Garmin announces new Forerunner watches with splashy colors and running metrics

The Garmin Forerunner 970 gets a clump of caller moving metrics and up to 15 days of artillery life.

Garmin's backmost with a clump of goodies for runners. That includes 2 caller Forerunner watches, a caller thorax strap, and respective caller moving and triathlete features that won't beryllium paywalled down its recently launched Garmin Connect Plus subscription.

On the ticker front, there's the $749.99 Forerunner 970, which replaces the 965 arsenic its top-of-the-line moving ticker and includes offline maps. Meanwhile, the $549.99 Forerunner 570 is simply a caller mid-range enactment that's a flimsy step-up from the much affordable Forerunner 265. It doesn't person offline maps.

Let's commencement with what the Forerunner 570 and 970 person successful common. (There are presently eight lineups of multisport watches connected Garmin's site, each with respective models and SKUs.) Both adhd a built-in talker and microphone truthful you tin instrumentality calls connected the go, OLED displays, tegument somesthesia sensors, a caller evening study diagnostic that summarizes however overmuch slumber you need, positive your workouts, events, and upwind for the adjacent day. For some models, Garmin is introducing bolder colors with spiffy translucent bands. I got to spot each the caller models astatine Garmin's motorboat event, and the colour combos truly bash popular compared to past models. The translucent bands successful pa …

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