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# 500-song onboard storage GPS + GLONASS precision 7-day battery life (smartwatch mode) 010-02120-20 Forerunner 245 Music, GPS Running Smartwatch with Music and Advanced Dynamics, Black

**Brand:** garmin
**Price:** 4377 kr
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## Summary

> 🏃‍♂️🎧 Run smarter, train harder, vibe louder.

## Quick Answers

- **What is this?** 010-02120-20 Forerunner 245 Music, GPS Running Smartwatch with Music and Advanced Dynamics, Black by garmin
- **How much does it cost?** 4377 kr with free shipping
- **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship
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## Best For

- garmin enthusiasts

## Why This Product

- Trusted garmin brand quality
- Free international shipping included
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- 15-day hassle-free returns

## Key Features

- • **Safety First:** Incident detection and live tracking keep you connected and secure, sending alerts to your emergency contacts.
- • **Music On-the-Go:** Store up to 500 songs and stream playlists from Spotify or Deezer—ditch your phone and stay motivated.
- • **Long-Lasting Power:** Up to 7 days in smartwatch mode and 6 hours with GPS + music—charge fast and keep moving without pause.
- • **Seamless GPS Tracking:** Pinpoint your runs with GPS + GLONASS for unmatched route accuracy and real-time pace insights.
- • **Advanced Running Metrics:** Unlock pro-level data like ground contact time, stride length & vertical ratio with compatible sensors.

## Overview

The Garmin Forerunner 245 Music is a sleek GPS running smartwatch designed for serious athletes and music lovers alike. Featuring advanced training analytics, onboard music storage with streaming support, and robust safety tracking, it empowers you to optimize every run while staying connected and entertained. With durable Corning Gorilla Glass, a lightweight design, and up to 7 days of battery life, it’s the ultimate companion for millennial professionals who demand performance and style on the go.

## Description

You do the running. Forerunner 245 Music does the thinking. It even gets to know you, mile after mile and song after song. This GPS smartwatch has storage for your favorite tunes, so you can keep moving to the music without having to lug your phone along. It also tracks your stats, crunches the numbers and gets to know all about your performance, your running form, your training history and even your goals. All you need to focus on is putting one foot in front of the other.

