I used to praise Garmin's Forerunner watch. I told everyone I knew how amazing it was and showed off the Garmin Connect app every chance I got. I purchased two Garmin Forerunners for my kids recently, but I will be returning them. I was planning on buying a Garmin weight scale to automatically enter my weights every day, but not anymore. Garmin has completely lost all my respect with this absolutely dreadful update to the home screen. I can't fathom how anyone at Garmin thought this interface was better than what we had before.
The previous version had COLOR and PERSONALITY. Things were easily readable at a glance, and it was easy to customize things how you like them. Things were in rows which were very easy to parse visually. Now these new widgets take up way more of the screen, which requires more scrolling. There's tons of wasted space, and overall it's just harder to read and use. I couldn't even figure out how to rearrange the widgets until I read a forum post that explained it.
I'm extremely disappointed and I will no longer be recommending Garmin fitness products unless this home screen overhaul is scrapped and we get the old version back.
