Forerunner 945 LTE & Forerunner 55: Garmin Running Watches with GPS and More

Garmin today announced two new sports GPS watches. The Forerunner 55 and Forerunner 945 LTE Garmin running watches are primarily aimed at runners, but also offer many other functions.

The manufacture is expanding its already extensive portfolio of Garmin running watches with the two new Garmin Forerunner 55 and Forerunner 945 LTE. Both had been leaked a few weeks ago. Now they are officially presented.

Forerunner 945 LTE

The Forerunner 945 LTE enables athletes to be independent of their smartphones. Thanks to the LTE connectivity, a telephone function is directly integrated to keep in contact with friends and family on the go or to call for help in an emergency during training. In addition, pace and mileage updates can be sent automatically via live event release. An additional subscription is required to use the LTE function.

Of course, the Forerunner 945 LTE offers many familiar tracking functions from Garmin. These include GPS, GLONASS, and Galileo, barometric altitude measurement, PulseOx sensor for heartbeat and oxygen saturation in the blood as well as many other training functions. The preinstalled sports apps can be used to track different types of sport, from swimming to Pilates and yoga to cycling and HIIT. Health functions such as the body battery, menstrual cycle and pregnancy tracking, all-day heart rate measurement, VO2max, and the pedometer are further features of the Forerunner 945 LTE. It can also be used with Garmin Pay for payments and with Garmin Music for listening to music.

The battery life of the Forerunner 945 LTE is stated by Garmin with up to two weeks in smartwatch mode and up to 35 hours in GPS mode. The new Garmin Forerunner smart watch has been priced at $649.99 and is available to buy via the Amazon.com and Adorama.com stores.

Forerunner 55

The Forerunner 55 offers a scaled-down range of functions and only 20 hours of battery life in GPS mode. LTE has to be dispensed with, but GPS, GLONASS, and Galileo are on board. In addition, the inexpensive model also offers many training functions as well as physiological measured values ​​such as VO2max, training effect, training status, improved recovery time, pulse ox, and heart rate sensor Gen 4.0. The cheaper Forerunner 55 focuses primarily on beginners and easy operation.

The Garmin Forerunner 55 has been priced at $199.99 and is also available to buy via the Amazon.com and Adorama.com websites.

Recently, Garmin has introduced the Descent MK2s smartwatch especially for use in scuba diving. It is a multisport watch-style dive computer device that is based on the Fenix and is priced at $999.99.