Two months ago, the well-known for sports devices company “Garmin” announced the release of their new watch from the Forerunner sequel – The Forerunner 30. It is a highly-durable watch, that gathers information about your distance traveled, steps you’ve taken, calories burnt and automatically sets goals, that you have to achieve daily and posts your stats on its own social platform, so you could share them with friends and mutually motivate each other.
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It is a comfortable watch, that you don’t feel while wearing and it has everything you need. Features like time and date showing, alarm, automatically daylight saving time, and even GPS and heart-rate meter are all added to this gadget.
Design
This watch is made to support you with every step. Its strap is made of silicone, and the display, which is 23.5 x 23.4 mm big, is covered by chemically strengthened glass and has the resolution of 128 x 128 pixels. It is designed in a way, that it is able to visibly show the information on the sunlight-visible screen, with transflective memory-in-pixel.The whole physical size of the product is 35.5 x 40.7 x 13.3 mm.
You can control it with the two buttons on the left side, that are used for scrolling up and down through the options, and action and back button on the right.The full weight of the watch is 37.3 g, and it is important to mention that it is dust and water resistant up to 5 atm (which is equals to 50 meters underwater).The built-in GPS tracker can help you find it if you happen to lose it.
Performance and other features
This device is really ergonomic and light, perfect for running and other different activities. Its features are really helpful and users take the maximum out of them. For such a small watch, I have to say that it has everything you need, and everything that you maybe won’t.
It is smartphone compatible, which lets you digitally see the distance that you traveled on a GPS map, and heart-rate meter scale, that shows how your heart performed during the exercise.There is also a VO2 feature, that shows sums up the heart rate data for you and indicates your body ability to perform. The more you exercise and higher scores you get from the achieved goals, the more your VO2 improves, which means that your performance ability improves as well.
“When paired with your compatible smartphone, Forerunner 30 offers the convenience of basic smart notifications right on your wrist, so you can stay up to date with phone calls and text messages. Stay connected with family and friends while you run by letting them follow you in real time with LiveTrack.”– Garmin
You may be wondering how it detects your movements and classifies them? Well, the technology that is the answer to this question is called Move IQ, which entities periods of movement that match familiar exercising patterns such as biking, running, swimming, walking, or using an elliptical machine and tags them as “Events”.
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