Review: Ok, Garmin. I love this watch! - UPDATE: Alright, so when I initially wrote this review the music component of this watch was meh for me. I had a love/hate relationship with it but now I can honestly say I love it and have upped my review to 5 stars (from 4 before). I do think Garmin listened and made changes with the updates or maybe it was just user error all along???? I honestly don't know lol. I've had this watch for 8 months now and I freaking love it. I now know how to update the music via wifi and I do think the connectivity on my runs has improved. How well it connects to Garmin connect has also improved. Do I think it's worth the $345 price its being sold at right now? Maybe. It's amazing not being able to take my phone on my run and still having music, GPS, and some sort of security to reach my loved ones should I need it. I do wish the battery life was a little longer but for the size of this thing, I'm not complaining and it also charges pretty quickly. I have not yet run long enough (w/music) to test it with an external battery but will update as I do that. For those looking for instructions on how to update music via wifi (this was one of the things I wanted the watch to do and either I didn't know how to or it didn't work that well at first), I will include instructions below: Hold down second/middle button on left side of watch. Click music Click music providers Click Spotify (should walk you thru how to set if up if you don't) For me it takes me to the last song played. From here, I hit the three dots on the left. Click library Then scroll down to where you can hit update downloads. This will not work if you do not have your watch connected to wifi. To do that do this: Click and hold the middle button on the left side. Scroll down to WiFi and select. Should walk you thru it. I think you have to make sure your phone is connected to the same wifi. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ I received this as a surprise gift from my husband about a month and a half ago. Both my husband and I are avid Garmin users and have been for several years. For context, these are the Garmin watches I have owned in the past: Forerunner 15, Vivosmart 3, and Vivomove HR. I do like this watch. In fact, you can say I love it. Based on our purchase history, I can see my husband purchased this for ~$50 less than what it is being listed as now ($345). Personally, if I was buying this for myself I would get a refurbished one or do without the music. I run about 3-4x a week and do HIIT workouts 3x a week. For what I do, this watch may be overkill but that’s what you want right? You want a watch that will do what you want AND more. At least I do! So, what are my gripes with this watch? 1- Bluetooth. Boy, oh boy, oh boy! My watch LOVES to disconnect from my headphones. If my hands aren’t at the right angle while I am running, it is game over and I have to reconnect or deal with a patchy connection. At this point, I just don’t bother to use the music on my watch. I am hopeful an update will fix this but I’m not holding my breath. I find mine struggles with auto-sync on the Garmin app occasionally as well. 2-Music-In relation to the bluetooth is the music concept of this watch. I really wanted to love this aspect of the watch. I really really did. I was so pumped about it! But alas, you can’t always get what you want. Syncing Music the first time took an eternity and half. You also have to manually update it if you update your playlist on Spotify, I think (at least that’s what I have to do). I wish Garmin would do something where it would automatically have your watch update the playlist if it is connected to Wi-Fi with my laptop open to Spotify but maybe my standards are too high (my iPad does this with playlists I’ve downloaded). Overall, I do like the music component of this watch-I just wish the bluetooth worked better. Many of the reviews I read on here are people complaining about how difficult it is to sync music and I agree. I consider myself pretty tech savvy but they could have made this simpler. I also would like to be able to change the songs that I am listening to on my phone from my watch. I used to be able to do this on my Vivomove HR and that was lovely while I was running. Also, please note I *think* you have to have a premium subscription to whatever music streaming service you choose to use in order to connect to the watch. I already had Spotify premium so this was no big deal to me but wanted to note that on here. I think you can also upload your own mp3 files if you have them but don’t take my word for it as I haven’t tried it. 3-Sleep tracking- I don’t find the sleep tracking to be very accurate as a whole but I think that is an issue with Garmin in general so I’m not really holding it against this watch. 4-Garmin Connect IQ- Changing my watch face is a lot harder than it should be and takes forever. What do I LOVE about this watch? 1- GPS- my last watch did not have GPS (but it was pretty!) and that’s also a big factor in why I wanted this watch. I have not found any issues with the GPS and I have found this to be fairly accurate. Connects seamlessly with Strava which I appreciate. 2-The size- for the size of this watch and all it can do-WOW. Just wow! I was afraid it would be too bulky but it is not! I am a woman with very small wrists and the size is pretty good for me. I do wish they sold smaller bands but its not a big deal. 3- Livetracking & security features- LOVE this! You can set live tracking to start automatically or start it manually from the app ( I do wish this was an option on my phone). This sends an email to whoever you’ve listed, or all of your connections, with a link to a tracker. I love this as a woman who often goes on runs alone early in the morning or at night. There is also a feature on this watch where if you press a button 3x it sends a text to your emergency contacts and it will also do this if it notices anything unusual (you stop suddenly, etc). Probably my favorite features. 4- Training status, body battery, pulse ox, & respiration-I find all of this very cool & helpful. I don’t find the training status to be totally accurate for me though. None of this makes or breaks the watch for me though, it’s just nice to have. The Garmin Coach seems really cool but I haven’t had an opportunity to use it. I plan to use it to train for a half marathon. 5-Heart rate- I like this and find it to be accurate. 6-Buttons-my last watch was touchscreen and I do love that this has buttons instead. 7- Battery-battery life is OK but I wish it lasted a little longer. How quickly it charges makes up for that though! Overall, this is a really great watch. I was lusting after the Fenix 6s but that would have been overkill for me. This does what I need it to do and some more. If you’re a runner, I do think you will love this. I would personally save some money and skip the music but when it does work it is nice to have. Thanks Garmin!
