Garmin Intros of the forerunner of 610, its first touch screen GPS watch for runners (video)

By Dana Wollman posted 12. Apr 2011 2:04 PM blinged of Garmin's his line of the forerunner GPS watches, offer something for everyone with charts and even a dash o ' pink. But the new, slimmed-down predecessor of 610 to the first, a touch screen function, which you can tap, flip-down menus instead of feeling for a host of bantam buttons. For your $350 it will distance display, elapsed time and speed all on one screen, but you can use other metrics, such as heart rate. The 610 is also the first in the row with a run / walk is active warning, the car lap and other functions even when it detects you are foot. As always, can you your running in excruciating detail Web page upload, but this clock jumps on the running-esque where you compare your stats with foreign social train with "Virtual racer," a community of Nike (or just try your own PRs besteWenn you don't like the games).

After the registration, some epic runs with the Nano, touch screen, we would be curious to see, how the screen responds to the fingers sweaty although Garmin promises it rain by sweat, and touchscreen-friendly work gloves. It is now on Garmin's website, although we you hardcore runners check out DC Rainmaker review below suggest: it's everything you wanted to know about the 610 but dared to questions, including comparison shots with other precursor and a glove test.

Garmin ? Forerunner ? added family its first touch screen GPS clock

OLATHE, Kan-(BUSINESS_WIRE) - Garmin International Inc., a unit of Garmin Ltd. (NASDAQ: Dr.), the global leader in satellite navigation, was now known, the forerunner 610 sports watch - a slender, yet sturdy and weather-resistant touch screen solution for serious runners, a great advantage. Precursor 610 stands up to rain, sweat, and splashes and is responsive enough that it can be operated with running gloves. Precursor 610 was announced in preparation for world-class marathons in Boston and London, as well as the Australian Fitness Expo, where it is prominently displayed at the Garmin booths in each location.

"From the basics as speed, distance and time to monitor your effort a friend on the other side of the world by heart rate, creating intervals and racing, will give precursor 610 necessary partner for all serious runners."

"With precursor 610 is like with trainer with you every step of the way," said Dan Bartel, Garmin's Vice President of worldwide sales. "From the basics as speed, distance and time to monitor your effort a friend on the other side of the world by heart rate, creating intervals and racing, will give precursor 610 necessary partner for all serious runners."

It is now easier than ever before to see how far, how fast and how hard you worked. Precursor 610 puts it all at your fingertips. Designed for runners, which constantly seeking improvement, forerunner is 610 Garmin's new flagship model. Precursor 610's, supplemented the highly responsive touch screen high-definition display the elegant stylish design. This innovative design has drawn praise from the international design community by winning the coveted red dot design award, the world's largest and most renowned design competition in a field of thousands of entries from over 60 countries. To see the forerunner-610 in action, go to www.garmin.com/touch.
Precursor 610 used vibration motor for alerts such as heart rate, speed and distance measurement if audible tones are heard (heart monitor included in some bundles or available separately). With the heart rate monitor precursor 610 allows also runners to their intensity on the new feature benefits to pursue. The right information it is not necessary scientists, a trainer or sports so that you effectively train. Training effect measures the effects of aerobic fitness exercise and provides information, such as the training improves your fitness during training.

In a real race against the clock, precursor leads 610 virtual racer ?. With this new feature, Garmin has an answer to every excuse - no longer, "I could have beaten at the time" - where runners can race over their previous best times or against other users. These can runs on the clock stored or downloaded wirelessly from the large and expanding Garmin connect ? running community (http://connect.garmin.com) taken from. Here can their workouts are quick and easy user, track their totals, set goals, share workouts with friends and family and participate in an online fitness community of more than 50 million activities all over the world. Garmin connect displays metrics such as time, distance, pace, height, and heart rate. This information is displayed with charts, pictures, reports, and a variety of map representations including street, photo, topographic, and height maps.

With the growing popularity of the training method of run/walk in the distance running community (example: runs a runner for five minutes, takes a minute and repeated for the duration of the course), Garmin has included a new run/walk warning. This warning can precursor to 610 other features, such as such as auto lap and auto pause, to stay active during a run/walk session.

Precursor 610 is the latest breakthrough from Garmin, which has spent more than 20 years developing technologies and innovations to improve user life, profiled Garmin budget in the automotive, aviation, marine, wireless, outdoor and fitness industries. Go for more features, prices and availability, and information about Garmin's other products and services to www.garmin.com, www.garmin.blogs.com and http://twitter.com/garmin. To step by step, to see feature-specific tutorial videos for predecessor, 610 and other Garmin products, visit the online learning center at www.garmin.com/learningcenter.

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