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Overview
A purpose-built GPS running smartwatch that helps you meet your goals with personalised adaptive training plans and a bright AMOLED display to light up your progress.
Features
- Lightweight GPS running smartwatch with brilliant 1.2" AMOLED touchscreen display
- 43 mm case size, suitable for wrists with a circumference of 126-203 mm
- Battery life: up to 11 days in smartwatch mode, 19 hours in GPS only mode
- Over 25+ activity profiles for indoor and outdoor sports including ultra running and open-water swimming
- Morning report shows overview of sleep, training outlook, HRV status and weather
- Plan your training strategy with race widget, personalised daily workouts and training readiness score
- Adaptive daily suggested workouts matched to your performance and recovery
- Includes Garmin Coach: adaptive training plans to help you reach your goals
- Training Effect metric shows how your workouts impact your fitness
- Body battery energy monitoring, stress, hydration and respiration tracking, advanced sleep monitoring
- Sleep monitoring and sleep score, nap detection
- Wrist based running dynamics to measure running metrics such as cadence, stride, ground csontact time and more
- Measures V02 max to indicate fitness level over time
- HRV status to get understaning of your overall healtch, training and recovery
- Sensors: wrist-based heart rate (Elevate V4), barometric altimeter, compass, accelerometer, thermometer, Pulse OX
- Multi GNSS support - GPS, GLONASS and Galileo
- Download songs and play lists for phone-free listening
- Contactless payments
- Smart notifications: texts, emails, alerts and social media
- Customisable with downloadable apps, widgets, watch faces using Connect IQ store
- Syncs with Garmin Connect, the online community for uploading, sharing and competing
- Safety and tracking features to let others know where you are
Forerunner 165 differences to Forerunner 265 at a glance
- Single sized 43mm case rather than multiple sizes on Forerunner 265
- Missing most of the training and recovery tools found in the Forerunner 265
- Missing Training Readiness, Training Status, Training Load
- No triathlon mode option
- Smaller selection of sports profiles, missing skiing/snowboarding amongst others
- Not compatible with power meters, eBike sensors, Smart Trainer, VIRB
- Does not include multiband GNSS support or SATIQ technology
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Package Includes
- Garmin Forerunner 165 Music - Black/Slate Grey
- USB-C Charging data cradle
- Documentation
Technical Specification
Garmin Forerunner 165 Music - Black | Product Code: 010-02863-30 |
What You'll Love | |
Sleep Score and Insights | yes |
Battery life (smartwatch mode) | Up to 11 days |
Daily Suggested Workouts | Yes (7 days) |
Pulse Ox Blood Oxygen Saturation | Yes (spot-check, during sleep, all day) |
Garmin Pay | yes |
Music storage | yes |
Watch display type | AMOLED (optional always-on mode) |
Touchscreen | yes |
Watch water rating | 5 ATM |
General | |
Lens material | Chemically strengthened glass |
Bezel material | Fibre-reinforced polymer |
Quick release bands | Yes (20 mm, Industry standard) |
Strap material | Silicone |
Physical size | 43 x 43 x 11.6 mm Fits wrists with a circumference of 126-203 mm |
Weight | 39 g |
Display Size | 30.4 mm (1.2") diameter |
Display Resolution | 390x390 pixels |
Colour display | yes |
Large font option | yes |
Battery life | Smartwatch mode: Up to 11 days Battery Saver Smartwatch mode: Up to 20 days GPS-Only GNSS mode: Up to 19 hours All-Systems GNSS mode: Up to 17 hours GPS-Only GNSS mode with music: Up to 7 hours All-Systems GNSS mode with music: Up to 6.5 hours |
Charging method | Garmin proprietary plug charger |
Memory/history | 4 GB |
Clock features | |
Time/date | yes |
GPS time sync | yes |
Automatic daylight saving time | yes |
Alarm clock | yes |
Timer | yes |
Stopwatch | yes |
Sunrise/sunset times | yes |
Health & Wellness Monitoring | |
Wrist-based heart rate (constant, every second) | yes |
Daily Resting Heart Rate | yes |
Abnormal Heart Rate Alerts | Yes (high and low) |
Respiration Rate (24x7) | yes |
Fitness Age | yes |
Body Battery Energy Monitor | yes |
All-day Stress | yes |
Relaxation reminders | yes |
Relaxation Breathing Timer | yes |
Breathwork | yes |
Sleep | Yes (Advanced) |
Nap detection | yes |
Hydration | Yes (in Garmin Connect and optional Connect IQ widget) |
Women's Health | Yes (in Garmin Connect and optional Connect IQ widget) |
Health Snapshot | yes |
Sensors | |
GPS | yes |
GLONASS | yes |
Galileo | yes |
Garmin Elevate wrist heart rate monitor | yes |
Pulse Ox Blood Oxygen Saturation Monitor | yes |
Barometric altimeter | yes |
Compass | yes |
Accelerometer | yes |
Thermometer | yes |
Ambient light sensor | yes |
Daily smart features | |
Connectivity | Bluetooth, ANT+, Wi-Fi |
