Garmin’s premium GPS running and triathlon
smartwatch series has a new member - welcome to the Forerunner 745. It sits
just below the company’s flagship Forerunner 945 and offers all the necessary
tracking features to help you succeed in competitions and the long training hours
that get you there.
The Forerunner 745 packs all the fitness
tracking sensors and advanced stats of the more premium Garmin sportswatch
alongside basic smartwatch features like notification management, local music
storage and playback as well as NFC payments via Garmin Pay. It’s also Garmin’s
smallest and lightest full-featured running and triathlon smartwatch.
The watch is built around a 1.2-inch
transflective MIP (Memory in Pixel) always-on display with a 240 x 240-pixel
resolution. It measures 43.8 x 43.8 x 13.3 mm and weighs 47 grams. It comes
pre-loaded activity profiles for swimming, biking and running and can also
track over 100 other activities. There’s even advanced stats like swim pace and
stroke as well as cycling balance and platform center offset.
There’s also a blood oxygen sensor for VO2
max data and a pulse oximeter for sleep tracking. The watch is 5ATM waterproof
and offers Bluetooth and Wi-Fi connectivity though no cellular output. In terms
of battery, Garmin claims the Forerunner 745 can last one week with moderate
usage, 16 hours with GPS on and up to 6 hours with GPS and music playback. The
Forerunner 745 can be had in black, white, red and green colors for US$ 500/€ 490/£ 450.