Review: Fantastic GPS sports watch, adds new features at good value to Forerunner product line - This watch is feature rich with solid battery life and 'just works' reliability, and a good value for what you get. It's a great new addition to Garmin's line of Forerunner watches. Before buying this, I used a Garmin Forerunner 35 for several years. That was a very good watch for tracking runs, and I also used it for other workouts like cycling and rowing. I loved its long battery life of about 1.5 weeks to 2 weeks the way I used it, plus physical buttons which I find much better for controlling the watch during runs than a touch screen. It also has a good quality heart rate monitor and some sleep-tracking capabilities. The Garmin 245 Music can do all this, plus adds additional workout tracking capability, and ability to wirelessly communicate with a Garmin running dynamics pod which gives additional data about runs. It also adds a pulse ox sensor, and ability to store up to 500 digital music tracks on the watch and broadcast to earbuds/headsets/speakers via bluetooth. It is more waterproof than the 35. It can track several measures of indoor lap swimming in a pool, but not open water swims or scuba. Finally its watchbands have quick release connections to the watch body, making it easier to replace them if needed or desired. I'm not sure I must have any of these things but was curious to try all of them. I am pleased with their implementation. The music feature is especially well done. It pairs without problems with my bluetooth headphones and speakers. I have good audio quality throughout my runs, arm motions while running do not cause any problems. I've copied .mp3 tracks to the watch from a Windows PC that uses Itunes to store my music library, using the watch's USB cable to transfer the files. I've installed the Garmin Express software on the PC (a free download from garmin.com), and methods to copy individual music tracks or playlists are straightforward and work fine. Garmin supports music services like Spotify and Deezer as well, but I haven't tried that and can't comment on how well it works. There are decent controls on the watch for playing tracks or playlists, and adjusting volume. There are a separate set of controls for that within my bluetooth headset (Plantronics BackBeat Fit 3150), and those play nice with the watch. The battery definitely drains faster while using its GPS and streaming music via bluetooth. Garmin claims 6 hours battery life for these conditions, which sounds roughly consistent with my own experience. That brings me to one of my few quibbles with the watch, which is that I wish its battery life was somewhat better. There's no escaping increased power consumption when using GPS and bluetooth, but it would have been nice if they'd fit a battery with more capacity into the watch. It's not terrible as-is: still much better battery life than Apple watches, and lasts a week to a week and a half if I 'only' track runs with it, use the pulse ox sensor, and don't stream any music. It seems slightly worse than the Forerunner 35 when using the same features, but I was hoping for the same or better. If you want more battery you can buy a Fenix or more expensive Forerunner. It's still good for what it does and the price, though. This watch seems generally well regarded but I've seen a few negative reviews that say its GPS accuracy is not good, or not as good as older Garmin watches. That has not been my experience. GPS accuracy seems just as good as my Forerunner 35, which is excellent. In fact, the 245 can also do GPS and Glonass together, which I tried while visiting Iceland. I've heard that Glonass can be helpful at hi latitudes. It worked well for me, though I didn't do careful experiments using GPS only versus GPS + Glonass to quantify differences. The watch has a lot of capability and it's a challenge to design an interface to easily access it all using the watch buttons. Garmin uses several of the watch buttons to descend or ascend within menus, or select options. There is also a circularly scrolling 'wheel' in one menu to enable or disable different kinds of connections, or power the watch off. It all works and is reasonably easy to find, but some items are buried a bit in menus, at times the clicking around can feel inefficient. Not sure there's an easy solution to support so many features, though. There is a lot of flexibility to customize and specify on or off for different sensors and connections, kudos to Garmin for giving this much control. The Garmin Connect smartphone software is a good companion for uploading workout data and displaying. It works reliably through a bluetooth connection between the watch and phone, and is well organized. It requires you to upload the watch data to Garmin's cloud, then communicates with the cloud to display different aspects. I don't love the cloud aspect, it would be better if they provided an option to store the data 100% locally (on the watch and phone only, with no internet involvement). But if you can live with the data being on the cloud, the software works well and has good visuals for displaying all the data. To summarize, this watch is a great product. It adds some nice extra features to the more basic Forerunner 35/45 while not being overly expensive, and continuing to include everything I liked about the 35/45. It seems meant to be a 'mid-level' watch, and I think what you get for the price is a good value. If you want much longer battery life or more sensors, like a barometric altimeter, get another watch like the higher end Garmins. If the capabilities of the Forerunner 45 or predecessor 35 fully meet your needs, save a bit of money and get those. This watch is a sweet spot of Garmin goodness + bluetooth music streaming and some extra workout tracking ability for lowest price.

