ARS TECHNICA - Oct 28 - The new Vivosmart HR is a dedicated activity tracker that is Garmin's first to feature a built-in heart rate monitor. The company recently released a new trio of GPS watches with its "Elevate" heart rate technology, but the Vivosmart HR appears to be aimed at just about everyone rather than the hardcore fitness buffs targeted by Garmin's other devices.
Garmin Unveils Trio Of New Fitness Trackers
UBERGIZMO - Oct 21 - The Forerunner 230 and 235 are essentially the same, however the main difference is that the Forerunner 235 comes with a built-in heart rate monitor, while the Forerunner 230 doesn't. The Forerunner 230 can still track heart rate, although it will require a separate monitor in the form of an ANT+ chest strap. The Forerunner 630 is capable of measuring stride length, ground contact symmetry, vertical ratio, lactate threshold, and performance readiness.
Garmin D2 Bravo
AIN ONLINE - Sep 20 - The $699 D2 Bravo has a transflective "memory-in-pixel" color display surrounded by an attractive metal bezel and fronted with a sapphire lens. The handsome thick brown leather band and elegant mechanical design features make the D2 Bravo look like a substantial and powerful device with a full slate of aviation and sports features.
Garmin Forerunner 25 Workout Watch
TECH CRUNCH - Aug 5 - The Forerunner 25 is a low-cost workout watch that comes in multiple colors and can register heart rate, speed, distance, and personal records. It also counts steps and connects to phone to pick up notifications on the run.
Garmin May Signal Fitness Wearable Price War
ZDNET - Jul 17 - Garmin said its second quarter results would fall below expectations in part due to pricing pressure in the wearable market. Q2 sales will be between $770M and $775M with gross margins of about 54%. Earnings will be about 70 cents a share to 72 cents a share in the second quarter. The current competitive environment in the fitness market necessitates more aggressive pricing with higher advertising expenses.
Fitness Bands Lead Wearables For Q1
INFORMATION WEEK - Jun 3 - Wearable makers shipped 11.4M devices during Q1, according to IDC, a 200% increase from Q1 2014. Fitbit ranked as the number one wearable maker by volume (34.2% of market). Xiaomi followed with 26.4% of the market and Garmin with 6.1% of the market. Smartwatches didn't make much of an impact in shipments.
Forerunner 225: New Wearable By Garmin
CHRISTIAN TODAY - May 15 - The wearable is a culmination of a partnership with Mio, a tech company known for its award-winning performance wearables. The Forerunner 225 uses a built-in optical heart-rate sensor that shines light into the user's skin.
by Benjie Sambas
See full article Christian Today
Garmin Delta XC Series: E-Collars For Dogs
MARKET WATCH - Mar 25 - The Delta XC is a sleek, ergonomic, and simple-to-use electronic training system for dog owners who want to teach their canine companion new commands, or refocus them away from unwanted behaviors. Featuring a wide range of customizable correction settings, including tone, vibration, and 18 levels of momentary and continuous stimulation for up to three dogs at up to half a mile away.
Garmin Smartwatch For Athletes
THE AUSTRALIAN - Mar 17 - The Vivoactive has exercise monitoring and full-on analytics that will appeal to those who train seriously. It displays phone call, text, calendar entries, emails and smartphone notifications on its clear, colourful yet relatively small 205x148 pixel touchscreen. It has in-built GPS and is waterproof to 50 metres.
by Chris Griffith
See full article at The Australian
Medidata Partners With Garmin
OUTSOURCING-PHARMA - Feb 20 - In another sign that mobile health technology is beginning to take off, cloud-based solution provider Medidata is collaborating with Garmin to integrate its vivofit activity tracker with the Medidata Clinical Cloud.
by Zachary Brennan
See full article at Outsourcing-Pharma.com
Garmin Vivosmart: The Smarter Fitness Band
THE STAR - Feb 2 - It's a fitness band with some smartwatch features. Alongside all the usual movement and sleep tracking that is commonplace with all fitness bands, the Vivosmart utilises the white OLED screen to show smartphone notifications. The Vivosmart can go for up to seven days on a single charge.
by Tan Kit Hoong
See full article at The Star
Garmin's Wearables App Partnerships
KANSAS CITY BUSINESS JOURNAL - Jan 12 - The Olathe-based GPS giant announced developer deals with Tempo, LifeLine Response, AccuWeather, iSKI, Komoot, Octane Fitness and Moxy that will create apps for a few of its fitness products, including the vívoactive, epix, fenix 3 and Forerunner 920 XT. The firms will offer apps like calendars, personal safety, air quality and allergy information, snow reports, trail navigation, workouts and a muscle oxygen sensor interface to users of Garmin's wearables.
by Bobby Burch
See full article at Kansas City Business Journal
Garmin’s Fenix 3 Sports Watch
TECH CRUNCH - Jan 5 - The multi-sport device can record running and swimming as well as almost any outdoor activity including hiking and skiing. It has a large GPS antenna in the bezel and features a transflective display which makes it readable in direct sunlight and allows it to last for six weeks in watch mode or 20 hours of active usage. It will be available starting at $499 in the spring.
