GARMIN FORERUNNER 965: Is this the best running watch money can buy?
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- Опубліковано 28 лис 2023
- GARMIN FORERUNNER 965: Is this the best running watch money can buy?
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A thorough, enthusiastic and informative review, as always. Thanks for helping us make sound financial decisions on our expensive gear.
Thanks, Chris! Unfortunately I don’t think gear is getting any less expensive. 🤣 It seems everything is expensive at this point!
Thank you. This was an excellent review.
Cheers, Stephan! 👊🏽
Definitely helped me in my decision 👍🏼
Glad to hear it! Thanks for watching!
Thank you for your review! I'm probably going to buy it using your affiliate link.
Thanks, Fernando! It's a fantastic watch!
Using the forerunner 265. Does the Job for me 👌
The FR265 is great value for money! It seems that the more expensive watches do a lot more stuff most people will never use!
Helll yeahhh I have a Garmin Venu sq it get the job done for now I’ll love to have a watch like this one
The Venu sq is packed with features and is a great price!
@@its_Matt_B_ ohhh yeahhh it get the job good for my all my runs I do more trial runs but I hit some black top ever day on my runs I make short videos hop to be like u one day with the all the runner gear
Excellent review.
Cheers, Phil! 👊🏽
Love my 265
The FR 265 is a great watch. I'll be making a review of that soon.
I use the COROS pace 2 with the COROS HR monitor. Great review 👍🏽😁
The Pace 2 is a great watch, and COROS's updates make it even better today than when it was released!
It’s pretty sweet, hopefully they can eventually make an Enduro with that screen and a 48 hour plus gps battery life.
I love my Enduro because it seems to last for weeks and weeks with regular training.
Even after a hundred miler that was nearly 35 hours, the watch still has about 12 days of battery life.
Thanks for the review 👍
When it comes to battery life, the Enduro is tough to beat! I’m sure they’ll figure out and AMOLED screen with great battery life one day….although I’m not holding my breath!
The Epix Pro 51mm is using the Enduro battery, so that tells you how much AMOLED will suck battery life
If taken into account that the Polar Pacer Pro could be had for 160 € last time I checked... It´s quality is quite amazing.
This is true!
The 965 came out suddenly right after I bought my 955 Solar. I put on a screen cover instead of buying Sapphire, but the cover isn't awesome. Garmin's Running Power is too unresponsive (relative to Stryd) to be useful, and their support of Stryd has diminished causing a LOT of frustration with integrations, alerts, etc. I upload music files via Garmin Express from Apple Music, which allows me to play music files on the watch-- essential for me since I use these playlists like a metronome. Battery on 955 Solar (in cloudy conditions) with everything on and going will last around 6-7 hrs, so you have to plug in a battery bank for longer races. I use a Lokeke charger dock for this, but USB-C on the side would be much better. The Stamina is useful but is hard to use in a race. I finished NYC with 25% left and I wish I could have known how I was doing in the middle of the race. Great review, Matt!
Yeah, the FR965 was a little bit of a surprise considering the 955 was so recent!
I haven’t glanced at the power numbers because I’ve no way to interpret them. Stryd just makes power easy!
As far as stamina, were you running all out at NYC when you had 25% remaining?
@@its_Matt_B_ Definitely not all out. Not even close. I think Stamina works pretty well but the screen with distance left means you have to calculate, which is hard in the latter part of a race (actually it's challenging at any time). It would be better if you could input how far you plan to go and get a green/red relative to that. Also the distance left doesn't work if you are going to a new distance. I'm sure they will improve the interface and choices around Stamina but now I find it difficult to use.
@@eric-running-to-chamonix Agreed. It does seem a little gimmicky, but I like the idea behind it.
Cha-ching $$$. Nice review, as always. Thanks, Matt.
Cheers, Michael! Yeah, $600 is a lot of money until you see Garmin's $800-$1000 offerings! Well, I suppose it's still a lot of money! 😁
@@its_Matt_B_ I suppose I could take out a 2nd mortgage LOL
@@Wings_nut Yeah, that’s always an option. The more difficult part would be telling the wife you’re doing it! 😆
@@its_Matt_B_ Got that right. I guess the same goes for 1st born male child.
@@its_Matt_B_ There's that.
955 is the much better buy imo
Yeah, it’s a big savings, for sure!
