Garmin 920XT Update
Update
The Garmin 920XT has been announced. You can read our full preview here.
The rumours
We pulled the ad from Garmin, as you can see above. Looks like the new Garmin 920XT will have the features we’ve been wanting to see. More support for swimming, swim drills and also more smart data calculated from your movement for running. With the built in cadence sensor for running that foot pod can be sold on eBay too! This update is just a bunch of new images, after the initial leak of information and photo’s of the upcoming Garmin 920XT some more images were found by tritriagain.uk, so we pulled them of the Garmin website, incase they get taken down, but here they are:
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- The Garmin 920XT is said to better support for pool swimming, including drills.
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- Vertical speed now available for running as well.
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- With a power meter, the new Garmin 920XT is able to estimate your VO2 max too.
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- In normal watch mode the 920XT can last up to four months.
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- A built in steps counter to count your walks.
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- Based on your efforts, the watch will give you a recommended recovery time too.
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- The metronome feature to keep your run cadence at an optimum level.
Garmin 920XT HRM
Now the biggest disappointment we read is that the 920XT does not have HRM features like the new iWatches that are coming out. The answer here is pretty easy: it won’t work in combination with the quick release for bike mounting, however we all see our bikes as little human beings, they don’t have a heart rate. Sorry…. So Garmin has chosen not to do it.
October 1st UPDATE:
More photos!
Garmin Forerunner 920xt – Die ersten Eindrücke http://t.co/osynbf6k3U
— Markus Unterweger (@unterwexi) September 30, 2014
Markus Unterweger posted to Twitter that he was the photographer a shoot with the Garmin 920XT. Here are the full size photos he posted:
A good look at the size of the 920XT as it’s held in hands.
We don’t like to speculate, but… touchscreen?
Update
The Garmin 920XT has been announced. You can read our full preview here.