| Display | 1.28-inch AMOLED touchscreen, 416 x 416, always-on option, Gorilla Glass 3 | Garmin's brightest AMOLED touchscreen display yet, plus five physical buttons |
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| Body | 45 x 45 x 13.8 mm; 48 g with wristband, 28 g without; bio-based plastic case; 22 mm quick-release strap | — |
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| Battery | Up to 10 days in smartwatch mode; up to 43 hours with GPS in performance training mode (170 hours in eco mode); 385 mAh, replaceable | Up to 15 days in smartwatch mode (970) and up to 11 days (570) (Garmin claims) |
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| Positioning | GPS, Galileo, BeiDou, QZSS with assisted GPS; barometer, compass; route guidance and back to start | — |
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| Sensors | Precision Prime optical heart rate, nightly skin temperature, accelerometer, gyroscope, barometer, magnetometer; no ECG or SpO2 | — |
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| Connectivity | Bluetooth LE; proprietary USB-C charging cable | — |
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| Durability | WR50 water resistance; tested to MIL-STD-810H; -20 to 50 °C operation | — |
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| Sports | 170+ sports and activities, Training Load Pro, Nightly Recharge, SleepWise, Sleep Plus Stages | — |
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| Performance | 275 MHz CPU, 5 MB memory, 32 MB storage | — |
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| Extras | Integrated LED flashlight with white and red light; Polar Flow app and web service included | Built-in speaker and microphone, LED flashlight (970 only), ECG app, Garmin Pay, music storage for Spotify, Deezer and Amazon Music |
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| Colors | Night Black, Snow White, Forest Green | — |
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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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| Navigation | — | Multi-band GPS with SatIQ; full-colour built-in mapping with turn-by-turn directions and round-trip routing (970 only) |
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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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