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Tom's Guide
21 hours ago
- Tom's Guide
Garmin Forerunner 570 review
The Garmin Forerunner 570 is a great sports watch that offers reliably accurate tracking and a host of useful training and smart features. It's also gorgeous, with upgrades to the AMOLED screen and a range of colors available, making it the best-looking Garmin watch I've tested. However, it is very expensive. The Forerunner 570 is $100 more than its predecessor, the Garmin Forerunner 265, and a lot pricier than rival watches from other brands, like the Suunto Race S and Coros Pace Pro. Given that it lacks some important features you can get on the best sports watches at a lower price, like offline maps and ECG measurements, the Forerunner 570 relies too heavily on its attractive design to justify its price. The Garmin Forerunner 570 launched on 15 May 2025, and all models of the watch cost $549.99 / £459.99. It comes in two sizes — 42mm and 47mm — and there are three colors available for each size. It is the successor to the Garmin Forerunner 265, with Garmin changing the first number in the name to make it clearer that the Forerunner 570 sits between the Garmin Forerunner 165 and the new Garmin Forerunner 970 in its range. The Forerunner 570 is $100 more than the Forerunner 265 cost at launch, and the older watch is now regularly available for $349. It's also expensive compared to mid-range watches from other brands, with the Coros Pace Pro and Suunto Race S both costing $349, and the Polar Vantage M3 costing $399. Forerunner 265S Forerunner 265 Forerunner 570 (42mm) Forerunner 570 (47mm) Price $449 $449 $549 $549 Case size 41.7 x 41.7 x 12.9 mm 46.1 x 46.1 x 12.9 mm 42.4 x 42.4 x 12.9 mm 47 x 47 x 12.9 mm Screen size 1.1 inches 1.3 inches 1.2 inches 1.4 inches Resolution 360 x 360 pixels 416 x 416 pixels 390 x 390 pixels 454 x 454 pixels Weight 39g 47g 42g 50g GPS battery life 24 hours 20 hours 18 hours 18 hours Smartwatch battery life 15 days 13 days 10 days 11 days Touchscreen Yes Yes Yes Yes Speaker/Mic No No Yes Yes Garmin is not a company known for making bold design statements with its watches, so the bright bezels you see on some models of the Forerunner 570 are a move that separates the watch from the rest of its range. I tested the 47mm Forerunner 570 with a yellow bezel and translucent white and turquoise band, and loved the look of the watch. The white 42mm model with a raspberry bezel is another standout in the range. The bezel is made from aluminum, which gives the Forerunner 570 a more premium feel than the Forerunner 265. All in all, the design updates are significant, and there are still black models available in both sizes for those who dislike the more colorful styles. Along with brighter colors, the watch also has a brighter AMOLED display than the Forerunner 265. The nits aren't specified, but I found it to be more vivid on the wrist than the older watch, and easier to read in bright sunlight. The Gorilla glass display is also larger on the new watch, and the 1.4in screen on the 47mm Forerunner 570 is as large as any in Garmin's sports watch range — it's the same size as the display on the 51mm model of the Garmin Fenix 8. It's still a lightweight watch that's comfortable to wear 24/7, and it's good that there are two sizes available; the 47mm is a pretty large watch, so those with smaller wrists might prefer the 42mm model. The Forerunner 570 houses Garmin's Elevate Gen5 heart rate sensors, which are the latest and best optical sensors in the brand's line-up and have proved more accurate (for me) in testing multiple watches than the Elevate Gen4 sensors on the Forerunner 265. However, despite this Gen5 sensor being used to take ECG measurements on other Garmin watches, including the cheaper Garmin Venu 3, the Forerunner 570 isn't able to do this. Other sensors include a barometric altimeter and pulse oximeter, and the GPS chipset allows for dual-band tracking. You can pair external sensors via Bluetooth and ANT+, including cycling power meters. Another new feature of the design is a microphone and speaker, which you can use for voice commands and to take calls. The Forerunner 570 has a 5ATM waterproof rating suitable for pool and open-water swimming, and 8GB of storage. This is mainly for music rather than maps, with offline maps being one of the biggest missing features on the watch. Compared with the Forerunner 265, the Garmin Forerunner 570 has 23 new sports modes, including obstacle racing, gravel biking and several new outdoors-y modes, like fishing, hunting and rucking. Another new addition is Garmin Coach's Triathlon training plans, which you can use to help you prepare for a multisport event, and you can also now create structured multisport workouts to follow — in the past, you could only create workouts for a single sport like running or cycling. All of the sports modes are customizable and show a wealth of data throughout activities. The detailed training analysis you get afterwards can help you ensure you're working at the right level to get fitter and faster. A new addition on the analysis front is training load ratio, which trickles down from more expensive Garmin models and shows the balance of your recent training against your long-term chronic training load. The Forerunner 570 can also estimate how well adapted to heat or altitude you are, which has been another feature available on more expensive Garmin models previously. It also estimates your race times, VO2 max and how ready you are to train each day. There are some features you don't get on the Forerunner 570, such as the new running tolerance stat and running economy tracking introduced on the Forerunner 970. But