Garmin manufactures GPS-enabled sports and fitness watches, cycling computers, automotive navigation systems, marine electronics, and aviation equipment.
We review and compare Garmin’s extensive lineup of sports watches including the Fenix, Forerunner, and Vivo series. Our in-depth testing analyzes features like activity tracking, heart rate monitoring, built-in sports apps, battery performance, smartphone connectivity, and more across price ranges.
Additionally, we cover Garmin cycling computers, golf watches, Garmin Index smart scales, dash cams, and other devices. Learn how Garmin’s ecosystem of apps like Garmin Connect and Connect IQ for custom watch faces, data fields, and apps work as well.
Garmin may be the biggest brand in the fitness industry with perhaps the most feature-rich devices, but one area they have fallen behind nearly every company is wirst HR for swimming. They have finally pulled their finger out and have launched heart rate tracking during swimming activities. Unfortunately, at the moment, it is only available…
The Sunnto 5 is the latest mid-range watch from the Finnish brand, this delivers many of the features from the Suunto 9 but at a more wallet-friendly price. At £299 it is perhaps in the most popular price bracket for this type of watch, competing with the Garmin Forerunner 245 Music, Forerunner 645 none music…
Yesterday Polar announced their new Ignite sports watch, which could turn out to be one of the best sports watches of the year. Priced at £174.50 this sits comfortably cheaper than the Garmin Forerunner 45 or Fitbit Versa. While the Fitbit is not really the same product as either the Garmin or Polar, I think…
Launched back in 2015 the Garmin Edge 520 is probably the most popular option in Garmin’s cycling line-up, offering a good combination of features at an attractive price point. It was refreshed last year with the Edge 520 Plus which introduced full-blown routable maps while leaving most of the rest the same. With the Edge…
The Garmin Forerunner 235 was launched back in 2015 which is positively ancient in the world of tech. I bought it as my first Garmin watch and mostly loved it, it had a lot of quirks that annoyed me, but it did the job I wanted at a great price. It is one of the…
Originally posted May 2018 – Updated on 02/05/2019 The Polar OH1 has now had a new firmware rolled out enabling Ant+. It was a great device to start with and now, after a year of using it, I think it is probably the best heart rate tracker on the market. Polar have recently overhauled their…
The Garmin Forerunner 945 & 245 has finally gone official. The more expensive FR945 is a slightly more affordable version of the Fenix 5 Plus but in a plastic body and a few extra bells and whistles. While the Garmin Forerunner 245 and 245 Music will be popular entry-level sports watches offering tracking for few…
We already know that the Garmin Forerunner 945 launch is imminent and that it will bring NFC payments, maps and a music option to the device similar to other upgraded watches is the series. Now a new leak, thanks to Clever Training listing the devices early, via ActiveJr, has revealed details of the new Forerunner…
Mobvoi is originally an AI company but has made waves in the smartwatch industry the past few years for their affordable and excellent TicWatch Wear OS watches. Following the success of the original TicWatch S and E they have now been following up with a second generation featuring the more powerful Qualcomm Snapdragon 2100 chipset….
I am relatively new to turbo trainers, with my first experience being the Bkool Smart Pro 2 last year which I enjoyed thoroughly once I ironed out the small issues. Since then I have been considering investing in a trainer but I didn’t want to spend too much money, and I was reluctant about buying…
During the Mate 20 announcement, Huawei also announced the new Watch GT and I found it almost as exciting as the phone release. As much as I love my Garmin Fenix 5 it cost me £350, and the plus models are about £600 and while they are technically smartwatches, they lack a lot of smartwatch…
While I love the idea of music on my watch, one of the main reasons I didn’t bother with the new Fenix 5 Plus is the fact there was no Spotify integration, the other reason being the price. I do have local files, and I could have copied them over, but most of it is old stuff…