Garmin Forerunner 245 Music, GPS Running Smartwatch with Music and Advanced Dynamics, Black
You do the running. Forerunner 245 Music does the thinking. It even gets to know you, mile after mile and song after song. This GPS smartwatch has storage for your favorite tunes, so you can keep moving to the music without having to lug your phone along. It also tracks your stats, crunches the numbers
You do the running. Forerunner 245 Music does the thinking. It even gets to know you, mile after mile and song after song. This GPS smartwatch has storage for your favorite tunes, so you can keep moving to the music without having to lug your phone along. It also tracks your stats, crunches the numbers and gets to know all about your performance, your running form, your training history and even your goals. All you need to focus on is putting one foot in front of the other.
Product Features
- GPS running smartwatch with music advanced training features
- Sync with music streaming services, such as Spotify, to easily store and play your favorite songs right from your watch
- Evaluates your current training status to indicate if you’re undertraining or overdoing it; offers additional performance monitoring features
- Get free adaptive training plans from Garmin Coach, or create your own custom workouts on our Garmin Connect online fitness community
- Provides advanced running dynamics, including ground contact time balance, stride length, vertical ratio and more (When used with Running Dynamics Pod or HRM-Run or HRM-Tri monitors (sold separately))
- Safety and tracking features include incident detection (during select activities) which sends your real-time location to emergency contacts through your paired compatible smartphone
- Battery life: up to 7 days in smartwatch mode; up to 6 hours in GPS mode with music
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Major upgrade from Vivoactive 3 This is hands down the best Garmin watch I’ve ever owned… I’ve had a 235, a vivoactive 3 and a fenix 5s. (Bubble in photo is screen protector setting)Love the training effect, spO2, body battery and garmin coach features. This is a perfect watch for someone who mostly runs but sometimes does other activities like hiking or biking. This watch had zero bugs which is impressive for a new release. I got slate gray and I love the strap color. It’s very lightweight, you forget that…
2 hours to setup and synch with spotify… The spotify app to synch to this watch didn’t work until completely removing and reinstalling and despite all the testimonies as to that fact and the livid reviews (see them all in the IQ Connect store) apparently neither Garmin or Spotify is doing much about it to make the installation easy and trouble free. Initially the spotify app didn’t work at all. Since the Garmin support store wasn’t open, I found a few helpful articles and videos on it. I ended up doing a hard reset on the watch and…
Believe the Hype If you’re thinking twice: don’t. This works out of the box with minimal setup. Using this with Jaybird headphones and was up and running – phone free – after just a few minutes of setup. The future is now! Also has all the functions and fitness add-ins you’ve come to expect from Garmin. Six stars!