it's a comprehensive sports watch that will satisfy athletes of all levels with the data it offers. To test the heart rate accuracy of the Forerunner 570, I compared it to the reading from a chest strap on each of my runs, using the Garmin HRM200 and Garmin HRM600 linked up to other watches. For GPS accuracy, I compared it to several other watches during my testing, including the Garmin Fenix 8, Forerunner 970 and Forerunner 265, and looked at the GPS tracks after runs to check for errors. After around 150 miles of running and 80 miles of indoor cycling, plus various strength and yoga sessions, I've yet to see a significant error in either GPS or heart rate tracking from the Forerunner 570. It has matched the heart rate reading from a chest strap more or less beat for beat and produces reliably accurate GPS tracks, including at a twisting city half marathon, where it was more accurate than the Forerunner 265. The Forerunner 570 is designed to be worn 24/7 and tracks stress, steps, calories, active minutes and floors climbed throughout the day, plus sleep and heart rate variability (HRV) overnight. You can set targets and display the stats that matter to you most on your watch face, and you can also turn on move alerts to notify you if you're stationary for long periods. The combination of sleep tracking and overnight HRV measurements has been a good indicator of how well I've rested each night, too. Any kind of extra stress on the body, like a few too many alcoholic drinks or illness, both of which have cropped up during my time with the watch, impacts HRV in particular and lowers your sleep score. In contrast, healthy living and reliable bedtimes send them shooting up, which is a useful extra motivation to focus on getting better sleep where possible. The bright display on the Forerunner 570 does hit its battery life hard, and I had to charge it every three to four days when having the always-on screen enabled. That's with daily outdoor runs, other workouts and notifications coming into the watch. It's less than I get from the Forerunner 265, which lasts me four to five days with the always-on screen enabled. When I toggled on the raise-to-wake setting for the display outside of activities, the watch lasted me over a week on a charge, so you can extend its battery life quite easily, if you're prepared to forego the convenience of the always-on screen. It still outlasts smartwatches like the Apple Watch Series 10 comfortably, but other AMOLED sports watches, like the Suunto Race S and Coros Pace Pro, last longer on a charge. The Forerunner 570 backs up its smartwatch-style looks with several useful smart features, including NFC payments, MP3 music storage and the ability to link up with streaming services, including Spotify and Deezer, so you can transfer your playlists to listen to on the watch without your phone. These are all features available on most Garmin watches now, but the mic and speaker on the Forerunner 570 are not so common across the range. You can use these to take voice notes, give commands like 'start a timer', and interact with your phone's voice assistant. It also has access to the Garmin ConnectIQ app store, which has a few useful apps and extra data fields for your activities, and you can now adjust the font size on the watch to be larger. While it isn't a full smartwatch, lacking cellular connectivity and the huge app stores available on Apple and Android wearables, the Forerunner 570 covers the most important bases. When it comes to smart features, Garmin devices are well ahead of Suunto, Coros and Polar. The Forerunner 570 has Garmin's Incident Detection and LiveTrack safety features. Incident Detection can notify your emergency contacts if a fall is detected during an activity, or if you hold the light button down, LiveTrack allows you to share your location with key contacts during activities. You can also use the watch to follow breadcrumb trails for routes sent over from the Garmin Connect app, with turn-by-turn directions, but you don't get offline maps on the Forerunner 570. This is a feature Garmin still reserves for its top watches, starting with the Forerunner 965 and Forerunner 970, while other brands, including Coros, Polar and Suunto, have made maps available on mid-range watches that are cheaper than the Forerunner 570. Garmin's maps and routing features are the best available on sports watches, so it's a disappointment that the Forerunner 570 doesn't get them, given the price increase and the fact that it has storage that could be used for maps. Unless you are completely won over by its design, which is a welcome change from Garmin's traditional styles, I don't think the Garmin Forerunner 570 is a smart buy at full price. That's even though I certainly enjoyed using it and have no complaints about its performance. There are simply better value options within Garmin's range and from other brands, in my opinion. There are some useful upgrades on the Garmin Forerunner 265, including a better HR sensor. But the 265 is what I'd buy for $200 less, because it's still a great sports watch with an attractive design. Perhaps an even more compelling alternative is the Garmin Forerunner 965, which is only $50 more than the 570 at full price and often reduced to $499. It has maps and longer battery life than the 570, though it lacks the 570's mic and speaker. The Suunto Race S and Coros Pace Pro are not as good-looking as the Forerunner 570 but offer better battery life and offline maps at a much lower price while also being reliable sports trackers. I love what Garmin has done with the design of the Forerunner 570, but its good looks needed to be backed up by more features to justify the high price.
