Garmin has been at this running-watch thing for some time. Most as of late, the Forerunner 10 was the organization's best endeavor at a straightforward, simple to-peruse watch, yet, for all that, it still wasn't as easy to use as it should have been. Enter the Forerunner 220. It's the 10's more youthful, more intelligent, better-looking, more advanced sibling, and its well worth some wrist space.
It's a GPS - empowered running watch with a perfect, color screen. It can work outside or inside on a treadmill, because of the inherent accelerometer. It can likewise match with your telephone and/or heart rate screen (through Bluetooth and/or Ant+). Once more, its a watch made particularly for running, so in the event that you don't run you can essentially quit perusing right here.
Running watches have long been striving to be 1) Better-looking, 2) Easier to peruse, and 3) Simpler to utilize. The Forerunner 220 makes incredible strides to these objectives, yet it doesn't hold back on influential gimmicks, for example, profound coordination with preparing plans and following your rhythm.
Outline
Not to be shallow, however simply take a gander at that purty face! The Forerunner 220 (and its enormous sibling the 620) are the first GPS watches with color screens. Garmin's one-inch Chroma show which draws almost no force is to a great degree simple to peruse in expansive sunlight. No, the screen isn't as sharp as the Galaxy Gear, however that uses an entire distinctive presentation innovation, and it will just get you a couple of days on a charge. The 220 will keep going for weeks in stand-by mode (i.e. with GPS off), and its gorgeous enough to be your regular watch.
Not to be shallow, however simply take a gander at that purty face! The Forerunner 220 (and its enormous sibling the 620) are the first GPS watches with color screens. Garmin's one-inch Chroma show which draws almost no force is to a great degree simple to peruse in expansive sunlight. No, the screen isn't as sharp as the Galaxy Gear, however that uses an entire distinctive presentation innovation, and it will just get you a couple of days on a charge. The 220 will keep going for weeks in stand-by mode (i.e. with GPS off), and its gorgeous enough to be your regular watch.
On the left half of the watch are three catches. The top flips the backdrop illumination on and off. Underneath it are here and there catches for scrolling through menus. On the upper right half of the watch is the Run catch, which fundamentally opens the telephone, chooses menu things, and dispatches you into your run. Beneath it is a back catch. The uplifting news is that this consolidation of catches makes this watch the most effortless to explore of any Garmin watch that I've ever utilized.
On the once again of the watch is a line of four little, metal spots, which is the place the 220 interfaces with Garmin's exclusive (and marginally clumsy) charging link. Yes, we truly wish they'd simply move to micro USB, yet this is likely how they keep the watch waterproof to 50 meters. Other than that, the back is level and very smooth. The elastic band it accompanies is thick enough to keep the watch consistent, however it isn't unattractive, and its pleasantly vented all through.
Utilizing It
In the event that you simply need to try for a plain old run, essentially hit the Run catch three times, and you're off. Super straight-advance. Satellite securing is exceptionally quick indeed, its speedier than any GPS watch I've ever tried quite recently a couple of seconds more often than not. Once you're running you can stop, continue, and span through two separate screens of information. Don't see the detail you're searching for? Essentially go into the settings and choose where you need it to go. For instance, your running rhythm doesn't show as a matter of course, yet its something I think a ton about, so I balanced my second information screen so it would show as I go.
Truth be told, when you swoop down into the settings, there are a huge amount of choices available to you. You can empower auto-stop, so when you're ceased at in crossing point your clock will stop until you continue (however this isn't as vital for something that is on your wrist and effectively open). You can combine with diverse heart rate screens. You can even change the subject color, in the event that you so covet.
Where the 220 truly begins to exceed expectations, however, is concerning preparing. The watch is pleasantly situated up for interim preparing. You can set the time or separation for every interim, the measure of rest in the middle of, and what number of reps you need to do all from the watch itself. Once more, the natural catch format truly serves to make this procedure simple. In any case in the event that you need to get more progressive, you can sign in at Garmin's site, and make a definite preparing arrangement, including particular activity schedules, and even a schedule gimmick to help you get primed for an enormous race. The majority of this information can then be exchanged to the watch, so its not difficult to select the endorsed workout for the day, or simply lift an interim routine you set up ahead of time. Not just does the watch beep distinctive tones to tell you what to do, yet the watch has a vibrating engine, so regardless of the fact that you have earphones on, you'll likely feel the buzz when now is the right time for your next interim.