Hi, first of all thanks for your great video! I now have a Vivoactive 4 and thinking about buying the Forerunner 965. Can you convince me?
Hmm, my bet is that you're already convinced. You're already in Garmin's ecosystem, so you know what you're getting. The FR965 is ultimately the most advanced running watch you can buy. Yes, you could go with the Epix or Fenix, but those are substantially bigger. The FR965 gives you all the features you want even if they're not a "need," but who really "needs" a $600 running watch? That was a rhetorical question; YOU need a $600 running watch! You work hard and you deserve it!
I use the same watch and I miss my previous watch 955 solar, it's bad not to be able to do sports on a white background, the biggest disadvantage is that the inner screen is always black
Is this your only issue with the FR965? Do you like how bright the screen is otherwise? Have you looked in the IQ store for watch faces/data screens with a white background?
In general, I found the 965 model very unnecessary after the 955 solar, not being able to select satellites like in the 245, not being able to use glonass or galileo satellites, my personal opinion is that the new generation watches do not measure the data accurately. I have bought and used all kinds of products up to Hrm pro, while running 5.30 pace on the 245, it can average 6.00 pace on the 955 or 965, so I do not believe that the new generation watches measure the data accurately, on the 955 we could choose black or white on the back screen, but on the 965 this option was completely removed, it was said that the white color consumed the battery quickly.
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@@erdig547 Interesting about the newer watches being less accurate. I haven’t noticed, but it sounds like you may pay closer attention to your speed while running than I do. I mainly look at my data after the fact.
The white background using too much battery makes sense to why they did away with it on this version.
I looked at both and wound up with the 955. Had used Coros MIP displays previously and have had a Garmin Venu 2 with AMOLED for quite a while. In general I don't really miss the AMOLED - it's a watch and the screen is just eye-candy and the shiny feeling wears off. Always on display, white activity background, better GPS battery performance, etc etc. I understand the appeal (obvs I still have the Venu) but if I kept one, it'd be the 955.
When do you use the Venu over the 955? Is the Venu your everyday watch? @@therealchickentender
Garmin enduro is the best watch.
If you need that insane battery life, the Enduro is for sure the way to go!
You haven't mentioned about one problem with Amoled display. It has Always On Display during activity, but the screen can't work with consistent brightness. It dims after max. 15 second to the low level. You have to wake it up by the clear gesture. It is not a problem during slow run., but when you fight at 95% HR Max in sunny weather it is annoying. That's why for races I'm taking old FR 255.
Thanks for pointing this out! 👊🏽 This is a legit reason to stay with a transflective display.
95% of my runs are before sunrise so it wasn’t something I found to be a problem.
Can't you tweak the settings in "Display" to configure it to do what you want? I'm sure it has been fixed with an update by now.
You convinced me! I am going to upgrade from the 245 to the 965. Does the 965 predict your lactate threshold? if so, do you find the value accurate? or do you manually input this? On that note, do you find the predictive heart rate zones accurate? or do you input your own values in the settings?
This is an area i'm unsure of. At the moment I have input my own values, but I now want the watch to detect my LTH (HR and pace) but I haven't found how to do it. My own input number have remained the same since I put them in.
I just did this same upgrade.. massive improvement overall
@@jr30586I'm thinking the same, I have an FR245 but would like to get an FR965.
955 for me. AMOLED is pretty, but pretty appeal wears off. MIP is functionality.
This is a legit reason to buy the FR955 (as well as the price). Yes, the AMOLED display looks great, but when it comes down to it, as you say, the appeal wears off.
I have a question that you may be able to help with regarding navigation. If I'm in a city I haven't been to before and know the street and house number I need to reach, can I set it on my watch, or can I move and zoom in on the map on my phone and try to find the place and click it as a destination? Can I also use my phone to enter an address and send the destination to my watch?
I have been clicking around trying every which way to do this and it appears like this cannot be done immediately from the watch.
After a quick search there does seem to be a way to do it via ConnectIQ apps, but it seems very convoluted and not worth the time or effort if you have a phone with you.
The navigation features work with a course that is loaded onto the watch or by searching the area you're in and providing a fairly extensive list on points of interest.
