Instinct 2 Solar
This rugged, solar-charging GPS smartwatch is tough enough to keep up with you and unique enough to fit your style. Now it comes in two sizes to fit every wrist.
Features:
- Solar Power Charging:
- unlimited battery life in smartwatch mode
- power manager lets you extend battery life by controlling what settings and sensors draw power
- Water-rated to 100 metres and is thermal and shock resistant
- Fibre-reinforced polymer case and chemically strengthened, scratch-resistant Corning® Gorilla® Glass, this device is built to endure
- Multi-GNSS Support: Whether you’re hiking, mountain biking, trail running or skiing, you’ll have access to multiple global navigation satellite systems (GPS, GLONASS and Galileo) to track in more challenging environments than GPS alone
- ABC Sensors: Navigate your next trail with ABC sensors, including an altimeter for elevation data, barometer to monitor weather and 3-axis electronic compass
- TRACBACK® Routing: Take the guesswork out of your return journey by using this feature to navigate the same route back to your starting point
- Reference Point: Keep track of a known place — such as your car or the trailhead — relative to your location, and easily find your way back to it
- Smart Notifications: Receive emails, texts and alerts right on your watch when paired with your compatible smartphone
- Connect IQ™ Store: Download custom watch faces, add data fields, and get apps and widgets from the Connect IQ Store app on your compatible smartphone
- Garmin Pay™ Contactless Payments: Breeze through checkout lines and select transit systems with Garmin Pay contactless payments through participating providers
- Safety and Tracking Features: When your watch and phone are paired, your live location can be sent to your contacts manually or — during select outdoor activities — automatically with built-in Incident Detection
- Calendar View: Easily see your plans for the day with a dedicated calendar screen when paired with your compatible smartphone
- SYNC with the Garmin Connect™ App: See your health and fitness information all in one place. The Garmin Connect app on your compatible smartphone is a thriving online community where people on the go can connect, compete and share
- Built-in Sports Apps: Do whatever you love with preloaded activity profiles for running, cycling, swimming, strength training, indoor climbing, virtual running, golf, yoga and more
- HIIT Workouts: This activity profile tracks your HIIT workouts, including AMRAP, EMOM, Tabata and custom. Set the number of rounds, work/rest intervals and more
- VO2 Max: Train smarter with VO2 max, an indicator of how you can expect to perform. It even accounts for changes in performance that could be caused by heat or altitude
- Daily Workout Suggestions: View your entire week of daily suggested workouts, which adapt after every run or ride to match your performance and recovery as well as the races coming up in your Garmin Connect™ smartphone app calendar
- Recovery Time: After each workout, recovery time lets you know when you’ll be ready for another hard workout. It even accounts for training intensity and factors such as stress, daily activity and sleep
- Backcountry Skiing and Snowboarding: These activity profiles now automatically distinguish between descending and climbing. So you can hit start on your first run and leave your smartwatch tracking all day long
- MTB Dynamics: Track the details of every ride with mountain biking metrics plus specialised Grit™ and Flow™ measurements that rate trail difficulty and how smoothly you descend, giving you a score to beat next time
- Wrist-based Running Power: See how much power you’re applying to the trail or the road so you can manage your effort and fine-tune your training. No accessory required
- Wrist-based Heart Rate: Get estimated heart rate3 data along with alerts if your heart rate stays too high or too low while you’re at rest. Gauge how hard your heart is working during activities
- Stress Tracking: Heart rate variability is used to calculate your stress level score, so you can see if you’re having a calm, balanced or stressful day
- Sleep Score and Advanced Sleep Monitoring: Get a full breakdown of your light, deep and REM sleep stages. View it all on a dedicated widget that includes your sleep score and insights
- Body Battery™ Energy Monitoring: Optimise your body’s energy reserves, using heart rate variability, stress, sleep and other data to gauge when you’re ready to be active or when you may need to rest
- Pulse Ox: For altitude acclimation or sleep monitoring, a Pulse Ox sensor4 uses light beams at your wrist to estimate how well your body is absorbing oxygen
- Fitness Age: This feature uses chronological age, your weekly vigorous activity, resting heart rate and BMI to estimate if your body is younger or older than you are. Get tips to lower your fitness age
- Intensity Minutes: Track how many minutes of vigorous activity you’re getting, when you earn them and during which activity. You can even view them as a data field during timed activities
- Women’s Health Tracking: Use the Garmin Connect app to track your menstrual cycle or pregnancy. Log symptoms, get exercise and nutrition education, and more
- In the Box:
- Instinct® 2 Solar
- Charging/data cable
- Documentation
General:
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Lens Material |
Power Glass™ |
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Bezel Material |
Fibre-reinforced polymer |
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Case Material |
Fibre-reinforced polymer |
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QUICKFIT™ Watch Band Compatible |
Yes (22 mm) |
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Strap Material |
Silicone |
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Physical Size |
45 x 45 x 14.50 mm Fits wrists with a circumference of 135-230 mm |
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Weight |
53 g |
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10 ATM |
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Display Type |
Monochrome, sunlight-visible, transflective memory-in-pixel (MIP) |
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Display Size |
Custom, two-window design; 0.9″ x 0.9″ (23 x 23 mm) |
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Display Resolution |
176 x 176 pixels |
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Battery Life |
Smartwatch: Up to 28 days/Unlimited with solar* Battery Saver Watch Mode: Up to 65 days/Unlimited with solar*GPS: Up to 30 hours/48 hours with solar** Max Battery GPS Mode: Up to 70 hours/370 hours with solar** Expedition GPS Activity: Up to 32 days/Unlimited with solar* *Solar charging, assuming all-day wear with 3 hours per day outside in 50,000 lux conditions **Solar charging, assuming use in 50,000 lux conditions |
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Charging Method |
Garmin proprietary plug charger |
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Memory / History |
32 MB |
Clock Features:
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Time / Date |
Yes |
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GPS Time Sync |
Yes |
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Automatic Daylight Saving Time |
Yes |
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Alarm Clock |
Yes |
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Timer |
Yes |
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Stopwatch |
Yes |
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Sunrise / Sunset Times |
Yes |
Health Monitoring:
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WRIST-BASED HEART RATE (Constant, Every second) |
Yes |
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Yes |
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Yes (high and low) |
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RESPIRATION RATE (24x7) |
Yes |
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Yes |
