Overview
Specifications
| Lens Material | Corning Gorilla Glass 3 |
| Bezel Material | fiber-reinforced polymer |
| Quick Release Bands | yes (20 mm, Industry standard) |
| Strap material | silicone |
| Physical size | 42.3 x 42.3 x 12.2 (mm) Fits wrists with a circumference of 127-204 mm |
| Display size | 1.2" (30.4 mm) diameter |
| Display resolution | 240 x 240 pixels |
| Display type | sunlight-visible, transflective memory-in-pixel (MIP) |
| Weight | 38.5 g |
| Battery life | Smartwatch Mode: Up to 7 days GPS mode with music: Up to 6 hours GPS mode without music: Up to 24 hours |
| Water rating | Swim, 5 ATM |
| Color display | ✓ |
| Memory/History | 200 hours of activity data |
Clock Features
| Time/date | ✓ |
| GPS Time Sync | ✓ |
| Automatic daylight saving time | ✓ |
| Alarm clock | ✓ |
| Timer | ✓ |
| Stopwatch | ✓ |
| Sunrise/sunset times | ✓ |
Sensors
| GPS | ✓ |
| GLONASS | ✓ |
| Galileo | ✓ |
| Garmin Elevate wrist heart rate monitor | ✓ |
| Compass | ✓ |
| Accelerometer | ✓ |
Daily Smart Features
| Connectivity | Bluetooth, ANT+, Wi-Fi |
| Connect IQ (downloadable watch faces, data fields, widgets and apps) | ✓ |
| Smart notifications | ✓ |
| Text response/reject phone call with text (Android™ only) | ✓ |
| Calendar | ✓ |
| Weather | ✓ |
| Controls smartphone music | ✓ |
| Plays and controls watch music | ✓ |
| Music Storage | up to 500 songs |
| Find My Phone | ✓ |
| Find My Watch | ✓ |
| VIRB Camera Remote | ✓ |
| Smartphone compatibility | iPhone and Android™ |
| Compatible with Garmin Connect Mobile | ✓ |
Safety and Tracking Features
| Incident Detection during select activities | ✓ (Smartphone Required) |
| Assistance | ✓ (Smartphone Required) |
| LiveTrack | ✓ |
Activity Tracking Features
| Step counter | ✓ |
| Move bar (displays on device after a period of inactivity; walk for a couple of minutes to reset it) | ✓ |
| Auto goal (learns your activity level and assigns a daily step goal) | ✓ |
| Sleep monitoring (monitors total sleep and periods of movement or restful sleep) | ✓ |
| Calories burned | ✓ |
| Distance traveled | ✓ |
| Intensity minutes | ✓ |
| TrueUp | ✓ |
| Move IQ | ✓ |
| Fitness Age | ✓ (in app) |
| Body Battery Energy Monitor | ✓ |
| All-day Stress Tracking | ✓ |
Gym & Fitness Equipment
| Available gym activity profiles | Strength Training, Cardio Training, Elliptical Training, Stair Stepping, Indoor Rowing and Yoga |
| Cardio workouts | ✓ |
| Strength workouts | ✓ |
| Automatic rep counting | ✓ |
Training, Planning and Analysis Features
| GPS speed and distance | ✓ |
| Customizable data pages | ✓ |
| Customizable activity profiles | ✓ |
| Auto Pause | ✓ |
| Interval training | ✓ |
| Advanced workouts | ✓ |
| Downloadable training plans | ✓ |
| Auto Lap | ✓ |
| Manual lap | ✓ |
| Configurable lap alerts | ✓ |
| V02 max | ✓ |
| Training Status (lets you see if you’re training effectively by tracking your training history and fitness level trend.) | ✓ |
| Training Load (your total training load for the last 7 days calculated from estimated EPOC) | ✓ |
| Training Effect (aerobic) | ✓ |
| Training Effect (anaerobic) | ✓ |
| Customizable alerts | ✓ |
| Audio prompts | ✓ |
| Finish time | ✓ |
| Virtual Partner | ✓ |
| Race an Activity | ✓ |
| Course guidance | ✓ |
| Touch and/or button lock | ✓ |
| Auto scroll | ✓ |
| Activity history on watch | ✓ |
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Heart Rate Features
| HR zones | ✓ |
| HR alerts | ✓ |
| HR calories | ✓ |
| % HR max | ✓ |
| % HRR | ✓ |
| Recovery time | ✓ |
| Auto max HR | ✓ |
| HR Broadcast (broadcasts HR data over ANT+ to paired devices) | ✓ |
Running Features
| Available run profiles | Running, Treadmill Running, Indoor Track Running, Trail Running |
| GPS-based distance, time and pace | ✓ |
| Running dynamics | ✓ |
| Vertical oscillation and ratio (the degree of 'bounce' in your running motion and the cost-benefit ratio with stride length) | ✓ |
| Ground contact time and balance (shows how much time, in the running motion, your foot is on the ground rather than in flight and lets you check your running symmetry) | ✓ |
| Stride length (real time) | ✓ |
| Cadence (provides real-time number of steps per minute) | ✓ |
| Performance condition (after running 6–20 minutes, compares your real-time condition to your average fitness level) | ✓ |
| Run workouts | ✓ |
| Race predictor | ✓ |
| Foot pod capable | ✓ |
Outdoor Recreation Features
| Point-to-point navigation | ✓ |
| Bread crumb trail in real time | ✓ |
| Back to start | ✓ |
| TracBack | ✓ |
| UltraTrac mode | ✓ |
| Distance to destination | ✓ |
| GPS coordinates | ✓ |
Cycling Features
| Available cycling profiles | Biking, Indoor Biking |
| Courses | ✓ |
| Race an activity | ✓ |
| Time/distance alerts (triggers alarm when you reach goal) | ✓ |
| Compatible with Varia Vision (head-mounted display) | ✓ |
| Compatible with Varia radar (rear-facing radar) | ✓ |
| Compatible with Varia lights | ✓ |
| Speed and cadence sensor support (with sensor) | ✓ |
Swimming Features
| Available swim profiles | Pool Swimming |
| Pool swim metrics (lengths, distance, pace, stroke count/rate, calories) | ✓ |
| Stroke type detection (freestyle, backstroke, breaststroke, butterfly) | ✓ |
| Swim efficiency (SWOLF) | ✓ |
| Drill logging | ✓ |
| Pool swim workouts | ✓ |
| Brand | GARMIN |
|---|---|
| Series | Forerunner 245 |
| Colour | Army Green |
