If you were ever in the market for a health-conscious wrist watch, you might have seen that Garmin’s range of options for you is pretty wide – you have 10 different sports or health oriented watches, and they’re adding one more to that line with the Garmin Forerunner 25. This new running watch slots neatly into the more budget-friendly part of Garmin’s products.
The Forerunner 25 will pretty much do everything you expect out of a running watch. The watch will use its onboard GPS sensor to track the distance you ran, measure how fast (or slow) your pace is, count your steps, and then use that data to estimate how much many calories you burned today on your run. Answer to that last one is always “not enough”. Keep running, dude.
The watch is able to pair with your Android phone through Bluetooth, and it can transfer all your run data to the Garmin app installed on your phone. The watch is at least smart enough to show you basic notifications from your phone on its small screen. The one thing it does not have that its more expensive brothers have is a heart monitor, but if you add an extra USD$30, you can get your Forerunner 25 bundled with a strap-on heart-rate monitor.
The watch has 10 hours of battery life with its GPS sensor on, and 10 weeks in watch/activity tracking mode. The Garmin Forerunner 25 will start shipping sometime in Q3 and will retail for USD$170.
SOURCE: Garmin
