Garmin Forerunner 55

Garmin Forerunner 55

Rated 3/10: so bad it's embarrassing

This may be great technology. It's hard to tell. Weeks on, we're still trying to convince it to work.

Just to start: there are five buttons. Each seems to have at least two functions, depending on whether it's pressed or held. Apparently.

The various functions are described in a user manual -- in jargon. Meaningless jargon.

Then there's garmin connect. An hour or two to define a workout. Add it to the "calendar" -- and... nothing.

We may have copied it to the device, no way to tell. The day came -- and no workout. So we went back to old tech: Training Centre -- which works simply and well. The day comes, the workout appears

Though the FR55 can't follow it. It wants to "rest". It refuses to move to the next step -- probably those five buttons with ten secret functions. Who knows.

My wife -- who has far more patience than me -- will be running with her old FR220, we know that it works.

Is there a market for new but crappy FR55s?

Dr Nick Lethbridge / Consulting Dexitroboper

...        Agamedes Consulting / Problems ? Solved

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