Garmin’s new Forerunner 405 puts the ‘watch’ back in ‘GPS watch’
Filed under: CES, GPS, Wearables, Wireless
Starting with the Forerunner 305, Garmin finally started producing GPS-enabled watches that didn’t make you look like a total goof while tracking your pace and vitals, but these still weren’t timepieces you’d be comfortable wearing to the office or even a bar. Then came the Forerunner 50, which had the perfect watch-like form factor, but unfortunately, no GPS. So fans of this line will be pleased to learn that Garmin has somehow been able to shoehorn a satellite receiver into a casing not much bigger than the 50’s and dubbed it the Forerunner 405. Besides monitoring and logging speed, distance, heart rate and location, the 405 also features a touch-sensitve bezel for controlling its various functions, as well as the same proprietary ANT+Sport wireless syncing technology as the GPS-less 50. Available in either black (pictured above) or green (pictured after the break), the Forerunner 405 will start at $299.
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