Beautiful outside, powerful inside
We’re talking important life-altering and potentially even life-saving stuff like blood oxygen monitoring, heart rate variability, VO2 Max tracking, Running Dynamics technology, and even nap detection adding to your everyday (or rather every-night) sleep monitoring functionality.
Granted, there’s no word on cutting-edge ECG technology integration or optional 4G LTE support, but all the tools listed above and others like a barometric altimeter and of course standalone GPS connectivity should be enough to justify a purchase for many cash-strapped outdoor fans, adventurers, and general fitness fanatics.
The best quality/price ratio on the market?
The AMOLED display is expected to sit smack-dab between the 1.1 and 1.3-inch touchscreens on the Forerunner 265S and Forerunner 265 respectively with a fairly generous 1.2-inch diagonal of its own and more than respectable 390 x 390 pixel resolution, the five physical buttons on the two sides of the upcoming smartwatch look decidedly familiar, and the bezel thickness is not bad either.
The Garmin Forerunner 165 is further tipped to measure 11.6mm in overall thickness, which would actually make it slimmer than its two aforementioned pricier cousins, causing in turn a slight downgrade in battery life to “just” 11 days.
