Garmin Forerunner 945 LTE
Reviews Summary
The Garmin Forerunner 945 LTE Watch is a smartwatch designed to keep you secure. It has a 1.2-inch screen with a resolution of 240×240 pixels that can be seen in direct sunlight. Its features include sharing your location with previously registered emergency contacts and 24-hour monitoring seven days a week via a professional emergency response and monitoring center. The 945 LTE isn’t an entirely new watch; instead, it’s an update to the existing Forerunner 945 that includes LTE connectivity.
Pros
- TE integrated in a simple and cost-effective way
- Smaller size without toll in exchange
- Improved GPS performance over the 945
- Good autonomy (LTE apart)
Cons
- Price
- With the use of LTE in all our activities, autonomy suffers considerably.
- No aesthetic changes
Where to get it?
Garmin Forerunner 945 LTE, Premium GPS Running/Triathlon Smartwatch with LTE Connectivity, Black
Review
It will enable you to use the existing LiveTrack platform without a phone. As a result, it will allow people on your pre-approved list to track your progress in near-real-time as you train or race. This applies to your current location, speed, heart rate, and cadence.
The Design
The new Forerunner is an athletic watch that is surprisingly stylish. It’s smaller than the Instinct Solar from the same firm [see our hands-on review]. The simple style looked decent when I met some coworkers for dinner, even if it was more elegant than the Venu 2 [read our opinions on that model]. It’s also lightweight, measuring 44.4 mm in diameter, 13.9 mm thick, and weighing only 49 grams. Like many of Garmin’s sports watches, the Forerunner has a familiar array of five control buttons that I had no trouble finding by touch while exercising.
Because the display isn’t customizable, we’re stuck with this info. Users have expressed dissatisfaction with this watch feature. Although race pace is acceptable, it should be intuitive enough to provide power data in the bike intervals if a potentiometer is connected. Furthermore, the intervals fragment displays when we mark the first intervals without showing anything of the rests. The data page appears when we manually browse through all the others.
Performance
Biking, paddling, hiking, walking, snowboarding, and rafting are just a few preset activities that the Garmin Forerunner 945 LTE can track. New ones can be readily added. With a focus on running, it’s no surprise that this GPS fitness watch includes outdoor, indoor track, and trail running options. Coupling it with a running dynamics attachment may obtain real-time feedback on your form, including cadence, vertical oscillation, ground contact time, stride length, and more.
The watch suggests heat and altitude acclimation, lactate threshold, estimated race times, and training load and attention. It even offers daily workout suggestions. In addition, it collects sleep data and combines it with other data to calculate body batteries, which measure energy levels. This feeds back into the data set that the watch uses to create training plans.
Is It Worth It?
The Garmin Forerunner 945 LTE is an excellent watch, but it is only for some. It is, first and foremost, a fitness device. Advanced fitness smartwatches are certainly available, as are more comprehensive solutions for always-on phone-free connectivity. This watch is designed for elite athletes who want to concentrate on their training and recovery while also having the ability to reach out to family and emergency services in the event of an emergency.
