The Garmin Forerunner 10 is a simple GPS watch that provides its wearer with information on how far and fast they have run. The gadget stores the data from your run so that you can upload and analyze it later on Garmin Connect. The Garmin Forerunner 10 is also water-resistant for up to 50-meter underwater. Its rechargeable battery provides enough juice for up to 5-hour of operating time in “training mode” or up to five weeks in “power-save mode”. The Garmin Forerunner 10 GPS watch retails for a suggested retail price of $129.99. Video after the jump.
Now that the patent trial of the decade is over bar the shouting, everyone’s back to ensuring they’ve called shotgun on enough of tomorrow’s technology. Cupertino has won a patent to enforce policies when your wireless device enters a specific location. Dry as that may sound, it means that your smartphone could automatically switch to silent and disable its display as soon as you enter a movie theater. Of course, it’s as likely to remain in Bruce Sewell’s bottom drawer as it is to be a feature in the next iPhone, but as perpetually-annoyed cinema-goers we’d pay good money to see it retrospectively installed in every handset from the last decade.
TPM is reporting that Craigslist is embedding maps on its housing adverts from crowdsourced mapping site, OpenStreetMap. While the listings-site isn’t boasting of the change, it’s the fourth major name to dump Google’s service after Foursquare, Wikipedia Mobile and Apple. While Mountain View has cut the cost of accessing its Maps API, it looks like budget-conscious corporations may be looking elsewhere.
GPS watches are great to track your runs, but most of them are kind of bulky. This new lightweight series from Garmin isn’t aimed at triathletes. It’s made to compete with some of the watches from Nike and Polar, which make it dead simple to track your runs.
The Garmin Forerunner 10 offers training features like a virtual pacer and auto pause settings, as well as a run/walk setting for beginning runners. The display shows the amount of calories burned, speed, distance and time. It will come in a few bright and bold colors, including apple green and cotton candy pink, as well as basic black, and it’s definitely less bulky than many of the other models on the market today.
Garmin usually offers expensive training watches, with a lot of features that most people don’t need. Nike+ is becoming widely adopted, so this $129(USD) watch hopes to offer a reasonably-priced alternative when it’s released this Fall.
A brand new Garmin GPS watch has been revealed this week in a series called Forerunner 10. This watch is able to provide its wearer with information on how far they’ve run and how fast they’ve run and brings on the ability to identify the wearer’s personal records as well. This device is a watch that’s made to be the company’s lightest and most comfortable unit yet, made with accuracy and reliability in mind for Garmin’s most solid and simple wrist-based device ever.
With the Forerunner 10, you’ll be able to select between three lovely wristband colors, and you’ll be able to work with the unit with the press of a single button. You’ll be able to customize your settings if you wish, but just tapping once and heading out the door is an option you’ll have right out of the box. Between runs, users are able to see previous runs, check Auto Pause and Auto Lap settings and change them up, and set an alarm.
Users can also edit their personal profile on the watch, with settings of all kinds available to help you show pace, distance, calories, and more displayed when you want them where you want them. While it is time and distance that you’ll be getting first and foremost here with the Forerunner 10, you’ll also be able to work with more advanced functions like Virtual Pacer. With Virtual Pacer, you’ll be able to compare your current pace with a target pace – you’ve also got a run/walk feature for those of you who include slower paces here and there along your daily run.
This Garmin running watch is the lightest made by the manufacturer and provides users with a water-resistant gadget up to 50m. This watch lasts up to 5 hours in “training mode” and up to five weeks in “power-save mode”, and is made to be able to work as a day-to-day timepiece as much as it is made to work for runs alone. This device connects with GarminConnect.com for uploading and saving previous run information, and sharing with friends and family is of course an option as well.
Your Forerunner 10 connects to your PC with a USB cord and is able to charge up at the same time as you’re uploading information to your computer and eventually to the web. This device will be popping up for a suggested retail price of $129.99 and is part of Garmin’s ever-growing fitness segment which, as they say, “focuses on developing technologies and innovations to enhance users’ lives and promote healthy and active lifestyles.” This watch will be available “this fall” at your local running shop.
Having a svelte design is paramount to the success of any fitness accessory — a desire to avoid hassle often prompts those of us who opt for purging calories without the convenience of a climate-controlled gym to leave smartphones, and even watches at home. That means nifty contraptions like Garmin’s new Fenix all-in-one wearable don’t make it to the jogging path, making a compact dedicated running watch a more desirable pick instead. That’s the idea behind the Forerunner 10, which Garmin is pushing as a dead-simple GPS-equipped wristwatch for runners, joggers and walkers. Water resistant to 50 meters (for ocean-floor sprints?), the gadget tracks essentials like pace and calories burned, while also keeping tabs on your coordinates, letting you download stats like distance and speed through a USB adapter and Garmin Connect.
We weren’t able to go for a jog, sadly, though we did spend some time with the Forerunner 10 in an office setting. The watch seemed very straightforward, which you’ll find to be quite helpful as you push to match a pre-set pace, without worrying about distractions. It comes in black, green or pink, and while the company suggests that you can wear the watch for non-exercise purposes as well, both colored designs seemed a bit too bright and flashy for regular use. The Forerunner 10 is rated for up to five hours of battery life in training mode, or five weeks in power-save mode (for regular time-keeping purposes), and is available to purchase for $130. You can check one out for yourself at Garmin’s Chicago retail location, or you can take a peek in our hands-on photos just below.
Until self-driving cars become mainstream, it’s best to keep eyes on roads and hands off phones. With this in mind, Samsung’s debuting Drive Link, an app that balances in-car essentials with driver safety, complete with approval from the no-nonsense Japanese Automotive Manufacturers Association. It’s all about the bare essentials — navigation, hands-free calling and audiotainment from your phone-based files or TuneIn. Destinations can be pulled from S Calendar appointments or texts without trouble, and the text-to-speech feature means you won’t miss a message, email or social media update. The best bit is that via MirrorLink, all these goodies can be fed through compatible dash screens and speaker systems. Drive Link is available now through Sammy’s app store for Europeans sporting an international Galaxy S III, and will be coming to other ICS handsets “in the near future.”
iOS app devs got Telenav turn-by-turn navigation access in March of this year, and now the same can be said for folks programming for Android and Windows Phone. In case you forgot, the Scout for Apps platform allows developers to incorporate Scout’s personalized navigation directly into their applications. Not only that, but Telenav’s making it easier for website owners to do the same for their websites with the release of the Scout Drive Button. The button puts the power of browser-based GPS mapping in an easy-to-implement widget, for free, with no coding expertise required. It also allows users to click the Drive button in their desktop browser to send a link to their phones that’ll launch navigation directly, as opposed to inputting the address into a nav app manually. Interested? More info awaits after the break, and devs can get down and dirty with both Scout for Apps and the Drive widget at the sources below.
Research in Motion has applied to patent a system for automatically drafting a blog entry on your smartphone. In the examples, it would build out the bare-bones of an entry as soon as it hits a “trigger event,” such as taking a picture at a pre-determined set of GPS co-ordinates. Presumably, all you’d have to do is fill in the witty caption below and hit send, saving you valuable minutes on your road-trip. Of course, it may not even be granted, so don’t expect a CES trailer staffed solely with Bolds just yet…
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