Garmin received FDA clearance for its electrocardiograph software for over the counter use this week. According to the filing, the application from Garmin was received last year during June and was approved this week by the FDA.
Garmin received FDA clearance for its electrocardiograph software for over the counter use this week. According to the filing, the application from Garmin was received last year during June and was approved this week by the FDA.
The real question its how useful will the feature be? IMVHO, lots of clamour for a feature that really has little to no utility.
ECG has no utility? It certainly does.
1 lead ECG has minimal utility, which means its ability to detect conditions is very limited, and due to the its nature its manual.
About the only real benefit is to monitor AFIB.
The question will be whether it will come for the watches that are already available,
for the new generation or whether there are even new playing fields for Garmin.
As you have to hold your finger against one of the buttons I suspect it will be future devices?
The real question its how useful will the feature be? IMVHO, lots of clamour for a feature that really has little to no utility.
Metal bezel or button (guard), both of which the Fenix 7 line provides. Definitely not on the Forerunner, since it's plastic.
Edit: wrong
you already have metal buttons on the fenix/epix and other models - so it could be implemented on next software.
+ we already saw an early version of it (removed by now) in the Venu 2 dev menu.
Edit: wrong
But the question is that the firmwares are worldwide and it's only approved by FDA.
So will it be implemented in Europe?