| Display | Garmin's brightest AMOLED touchscreen display yet, plus five physical buttons | 1.39-inch AMOLED touchscreen, 454 x 454, 326 ppi, sapphire crystal glass, always-on option, ambient light sensor |
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| Case | Forerunner 970: 47 mm, titanium bezel, sapphire lens; Forerunner 570: 42 mm or 47 mm, aluminum bezel | — |
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| Battery | Up to 15 days in smartwatch mode (970) and up to 11 days (570) (Garmin claims) | Up to 11 days in smartwatch mode; up to 40 hours in performance training mode; up to 110 hours in eco training mode; 488 mAh rechargeable Li-Pol battery (Polar's launch announcement quoted up to 10 days, 43 hours and 140 hours) |
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| Navigation | Multi-band GPS with SatIQ; full-colour built-in mapping with turn-by-turn directions and round-trip routing (970 only) | Preloaded maps of Europe and North America, downloadable regions and contour maps in Polar Flow, Breadcrumbs, turn-by-turn navigation powered by komoot, Strava route sync, Track Back, Back to Start |
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| Extras | Built-in speaker and microphone, LED flashlight (970 only), ECG app, Garmin Pay, music storage for Spotify, Deezer and Amazon Music | Built-in flashlight; wrist-based running power; vertical speed, VAM and 3D speed |
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| Training | Training readiness, Garmin Coach, Garmin Triathlon Coach, running power, running dynamics, VO2 max, PacePro; running tolerance (970) | — |
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| Health | Sleep score, Body Battery, HRV status, skin temperature, breathing variations, evening report | — |
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| Price | 749.99 dollars (Forerunner 970) and 549.99 dollars (Forerunner 570) at launch in the US | — |
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| Body | — | 48.6 x 48.6 x 13.4 mm; 79 g with wristband (57 g without); stainless steel case and bezel; 22 mm quick-release wristbands; WR100 water resistance; MIL-STD-810H tested; -20 to 50 C operating temperature |
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| Storage | — | 32 GB for training data, offline maps and routes |
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| Sensors | — | Polar Elixir biosensing: 4th-generation optical heart rate, wrist-based ECG, SpO2, nightly skin temperature; barometer, magnetometer compass, accelerometer, gyroscope |
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| GPS | — | Dual-frequency GPS with GLONASS, Galileo, BeiDou and QZSS |
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| Connectivity | — | Bluetooth LE, USB-C charging cable (proprietary connector) |
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| Software | — | Polar Flow app; Training Load Pro, Recovery Pro, Nightly Recharge, SleepWise, FitSpark, FuelWise, Hill Splitter, orthostatic and running tests |
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| Colors | — | Night Black, Stone-Gray; Grit X2 Pro Titan edition with titanium front casing and an extra leather wristband |
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