## Features

- GPS running smartwatch with music advanced training features, Lens Material:Corning Gorilla Glass 3, Bezel Material: fiber-reinforced polymer, Strap material:silicone
- Battery life: up to 7 days in smartwatch mode and 6 hours in GPS mode with music
- Evaluates your current training status to indicate if you’re undertraining or overdoing it; Offers additional performance monitoring features
- Get free adaptive training plans from Garmin coach, or create your own custom workouts on our Garmin connect online fitness community
- Provides advanced running dynamics, including ground contact time balance, stride length, vertical ratio and more (When used with Running Dynamics Pod or HRM Run or HRM Tri monitors (sold separately))
- Safety and tracking features include incident detection (during select activities) which sends your real-time location to emergency contacts through your paired compatible smartphone
- Sync with music streaming services, such as Spotify, to easily store and play your favorite songs right from your watch

## Technical Specifications

| Specification | Value |
|---------------|-------|
| ASIN | B07QLVHBLF |
| Batteries | 1 A batteries required. (included) |
| Best Sellers Rank | #37,387 in Electronics ( See Top 100 in Electronics ) #798 in Smartwatches |
| Color | Black |
| Connectivity technologies | GPS |
| Customer Reviews | 4.6 4.6 out of 5 stars (7,723) |
| Date First Available | April 30, 2019 |
| Department | Unisex-Adult |
| GPS | True |
| Human Interface Input | Buttons |
| Is Discontinued By Manufacturer | No |
| Item Weight | 1.28 ounces |
| Item model number | 010-02120-20 |
| Manufacturer | Garmin |
| Memory Storage Capacity | 64000 MB |
| OS | Garmin OS |
| Other display features | Wireless |
| Product Dimensions | 1.7 x 1.7 x 0.5 inches |
| Scanner Resolution | 240 x 240 |
| Special features | Bluetooth |
| Standing screen display size | 1.2 Inches |
| Weight | 0.08 Pounds |
| Whats in the box | Forerunner 245 Music Charge/data cable Documentation |

## Product Details

- **Battery Capacity:** 7 Amp Hours
- **Battery Cell Composition:** Lithium-Cobalt
- **Connectivity Technology:** GPS
- **GPS:** True
- **Memory Storage Capacity:** 64000 MB
- **Operating System:** Garmin OS
- **Screen Size:** 1.2 Inches
- **Shape:** Round
- **Special Feature:** Bluetooth
- **Wireless Communication Standard:** Bluetooth

## Images

![010-02120-20 Forerunner 245 Music, GPS Running Smartwatch with Music and Advanced Dynamics, Black - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51-PWE7CmvL.jpg)

## Available Options

This product comes in different **Color, Style** options.

## Questions & Answers

**Q: I see reviews mentioning asian version of the watch, which they mention is inferior. how can i make sure i get the us one/standard one?**
A: Ugghhhh.  I just received my Garmin 245 today and discovered it was the "Hong Kong" version (i.e. APAC).  Discovering this was not terribly easy so I wanted to put out there what I had to do to figure this out.
1) I had to install the garmin connect app on my phone
2) I had to connect the phone to my watch which registered the watch
3) I then called Garmin Support
4) Garmin Support looked at my account and confirmed it was the "Hong Kong" version
5) I called Amazon Support who instructed me to return it and then they said they'd contact the seller to see if they could send me a US version.  

We'll see where this goes....

**Q: Does it tell altitudes**
A: I love this watch.  It does not have a barometer for altitude, but the GPS / Garmin connect figures the altitude from the maps (and from GPS until it looks at the maps).  Fine if you're not counting stairs or mountain-biking seriously needing a barometer.  Note, there are 2 versions, amazon lists it as one product, for example (Aqua-Music) 010-02120-22  is the ROW (rest-of-world) version and 010-02120-52 is the APAC (Asian-Pacific) version.  The firmware releases are different !!!  Not to mention the available languages.  The suppliers ARE sending the APAC version without any way to tell (in Amazon) that that might happen.  I love the watch.  I did send back the APAC one that Amazon sent because I wanted to use beta firmware and order (for a higher price) from REI to get one that I know will be ROW.  But for most people, probably they won't care, both have English and the same features...

