Garmin Forerunner 405 Sports Watch with USB ANT stick - Black

Item Description

Manufacturer's Description

The Forerunner 405 is a sleek sportswatch that tracks your time, distance, and pace then wirelessly sends the information to your Pc for later evaluation. With a high-sensitivity GPS receiver and HotFix™ satellite prediction, the Forerunner 405 locates your position just, swiftly and precisely and maintains its GPS location even in heavy cover and near tall buildings and trees.

Coaching attributes

Loaded with significant instruction features, the Forerunner 405 continuously records your time, distance, pace, and calories burned. Every workout is stored in significant internal memory (1000 laps) so you can evaluation and analyse the data to see how you've improved. And advanced coaching characteristics will challenge you to step up your pace - race against Forerunner's Virtual Partner® to improve your instances, or set up interval workouts with no having to circle the track. You can even download recorded courses to compete against prior workouts. To use the watch, simply tap the touch bezel to adjust screens without fumbling for a button.

Share Workouts Wirelessly

With Forerunner 405, you can share your places, advanced workouts and courses wirelessly with other Forerunner 405 users. Send your favourite workout to your buddies to try, or compete against an individual else's recorded course. Sharing data is straightforward: just pick "transfer" to send your details to a nearby device.

Run, Sync, Shop and Share

Once you've logged the miles, innovative ANT+™ wireless technologies automatically transfers information to your pc when Forerunner is in range. No cables, no hookups. The data's just there, prepared for you to analyze, categorize and share by way of our on the web community, Garmin Connect at http://connect.garmin.com. You can even plan workouts on your personal computer and then send them to your Forerunner.

Train All Year Round

Take your training inside with the versatile Forerunner 405 and optional wireless accessories. Pair it with an optional foot pod to track your pace, distance and operating cadence indoors when GPS signals are unavailable. The wireless foot pod clips onto your laces for quick removal and automatically turns on when you get started moving. Or pair your Forerunner with an optional speed/cadence bike sensor to track the speed and distance of your cycling workouts.

Box Contains

• Forerunner 405 Black sportswatch
• USB ANT stick
• AC charger
• Charging clip
• Manual

By : Garmin
Price : £155.99

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 1.9 x 5.2 x 10.3 cm ; 59 g
• Boxed-product Weight: 907 g
• Delivery Destinations: Visit the Delivery Destinations Help page to see where this item can be delivered.Find out more about our Delivery Rates and Returns Policy
• Batteries: 1 Lithium ion batteries required.
• Item model number: 010-00658-11
• ASIN: B0012XKD24
• Date first available at Amazon.co.uk: 15 Mar 2008
  

 

Garmin Forerunner 405 Sports Watch with USB ANT stick - Black

 

Technical Details

• Features a user-friendly touch-and-scroll bezel and tells you how far, how fast and where you train
• View distance, pace, time and heart rate (when paired with Garmin’s heart rate monitor) and set alerts to sound if you stray from your goal
• Create interval workouts based on time or distance and set rest periods during training sessions
• Race against previous runs and compete with a virtual partner over a set distance or time
• When Forerunner is in range of your computer, it automatically transfers training data for analysis and sharing at Garmin Connect

Costumer Reviews

this sportwatch / GPS is not excellent and depending on what you value, you'll either like it or hate it (as confirmed by the numerous critiques on the 405 and 305 and the comparisons in between the two). I'll list some criteria of mine and rate this watch accordingly. (Note: I've had it for a week now, and put to use it a variety of occasions, plus I have owned other Garmin handheld GPS devices in the past).

Dependable GPS: my largest complaint with prior GPS devices was that they lost the satelites under the trees which created their distance measurements pretty useless (as I run in a forest). This watch is extraordinary. it grabs onto the signal and holds it rapidly. Extremely cool!

wearable sport watch: unlike the 305 which is a bit huge and heavy for my tastes, this is really a wearable watch. Clearly this is vastly superior to the handheld gps devices (but of course no map either).

Utility for operating: when I run, I mainly care about the time (or lap time) and how far I have gone. Both of these pieces of facts are visible on the education screen (but it is essential to push both the buttons to lock the bezel so that odd points do not occur in the course of the run). So for my most important priorities, this watch is certainly good.

Characteristics: this is a full featured watch with all kinds of extras such as a virtual training partner to pace oneself against, etc. Extra than I will use, but it is quite loaded.

pc software package: conceptually there are certainly cool computer software package programs (like sporttracks freeware from zonefive software package and the less really good software program that garmin distributes) which really should make it enjoyable to analyze all the data (such as seeing your tracks in google earth). why I say conceptually need to turn into clear in my subsequent bullet.

now for the less superior stuff:

Ease of installation: Although receiving the watch up and running was fairly uncomplicated, I still haven't gotten the factor to talk to the ANT Pc USB stick nor have I gotten it to speak to the heart monitor! Even even though the watch says it has pairing enabled, and teh Computer says the ANT is looking for a watch. From googling about, apparently this difficulty can be solved, but at least based on what I read, no one particular has any really good theories as to waht the trouble is, or how to reliably address. Suffice it to say that a great number of persons, which includes me, located that the bluetooth wireless communication merely doesn't work well out of the box. Pretty frustrating. I'm a personal computer scientist by training and have some knowledge with electronic devices...however so far, to no avail.

usability: even though the bezel is a cool concept (ipod like), the instantiation of this idea is not amazing. the bezel is way sensitive and the menu structure is not intuitive. A single frequently ends up in locations a single does not want to be. With some time, experimentation, and mastering, it is usable...but these are not the hallmarks of an intuitive user interface style. I'm definitely glad they have the lock bezel function.

OK, I'm probably over amazon's suggested word count, so I'll quit. bottomline, I like the watch, glad I purchased it, and it serves my primary objectives nicely, but in a great number of ways I look at it a "version 1" and so you have to be a patient tech friendly person to rate it the way I did.

I upgraded from a 205 which had an superb user interface, great battery life, rich set of functions and was especially effortless to use. My main cause for upgrading is that I wanted a heart rate monitor built in and liked the concept of a smaller unit with greater GPS receiver. On balance I made an high-priced mistake and wish I'd just purchased a cheap HRM to go with my 205. Even though the addition of the HRM is nice and the device is smaller, almost everything else about it is worse than just before. The battery runs flat about twice as quick as just before (you can't switch the unit off - so it continually drains). The user interface (bevel) is appalling - it is hard to use when standing nevertheless, incredibly tricky to use when running and pretty much impossible to use once you get sweaty hands. The attributes are poor (less of them and less choices) compared to the 205, far much less intuitive driven menus and clumbsy in operation. It does not connect to MapSource (unlike the 205) since the USB link is purely for charging - and do not get me began on that useless ANT USB device - quite small navigation software recognises it. I function in the software sector as a developer and I would be too embarrassed to put out one thing as poor as this to my buyers. If you've currently got a 205/305 please please please keep it and don't upgrade just but. This item has a lot of maturing to do to get anyplace close to acceptable. If you are searching to acquire your to begin with GPS, and you don't know any better, this product may well impress you a tiny additional than it did me, but I would recommend for now that you purchase an older 205/305 which you can get for a steal.

 

Garmin Forerunner 405 Sports Watch with USB ANT stick - Black