Garmin Forerunner 265 Full Smartwatch Specifications, Features and Price

Description

Garmin Forerunner 265 Specifications and Features – The Forerunner 265 is a lightweight multi-sport GPS smartwatch that’s well-equipped to track your daily activities and helps keep you connected to all that matters to you. It succeeds the Forerunner 255, and it comes with a more colorful display plus a long list of health tracking features. Unlike its predecessor, the Forerunner 265 has an AMOLED display as well as a higher 8GB for onboard music storage and boasts up to 13 days of battery life.

The Forerunner 265 is available in two sizes; 42 and 46mm sizes, these two have the same design, features and price but differ in display size and available colors. While the 42mm has a 1.1 inches display, the 46mm unit has a 1.3 inches display. Both have the same AMOLED display and are equipped with 5 physical buttons and a touch-sensitive screen that makes interaction very easy.

The Forerunner 265 is also sturdily built, the frame is the regular fibre-polymer material used for most Garmin watches while the straps come in silicone material and Corning Gorilla Glass 3 protects the display. The strap is swappable, while the 42mm supports an 18mm wide strap, the 46mm unit supports 22mm straps.

In terms of available colors, the 46mm unit is available in black, whitestone and aqua colors.

In the media section, the Forerunner 265 is equipped with an 8GB storage capacity that will allow you to load your personal music onto the watch. You can also download music from supported music streaming services such as Amazon Music, Spotify and Deezer.

The Forerunner 265 will also enable you to manage notifications effortlessly. When notifications are enabled for select apps, the watch will alert you when there is a new message. Moreover, you also have the option to reply to messages (android-only).

And when it comes to tracking all the way you move, the Forerunner 265 is also heavily equipped in that regard. First, it joins the growing list of smartwatches that utilize multi-band GPS to improve location tracking. The Forerunner 265 can also track your steps, calories, stress, blood oxygen, skin temperature, sleep and heart rate. Moreover, it features a long list of sports modes.

Beyond the awesome design and loads of health-tracking features, the Forerunner 265 has a long battery life that lets you go for days from a single charge. The 46mm unit has up to 13 days of battery life while the 42mm unit has up to 2 weeks of battery life.

Garmin Forerunner 265 Features

• It has a 1.3 inches transflective memory-in-pixel (MIP) display that is bright and easy to read outdoors.
• Clock features include time/date, GPS time sync, auto daylight saving, alarm, timer and stopwatch.
• You can download watch faces, widgets, data fields and apps from the Garmin Connect IQ Store.
• Keeps you connected to all that matters to you so you never get to miss important updates. The watch will alert you every time you receive a message, and you have the option to reply with preset texts (Android only).
• Features Find my phone, Find my watch, and remote music control music apps.
• The Forerunner 265 is rated 5ATM (swim-proof), and it’s safe to wear to the pool or the shower.
• It has a 22mm interchangeable strap with a quick-release feature.
• The Forerunner 265 will work with phones running on Android 7.0+ or iOS 15.0+ devices.

d data from your watch to the Garmin Connect community – a thriving community of fitness enthusiasts where you can connect and share.

• Equipped with 8GB onboard music storage capacity with support for streaming platforms such as Spotify, Amazon Music and Deezer.
• Garmin Connect app is onboard the Forerunner 265 which will allow you to easily download apps to the watch directly from your wrist.
• Forerunner 265 also boasts a long battery life of up to 13 days.

Garmin Forerunner 265 Activity Tracking Features

• Health monitoring features

Health monitoring features include heart rate monitoring with abnormal heart rate alerts. There is a body battery energy monitor that gives you insight into your fitness level to help you know the best time to train. You also get fitness age which estimates how fit you are compared to your age, while Pulse Ox. monitors blood oxygen saturation levels to support advanced sleep monitoring and altitude acclimation. Other health-tracking features include sleep tracking, menstrual cycle tracking for women, hydration tracking, sleep coaching, nap detection, relaxation reminders, meditation, stress monitoring, and sedentary reminders.

Also available is the Health Snapshot feature that will allow you to record key stats, including heart rate, heart rate variability, Pulse Ox, respiration, and stress. You can then generate a report with those stats via the Garmin Connect app on your compatible smartphone to share.

• Activity profiles

Activity profiles include gym activity profiles such as strength, HIIT, cardio, elliptical training, stair stepping, floor climbing and indoor rowing. Other spot profiles include triathlon, walking, Pilate, yoga, treadmill running and many more.

• Safety and tracking features

Safety and tracking features include incidental fall detection, Assistance, Live event sharing and LiveTrack.

• Activity tracking features

Activity tracking features include step counting, push tracker, sleep monitoring, calories burned, floors climbed, distance travelled, intensity minutes, TRUEUP and MOVE IQ.

• Gym and fitness equipment

Gym and fitness equipment include onscreen workout muscle maps, cardio workouts, yoga workouts, strength workouts, HIIT workouts, pilates workouts, and automatic rep counting. Also features on-screen workout muscle maps – a detailed activity profile that shows what muscle groups you worked.

• Heart rate tracking features

Heart rate tracking features include HR zones, HR alerts, recovery time, HR calories, % HR max, and HR broadcast data to the paired device. Also features respiration rate during exercise.

• Training, planning, and analysis features

Training, planning, and analysis features include interval training, customizable activity profiles, advanced workouts, VO2 max, GPS speed and distance, auto lap, and manual lap, Physio Trueup and shows activity history on watch.

• Running features

Running features include GPS-based distance, time and pace, cadence (provides real-time steps per minute), run workouts and foot pod capable. Available run profiles include running, indoor track running, and treadmill running.

• Golfing features

Golfing features include yardage to layups, measures shot distance, and stat tracking. Others include Garmin auto shot, pinpointer, hazards and course targets, digital scorecard, and round timer.

• Outdoor recreational features

Outdoor recreational features include back to start, area calculation, sun and moon information and fish forecast.

• Cycling features

Cycling features include alerts that trigger alarms when you reach goals including time, distance, heart rate or calories. Also compatible with Varia Lights and Varia radar.

• Swim tracking features

Swim tracking features include Pool swim metrics which include lengths, distance, pace, stroke count, swim efficiency (SWOLF), and calories. Also tracks open water swim metrics like lengths, distance, pace, stroke count, SWOLF and calories. Stroke type detection includes freestyle, backstroke, breaststroke, and butterfly (pool swim only). Other features include a basic rest timer (up from 0) (pool swim only), auto rest (pool swim only), time and distance alerts and underwater heart rate tracking. Available swim profiles include pool swimming and open water swimming.

Pros

• Lightweight and sturdily built.
• A comprehensive multisport GPS smartwatch.
• Up to 6GB available for onboard music storage.
• Up to 13 days long battery life.

Cons

• Lacks microphone and loudspeaker.

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