Connect IQ (downloadable watch faces, data fields, widgets and apps) | yes |
On-device Connect IQ Store | yes |
Smart Notifications | yes |
Text response/reject phone call with text (Android only) | yes |
View images from notifications on watch (Android only) | yes |
Morning report | yes |
Calendar | yes |
Weather forecasts | yes |
Realtime settings sync with Garmin Connect mobile | yes |
Battery Saver - customisable low power watch | yes |
Controls smartphone music | yes |
Plays and controls watch music | yes |
Find my phone | yes |
Find my watch | yes |
Compatible with Garmin Connect Mobile | yes |
Smartphone compatibility | iPhone, Android |
Activity Profiles | |
Gym | Strength, HIIT, Cardio, Elliptical Training, Stair Stepping, Floor Climbing |
WELLNESS | Walking, Pilates, Yoga |
INDOOR RUNNING | Treadmill Running, Indoor Track Running, Virtual running |
Outdoor running | Running, Outdoor Track Running, Trail Running, Ultra Running |
Outdoor recreation | Hiking |
Cycling | Biking, Indoor Biking |
Swim | Pool Swimming, Open Water Swimming |
Racket sports | Tennis, Pickleball, Padel |
Safety and tracking features | |
Incident Detection during select activities | yes |
Incident detection alert on phone for wearables | yes |
Assistance | yes |
LiveTrack | yes |
Live Event Sharing | Android Only |
Activity tracking features | |
Step counter | yes |
Move alerts (displays on device after a period of inactivity; walk for a couple of minutes to reset it) | yes |
Auto goal (learns your activity level and assigns a daily step goal) | yes |
Calories Burned | yes |
Floors climbed | yes |
Distance travelled | yes |
Intensity minutes | yes |
TrueUp | yes |
Move IQ | yes |
Garmin Connect Challenges app | Yes (optional Connect IQ app) |
Fitness equipment/gym | |
Cardio workouts | yes |
Strength workouts | yes |
HIIT workouts | yes |
Yoga workouts | yes |
Pilates workouts | yes |
Automatic rep counting | yes |
Training, planning and analysis features | |
Customisable screen(s) | yes |
Downloadable training plans | yes |
Course guidance | yes |
HR Zones | yes |
HR Alerts | yes |
HR Calories | yes |
% HR Max | yes |
% HRR | yes |
Recovery Time | yes |
Auto Max HR | yes |
Race glance/widget | yes |
HRV Status | yes |
HR Broadcast (broadcasts HR data over ANT+ to paired devices) | yes |
Respiration Rate (During Exercise) | Yoga and breathwork only |
GPS speed and distance | yes |
Customisable activity profiles | yes |
Auto Pause | yes |
Interval training | yes |
Advanced workouts | yes |
HRM running pace and distance | yes |
Auto Lap | yes |
Manual lap | yes |
Rest timer | yes |
Configurable lap alerts | yes |
VO2 Max (Run) | yes |
VO2 Max (Trail Run) | yes |
Training Effect | yes |
Training Effect (Anaerobic) | yes |
Primary benefit (Training Effect labels) | yes |
Audio prompts | yes |
Finish time | yes |
Touch and/or button lock | yes |
Activity history on watch | yes |
Physio TrueUp | yes |
Running features | |
GPS-based distance, time and pace | yes |
Running dynamics | yes |
Vertical oscillation and ratio | yes |
Ground contact time and balance | Yes (but not balance) |
Stride length (real time) | yes |
Cadence (provides real-time number of steps per minute) | yes |
Running power | yes |
PacePro Pacing Strategies | yes |
Run workouts | yes |
Race predictor | yes |
Course- and weather-specific race predictor | yes |
Foot pod capable | yes |
Run/Walk/Stand detection | yes |
Outdoor recreation | |
Point-to-point navigation | yes |
Bread crumbtrail in real time | yes |
Back to start | yes |
TracBack | yes |
UltraTrac mode | yes |
Elevation profile | yes |
Distance to destination | yes |
Total ascent/descent | yes |
Rest Timer (Ultra Run only) | yes |
Auto Rest | yes |
Future elevation plot | yes |
Area calculation | Yes (via Connect IQ) |
Fish forecast | Yes (via Connect IQ) |
Sun and moon information | Yes (via Connect IQ) |
Cycling features | |
Courses | yes |
Alerts (triggers alarm when you reach goals including time, distance, heart rate or calories) | yes |
Compatible with Varia radar (rear-facing radar) | yes |
Compatible with Varia lights | yes |
Speed and cadence sensor support (w/sensor) | yes |
Swimming features | |
Open-water swim metrics (distance, pace, stroke count/rate, stroke distance, swim efficiency (SWOLF), calories) | yes |
Pool swim metrics (lengths, distance, pace, stroke count, swim efficiency (SWOLF), calories) | yes |
Stroke type detection (freestyle, backstroke, breaststroke, butterfly) (pool swim only) | yes |
Drill logging (pool swim only) | yes |
Basic rest timer (up from 0) (pool swim only) | yes |
"Repeat on" rest timer (pool swim only) | yes |
Auto rest (pool swim only) | yes |
Time and distance alerts | yes |
Countdown start | yes |
Underwater wrist-based heart rate | yes |
Kid activity tracking features | |
Toe-to-Toe Challenges app | Yes (optional Connect IQ Toe-to-Toe Challenges app) |
Customer Reviews
Customer Reviews for the Garmin Forerunner 165 Music - Black.