@@its_Matt_B_ Thanks for checking. I isn't a deal breaker, but it would have been nice if the people at Garmin had implemented that. 🙂
100% agreed! It seems like they've got all the software to do it!@@Bob-yf3sf
Isnt it hubble telescope 😅 do you think this watch will get pro version in 2024 with new hr sensor?
🤣 No. This is the top-end watch. There will not be a Pro version.
In my opinion all of those watches tested will get the job done. That said, I wont argue with those that believe Garmin offers the “best” performance, but I’m turned off a little in two areas: (1) It seems like everyone has a Garmin and (2) They are almost so feature rich that they lose a little bit of simplicity.
P.S. I do like the Amoled displays.
You don't have to use all the features! It is very simple to just press and go!
🤣 I'm laughing because I'm also put off because everyone has a Garmin! Yes, the certainly are very heavy with features and on my regular runs I only use one of them: start/stop.
I have a comparison video dropping next week between this and some less expensive Forerunners. @@Fozzee.1970
@@its_Matt_B_ I'll stick with my 51mm Epic Pro thanks 😘
Had 965 but just got fennix 7 pro on sale £513 what u think better or worse?? The screen on 965 is prone to scratches
I wouldn't say the FR965 is prone to scratches; Gorilla Glass is scratch resistant. With that said, nothing is as protective as sapphire, so if scratches are you main concern, the F7P is the way to go! If you can find a deal on the Epix 2 you'd get the AMOLED screen AND a sapphire lens! 🤔
@@its_Matt_B_ yeah maybe true just hear a lot of comments n reviews of people saying they’ve got scratches on it after a couple weeks but yeah I get your point about epix 🤔
Going back to 965 fennix to bulky and miss amoled
My friend this watch has a night mode ? Like the Apple Watch Ultra with all display in red ?
No, it does not have a display like the Apple Watch Ultra's red night mode. There is a "sleep" mode, but thats just a dim minimal display showing the time.
@@its_Matt_B_ thank my friend! Resume: No flashlight, no night mode . I’ll go either way Epix pro
@@thiegoac The Epix is a great watch! If you like that style (I do!), it’s the one to get! 🙌🏽
Just want to add to this conversation. Yes, the 965 has red shift mode. You have to request to be a beta tester on their website, but the update for it is pending release soon as per Garmin's comments so you can always wait. Beta testers get early access to updates, its just that they may be a bit buggy. It takes less than 24 hours after request to get the beta update on your device.
This is great! Thank you! I just enrolled!
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Question is, do you need it? Probably not.
Aside from the basic necessities, can't the same question be asked of anything we buy?
But perhaps you just need a little encouragement...yes, you NEED this watch!! It's a fun addition to your running! 😉
@@its_Matt_B_ I don't know Matt, I was thinking more along the lines that we don't actually need it because we probably already have a smart watch or something similar. Buying for buying sake because it's new and shiny and materialism is just getting out of hand. I understand your job is to review (promote) these things so for you it's essential people keep buying but I think we consume far too much and really don't need it. I mean, it's almost becoming a trend to have to have the newest version and these companies are dictating that time (12 months?). Too much imo. Don't think it's about excitement. I bought a second hand Fenix s and it's doing me just fine. Thanks.
@@EvilestGem I actually agree with you 100%. I review products but I don’t benefit financially in any meaningful way when people buy, so it makes no difference. You’re right about materialism and people wanting to upgrade just because there is an upgrade available. In reality, I use this watch everyday and don’t use any features that aren’t available on a low end gps watch. The AMOLED screen and training metrics are nice, but in no way do they rise to “need” status.
@@EvilestGemI have just purchased the forerunner 965. Turned up yesterday. I already owned a Smartwatch, a galaxy 5 Pro. I sold my Smartwatch to CEX. If people didn't buy new and sell their old stuff you wouldn't of been able to buy your second hand fenix. If someone's got the money to spend I see no problem in spending it on whatever you please.
Don’t need to watch this video, it has maps, lack of weight and accuracy! Sold!
But I obviously will Matt😳
Try watching without listening!🤣
I hear you! I don't always like to watch a video that is going to sway me to buy something want but don't need. But I would also argue to myself it is actually needed...
This one is ‘so needed’ I bought it few months ago and I can’t imagine using anything else now, I have had Apex pro’s vantage, Fenix, pacer pro, ace 2, all great watches but this is by far the best watch for me
Did you see what I did there?