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945 first week thoughts

After my first week with the 945, I’m appreciating a lot of little improvements over the 935.

-GPS has been flawless. Very impressive tracks!

-I love the improved calendar function. Being able to see planned workouts and start them straight from the calendar is awesome.

-Really like the ability to opt for call and text notifications, call only, or everything.

-Body battery is cool. Wish it could show on a watch face.

Overall, very very pleased and happy with the upgrade!

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0 jmto over 5 years ago in reply to Chris.J.Hart

Well, here: https://forums.garmin.com/sports-fitness/running-multisport/f/forerunner-945/163517/gps-accuracy/893850#893850

800m more to me is pretty bad!

0 jmto over 5 years ago in reply to R_Tellis

Have you compared it?

I did put my old watch with the new one and went running. 945 got 800m more on the first 40k.

forums.garmin.com/.../893850

0 jmto over 5 years ago

First thoughts now after couple of weeks:

- GPS sucks. https://forums.garmin.com/sports-fitness/running-multisport/f/forerunner-945/163517/gps-accuracy/893850#893850

- Battery life in activities seems same, but in 24/7 smart watch usage without pulse ox, maybe a little bit worse..

- Buttons :( I think I'll need to exchange this, but I'm not in a rush they work but not like they should.

- Maps, great! Did return to start with route and wow! it navigated and then I didn't want to take that, it renavigated the route I wanted and had really nice instructions for turns.. It would be great if it would have those also on old courses that matches some known route close enough.

- Garmin Pay, my banks don't support :(

- Music, nature is my music.

- New Firstbeat stuff <3

- OHR, I just use 24/7 to see resting, so seems to work.

So very mixed feelings. Buttons can be fixed by exchanging the unit, but the GPS accuracy makes me sad and as it's really primary feature of the watch I'm not liking it at all.

0 Levon over 5 years ago in reply to jmto

Yeah, so far I'm not impressed by the GPS either (can't say that it's noticably better than my 230 in terms of accuracy or speed of locking in). My buttons work, but they don't feel great/consistent - I definitely have to visually confirm everything is actually happening).

0 tx911 over 5 years ago in reply to tx911

Actually this seems fixed in 2.50

0 LifebreathDJ over 5 years ago in reply to williw1515

Did you try it out? I wonder how the battery is doing now.