**Q: Can this support chinese language?**
A: There are 2 versions of this watch - 010-02120-22  and 010-02120-52.  The DESCRIPTION lists this as -22, the ROW (rest of world) version, but ACTUALLY you are likely to get the -52, the APAC Asian-Pacific version.  So, *maybe/probably* you'll get one that supports Chinese, but *maybe/who-knows* not, since Amazon only lists 1 product, when actually there are 2 versions.  It is a crap-shoot roll of the dice.  But the odds are if the price looks good, it came from APAC not ROW.  Cheaper prices mean better chance you get the version which Asian-Pacific language support.  If Amazon was paying attention and dealt with it, they would list *2* different products, and you could pick between -22 or -52.  (NOTE: Those product numbers are for Aqua-Music version - I'm sure there is a similar split for all other colors and music or not music).

**Q: Does it come with charger included?**
A: All Garmin devices come with a charger in the box.  The included cable is data/charging cable for connecting to a computer for syncing data and charging. 

Blake with Garmin

## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Ok, Garmin. I love this watch!
*by D***T on September 14, 2020*

UPDATE: Alright, so when I initially wrote this review the music component of this watch was meh for me. I had a love/hate relationship with it but now I can honestly say I love it and have upped my review to 5 stars (from 4 before). I do think Garmin listened and made changes with the updates or maybe it was just user error all along???? I honestly don't know lol. I've had this watch for 8 months now and I freaking love it. I now know how to update the music via wifi and I do think the connectivity on my runs has improved. How well it connects to Garmin connect has also improved. Do I think it's worth the $345 price its being sold at right now? Maybe. It's amazing not being able to take my phone on my run and still having music, GPS, and some sort of security to reach my loved ones should I need it. I do wish the battery life was a little longer but for the size of this thing, I'm not complaining and it also charges pretty quickly. I have not yet run long enough (w/music) to test it with an external battery but will update as I do that. For those looking for instructions on how to update music via wifi (this was one of the things I wanted the watch to do and either I didn't know how to or it didn't work that well at first), I will include instructions below: Hold down second/middle button on left side of watch. Click music Click music providers Click Spotify (should walk you thru how to set if up if you don't) For me it takes me to the last song played. From here, I hit the three dots on the left. Click library Then scroll down to where you can hit update downloads. This will not work if you do not have your watch connected to wifi. To do that do this: Click and hold the middle button on the left side. Scroll down to WiFi and select. Should walk you thru it. I think you have to make sure your phone is connected to the same wifi. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ I received this as a surprise gift from my husband about a month and a half ago. Both my husband and I are avid Garmin users and have been for several years. For context, these are the Garmin watches I have owned in the past: Forerunner 15, Vivosmart 3, and Vivomove HR. I do like this watch. In fact, you can say I love it. Based on our purchase history, I can see my husband purchased this for ~$50 less than what it is being listed as now ($345). Personally, if I was buying this for myself I would get a refurbished one or do without the music. I run about 3-4x a week and do HIIT workouts 3x a week. For what I do, this watch may be overkill but that’s what you want right? You want a watch that will do what you want AND more. At least I do! So, what are my gripes with this watch? 