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Garmin Rolls Out The Latest Software Updates With Improved Health Monitoring and User Experience on Their Smartwatches in India
Continuing on their goal to provide better and more accurate data to their users, Garmin® International, Inc., a unit of Garmin Ltd. (NASDAQ: GRMN) today announced substantial software updates across a wide range of their smartwatch. The new updates will allow the latest users to upgrade their health monitoring and safety features. They will further provide expanded activity profiles and optimized user experience.
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Featuring Garmin’s proprietary Health Science data including advanced sleep monitoring, intensity minutes and fitness age, the new software update will deliver an expanded and enhanced list of sports activities, supporting more customer needs for varying active lifestyles and sports preferences. Additionally, the patch will also add a plethora of updates to the user experience for greater day-to-day usability.
Equipped with Firstbeat Analytics engine, Garmin provides advanced analytics for both wellness and performance. This also enables users to seamlessly utilize the data on their wrist to keep closer tabs on their health wellness and performance. The comprehensive suite of data allows the users to pick up on their own health trends, improve their training, and ultimately understand their body and health better.
Commenting on the new software updates, Sky Chen, Regional Director Garmin Southeast Asia & India stated “Accuracy of data has always been a focal point of our research. We want to be able to provide accurate data to our users and that is precisely what this new update is aimed towards. We consistently collect customer feedback on their user experience and how we can improve their experience. We use that information to consistently optimize our software so that we’re able to deliver the best possible user experience. That is also the reason we’ve insisted on improvements such as regular software updates so that consumers can use our smartwatches for longer durations. By doing so, we’re able to ensure that users can enjoy our products in more aspects of their daily lives.”
Here’s what’s new1 in the latest software update:
Health Monitoring Enhancements
Advanced sleep tracking – Improved on-device sleep detection and sleep staging, new combined restlessness score and graph
Intensity Minutes widget update – New Intensity Minutes widget for users to gauge their intensity minutes each day
Breathwork Activity and Respiration widget – New Breathwork activity and Respiration Rate data field and Respiration widget in the Instinct 2 Series
Body Battery Algorithm update – Enhanced algorithm in the Instinct 2 Series
Fitness Age display – Newly added Fitness Age display to user profile settings
Safety Feature Improvements
Incident detection update – Updated Incident Detection recognition across different activities including Walking, Hiking and generic use. Available in selected models
Updated user experience for Safety and Tracking – Easily share a message with your live location with preselected contacts, or pre-designate an emergency contact so that in case of emergencies, your watch can instantly help call for help.
*When paired with a compatible smartphone. See safety and tracking features requirements and limitations.
Expanded Sports Activities List
New sports activities including Horseback Riding, Tennis, Jump Rope across selected models
* Jump Rope download via Connect IQ App
Added Green Contours support to Golf activity – Pair with the Garmin Golf app to see the slope direction of the green on selected courses right from your watch
Enhanced Run/ Walk/ Standing detection – Enhanced algorithm to improve detection for stops during activities, and added Run/Walk/Standing detection to the activity summary page for running sports
Updated Up Ahead – Updated Up Ahead feature to support imported GPX file for the latest outdoor range of watches
User Interface Improvements
Garmin Connect App Real-time Settings keyboard – Newly added feature to modify settings in Garmin Connect mobile app across latest Outdoor models
Additional metrics in post activity summary – Added post-activity metrics including Acclimation, Pace, Detailed Speed, Bouldering metrics, Strength metrics and Indoor Climbing metrics across corresponding activities
The Garmin smart watch user can download the updates via Garmin Express.
Added Green Contours support to golf. With your active Garmin Golf™ app membership, you can plan your best approach shot and sink your putt with green contour data
Added Acclimation, Pace, Detailed Speed, Bouldering Metrics, Strength Metrics, and Indoor Climbing Metrics to post activity summary UI
Updated Up Ahead feature to support imported GPX file
Added Run/ Walk/ Idle detection to the activity summary page for running activity
Added Goal Streak tracking to Steps widget. allow goal streaks for steps to sync between device and Garmin Connect
Fitness Age display added to User Profile settings
Added new watch face data field types: 3-item data fields, sunrise/sunset, calories, alternate time zones, Body Battery, steps
Added Enhanced Strength functionality, which includes an improved workout preview with a muscle map, improved user interface in free and workout modes, and improvements to the Rep and Weight editing experience
Added backlight keys settings adjustment using touchscreen or button controls
Improvements made to on-device sleep detection and sleep staging, including a new combined Restlessness score and graph
Added Streak display to Steps widget
Added ability to toggle smart notifications in notifications and alerts menu
Improved ability to modify settings in Garmin Connect mobile app
Added Enhanced Strength functionality, which includes an improved workout preview with a muscle map, improved user interface in free and workout modes, and improvements to the Rep and Weight editing experience
Updated Incident Detection to better distinguish between supported and unsupported activities
Added Run/ Walk/ Idle detection to the activity summary page for running activity
Added Goal Streak tracking for Steps and Floors Climbed widgets
Added animation to progress arc when viewing the Intensity Minutes widget
Updated support for Shimano Di2
Updated support for Varia RCT 715 widget
Updated inReach messaging to now allow the watch to send messages up to 160 characters in length
Improvements made to on-device sleep detection and sleep staging, including a new combined Restlessness score and graph
Added support for syncing resting heart rate across devices
Added Enhanced Strength functionality, which includes an improved workout preview with a muscle map, improved user interface in free and workout modes, and improvements to the Rep and Weight editing experience
Improvements made to on-device sleep detection and sleep staging, including a new combined Restlessness score and graph
Added Run/ Walk/ Idle detection to the activity summary page for running activity
Added support for syncing resting heart rate across devices
Added a new alert to notify the user that the Wrist Heart Rate Sensor is disabled. This alert will be displayed whenever accessing a heart rate-related glance while the wrist heart rate sensor is turned off on the device
Added new notification to inform user that Wi-Fi networks configured to WEP security are no longer supported
Updated support for Shimano Di2
Updated support for Varia RCT 715 widget
Other minor improvements and bug fixes
Venu 2, Venu 2 Plus Series
Added new activities: Tennis, Snowshoeing, Pickleball, and Paddle, Jump Rope (requires download via Connect IQ)
Added support for syncing resting heart rate across devices
Added Run/ Walk/ Idle detection to the activity summary page for running activity
Improvements made to on-device sleep detection and sleep staging, including a new combined Restlessness score and graph
Improved the user experience for Incident Detection and Assistance
Added support for syncing step Goal Streak with Garmin Connect app
Added Voice Assistant volume slider to settings (Venu 2 Plus Only)
Added additional Voice Assistant and Bluetooth calling improvements (Venu 2 Plus Only)
Fixed a bug where music doesn’t pause when Voice Assistant is activated, and will now resume after the Voice Assistant is completed (Venu 2 Plus Only)
Fixed a bug where users could get stuck on the call page if the phone did not respond to a hang up attempt (Venu 2 Plus Only)
Fixed an issue where invalid distances could be shown on the golf front-middle-back page
Other minor improvements and bug fixes
Vívomove Sport Series
Improvements made to Safety Tracking feature
Added support for syncing resting heart rate across devices
Added support for syncing step Goal Streak with Garmin Connect app
Added next pose/ move button in Yoga/Pilates activities
Rectified the syncing of the hydration value between device and Garmin Connect app
Improvements to display smart notifications smoothly
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