I JUST purchased this watch, have had it maybe 2 weeks and the battery already drains within a day. The first week everything was fine, the charge held the entire time. I would top off the charge for a few minutes here and there. Monday my watch was fully charged, Tuesday morning the battery was at 10%. Charged it to 100%. Woke up for an am run on Wednesday and may watch is down to 20% already. I love this watch, I don't know what happened but I'm super disappointed that something so costly is already being defective.

Having had a couple of good Garmin watches in the past I decided to stick with the brand when my Forerunner 30 died. The 55 had good reviews so ordered one but was immediately annoyed to see a completely new power lead, this means throwing out two old Garmin charging cables, more plastic waste in the environment, thanks for that Garmin. Next annoyance is the display. Call me old fashioned but I just like a 24 hour clock with four digits the same size. It is impossible to get this. The choice is between unpleasant looking digital displays or utterly hideous attempts to make it look like an old fashioned watch. Ok, so does it at least work for running? Yeah, I guess but again why mess with the display? Just give me time, distance and pace please, but oh no, instead I have an arbitrary meaningless time counting down filling most of the screen. Didn't work this out until the second run when I realised it was suggesting I run 9.2 miles in 38 minutes. I'm an intermediate runner but even in my prime I couldn't run that distance in an hour! Maybe once I have downloaded the full manual I will be able to iron out some of these features but it's a pain that I have to. Just cannot work out why Garmin would mess about with all these standard features in such an irritating way. Might just do away with their watches in the future and just use my phone.

Although shipping took a long time, it was worth the wait. The battery on this bad boy lasts forever compared to the apple watch I have been using for a few years. I like having the body battery and other sleep metrics, too. The suggested workouts are fun, and I'm overall happy with this purchase. I look forward to testing its GPS capability more thoroughly by doing a midnight half marathon at night next month!

Ι bought the watch from an e-shop a few days ago. I followed the instructions to set it up and it seemed to be fine. When I used it for running, I noticed huge discrepancies in both the mileage and pace it recorded. I used it again at the same time as an exact same watch of an acquaintance of mine which was tested to work correctly and the readings had deviations of approximately five minutes per km (!!). I really don't understand what I have to do to fix this and I am really disappointed because I spend a lot of money and I don't have a watch whitch could help me to to complete my preparation for the Athens marathon.

I purchased the Forerunner to be paired with my Samsung Galaxy smartphone. The Forerunner is more compatible than any other watch/monitoring device I have yet tried. It syncs with my notifications and makes it really convenient to monitor my calls, texts and emails without having to get to my phone, especially when I am working out. I only wish you could control more from the Garmin Connect app on my phone such as when I am starting a workout. I get great feedback from the workout on the connect app, but can only start the workout from the Forerunner which is sometime hard to do when I am out running in the dark.

I have wanted to get a Garmin for a while now (former long distance runner) and while I no longer can run, I use my Garmin in everyday life to track my heart rate and manage my chronic illnesses. Hopefully one day I will be able to use the rest of the great features!

I got this watch and I was really excited about the features it had but there are really only running workouts. It is also very hard to connect to my phone and any time I do it just disconnects soon after. But as far as a watch goes, it tells the time

Been using it for about a month and a half now, daily use and mainly cycling for excercise. It has a long battery life and accurate GPS, and you can customize pretty much every screen on the watch to show the stats and data that you want. Highly recommend this watch for anyone looking to get a basic but highly functional fitness tracker/smartwatch.

Great Battery life, love the good balance of features for the price!

Traded in for the 265. Now we're rolling. 265 pairs nicely with Venu 3.