1- Bluetooth. Boy, oh boy, oh boy! My watch LOVES to disconnect from my headphones. If my hands aren’t at the right angle while I am running, it is game over and I have to reconnect or deal with a patchy connection. At this point, I just don’t bother to use the music on my watch. I am hopeful an update will fix this but I’m not holding my breath. I find mine struggles with auto-sync on the Garmin app occasionally as well. 2-Music-In relation to the bluetooth is the music concept of this watch. I really wanted to love this aspect of the watch. I really really did. I was so pumped about it! But alas, you can’t always get what you want. Syncing Music the first time took an eternity and half. You also have to manually update it if you update your playlist on Spotify, I think (at least that’s what I have to do). I wish Garmin would do something where it would automatically have your watch update the playlist if it is connected to Wi-Fi with my laptop open to Spotify but maybe my standards are too high (my iPad does this with playlists I’ve downloaded). Overall, I do like the music component of this watch-I just wish the bluetooth worked better. Many of the reviews I read on here are people complaining about how difficult it is to sync music and I agree. I consider myself pretty tech savvy but they could have made this simpler. I also would like to be able to change the songs that I am listening to on my phone from my watch. I used to be able to do this on my Vivomove HR and that was lovely while I was running. Also, please note I *think* you have to have a premium subscription to whatever music streaming service you choose to use in order to connect to the watch. I already had Spotify premium so this was no big deal to me but wanted to note that on here. I think you can also upload your own mp3 files if you have them but don’t take my word for it as I haven’t tried it. 3-Sleep tracking- I don’t find the sleep tracking to be very accurate as a whole but I think that is an issue with Garmin in general so I’m not really holding it against this watch. 4-Garmin Connect IQ- Changing my watch face is a lot harder than it should be and takes forever. What do I LOVE about this watch? 1- GPS- my last watch did not have GPS (but it was pretty!) and that’s also a big factor in why I wanted this watch. I have not found any issues with the GPS and I have found this to be fairly accurate. Connects seamlessly with Strava which I appreciate. 2-The size- for the size of this watch and all it can do-WOW. Just wow! I was afraid it would be too bulky but it is not! I am a woman with very small wrists and the size is pretty good for me. I do wish they sold smaller bands but its not a big deal. 3- Livetracking & security features- LOVE this! You can set live tracking to start automatically or start it manually from the app ( I do wish this was an option on my phone). This sends an email to whoever you’ve listed, or all of your connections, with a link to a tracker. I love this as a woman who often goes on runs alone early in the morning or at night. There is also a feature on this watch where if you press a button 3x it sends a text to your emergency contacts and it will also do this if it notices anything unusual (you stop suddenly, etc). Probably my favorite features. 4- Training status, body battery, pulse ox, & respiration-I find all of this very cool & helpful. I don’t find the training status to be totally accurate for me though. None of this makes or breaks the watch for me though, it’s just nice to have. The Garmin Coach seems really cool but I haven’t had an opportunity to use it. I plan to use it to train for a half marathon. 5-Heart rate- I like this and find it to be accurate. 6-Buttons-my last watch was touchscreen and I do love that this has buttons instead. 7- Battery-battery life is OK but I wish it lasted a little longer. How quickly it charges makes up for that though! Overall, this is a really great watch. I was lusting after the Fenix 6s but that would have been overkill for me. This does what I need it to do and some more. If you’re a runner, I do think you will love this. I would personally save some money and skip the music but when it does work it is nice to have. Thanks Garmin!

