sleeping within minutes of laying down in bed. If I lay in bed at 9 and play on my phone till 11, my app should know I\'m not asleep at 9:15 because I\'m STILL ON MY PHONE! Maybe because my pacemaker artificially adjusts my heart rate maintaining 60bpm as a lower limit, the sleep tracker thinks I\'m asleep?The heart monitor seems to be mostly accurate, however there have been times during the night my pulse registers in the 50s, which is impossible with my pacemaker lower limit set at 60.There is an alarm setting to notify you if your pulse exceeds a set threshold while you\'re not active, which is helpful. I wish there were an alarm option for your pulse dropping below a set threshold also.The watch does not have an oximeter, which seems like an oversight.Overall I love this watch and wear it 100% of the time. My husband urged me to get it and I didnt really see the value. I\'m so glad I did get it, I dont know what I would do without it now. I would recomend anyone with POTS or Dysautomonia to get one. Worth every penny.
- The look and feel of this Watch is amazing. At first it is not user friendly but once you play with it, get lost in all the different options, it starts to make sense.My biggest issues are important ones for me such as the heart rate, syncing music and GPS.Heart rate- it does not track the heart rate well when doing strength training or cardio workouts. I will be on the stairmaster for 10min and it says my heart rate is 85-90. My Fitbit charge HR has better heart rate tracking. I called Garmin and the rep spoke to me like I was 5 years old. He told me to lose the band which has not helped.Syncing music- i have only successfully synced my Spotify to my watch once. It always says sync failed or no WiFi even though it said prior that WiFi was connected.GPS- doesn’t track accurately. I know where a mile is from my house and it over tracks. It will also state that my mile time is 7:45min miles which I have never ran faster than a 9min mile. I called support again and was told to wait a minute once I start my tracking. That doesn’t make sense as it messes up my tracking.It tends to freeze about every other week on me. Holding down the Light button for 15seconds doesn’t work for about 30minutes. It doesn’t beep when it freezes so if I am in the middle of a run I don’t know that it froze and stopped tracking until I look at the screen and it is zeroed out.Not very happy with this product 1 month in but I keep calling support... I am thinking in 2 weeks if nothing works then I will send it back.
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