Garmin Forerunner 955 guide

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Garmin Forerunner 955 Solar Review: $600 Fitness Watch Outruns My Apple Watch
The Garmin Forerunner 955 Solar builds on the legacy of the Forerunner brand with a fitness watch that is feature-packed and can run for 20 days per charge. You might even get a few more days with this solar model, which comes alongside daily suggested workouts, coaching and a new responsive touchscreen. All this does come at a high $600 price, but it's the full package considering its battery life combined with Garmin's robust fitness tracking features.

The review sample I've been testing for two months includes the aforementioned solar feature, and a $500 non-solar Forerunner 955 is also available with many of the same features. Even if I didn't have solar charging, the Forerunner 955 offers plenty of options for helping both my personal health journey and the 5K I am training for.

The watch also has a nearly complete list of sensors to help monitor your exercise -- as well it should for this price -- including a heart rate monitor, GPS, thermometer and pulse oximeter. There is no ECG like in the $399 Apple Watch Series 7 or the $329 Fitbit Sense, but it's not a feature I missed.

Frankly the watch might be overkill, but the ways it provides proactive feedback in addition to tracking activities that I've already planned has made it a joy to use and could even replace my Apple Watch Series 7.

The Forerunner 955 Solar is unapologetically a Garmin smartwatch -- and that's a good thing. While Garmin added a touchscreen to the 955 series this year, I actually disabled it pretty quickly because it wasn't something that was needed and I found that I ended up accidentally swiping on it. The last thing you want while out on a run is to accidentally brush up on your watch and have the activity pause or end because of the touchscreen.

The 955 has Garmin's standard five-button layout, which makes navigating it a breeze. If you've used a Garmin watch in the past the navigation should be familiar to you, and if not it's quite intuitive and easy to learn. The top left turns on and off the backlight on a press, and a long hold brings up a shortcuts menu that can be used to access various settings quickly, like power off, music controls, timer, Garmin Wallet and more. The middle and bottom left buttons move you through the "Glances," which are little widgets of information that you can customize. When you long press the middle button it opens the settings, and long holding the bottom left will open the music players. There are two buttons on the right: The top right opens your activities and the bottom right brings you back to the previous menu when navigating the system.

It uses a 22mm band, which Garmin sells a few versions of including a QuickFit option that's simple to swap out. What's great is that you can put non-Garmin bands on the watch, so you can easily find something that matches your style.

In terms of sensors, the Forerunner 955 has a heart rate monitor, GPS, thermometer, pulse oximeter, accelerometer, gyroscope, compass, barometric altimeter and a few other tools. These are used for a variety of purposes in the watch, including sleep monitoring, tracking during activities and more. It uses Garmin's four-pin charger that most of its other trackers use. While I'm not a huge fan of having to have device-specific chargers around, I don't need this one often and it looks very different from other chargers so it's easy to know which one to grab.

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