Ratings & Reviews for Garmin Forerunner 255 Smart Watch with Step Counter, Heart Rate Monitor and GPS Enabled
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What Customers Are Saying
The product offers accurate tracking, impressive battery life, and a range of valuable features for both casual and serious runners. Users appreciate the intuitive interface, customization options, and seamless integration with fitness apps. While a few minor issues were noted, the overall feedback is extremely positive, with many customers highly recommending the product as an excellent choice for runners and fitness enthusiasts.
Customer review summary generated by AI, including incentivized reviews.Really enjoying this watch
This is a nice upgrade from my Forerunner 55. I'm enjoying the upgraded features and larger watch face. As I have become a more serious runner, this was the upgrade I sought. Great watch.
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Exactly what I wanted!
I use this for running, cycling, and swimming. I love that this can even track open water swims. Lots of fun data to play with, and it uploads everything quickly to Strava.
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Having trouble with the lap feature
I like the watch except I have a a lot of trouble with hitting the lap button for my track workouts. Sometimes I need to hit the lower right bottom for or five times to record a lap. That is very frustrating especially when I am trying to record my laps. I am hoping I am doing something wrong as I am not sure how long I can put up with this type of malfunction.
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Very difficult to use
Very poor documentation, not made for senior citizens
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Good features; HRM not always reliable
I've had the Forerunner for about one year. It's worked fairly well to track exercise, with one exception: the heart rate monitor for the past few months has been unreliable at the outset of exercise sessions. Other than that, meets my needs.
From Garmin
Awesome Product
I’ve only had it two weeks and don’t yet know its true capabilities but so far I love it. Easy to use and lots of data.
From Garmin
Good for running
It's a good watch for running and pairs with other devices (bike computer, HRM), but it is a little boring. Not sure why. Maybe it feels like the battery should last longer.
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Amazing Watch
I have been using this Garmin every day for the last month and love it. I find that it tracks heart rate and GPS throughout my workouts almost perfectly, and its sleep tracker is extremely helpful in getting your sleep health back on track. My only issue with the watch is its HRV tracking during sleep, which can be inaccurate. That is the only problem however.
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Love features
I love what it can do with the features, but my only problem I can't get texts. It will notify me when a call is upcoming, but no text.
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Battery life has been great! Tracked a 32.5 mile hike on the Appalachian Trail (11 hours of non-stop GPS tracking) and still had about 50% at the end of the day!
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Great user experience
I received the Forerunner as a gift and I am nothing but pleased with it. It works great for runs and hikes.
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Great watch
Love this watch. Improvements are excellent. Would not have any other watch. Long time Garmin customer.
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Better than Apple Watch for a runner, but
I'm preparing for my second marathon with this watch. I've been running 3-4 times a week for 3 years now. I had the Apple Watch, and it worked great. But the Forerunner is just more complete. It has better data and a great connection with my personal trainer app (I get the training plan directly on the watch). It corrects my pace and does a few other things I haven't explored. The UX, although it's just not there yet. Disabling notifications is a pain, but the battery lasting for 10 days is a gr...
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the Forerunner 255 was a great buy
this watch has everything i was looking for plus the morning report is very cool, it recommends workouts and your sleep analysis, looking forward to trying the brick workout feature
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Another fine Harbin watch
My only issue with the watch is the band release. I’d like to meet the engineer that thought it was a good idea.
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Great tracker
Great watch to help track workouts and look at stats such as HR, training status, and recovery. Love that you can access the recommended training runs directly from the watch. Was a little bit of a learning curve with switching from an Apple Watch as this one is not touch screen and the functionality is different. A bit frustrating that you can't respond to texts from Apple phone through the watch but what I have read is that this is on the Apple end not on Garmin. Battery life is excellent. I c...
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Why did I wait this long to buy a Garmin
I love all the tracking options this watch offers. I have also enjoyed the suggested workouts, heart rate and sleep tracker. I also like how you can customize the watch face to what you would like to track: steps, elevation, heart rate, date/time, etc
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