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Yes |
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Yes |
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Yes |
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Yes |
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Breathwork |
Yes |
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Yes |
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Yes |
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Yes (in Garmin Connect™) |
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Yes (in Garmin Connect™) |
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Health snapshot |
Yes |
Sensors:
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GPS |
Yes |
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GLONASS |
Yes |
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GALILEO |
Yes |
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Garmin ELEVATE™ wrist heart rate monitor |
Yes |
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Pulse Ox blood oxygen saturation monitor |
Yes |
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Barometric Altimeter |
Yes |
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Compass |
Yes |
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Accelerometer |
Yes |
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Thermometer |
Yes |
Daily Smart Features:
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Connectivity |
Bluetooth®, ANT+® |
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Connect IQ™ (Downloadable watch faces, Data fields, Widgets and Apps) |
Yes |
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Smart notifications |
Yes |
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Text response / reject phone call with text (Android™ only) |
Yes |
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Calendar |
Yes |
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Weather |
Yes |
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Realtime settings sync with Garmin Connect™ Mobile |
Yes |
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Battery saver - Customisable low power watch |
Yes |
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Controls smartphone music |
Yes |
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Find My Phone |
Yes |
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Find My Watch |
Yes |
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VIRB® Camera Remote |
Yes |
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Yes |
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Compatible with Garmin Connect™ Mobile |
Yes |
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Smartphone compatibility |
iPhone®, Android™ |
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Garmin Pay™ |
Yes |
Safety and Tracking Features:
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Incident detection during selective activities |
Yes |
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Assistance |
Yes |
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Livetrack |
Yes |
Tactical Features:
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Dual grid coordinates |
Yes |
Activity Tracking Features:
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Step counter |
Yes |
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Move alerts (displays on device after a period of inactivity; walk for a couple of minutes to reset it) |
Yes |
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Auto goal (Learns your activity level and assigns a daily step goal) |
Yes |
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Yes |
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Floors climbed |
Yes |
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Distance travelled |
Yes |
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Yes |
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Trueup™ |
Yes |
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Move IQ™ |
Yes |
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Garmin Connect™ Challenges app |
Yes (optional Connect IQ app) |
Fitness Equipment / Gym:
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Available gym activity profiles |
Strength, Cardio and Elliptical Training, HIIT, Stair Stepping, Floor Climbing, Indoor Rowing, and Yoga |
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Cardio workouts |
Yes |
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Strength workouts |
Yes |
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HIIT workouts |
Yes |
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Yoga workouts |
Yes |
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Pilates workouts |
Yes |
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Automatic rep counting |
Yes |
Training, Planning and Analysis Features:
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Yes |
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Yes |
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Yes |
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Yes |
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Yes |
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Yes |
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Yes |
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Yes |
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HR BROADCAST (Broadcasts HR data over ANT+™ to paired devices) |
Yes (using ANT+) |
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Yes |
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GPS speed and distance |
Yes |
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Customisable screen(s) |
Yes |
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Customisable activity profiles |
Yes |
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Auto Pause® |
Yes |
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Interval training |
Yes |
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Advanced workouts |
Yes |
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Downloadable training plans |
Yes |
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Power Modes - Customisable in-activity battery settings |
Yes |
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HRM running pace and distance |
Yes |
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Auto Lap® |
Yes |
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Manual Lap |
Yes |
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Configurable lap alerts |
Yes |
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Yes |
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Yes |
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Yes |
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Yes |
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Yes |
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Yes |
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Yes |
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Primary benefit (training effect labels) |
Yes |
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Yes |
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Yes |
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Customisable alerts |
Yes |
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Audio prompts |
Yes |
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Finish time |
Yes |
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Virtual partner |
Yes |
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Race an activity |
Yes |
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Auto multi-sport activities |
Yes |
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Multi-sport |
Yes |
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Course guidance |
Yes |
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Touch and/or button lock |
Yes |
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Hot keys |
Yes |
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Auto scroll |
Yes |
