Garmin has revealed the Garmin Lily 2 smartwatch and Garmin HRM-Match coronary heart fee monitor at CES 2024, together with a revamp of its in style Garmin Join app. 

The Garmin Lily 2 and Lily 2 Basic (a variant mannequin with totally different colorways and Garmin Pay NFC funds enabled) are “petite, trendy” slender watches weighing from 20.6g with a  cloth or leather-based strap, designed to seem like slim conventional ladies’s watches. They function a ‘hidden’ show, with the 240 x 201px display screen displaying a easy wallpaper-style sample till tapped. 

That is very totally different to the Forerunners, Fenix and the remainder of one of the best Garmin watches, which are likely to development in the direction of having always-on shows. The Lily 2 appears to have moved away from that in a acutely aware option to create a much less linked, hybrid aesthetic just like the Intuition Crossover or Nowatch.  

The Lily 2 differs from its predecessor, the unique Garmin Lily, in that it (fortunately) has on-watch GPS, so it’s a lot better for runners and cyclists. 

The Lily 2 sports activities as much as 5 days of battery life and loads of options widespread on Garmin’s cheaper watches, together with ladies’s well being and cycle monitoring, sleep scores, Physique Battery (however not the extra superior Coaching Readiness rating) and a pulse oximeter to verify your blood oxygen ranges. 

The Lily 2 is obtainable now from the Garmin web site, costing  $249.99 / £249.99 for the Lily 2 and $299.99 / £249.99 for the Lily 2 Basic, with Australia costs TBC. 

 HRM-Match coronary heart fee monitor 

Garmin’s HRM-Match is its latest addition to one of the best coronary heart fee displays line, mentioned to be “created for girls” that includes a clip-on design tailor-made to suit medium and high-support sports activities bras. 

Like different Garmin coronary heart fee displays, it’s designed to hook up with Garmin smartwatches and Edge biking computer systems to transmit correct real-time exercise data. It’s mentioned to pack “as much as one 12 months of battery life” and prices $149.99 / £139.99, with AU costs TBC. 

Garmin Join

That is thrilling. Garmin Join is bringing main modifications to its app, in a transfer rolling out to beta customers from right this moment. Joe Shrick, Garmin’s VP of health, calls this transformation “a simplified design” bringing “extra related insights to every buyer to tell and encourage them.” 

New classes will embody Right now’s Exercise, In Focus, At A Look, Occasions, Coaching Plans and Challenges. It’s unknown proper now how the structure will differ from the present record of My Day, Challenges, Calendar, Information Feed, and Extra, however the idea of an easier app sounds attention-grabbing – Garmin Join is commonly praised for its granularity and statistical depth. Whereas a extra streamlined design could assist onboard new customers, it might draw criticism from established customers ought to it take away an excessive amount of of that depth.

Fitbit just lately had an identical drawback, with its new design drawing criticisms for eliminating some legacy group options, and rolled out 5 much-needed fixes shortly after. 

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