Gizmodo
3 days ago
- Health
- Gizmodo
This Forerunner 165 Is The Cheapest Advanced Garmin Watch, Now at an All-Time Low on Amazon
The world of advanced smartwatches is now more accessible than ever, and right now, Amazon is making upgrading your wristwear even easier by providing a significant discount. Whether you are a runner, fitness fanatic or just looking for a reliable watch to wear every day, the Garmin Forerunner 165 is among the most affordable advanced smartwatches on the market now thanks to Amazon's large discount. Priced at only $199 down from an MSRP of $249, this feature-rich Forerunner 165 watch is a steal for what it offers. If you are looking for something a little more luxe, the Forerunner 265 is being sold at a discount as well for $349 down from $449, and even the Fenix 8 models are seeing their first-ever price cuts. See Forerunner 165 at Amazon 25 Built In Activity Profiles While the Garmin Forerunner 165 is designed for runners and active users, the features and functionality also extend well beyond the common daily jog. The watch comes with a full-color AMOLED touchscreen display that is clear in any light, traditional buttons to get to your favorite features quickly and a comfortable, lightweight 43 mm case for easy wear throughout your day whether at work, hitting the gym, or miles into a long run. With up to 11 days of battery life in smartwatch mode and up to 19 hours in GPS mode, you will seldom have to think about recharging. A major highlight of the Forerunner 165 is the integrated GPS, as it provides you accurate pace and distance tracking directly from your wrist. The Forerunner 165 includes wrist-based heart rate monitoring to provide you with real-time feedback about your effort and recovery. Each morning, you will wake up to a customized morning report detailing your sleep quality, recovery status, training outlook, weather, and heart rate variability. This Garmin watch also provides personalized daily suggested workouts based on your performance and recovery to help keep you motivated and on track. The Forerunner 165 is equipped with Garmin Coach and race-adaptive training plans and provides you with tailored workout recommendations whether you are training for a race or looking to improve your fitness improvements. The Forerunner 165 also includes training effect and training effect labels which consider the impact of each workout on your overall fitness level, and ideas for the primary benefit you have gained. With over 25 built in activity profiles, the Forerunner 165 is set for virtually any sport or workout. You will have detailed metrics and insights provided for every activity including running, cycling, HIIT workouts, strength workouts, etc. Included safety and tracking features include incident detection for select outdoor activities and an Assistance feature that will send your live location to emergency contacts when paired with your smartphone. There is definitely a lot to love about the Garmin Forerunner 165, and with the current promotion from Amazon, you can excel while spending like a novice. See Forerunner 165 at Amazon
Tom's Guide
22-05-2025
- Business
- Tom's Guide
Mega Garmin Memorial Day sale is live — 5 deals on sports watches I'd shop now
Garmin has long made a habit of offering big discounts in its spring sale, but this year might be the best array of deals yet, with some of the newest and best Garmin watches being heavily reduced. Ahead of Memorial Day you can save big on the all-conquering Garmin Fenix 8, which is substantially-reduced for the first time since it launched in August last year, or pick up more affordable devices like the Garmin Forerunner 265 and Venu 3 at their lowest ever prices. I've tested most of the Garmin watches launched in the past five years and have scoured the sale for what I think are the five best deals to consider in the sales, whether you need a rugged adventure watch or a sleek smartwatch. The new Garmin Forerunner 570 now supersedes the Forerunner 265 in the Garmin range and has a bigger, brighter screen plus a mic and speaker, but the Forerunner 265 is $200 cheaper thanks to this deal and matches the Forerunner 570 well on sports tracking features. I ran a half marathon wearing both the 570 and 265 recently, and there's still a lot to like about the Forerunner 265 as a lightweight, attractive AMOLED sports watch. This discount on the Garmin Venu 3 equals the lowest price it's ever gone for, with both the standard Venu 3 and smaller Venu 3S reduced by $100 at multiple retailers. It's a sleek AMOLED smartwatch with features like NFC payments and music storage on top of Garmin's reliably excellent sports tracking. This is the first time the Garmin Instinct 3 has been widely-discounted, and all the watches in the