A Look At Garmin’s $450 Running Watch: The Forerunner 920XT

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Garmin is and American Manufacturer of technological goods that specializes in producing global positioning systems. While they got their start making GPS’s the company has diversified its product line and has gotten into wearable technology. The company produces a wide variety of wearable technology, all of which are marketed for athletes and people with active lifestyles. They produce some watches that are just a little north of $100 dollars, however their Forerunner 920XT is their most expensive, and most feature rich running watch at $450 dollars.

The first thing you notice about Garmin’s Forerunner 920XT is the large touch screen. The screen is used to display a variety of information such as the time, date, distance traveled, steps, lap time, and much more. The watch is also a dual sport watch and can be used for swimmers and divers, as is waterproof and can be taken to depths of 164 feet. The watch has a step counter, a heartbeat monitor, a monitor to track your sleep cycles, a barometric altimeter, and many other monitors. This watch is perfect for the athlete or fitness enthusiast who wants to tackle it all. The watch can count your steps per minute, your track times, and even how far you ran in a month.

Additionally this watch can pair with Garmin Connect with is their social media and application that can help you monitor your activity, track your progress, plan new running routes, and much more. The watch also has a built in personal trainer mode to help you accomplish your training goals. The watch also has some pretty impressive battery features, considering how a lot of watches of this nature consume high amounts of energy. When using the phone in UltraTrac, mode which utilizes all the watches features, you can get 40 hours of battery life. If you just use the watch in the standard mode you can get four months of battery, mind you it’ll just be a normal watch. While Garmin makes watches that are less money, the Forerunner 920XT is pretty great; they’re is not really anything like it.

Photo from Garmin.com

Written by Sebastian Hensiek

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