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Fantastic GPS sports watch, adds new features at good value to Forerunner product line
*by M***L on February 2, 2020*

This watch is feature rich with solid battery life and 'just works' reliability, and a good value for what you get. It's a great new addition to Garmin's line of Forerunner watches. Before buying this, I used a Garmin Forerunner 35 for several years. That was a very good watch for tracking runs, and I also used it for other workouts like cycling and rowing. I loved its long battery life of about 1.5 weeks to 2 weeks the way I used it, plus physical buttons which I find much better for controlling the watch during runs than a touch screen. It also has a good quality heart rate monitor and some sleep-tracking capabilities. The Garmin 245 Music can do all this, plus adds additional workout tracking capability, and ability to wirelessly communicate with a Garmin running dynamics pod which gives additional data about runs. It also adds a pulse ox sensor, and ability to store up to 500 digital music tracks on the watch and broadcast to earbuds/headsets/speakers via bluetooth. It is more waterproof than the 35. It can track several measures of indoor lap swimming in a pool, but not open water swims or scuba. Finally its watchbands have quick release connections to the watch body, making it easier to replace them if needed or desired. I'm not sure I must have any of these things but was curious to try all of them. I am pleased with their implementation. The music feature is especially well done. It pairs without problems with my bluetooth headphones and speakers. I have good audio quality throughout my runs, arm motions while running do not cause any problems. I've copied .mp3 tracks to the watch from a Windows PC that uses Itunes to store my music library, using the watch's USB cable to transfer the files. I've installed the Garmin Express software on the PC (a free download from garmin.com), and methods to copy individual music tracks or playlists are straightforward and work fine. Garmin supports music services like Spotify and Deezer as well, but I haven't tried that and can't comment on how well it works. There are decent controls on the watch for playing tracks or playlists, and adjusting volume. There are a separate set of controls for that within my bluetooth headset (Plantronics BackBeat Fit 3150), and those play nice with the watch. The battery definitely drains faster while using its GPS and streaming music via bluetooth. Garmin claims 6 hours battery life for these conditions, which sounds roughly consistent with my own experience. That brings me to one of my few quibbles with the watch, which is that I wish its battery life was somewhat better. There's no escaping increased power consumption when using GPS and bluetooth, but it would have been nice if they'd fit a battery with more capacity into the watch. It's not terrible as-is: still much better battery life than Apple watches, and lasts a week to a week and a half if I 'only' track runs with it, use the pulse ox sensor, and don't stream any music. It seems slightly worse than the Forerunner 35 when using the same features, but I was hoping for the same or better. If you want more battery you can buy a Fenix or more expensive Forerunner. It's still good for what it does and the price, though. This watch seems generally well regarded but I've seen a few negative reviews that say its GPS accuracy is not good, or not as good as older Garmin watches. That has not been my experience. GPS accuracy seems just as good as my Forerunner 35, which is excellent. In fact, the 245 can also do GPS and Glonass together, which I tried while visiting Iceland. I've heard that Glonass can be helpful at hi latitudes. It worked well for me, though I didn't do careful experiments using GPS only versus GPS + Glonass to quantify differences. The watch has a lot of capability and it's a challenge to design an interface to easily access it all using the watch buttons. Garmin uses several of the watch buttons to descend or ascend within menus, or select options. There is also a circularly scrolling 'wheel' in one menu to enable or disable different kinds of connections, or power the watch off. It all works and is reasonably easy to find, but some items are buried a bit in menus, at times the clicking around can feel inefficient. Not sure there's an easy solution to support so many features, though. There is a lot of flexibility to customize and specify on or off for different sensors and connections, kudos to Garmin for giving this much control. The Garmin Connect smartphone software is a good companion for uploading workout data and displaying. It works reliably through a bluetooth connection between the watch and phone, and is well organized. It requires you to upload the watch data to Garmin's cloud, then communicates with the cloud to display different aspects. I don't love the cloud aspect, it would be better if they provided an option to store the data 100% locally (on the watch and phone only, with no internet involvement). But if you can live with the data being on the cloud, the software works well and has good visuals for displaying all the data. To summarize, this watch is a great product. It adds some nice extra features to the more basic Forerunner 35/45 while not being overly expensive, and continuing to include everything I liked about the 35/45. It seems meant to be a 'mid-level' watch, and I think what you get for the price is a good value. If you want much longer battery life or more sensors, like a barometric altimeter, get another watch like the higher end Garmins. If the capabilities of the Forerunner 45 or predecessor 35 fully meet your needs, save a bit of money and get those. This watch is a sweet spot of Garmin goodness + bluetooth music streaming and some extra workout tracking ability for lowest price.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Good tool. Not too invasive
*by J***. on January 12, 2023*

I set this watch up 4 days ago, this review is about initial feelings. What I wanted: A watch that could help me with my trail hiking AND have a good timer to keep me on track with switching laundry, drinking water, starting tasks etc. This meets all of those needs very well. I even have multiple timers going simultaneously. (They cant be "named", which is unfortunate.) I did not want an overly invasive watch. I am adamant about my technology being my servant, not the other way around. This watch easily disconnects from my phone and is a high functioning tool by itself. I'm in my 50s and struggling to keep up with technology, while handling my instinct to keep my data personal. (I'm a "delete all history" after every search, kind of a person.) This watch fits into my parameters pretty well. The app is not invasive at all, no external ads or push notifications. What I recommend when setting up your watch, is going on youtube to find a step by step video. Thats what helped me a lot. I used some from the Garmin site and also one gauging gadgets. The battery life is great when not connected to the phone, but less so when connected. Also, dont be discouraged when in the first couple of days it seems like the battery is terrible. Once you are using it normally, its lasts fine. Yesterday, I wasn't learning on it, just using it for my run and tasks. I had it connected to the phone about 3 hours on/off and when I went to bed I had 73% battery left. So thats very doable. Im glad I bought it.

## Frequently Bought Together

- Garmin 010-02120-20 Forerunner 245 Music, GPS Running Smartwatch with Music and Advanced Dynamics, Black
- Supershieldz (2 Pack) Designed for Garmin Forerunner 245 and Forerunner 245 Music Tempered Glass Screen Protector, Anti Scratch, Bubble Free

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