range are reduced by $50. My pick would be the Instinct 3 AMOLED thanks to its bright screen, but if you value battery life above all then opting for the Instinct 3 Solar is the better call since it can last indefinitely on a charge in sunny conditions. The Garmin Forerunner 970 has just launched, meaning now's the time to look for discounts on its predecessor the Garmin Forerunner 965, and this $100 saving doesn't disappoint. The Forerunner 965 is an incredible AMOLED sports watch with offline maps and a wealth of sports tracking and training analysis features all packed into a lightweight design. The Forerunner 970 has a brighter screen and some new features like a built-in flashlight, but will set you back $749 right now. The Fenix 8 is the top dog in Garmin's smartwatch range, and a watch I've used to run two marathons this year myself. The Garmin Fenix 8 only came out last August so to see the entire range reduced by $200 is remarkable. I've used the Fenix 8 47mm and Fenix 8 51mm watches myself, and prefer the smaller watch for comfort, but you do get a lot more battery life by opting for a 51mm device. I prefer the AMOLED screen, but the Garmin Fenix 8 Solar is also reduced and offers incredible battery life.
Tom's Guide
21-05-2025
- Tom's Guide
I ran a half marathon with the Garmin Forerunner 570 vs. Garmin Forerunner 265 — here's the winner
The Forerunner 265 is $200 cheaper than the new Forerunner 570 thanks to this deal at Amazon, and given that it's still one of the most impressive small sports watches available, the savings are worth considering. The Forerunner 265 is available in two sizes — 42mm and 46mm — and all colors are included in the sale. The Garmin Forerunner 570 will be available to order starting May 21 at Garmin and other retailers. It comes in two sizes — 42mm and 47mm — and a range of designs with bright bezels. Along with the new look, the main updates on the Forerunner 265 are a bigger, brighter screen, an improved HR sensor and a mic and speaker. The Garmin Forerunner 265 has been one of the best Garmin watches available since it launched in March 2023, so I had high expectations of its successor, the Garmin Forerunner 570. Some of the key upgrades on the Forerunner 570 include a mic and speaker, a new HR sensor and a larger, brighter display, but they come with a price bump and the improved screen means shorter battery life than the Forerunner 265. I'm still testing the Garmin Forerunner 570 to see how it stands up against the best sports watches, but I had a chance to compare it directly to the Garmin Forerunner 265 in a race at the Hackney Half Marathon at the weekend. I ran 1:14:12 on the day and for the race test, I was mainly looking at GPS and heart rate accuracy, as well as how much battery each watch burned. But the design differences between the 265 and 570 were also noticeable. I have worn the Forerunner 265 for long stretches several times over the past couple of years and have never felt the screen was too small or dim, but the Forerunner 570's display is a noticeable upgrade when you compare the two watches directly. Not only is the screen brighter, but the 1.4-inch display on the 47mm model of the Forerunner 570 is as large as screens get in Garmin's sports watch range — it's as big as the display on the Garmin Fenix 8 51mm model. The improved display is especially noticeable under bright sunlight when wearing sunglasses, and even on a cloudy day, I found it easier to see my stats at a glance during the half marathon. I'm also a big fan of the new designs Garmin introduced with the Forerunner 570, with the brightly colored bezels helping the watch to stand out from other sports watches. The Forerunner 265 is still a good-looking watch with a great display, but the Forerunner 570's new look and screen are more of an upgrade than I expected when I just looked at its specs on paper. Winner: Forerunner 570 The Hackney Half Marathon takes place in East London, and while the route doesn't spend much time under skyscrapers, which can reduce GPS accuracy, it does have a lot of twists and turns. I used both watches in the most accurate multi-band GPS mode, and on the day, the Forerunner 570 was closer to the official race distance of 21.1km than the Forerunner 265. I also noticed early on in the race that it was beeping for laps closer to the official markers along the way. Given the many turns on the course, I will probably have run further than the measured route as I was weaving around people and taking wide turns at times, but even so, I think the Forerunner 570's distance of 21.24km versus 21.41km on the Forerunner 265 is more accurate. Winner: Forerunner 570 Looking at the actual GPS track from each watch after the race, they are mostly very similar, with the Forerunner 