Discussing the application, in light of the fact that the watch has Bluetooth, you can combine it with your telephone to transfer your workouts to your Garmin account instantly without expecting to stress over connecting the watch to your machine. What's more, on the off chance that you keep your telephone on you while you run, you can even let chose companions track you throughout your run. There has been a great deal of outrage from Android clients, on the grounds that the watch presently just works with ios, however uplifting news: Tomorrow, Garmin will be discharging an overhauled Android application which will consider blending, as long as your telephone helps BLE (Bluetooth 4.0's low power convention). The watch additionally knows your individual best times, and will overhaul you when you've broken one of your own records (speediest mile, quickest 5k, and so forth).
When everything is synchronized, you can see your runs in incredible detail either in the telephone application or on the site. There are helpful diagrams and arrangements of details that blanket the essential stuff and are straightforward. In case you're telephone free, you can even view a decent lot of details on the watch itself, however you won't be getting any pretty diagrams, and so forth. In the event that you like to track your goes through an alternate framework, for example, Endomondo, its simple enough to fare your information over to it, however a few things can get a bit wonky. For instance, rhythm in Garmin's framework logs each footfall, yet Endomondo cuts that number fifty-fifty, so it numbers each two steps. Not such a major ordeal.
The screen is amazingly simple to peruse. I'm not certain that the colors truly help that much, yet its a decent impact in any event. The backdrop illumination is flawlessly actually, making it simple to peruse during the evening. The profound mix with the customized schedules is extremely decent. The vibrating engine makes interim running way simpler, particularly on the off chance that you get a kick out of the chance to listen to music as you run. Having the capacity to match up with your telephone to stay away from wires however much as could be expected is extremely decent. The watch will provide for you an exceptionally robust 10 hours of GPS-following/running time before it needs a charge, and it will a weeks ago on standby.
It's likewise simply a really agreeable watch. It doesn't feel cumbersome or overwhelming, the strap inhales really well, and its really attractive. The catches are not difficult to discover, and they have a fulfilling click to them. It's additionally waterproof to 50 meters, which is uncommon for a running watch. To wrap things up, the watch is extremely faultless. The GPS tracks set down match the genuine way I took after very nearly flawlessly. Additionally, I adore that this watch can track your rhythm. It's such a basic component in solid running, and the watch tracks it dependably. On the off chance that you need it to be considerably more dependable you can match the watch with a foot unit sensor for stunningly better comes about (yet for the greater part of us, the watch is bounty faultless). It's likewise pleasant that the watch sets with Hrms, so you can do "zone preparing" focused around your exertion level, and you improve assessment of your caloric blaze, as well.
It's likewise simply a really agreeable watch. It doesn't feel cumbersome or overwhelming, the strap inhales really well, and its really attractive. The catches are not difficult to discover, and they have a fulfilling click to them. It's additionally waterproof to 50 meters, which is uncommon for a running watch. To wrap things up, the watch is extremely faultless. The GPS tracks set down match the genuine way I took after very nearly flawlessly. Additionally, I adore that this watch can track your rhythm. It's such a basic component in solid running, and the watch tracks it dependably. On the off chance that you need it to be considerably more dependable you can match the watch with a foot unit sensor for stunningly better comes about (yet for the greater part of us, the watch is bounty faultless). It's likewise pleasant that the watch sets with Hrms, so you can do "zone preparing" focused around your exertion level, and you improve assessment of your caloric blaze, as well.
While Garmin has unquestionably made incredible strides regarding the matter of instinct, there is still some work left to be carried out as far as the UI. Case in point, its extraordinary that I can make a points of interest workout online (where I have the utilization of my full console), with times of running and recuperation, and put it on my watch. Yet when you're really running the system, some discriminating data is left off. The times of "interim" (when I'm sprinting) and "recuperation" (when I'm running), both essentially show up as "Run" on the watch. I could follow along on the grounds that it was a basic routine (and the majority of the sprints had an odd number of seconds), yet in the event that I'd constructed something more confounded, I'd have been lost.
The exclusive charging/adjusting link is a bit of a drag, particularly for the individuals who attempt to pack ultralight when they travel. Adjusting the watch through the workstation was incidentally hazardous. The desktop programming could be a bit carriage and it neglected to synchronize a few times. While the vibration engine is an extraordinary gimmick, I doubtlessly missed it a couple times at the end of sprints (and I was listening to music, so I didn't hear the beeps, either). Clearly, space is constrained in a watch, yet somewhat more value for the money would be decent.
Ultimately, we wish this watch would exploit its dazzling screen and its GPS and include a mapping peculiarity. This could be a such an extraordinary instrument for attempting new running courses that you pick early (or download from the Garmin group), or in any event, it could have a breadcrumb offer that would at any rate help you return to your beginning stage. No one needs to strive for a run and wind up losing all sense of direction in an unusual neighborhood as the sun is going down.