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Activity history on watch |
Yes |
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Yes |
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Unified Training Status |
Yes |
Running Features:
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Available run profiles |
Running, treadmill running, indoor track running, trail running |
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GPS-based distance, time and pace |
Yes |
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Running dynamics |
Yes (with compatible accessory) |
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Vertical oscillation and ratio |
Yes (with compatible accessory) |
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Ground contact time and balance |
Yes (with compatible accessory) |
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Stride length (real time) |
Yes (with compatible accessory) |
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Cadence (provides real-time number of steps per minute) |
Yes |
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Running power |
Yes |
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Performance condition |
Yes |
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Lactate threshold |
Yes (with compatible accessory) |
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Run workouts |
Yes |
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Trail run auto climb |
Yes |
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Race predictor |
Yes |
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Foot pod capable |
Yes |
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Run/walk/stand detection |
Yes |
Golfing Features:
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Yardage to F/M/B (distance to front, middle and back of green) |
Yes |
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Yardage to layups/doglegs |
Yes |
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Measures shot distance (calculates exact yardage for shots from anywhere on course) |
Manual |
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Digital scorecard |
Yes |
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STAT tracking (strokes, putts per round, greens and fairways hit) |
Yes |
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Garmin Autoshot™ |
Yes |
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Auto Courseview updates |
Yes |
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Green view with manual pin position |
Yes |
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Hazards and course targets |
Yes |
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Round timer / odometer |
Yes |
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AUTOMATIC CLUB TRACKING COMPATIBLE (requires accessory) |
Yes |
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Pairs with Garmin Golf app |
Yes |
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Tournament legal |
Yes |
Outdoor Recreation:
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Available outdoor recreation profiles |
Hiking, Indoor Climbing, Bouldering, Climbing, Skiing, Snowboarding, Backcountry Snowboarding, XC Classic Skiing, Backcountry Skiing, Stand Up Paddleboarding, Rowing, Kayaking, Surfing, Hunting, Kiteboarding, Windsurfing, Snowshoeing, Fishing, Horseback Riding, Tennis, Tactical, Obstacle Course |
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Point-to-point navigation |
Yes |
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Breadcrumb trail in real time |
Yes |
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Back to start |
Yes |
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TRACBACK® |
Yes |
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ULTRATRAC mode |
Yes |
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Reference point |
Yes |
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Elevation profile |
Yes |
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Distance to destination |
Yes |
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Barometric trend indicator with storm alert |
Yes |
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Vertical speed |
Yes |
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Total ascent/decent |
Yes |
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Future elevation plot |
Yes |
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GPS coordinates |
Yes |
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Sight 'N Go |
Yes |
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Area calculation |
Yes |
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Projected waypoint |
Yes |
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Sun and moon information |
Yes |
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XERO™ locations |
Yes |
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Expedition GPS activities |
Yes |
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Tides |
Yes |
Cycling Features:
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Available cycling profiles |
Bike, Road Bike, MTB, Gravel Bike, Cyclocross, Bike Commute, Bike Tour, eBike, eMTB, Bike Indoor, Triathlon |
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Courses |
Yes |
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Bike lap and lap maximum power (with power sensor) |
Yes |
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Race an activity |
Yes |
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Alerts (triggers alarm when you reach goals including time, distance, heart rate or calories) |
Yes |
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FTP (Functional Threshold Power) |
Yes |
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MTB Grit & Flow |
Yes |
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Compatible with VECTOR™ and RALLY™ (power meters) |
Yes |
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Compatible with VARIA™ Radar (rear-facing radar) |
Yes |
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Compatible with VARIA™ Lights |
Yes |
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Speed and Cadence sensor support (w/ sensor) |
Yes |
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Power meter compatible |
Yes |
Swimming Features:
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Available Swim profiles |
Pool swimming, open water swimming |
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Open-water swim metrics (distance, pace, stroke count/rate, stroke distance, swim efficiency (SWOLF), calories) |
Yes |
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Pool swim metrics (lengths, distance, pace, stroke count, swim efficiency (SWOLF), calories) |
Yes |
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Stroke type detection (freestyle, backstroke, breaststroke, butterfly), (POOL SWIM ONLY) |
Yes |
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Drill logging (POOL SWIM ONLY) |
Yes |
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Basic rest timer (up from 0) (POOL SWIM ONLY) |
Yes |
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“Repeat On” rest timer (POOL SWIM ONLY) |
Yes |
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Auto rest (POOL SWIM ONLY) |
Yes |
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Time and distance alerts |
Yes |
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Countdown start |
Yes |
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Pool swim workouts |
Yes |
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Underwater wrist-based heart rate |
Yes |
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Heart rate from external HRM (real-time during rests, interval and session stats during rests, and automatic heart rate download post-swim) |
Yes |
Kid Activity Tracking Features:
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Toe-To-Toe™ Challenges app |
Yes (optional Connect IQ Toe-to-Toe™ Challenges app) |