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Garmin Forerunner 945 Tri Bundle


  • Wrist-based heart rate technology
  • Easily store and play up to 1,000 songs on your watch
  • Sync your playlists from selected music streaming services )
  • Garmin Pay™ contactless payment solution
  • Onboard color maps feature Trendline™ popularity routing
  • Assistance (built-in tracking/safety feature) lets you send your real-time location to emergency contacts through a paired compatible smartphone
  • Incident Detection alerts your emergency contacts automatically in the event of certain incidents Advanced running dynamics

KSh 111,000.00

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DESIGN AND SCREEN

Garmin has started exploring more fashionably-aware sports watches, particularly with its most recent smartwatch, but the 945 sticks to a more Garmin-traditional, rugged design. It only comes in one case size (47 x 47 x 13.7mm) and two colors (black with a black strap, or black with a blue strap).

It’s certainly not as huge as the Fenix 6X, but it’s still… a little hulking, large and likely to alienate a lot of the female market. Patek Philippe probably wasn’t consulted on this one, but it’s perfectly functional for its duties.

You’ve got five buttons around the screen, three on the left and two on the right, all necessary for navigating the UI and each giving a satisfying click. There’s no touchscreen here, and having spent too much time dragging sweaty fingers across them on other watches, we’re fine with Garmin’s decision to ditch the touchscreen altogether. Sometimes, buttons are just better.

Garmin uses a transflective display technology for that 1.2-inch screen, which has the effect of making it more visible in sunlight. There’s a backlight too, which can be turned on with a push of the top-left button, or automatically with a turn of the wrist, though by default that’s only set for workouts (where it’s handy for those evening runs and pool sessions).

The 945 comes with a silicone band which fastens securely but can be annoying to take off and put on. When it’s on, however, it’s not going anywhere.

The heart rate monitor on the underside of the watch protrudes ever so slightly to give it better contact with the skin.

And at 50g the Forerunner 945 is light enough, and overall not uncomfortable to wear. There’s sleep tracking on offer, so you could wear it to bed, but while we’re used to wearing watches when we sleep, we find the 945 a little too big.

The upside of the uninspiring rugged design is that this watch feels capable of withstanding anything you throw at it. It’s water rated to 5ATM, and we’ve taken it swimming multiple times and had no issues.

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