Garmin - Forerunner 25 GPS Watch and Activity Tracker - Black/Blue

Wanted to give this a five but there are a few annoying things about this watch. First the pluses. GPS turns on quickly. It is very easy to follow your pace. The minuses are no second hand when used as a watch. I found it hard to first use it as I am not a techy. I bought a Fitbit and returned it because it was not comfortable. This is light and very comfortable.

I bought this watch to keep track of pace, distance and time while running. It was chosen from amongst all others because it had gps, would upload data via Bluetooth and the price was reasonable. It's a great watch and does everything EXCEPT the Bluetooth. There is a bug in the garmin app and the watch will not sync unless unpair it, forget it from my iPhone, and turn the watch off. Then everything gets turned back on and repaired. I called garmin and they told me to do everything I have just listed. So no help there. If they could fix the sync issue this watch would be 5 stars.

Has all the things you want in a running watch; bluetooth, pace, distance, and access to heart rate.

Great at being a GPS watch with basic functionality. Garmin android app is excellent. Step tracking is good. Docking a star due to some minor nuicances that on their own wouldn't be much of an issue, but are cumulatively pretty annoying. I have occasional trouble pairing with my phone that takes some messing with to work again, the move alert and button tones both turn themselves back on after a while, even though I've turned them off, and my text messages stopped displaying the body on the main screen when I receive them. The SMS messages now just display the sender and a +1 for the message, this just started happening after the last firmware update. Battery life is amazing, though. I charge mine maybe once a month. Also picks up satellites very quickly, usually within about five seconds.

It does exactly what it should: locks onto GPS quickly, is accurate, battery lasts a long time, and connects online to Garmin Connect to store your previous runs. The upside of this model versus a lower model is the ability to upload via Bluetooth on your phone (iOS, Android, or Windows Phone).

This unit has good battery life, and simple to use. So many GPS units have lots of features that are not needed but this one tells me how far I've gone and how fast and that's what I need. The digits are large enough for me to see while I run, the one improvement opportunity there would be to make the digits bolder just as my old Nike plus GPS watch. It could be a bit more stylish like the old Nike plus.

The Garmin Forerunner 25 is a very good watch. I learned how to use it pretty quickly, it took me one run to figure it out, but I did find it a little difficult to discover how to connect my watch to my phone but I did ulitimately discover that you don't need the calories tracker app that is suggested by the garmin connect app to connect your two devices, but also that calories app is quite annoying since the struggle to connect it with your garmin app is basically impossible. The watch itself is very good. Nice and light, aesthetically pleasing, easy to use during runs. One thing that bothers me is how difficult it is to manage during sprint workouts. Being a crosscountry runner sprint workouts are a must and starting the watch to set time takes time, you can't just press the run button because that requires the gps and so it has to find it. Instead you have to select the indoors mode so it doesn't use gps unfortunately that makes it not as accurate. So that's a slight struggle. But the rest of the watch is perfect. Also when you sync your watch with your phone and the garmin app your specs to how your watch displays certain things and plays sounds to certain settings is set back to default or however your app had it set at, so annoyingly changing your watch settings is mostly a must through your phone instead or else it won't be permanently set. But I still love this watch a ton, it is highly impressive.

If you only care about running and you are not interested in heart rate, then this is a good and cheap watch. I use a Fitbit, and I carry this one around only when I need to go running. It works well in the sun and has been very accurate from my own personal experience.