Ratings & Reviews for Garmin Forerunner 55 Smart Watch with Step Counter, Heart Rate Monitor and GPS Enabled
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What Customers Are Saying
The watch provides accurate GPS tracking and heart rate monitoring, delivering reliable data for various activities. It has excellent battery life, often lasting over a week between charges. The intuitive interface with simple button layout is preferred by many users over touchscreens. The watch offers comprehensive fitness tracking capabilities, including features like body battery, stress monitoring, and suggested workouts. While some found it complicated to set up initially, most users appreciated the wealth of data and insights provided by this feature-rich fitness tracker.
Customer review summary generated by AI, including incentivized reviews.Easy to use
I replaced my Forerunner 45 with the 55. Easy transition.
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So much fun!
I love this watch. It's great and motivating to use GPS and see the route I ran and post to Strava app. The watch is easy to us, record my runs and see the breakdown of all the details. Before this watch I had a Fitbit and the Garmin is beyond an improvement. Thank you Garmin!
From Garmin
Great Running Watch
I bought this for my daughter who runs XC and Track. She loves it!
From Garmin
Simple
Awesome. Very simple features - just had to take a little time to adjust to it (like anything that’s new)
From Garmin
Love It
All the features of my Forerunner 45 and better. The battery life is phenomenal -- thank you!!
From Garmin
I’m sure it’ll be much better!
The jury is still out. Making some progress, but for some reason, it’s not tracking steps or my sleep among other other things. The fact that there is no support on the weekends is pathetic. I will it was quite easy to get a live human of the line for a previous Support incident hunt. He is quite helpful, spoke with without a heavy accent, high-pitched voice and fully understood English but I felt he was under pressure to keep the call to a specified amount of time.
From Garmin
AWESOME WATCH
I bought this a few weeks ago, and this is an upgrade from a Fitbit Inspire 3, so I love this so, so much. I am a competitive high school runner who does track and xc and I love how the watch doesn't turn off. The battery life is so so good
From Garmin
None
Program needs to complete rewrite. From my laptop or my phone, either one, not necessarily both, in an outline format, I should be able to see all the primary, secondary, tertiary screens ending with a series of screens for to record the activities/results. I should be easily able to select out and turn off both the primary and the second etc. facilities that I don’t wanna see or use or have to deal with. Obviously, the buttons would have to be organized in such a man who has to deal with t...
From Garmin
Online help with Forerunner 55
This is my 5th generation Garmin Forerunner. Just keeps getting better. Had a little issue setting up. Online help was excellent.
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Love
these watches are great. Battery is long lasting, data is great.
From ExpertVoice.com
Good for swimming
Had a Forerunner 45 but wanted to have watch for swimming so picked the Forerunner 55. So far it has worked great! Handles running and biking like the 45 and has counted/measure swimming laps accurately. So far so good.
From Garmin
Garmin Forerunner 55
Awesome piece of equipment. On my second one. Does everything the other sports watches do.
From Garmin
Not typical Garmin intuitive features
I returned it after a day, bought a Spade watch instead. Very easy to use.
From Garmin
Great
This watch has been awesome for my running and cycling training.
From Garmin
Simple and great
It is simple, it is working. I never had an issue with it and I am very satisfied with this watch. It has almost everything I need. If there should be one point to improve, would be the possibility to choose strength training among activities, as that is important for runners.
From Garmin
Great simple watch
If you’re looking for a simple no frills watch, this is it. I was looking at upgrading from my Apple Watch but didn’t want too many features just needed to map my runs. I recommend this watch for the simplicity and convenience.
From ExpertVoice.com
Can’t imagine running without it.
I have been running for 45 years. I couldn’t imagine I would ever be more dedicated and motivated, but I was wrong. Since wearing my Garmin my running has been gone through the roof. I have 715 running activities for 7811.1 miles. Now I can’t imagine running without it.
From Garmin
The perfect, basic running watch
For the price, the Forerunner 55 has exactly what’s necessary for training and races. Good battery life as well.
From Garmin
A basic running watch - I still recommend for newer runners.
Initially had some issues with recording, the distance calculations were pretty far off two other running/gps watches. After a couple of resets it was performing better, but it was annoying that it didn't work after the first initial setup. Overall this is a decent introductory running watch that doesn't have all the bells and whistles of some of the fancier ones. Obvious statement I'm making here but at it's price point it does have the benefit of recording activity that just wasn't readily ...
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Love the battery life
Just stepped up from Forerunner 45 and I like the battery life on the 55 much better w/o the extra features the watch has being too complicated for my lack of patience. After first charge I went 13 days wearing it 24/7 and using it to track my runs, and it still had 18% battery life. Love this watch
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