Apps For Ski Performance
SCI-TECH TODAY - Oct 25 -
The Trace app to tracks ski performance using a sensor that sticks to a ski or snowboard and can identify and record airborne tricks. The data collected can be examined and shared, offering new potential bragging rights and quantifiable improvement.
Vail Resorts' EpicMix app uses a radio-frequency identification chip that knows each skiers' exact location, and tracks how much distance and vertical feet they cover, and which lifts they take on a Vail-owned mountain.
The SnowEdge app tracks speed, airtime and distance, and the acceleration of turns, and rates them with a score of 0 to 1,000. The faster the acceleration, the stronger and sharper the turn, and the higher the score.
The Garmin Fenix2, a multisport watch that tracks speed, distance, vertical drop, and has an automatic run counter, GPS radio, compass and altimeter.
The Snow2 ski goggles by Recon Instruments delivers real-time speed, vertical descent, altitude and airtime to a skier's sight line and can be installed in Oakley, O'Neill and Smith brand goggles.
Squaw Valley is launching the ski industry's first Google Glass app, which will allow Glass wearers initially to access real-time information about lift and trail openings, with more features added later.
Wearable Technology In Aviation
AVIATION WEEK - Oct 21 -
Honeywell Aerospace is developing its own variant of Google Glass with a hands-free device that allows flights attendant to manage virtually the entire cabin with just a few words here and there.
The Flight Display Systems ‘wrist watch style’ cabin control device will allow the wearer to view speed, altitude and ETA, and depending on the cabin management system, it can control lights, audio/video and more. It will also permit the flight attendant to communicate with passengers.
The Garmin D2 Pilot Watch comes with a high-sensitivity WAAS GPS receiver, altimeter with adjustable barometer setting and 3-axis compass, and allows users to access ‘Direct-to’ and ‘Nearest’ routing with a simple push of a button, provide a view of the route on a moving map display.
Garmin Super Smart Forerunner 920XT
TECH CRUNCH - Oct 1 - The new model of running watch is waterproof; allows you to track bicycle rides and pool laps; connects with paired Bluetooth device to receive smart notifications, text messages, and notifications; is WiFi enabled; and costs $449 without a heart rate monitor and $499 with.
Garmin To Open App Store For Wearables
GPS BUSINESS NEWS - Sep 24 - The company announced Connect IQ, an open platform for third-party developers to create apps for Garmin wearable products, that will be downloadable through an app store. Garmin will start to sell products accepting third party apps early 2015.
Garmin Blends Activity Tracker With Smartwatch
NY TIMES - Sep 4 - The Vivosmart watch builds upon Garmin's Vivofit activity tracker and can work with Garmin heart rate monitors to record heart rates during workouts, can record data from a Garmin bike speed sensor, can remotely control the company's GoPro-like action cameras, and uses Bluetooth to synchronize with the Garmin Connect smartphone app. The watch will be on sale in mid-September for $169.99.
Wearable Band Shipments Up 684% In 1H 2014
ANDROID HEADLINES - Aug 24 - Shipments of wearable bands, including Fitbit and Jawbone UP, have increased 684% from the first half of 2013 to the first half of 2014, according to Canalys. For basic bands, Fitbit was top in shipments, followed by Jawbone UP and Garmin's Vivofit. For smartwatches, Samsung was top in shipments, followed by Pebble Steel and Sony's Smartwatch 2. The numbers for Samsung's Gear Live and LG's G Watch with be posted in Q3.
Garmin Partners With MyFitnessPal
TWICE – June 19 – Garmin has partnered with MyFitnessPal to display net calorie counts on its Vivofit and Forerunner 15 GPS running watches. MyFitnessPal links to a Garmin Connect account to enable a widget on the home page. The access will be expanded to other Forerunner models and Edge GPS bike computers later this summer.
by John Laposky
See full article at Twice
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