| Lens Material | Corning Gorilla Glass 3 |
| Bezel Material | fiber-reinforced polymer |
| Quick Release Bands | yes (20 mm, Industry standard) |
| Strap material | silicone |
| Physical size | 42.3 x 42.3 x 12.2 (mm) Fits wrists with a circumference of 127-204 mm |
| Display size | 1.2″ (30.4 mm) diameter |
| Display resolution | 240 x 240 pixels |
| Display type | sunlight-visible, transflective memory-in-pixel (MIP) |
| Weight | 38.5 g |
| Battery life | Smartwatch Mode: Up to 7 days GPS mode with music: Up to 6 hours GPS mode without music: Up to 24 hours |
| Water rating | Swim, 5 ATM |
| Color display | |
| Memory/History | 200 hours of activity data |
CLOCK FEATURES |
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| Time/date | |
| GPS Time Sync | |
| Automatic daylight saving time | |
| Alarm clock | |
| Timer | |
| Stopwatch | |
| Sunrise/sunset times | |
SENSORS |
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| GPS | |
| GLONASS | |
| Galileo | |
| Garmin Elevate wrist heart rate monitor | |
| Compass | |
| Accelerometer | |
DAILY SMART FEATURES |
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| Connectivity | Bluetooth, ANT+, Wi-Fi |
| Connect IQ (downloadable watch faces, data fields, widgets and apps) | |
| Smart notifications | |
| Text response/reject phone call with text (Android™ only) | |
| Calendar | |
| Weather | |
| Controls smartphone music | |
| Plays and controls watch music | |
| Music Storage | up to 500 songs |
| Find My Phone | |
| Find My Watch | |
| VIRB Camera Remote | |
| Smartphone compatibility | iPhone and Android™ |
| Compatible with Garmin Connect Mobile | |
SAFETY AND TRACKING FEATURES |
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| Incident Detection during select activities | (Smartphone Required) |
| Assistance | (Smartphone Required) |
| LiveTrack | |
ACTIVITY TRACKING FEATURES |
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| Step counter | |
| Move bar (displays on device after a period of inactivity; walk for a couple of minutes to reset it) | |
| Auto goal (learns your activity level and assigns a daily step goal) | |
| Sleep monitoring (monitors total sleep and periods of movement or restful sleep) | |
| Calories burned | |
| Distance traveled | |
| Intensity minutes | |
| TrueUp | |
| Move IQ | |
| Fitness Age | (in app) |
| Body Battery Energy Monitor | |
| All-day Stress Tracking | |
GYM & FITNESS EQUIPMENT |
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| Available gym activity profiles | Strength Training, Cardio Training, Elliptical Training, Stair Stepping, Indoor Rowing and Yoga |
| Cardio workouts | |
| Strength workouts | |
| Automatic rep counting | |
TRAINING, PLANNING AND ANALYSIS FEATURES |
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| GPS speed and distance | |
| Customizable data pages | |
| Customizable activity profiles | |
| Auto Pause | |
| Interval training | |
| Advanced workouts | |
| Downloadable training plans | |
| Auto Lap | |
| Manual lap | |
| Configurable lap alerts | |
| V02 max | |
| Training Status (lets you see if you’re training effectively by tracking your training history and fitness level trend.) | |
| Training Load (your total training load for the last 7 days calculated from estimated EPOC) | |
| Training Effect (aerobic) | |
| Training Effect (anaerobic) | |
| Customizable alerts | |
| Audio prompts | |
| Finish time | |
| Virtual Partner | |
| Race an Activity | |
| Course guidance | |
| Touch and/or button lock | |
| Auto scroll | |
| Activity history on watch | |
HEART RATE FEATURES |
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| HR zones | |
| HR alerts | |
| HR calories | |
| % HR max | |
| % HRR | |
| Recovery time | |
| Auto max HR | |
| HR Broadcast (broadcasts HR data over ANT+ to paired devices) | |
RUNNING FEATURES |
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| Available run profiles | Running, Treadmill Running, Indoor Track Running, Trail Running |
| GPS-based distance, time and pace | |
| Running dynamics | |
| Vertical oscillation and ratio (the degree of ‘bounce’ in your running motion and the cost-benefit ratio with stride length) | |
| Ground contact time and balance (shows how much time, in the running motion, your foot is on the ground rather than in flight and lets you check your running symmetry) | |
| Stride length (real time) | |
| Cadence (provides real-time number of steps per minute) | |
| Performance condition (after running 6–20 minutes, compares your real-time condition to your average fitness level) | |
| Run workouts | |
| Race predictor | |
| Foot pod capable | |
OUTDOOR RECREATION FEATURES |
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| Point-to-point navigation | |
| Bread crumb trail in real time | |
| Back to start | |
| TracBack | |
| UltraTrac mode | |
| Distance to destination | |
| GPS coordinates | |
CYCLING FEATURES |
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| Available cycling profiles | Biking, Indoor Biking |
| Courses | |
| Race an activity | |
| Time/distance alerts (triggers alarm when you reach goal) | |
| Compatible with Varia Vision (head-mounted display) | |
| Compatible with Varia radar (rear-facing radar) | |
| Compatible with Varia lights | |
| Speed and cadence sensor support (with sensor) | |
SWIMMING FEATURES |
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| Available swim profiles | Pool Swimming |
| Pool swim metrics (lengths, distance, pace, stroke count/rate, calories) | |
| Stroke type detection (freestyle, backstroke, breaststroke, butterfly) | |
| Swim efficiency (SWOLF) | |
| Drill logging | |
| Pool swim workouts | |