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245 vs 245M question

Superkg
over 6 years ago
Besides the music are there any other differences between the 2? Thought I read somewhere that the M model had something in addition to music on the M model.
  • 0 over 6 years ago
    Thanks but was hoping not to have to open both pages and go through everything line by line. (that's a boat load of features to go though). From what I can see the only difference is that the M has WI-FI and music.
  • Former Member
    0 Former Member over 6 years ago
    Music and wifi for music is the only difference in the models, oh the colour options also
    • White – Music only
    • Black – Music only
    • Aqua – Music only
    • Slate grey – Non-music
    • Berry – Non-music
  • 0 over 6 years ago
    philipshambrook commented
    Yesterday, 10:12 PM
    So you expect someone else to do the work for you...

    Um..... Ya.. You do realize Garmin support monitors these forums and has been answering questions on the other new products? I guess I could have copied both pages to Word documents and ran a compare on them to find the differences? These aren't cheap products and you wouldn't buy a car without asking questions from the salesman. And no, its really not that critical for me to call or chat with them. I'm sure you expected this reply and is my last post on this. Cheers.

  • Former Member
    0 Former Member over 6 years ago
    was hoping not to have to open both pages and go through everything line by line. (that's a boat load of features to go though).

    On Garmin's website, when you compare 2 watches (or more), you can choose to show only the differences between them... (at least you can do it on garmin.fr)

  • 0 over 6 years ago

    It seems that the music versions are supported longer/better than the non-music-versions:

    The Vivoactive 3 Music got some new features added (safety and tracking features) with the last update that the Vivoactive 3 hasn't gotten yet and there is no sign that they will be added.

    The FR 645 M recently got a (small) firmware update while the normal FR 645 users are still waiting for it. It will come at some point, but Garmin themselves note on the firmware page that obviously people are frustrated.

    Garmin tends to support bestselling devices and more expensive devices first, so it might be a good idea to choose the FR 245 M for better support.

  • 0 over 6 years ago

    Well, this doesn't show up on any spec sheet and won't interest the majority of users, but the 245 Music has more memory for CIQ apps compared to the 245. This is significant especially for CIQ data fields, which are pretty memory-limited -- in this case the 245 Music has twice the available memory as the 245, for an individual CIQ data field.

    IOW, apps on the 245 Music can theoretically have more features than apps on the 245....

  • 0 over 6 years ago

    With CIQ 3.1 a new Bluetooth Low Energy framework will be added. Due to hardware limitations this might only be possible for the music version of the watch: https://www.garmin.com/en-US/blog/developer/connect-iq-3-1-beta-now-available/

  • 0 over 6 years ago in reply to jome90

    Interesting: „This SDK adds support for the MARQ as well as an upcoming wearable and Edge device.“

  • 0 over 6 years ago in reply to runner-33

    3.1.0 is in beta.  The actual public version of the SDK - 3.0.11 - has support for the Marq, 245,945, edge 530 and edge 830 already.  the "Upcoming" devices will be called by their real names in the next 3.1.0 SDK