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Overview
Easy to use GPS running watch with a 42mm watch face and all the features you need to track your stats.
Product Features
- Easy-to-use GPS running smartwatch with wrist-based heart rate suitable for everyday wear
- 42mm case size, suitable for wrists with a circumference of 126-203 mm
- Includes a comprehensive range of in-built sport apps and activity profiles
- Standard features include health & wellness monitoring, activity tracking and training analysis
- Includes activity profiles for running, cycling, swimming and outdoor recreation
- Garmin Coach for adaptive training plans to help you reach your goals
- Daily suggested workouts, PacePro technology, recovery advisor, cadence alerts
- Multi GNSS support - GPS, GLONASS and Galileo - to get accurate stats
- Battery life: up to 2 weeks in smartwatch mode, 20 hours in GPS mode
- Smart notifications: texts, emails, alerts and social media
- Syncs with Garmin Connect, the online community for uploading, sharing and competing
- Safety and tracking features to let others know where you are
- Customisable watch faces using Connect IQ store
Product Screen Shots
Product Package Includes
- Forerunner 55 - Whitestone GPS watch
- Charging/data cradle
- Documentation
Specs
Technical Specification
| Garmin Forerunner 55 Whitestone | Product Code: 010-02562-11 |
General | |
| Lens material | Chemically strengthened glass |
| Quick release bands | Yes (20 mm, Industry standard) |
| Strap material | Silicone |
| Physical size | 42 x 42 x 11.6 mm Fits wrists with a circumference of 126-203 mm |
| Colour display | yes |
| Display size | 1.04? (26.3 mm) diameter |
| Display resolution | 208 x 208 pixels |
| Display type | Sunlight-visible, transflective memory-in-pixel (MIP) |
| Weight | 37 g |
| Battery life | Smartwatch mode: Up to 2 weeks GPS mode: Up to 20 hours |
| Water rating | 5 ATM |
| Memory/history | 200 hours of activity data |
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 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 tracking | yes |
| Relaxation reminders | yes |
| Relaxation breathing timer | yes |
| Sleep | Yes (Advanced) |
| Hydration | Yes (in Garmin Connect and optional Connect IQ widget) |
| Women's Health | yes |
Sensors | |
| GPS | yes |
| GLONASS | yes |
| Galileo | yes |
| Garmin Elevatewrist heart rate monitor | yes |
| Accelerometer | yes |
Daily smart features | |
| Connectivity | Bluetooth, ANT+ |
| Connect IQ (downloadable watch faces, data fields, widgets and apps) | yes |
| Smart Notifications | yes |
| Calendar | yes |
| Weather | yes |
| Controls smartphone music | yes |
| Find my phone | yes |
| Find my watch | yes |
| Smartphone compatibility | iPhone, Android |
| Compatible with Garmin ConnectMobile | yes |
Safety and Tracking Features | |
| LiveTrack | yes |
| Live Event Sharing | Android Only |
| Incident Detection during select activities | yes |
| Assistance | yes |
Activity tracking features | |
| Step counter | yes |
| Move bar (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 |
| Distance travelled | yes |
| Intensity minutes | yes |
| TrueUp | yes |
| Move IQ | yes |
Fitness equipment/gym | |
| Available gym activity profiles | Cardio and Elliptical Training, Stair Stepping, HIIT, Pilates, Yoga |
Training, planning and analysis features | |
| HR zones | yes |
| HR alerts | yes |
| HR calories | yes |
| Recovery time | yes |
| Auto max HR | 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 screen(s) | yes |
| Customisable activity profiles | yes |
| Auto Pause | yes |
| Interval training | yes |
| Advanced workouts | yes |
| Downloadable training plans | yes |
| Auto Lap | yes |
| Manual lap | yes |
| Configurable lap alerts | yes |
| VO2 Max (Run) | yes |
| Improved recovery time | Yes (limited) |
| Daily suggested workouts | Yes (limited) |
| Audio prompts | yes |
| Finish time | yes |
| Touch and/or button lock | yes |
| Activity history on watch | yes |
| Physio TrueUp | yes |
Running features | |
| Available run profiles | Running, Treadmill Running, Track Running, Indoor Track Running, Virtual Running |
| GPS-based distance, time and pace | yes |
| Cadence (provides real-time number of steps per minute) | yes |
| PacePro Pacing Strategies | yes |
| Run workouts | yes |
| Race predictor | yes |
| Foot pod capable | yes |
Outdoor recreation | |
| Area calculation | Yes (via Connect IQ) |
| Hunt/fish calendar | Yes (via Connect IQ) |
| Sun and moon information | Yes (via Connect IQ) |
Cycling features | |
| Alerts (triggers alarm when you reach goals including time, distance, heart rate or calories) | yes |
| Available cycling profiles | Biking, Indoor Biking |
| Speed and cadence sensor support (w/sensor) | yes |
Swimming Features | |
| Available swim profiles | Pool Swimming |
| 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) |
Reviews
Customer Reviews
Customer Reviews for the Garmin Forerunner 55 Whitestone.
Our Comment
The Garmin Forerunner 55 running watch is aimed at runners who want all the essential running metrics but don't need some of the other features in the higher-end watches. In essence the
