Garmin Forerunner 955, Non-Solar, SEA, Black

I purchased Forerunner 955 after going through a lot of research. I wanted to upgrade from my Forerunner 245 Music which i was using it for more than 3 years. It was good and had a descent battery life but not good enough and often requires charging every 3-4 days. My requirement was to go for a watch with all the possible running dynamics and data and also with a long battery life and after 5 days of usage and 40+ km runs it still shows 40% battery. I am yet to charge it and I received the product with a battery charge of 74% !! So this can be easily used for Ultra runs which is a huge plus. I had also considered Forerunner 265 but other than display it had nothing extra to offer and the battery is also not that strong due to the high resolution display. In Amazon the difference is just around 3k for both these models but the running specific features provided by 955 is huge. I would highly recommend this product if you are serious into running.

Very Nice watch. Very Light in weight. A one stop watch in a nice budget. Fulfills purposes of every type of sports enthusiast.

The media could not be loaded.  Pro1. Crazy battery life! Coming from an Apple Watch, the fact that I can continue to wear this for days, means I am at ease to use this watch without worrying about holding a charge2. Accuracy of the activity is spot on3. Integration with sensors like HR, power meter, cadence/ speed sensor is so convenient for anyone into sport activities. Apple’s connectivity is not so great for non-Apple products4. You can gamify your health improvement plans, with features like body health, training readiness.5. Tracking of HRV as a metric to check your cardio health during a training season is good for endurance athletes. Apple Watch doesn’t show that every easily, or I couldn’t find it as simple as in Garmin WatchCons - None at the moment. May revisit a few months laterThings to be aware of:1. You can’t use this watch a direct replacement for Apple Watch, if you want to be able to reply to messages, etc etc2. Screen isn’t AMOLED. It’s quite basic looking, but good to read in the sun3. Watch faces aren’t the best, but you can customise to make them simple4. You will lose your Apple activity streaks, once you replace your Apple Watch with this. I ended up losing my 500 day streak. So integration with Apple activities is meh5. You have to be into endurance sports to get this watch. Else you will not like it at all! It’s not a smartwatch with activity tracking, but it’s a sport activity watch, with smart watch capabilities. Huge difference!6. Solar charging is a supplement to charge, not a replacement. You can save some money with non solar version if you are average user of any sporting related devices.More updates once I test it out in an event.

My watch is approx 1 month old. The battery dies in less than 2 days, while all battery draining features have been disabled by me.Also the solar charging doesn't work at all, not even 1%

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Second buy

Not happy with the battery life and charger cord not working within 45 days of purchase.

Purchased this watch to monitor my health stats and performance stats for running, the different functions were very insightful and useful for me too.