Firmware Update 11.12

Regarding selecting a location on map with touch, this is working as design and it’s a limitation of passive single touch (opposed to multi-touch) screen. The touch screen is fully working and is sufficient for a sport watch.

I think that a lot of customers don’t understand forerunner market segment. I personally don’t see garmin forerunner as a sport watch, a step above apple. Garmin Forerunner  is extreme sport in a certain way. When you see where the money was invested in the 245/945 —> 255/955 gps and training metric.

We are not getting better screen, resolution, audio, processing, graphic and all this useless stuff.

We have better gps and better training metric. The forerunner 955 is made for people like me who run between 40k to 100k per week, who look at their watch in the morning and using training readiness decide if they go for 10 or 20, use heat and altitude acclimation during training camp in kenya. This is what Garmin Forerunner 955 was made for.

For reference, I use to be consultant in the Point-of-Sale industry. An elo touchscreen was 1000$ but the capacitive multi-touch version was 1200$. I’m happy they went with a basic touch screen instead of increasing the price of the watch. A better touchscreen, aptx audio codec, better cpu for navigation, audio codec and more responsive touchscreen using multi-touch would have decrease the battery life and strongly increase the price of the watch.

Ah, it's designed to show the crosshairs once after a reboot and then crashing the watch when selecting something? And not show any option to select anything after a while?  (Something the FR945 could do fine, the fenix lines do fine, etc).

It's designed to trigger the menu when you want to pan around the map? 

Sure...

The main difference between the 255 and 955 is the touchscreen and maps, if you only want to use it to run so many k a week you can buy the FR255. Most (and so did I) buy the 955 for maps and touch. Oh, and for the better resolution, screen and processing. No clue how you can call that 'useless stuff'.

The simple fact is Garmin released a very buggy watch, that it works well enough for some is fine but that doesn't mean Garmin 'intended it that way' and hell, if Garmin indeed intended it that way it might actually by my last Garmin.

And btw, where is this multitouch coming from. Zooming works by double tapping, not pinching. Selecting a location on the maps works (well, it should anyway) by long pressing. One touch. The same screen is most likely used in all fenix and forerunner touch watches, no reason at all why functionality would be so different.

coming from a 245, the 955 has a marginally better screen. Nothing crazy here. Cpu processing is the same as the 255, i’m not expecting anything better. My 245 wasn’t really slower than my 955.

If you look at garmin website, it’s branded as a premium running watch. The most advertised features are all running related. And let’s be honest who look at a map when running?

The sole reason I bought the 955 was training stamina and readiness, because it’s a game changer and change the way I train and perform on race day.

7413611 said:

And let’s be honest who look at a map when running?

I look at the map when I run ultramarathon in the mountains, like many other runners ;-)

Well, my 945 was really slower then the 955... The slightly bigger screen and higher resolution on the 955 makes things more readable and allows me to have more data in the screen.

Good for you that you don't use or need maps, I and plenty of others DO use them. For trails, large hikes, random courses.

Oh, and when I look at the FR955 page one of the first things mentioned are:

"Swipe through stats and maps with a new, responsive touchscreen."

"Confidently run any route using full-color, built-in maps and multi-band GPS."

I’m sorry if I gave you a trolls vibe , this wasn’t the intention. I’m just appalled at the average garmin user I see in running club, reddit and even here.

-Most of them don’t even properly configured their watch (max hr, weight and hr zone)

-Barely use any of the firstbeat metric

-Always complain that training load is broken when it isnt because they simply run too fast too much. 

You paid 500$+ for a watch, read the manual. But user will always remain user. Ive learn this in IT. if one feature doesn’t work, nothing work

My training load is broken. It shows i’m undertraining. (No saved activities before i bought the watch. After buying i have had 1 day of rest and rest of the days i have been running. Watch bought june 18)

If average Garmin user is happy how is that related to the things people have said here what are broken and not working for them?