265 running a little wider on corners to explain the extra distance. The Forerunner 570 has Garmin's latest Elevate Gen5 optical heart rate sensor on board, which has delivered more accurate tracking for me with other watches than the Gen4 sensor on the Forerunner 265. To test the accuracy of both watches at the Hackney Half Marathon, I also wore a Garmin HRM200 chest strap connected to a Coros Pace 3 watch, which I tucked in my pocket. Chest straps are generally more accurate than wrist sensors, so I usually use one to get the most accurate data from my watch. On the day, both watches produced very accurate heart rate readings that were in line with the chest strap, with the only small error being that the Forerunner 570 took a few minutes to get up to the right heart rate. After that, both watches were always within a beat or two of the chest strap, which is impressively accurate for a wrist sensor. Winner: Tie One downside of the improved display on the Forerunner 570 is a drop in battery life in both watch and GPS tracking modes. The listed stats for the watches when using the most accurate and power-intensive multi-band GPS with the screen always-on are the same, however, at 14 hours of tracking. Using the DC Rainmaker Analyzer, I can see that during the race, the Forerunner 570 drained at a rate of 6.86% an hour, which works out at 14.58 hours of juice, a little more than the listed stats. The Forerunner 265 outperformed this, draining at a rate of 5.54% an hour, which works out at 18.06 hours of use. Winner: Forerunner 265 Although there were some small differences in accuracy and battery life in the half marathon, probably the biggest difference I've noticed between the Forerunner 570 and Forerunner 265 is the improved design of the newer watch. Whether that's enough to pay $100-$200 more for the Forerunner 570 is certainly up for debate though, and the fact that the Forerunner 265 is even more likely to be a regular feature in sales is certainly good news, as it's an excellent sports watch I'd happily rely on to track my runs.
Phone Arena
18-05-2025
- Business
- Phone Arena
Amazon launches a rare Garmin Forerunner 265 promo you just can't pass up
Get the Forerunner 265 at its best price of 2025! $100 off (22%) Want multi-day battery life, a beautiful AMOLED touchscreen, and countless sports features on your next Garmin watch? The Forerunner 265 fits the bill, and it's now down to its best price of 2025 on Amazon. Save $100 before it's too late. Buy at Amazon Garmin Forerunner 965: $100 off at Amazon $100 off (17%) Garmin's high-end Forerunner 965 is also available at its best price of 2025 at the e-commerce giant. This model has a slightly larger 1.4-inch AMOLED touchscreen, longer battery life, and extras like full color, built-in maps. Buy at Amazon Receive the latest mobile news By subscribing you agree to our terms and conditions and privacy policy Seeking a Garmin Forerunner model with an AMOLED touchscreen and multi-day battery life for under $400? The Forerunner 265 meets those requirements and can now be yours at its lowest price! That's no typo — Amazon has slashed $100 off its original ~$450 asking price, knocking it to an all-time low for our knowledge, the 46mm sports watch hasn't seen any significant discounts since Black Friday and Cyber Monday 2024. In other words, Amazon's current promo isn't just super attractive; it's also quite rare! So, if you're after highly accurate performance metrics, long battery life, and a touchscreen, the Forerunner 265 might be the right case you missed it, the more premium Forerunner 965 has also dropped to its lowest price so far in 2025 at Amazon. Consider this Garmin watch if you don't mind spending an extra $150 for extras like full color, built-in maps and even longer battery what makes the slightly less premium Forerunner 265 an attractive choice? Well, it's not just one thing! To begin with, the unit packs a plethora of sports-related features, including support for triathlons and multisport profiles. There's also training status and Garmin Coach on deck to help you optimize workout times and stay on track with your performance the workout features, the Garmin watch gives you a personalized morning report featuring insights on HRV status, sleep, and weather. It tracks naps, offers sleep coaching, and keeps your heart rate on track. As if that's not enough, it can stay on your wrist for up to 13 days between charges, surpassing even the best smartwatches for Android lovers on the battery life things considered, the Garmin Forerunner 265 is one of the best Garmin watches money can buy. While it may be pricey at its standard price, the model is definitely more attractive at $100 off. Get it at its best price of 2025 through Amazon while you can!
