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I'm not sure what all the complaints are on here about gesture not working and HR issues?  I have the 965, which I had upgraded to from 955 solar and the gesture works perfectly fine for me.  I use AOD for my workouts only.  I'm an avid marathon runner and currently doing about 55-60 miles a week and the backlight lights up during my running every time I flick my wrist to check my paces, whether be it on easy runs or VO2max intervals.  Also, I've had no issues with HR or the HRV not working correctly?  The 965 is an absolutely great watch.

flocsy🤠 said:

So 955 is the winner

Well, Actually the 255 could be the winner.

It has about the same features (even slightly more), updated hardware (not really needed compared to a 935, but nice to have) and is a lot cheaper.

I was on a trailrun yesterday with 5 other people. The maps on my 965 didn't add anything compared to the breadcrumb navigation of other watches. (but that's where I use navigation, so this might be different for other people's usage) and I'm not into data collecting. I'm an experience runner, most things I can figure out myself (like training load, training schemas, recovery, and how much sleep I need)

It is a long time I had a device that could only do breadcrumbs (probably a FR 201) but I remember that in some terrain it can get very confusing. For example two paths running almost parallel one going up the other going down. With a route on a map it is easy to see which one you need. Or going along a small stream, the breadcrumb takes a small bridge but you miss it and only lot further you notice you should have crossed. Way easier on a map.

Yes, that's a good device too. My reason for going for 965 over 255 was that I wanted to have the barometer, 'cause I'm doing floors. But the other reason the OP might not like it, is because he mentioned screen size somewhere.

Is your barometer & thus altitude change ie floors at all accurate? Mine is all over the place, I set pressure and correct altitude multiple times a day bit it'll drift 100s of ft up and down while just sitting. Taking it off stabilised it if incorrect, then simply picking it up it will change up or down a ft or so a second for a few minutes. Another calibration and it's ok for a few mins before shooting up or down over a few minutes

I don't have problems with it. The calibration of elevation can go off during the day, when it's on auto, but when you start a floor climbing activity or just walk up a few floors it's ok for my purpose (counting the floors), because it doesn't depend on the correctness of the elevation, but on the quick change of elevation.

I don’t notice any barometer/altitude issues with my 965

my thoughts are another popular brand's flag ship watch for running has the ecg monitor etc which the 965 does not have but the other flag ship models in the garmin range has the new heart rate sensor 5 therefore if garmin are wanting to stay with the other popular brands on the high end market they will need to put that in and release a new forerunner model with the version 5 sensor  

just my thoughts and hopes therefore ill not spend £599 just now and see what happens. had the 965 just been released i would have bought it in a heart beat but a year old watch in the tech world is old 

so basically you knew all this also 3 days ago when you asked the question...