Garmin FINALLY releases a forerunner LTE

My wife dropped big bucks on the latest Apple Watch for her Berlin build-up and it's already replaced by her old Garmin 245 for running. Still wears the Apple daily, but she says it sucks for running.

Thanks. I could see how this might be quite useful to marathoners wanting updates from their coaches during a race. (That might be considered unfair assistance, although coaches are allowed to coach their athlete verbally from the sidelines.)

How rapidly will the athlete get an audio message from someone; how long from the time the message is sent to the time it goes through the ear-buds?

If it is a short turnaround time, maybe this would even make sense for coaches providing in-ear callouts of splits at the track during a workout.

Not sure if this is for me. Do you know if it will have options for bands that I can change to match whichever color of fanny pack that i choose to wear for my daily jog?

Another self righteous minimalist. Keep quietly showing off your Timex in attempt to earn moral currency by being outeardly meek and humble.

I bought this watch for a few reasons:

1. I like to do out and back long runs alone on dirt roads in the mountains and want to be able to send an alert to my wife that either I'm hurt and am far from my car or that I'm being followed by a cougar.

2. I have a 935 and want the garmin track workout features

3. My wife can use the lte watch when she does her long runs and I'll be able to make sure she's ok.

Such a walkie-talkie could be useful to coaches giving verbal play-by-play assistance to their athlete during a race on the track.

Eyes in the back of their head.

So is it actually sending an audio recording of the voice of the person sending the message? Or is it a digital robotic text to speech conversion?

Jack Daniels Calculator wrote:

Thanks. I could see how this might be quite useful to marathoners wanting updates from their coaches during a race. (That might be considered unfair assistance, although coaches are allowed to coach their athlete verbally from the sidelines.)

How rapidly will the athlete get an audio message from someone; how long from the time the message is sent to the time it goes through the ear-buds?

I’m not somebody who’s had any advance access to the one these so I don’t have any direct experience so I can’t say. But DCR’s write up makes it sound like it’s pretty quick.

Do they use email to contact?

You can’t send two way messages, big fail. It’s only good to allow others track you, allow them to send you messages, and send for emergency help. No “I’m lost or I’m running late “ messaging ability to loved ones. Stupid garmin dropped the ball. And the lte features are 6$ a month.

They should just allow messaging through garmin app as apparently Apple won’t allows third parties to text message

It's an amazing option for those who don't need to carry their phones on the run, and watches are also an amazing tool to keep the track of time and distance you run. However, I still need my phone with me when I run because most of the time I have to answer business calls and make some myself through https://www.mightycall.com/blog/google-voice-for-business-pros-cons/, so I cannot run without my phone. I just fix it on my arm.

Why not just run with an apple airtag, and make sure you are in a somewhat populated area? $25