| Display | 1.28-inch AMOLED touchscreen, 416 x 416, Gorilla Glass 3, always-on option with ambient light sensor | Garmin's brightest AMOLED touchscreen display yet, plus five physical buttons |
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| Body | 44.7 x 44.7 x 12.2 mm; 53 g with wristband (35 g without); glass-fibre reinforced plastic case with stainless steel bezel; 22 mm quick-release silicone wristband; WR50 water resistance | — |
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| Battery | Up to 7 days in smartwatch mode; up to 30 hours in training mode (Polar's spec table lists 27 hours performance, 90 hours eco and 8 days smartwatch); 310 mAh replaceable Li-Pol battery | Up to 15 days in smartwatch mode (970) and up to 11 days (570) (Garmin claims) |
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| Storage | 32 GB (offline maps), 37 MB memory, 275 MHz CPU | — |
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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 (L1/L5) with GLONASS, Galileo, BeiDou and QZSS | — |
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| Navigation | Preinstalled and upgradeable offline topographic maps, planned routes, breadcrumbs, komoot turn-by-turn guidance | 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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| Connectivity | Bluetooth LE (no ANT+), USB-C charging cable (proprietary connector) | — |
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| Software | PolarOS; Polar Flow app; Training Load Pro, Nightly Recharge, Smart Coaching; over 150 sport profiles | — |
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| Colors | Night Black, Greige Sand | — |
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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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| Extras | — | 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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| 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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