There was LTE subscription and it's cheaper than other company. Satisfied !

My Apple Watch Series 6 GPS + Cellular developed a swollen battery, rendering it pretty much unusable. I considered getting another Apple Watch, but I’m not willing to spend a few hundred dollars every 2–3 years due to battery issues. Plus, the new Apple Watch lost its blood oxygen sensor due to patent infringement case. That left me with only one other option on the market that has cellular connectivity: the Garmin Forerunner 945 LTE.It took me a while to get used to Garmin, but I’m in love now. The battery lasts over 2 weeks compared to just 2 days on the Apple Watch, which is huge! It integrates with phones to sync calls, texts, and emails, allowing you to read them on the screen. However, you can’t write SMS messages or make calls directly from this watch - the cellular connection is strictly for emergencies. The Garmin cellular plan costs around $6 per month, which is also cheaper than the $13 per month I paid with my carrier for the Apple Watch.The Garmin watch offers advanced fitness metrics, onboard offline maps, and support for external sensors tailored to athletes. I thought I’d miss Apple Pay and Spotify, but Garmin includes Spotify on the watch and has its own Garmin Pay feature. I also love the Garmin Connect app, which provides excellent insights about training and body vitals and is regularly updated.Overall, I’m very happy with the purchase and hope Garmin releases more watches with cellular connectivity in the future!

J’ai du la retourner à Garmin et j’ai pas de montre pour trois semaines parce que le update ne se faisait pas…

J’ai reçu ma montre Garmin Forerunner 945 LTE il y a seulement une semaine et elle affiche cette image depuis déjà 5 jours alors qu’au départ elle fonctionnait, je suis réellement déçu de la qualité moindre de ce produit.

Love this watch. Simply due to the LTE emergency feature. I’ve owned various Garmin and Apple watches over the years, only reason I ever went to the Apple watch is I DON’T want to have to lug my phone along on every run. But want to feel I can still get help if I get hurt or need assistance while on a run. Apple battery life sucks compared to Garmin by a long shot.The 945 lte has music, great battery life, smart features (which I actually disable them all), and the ability to get help if needed phone free! For me, that’s all I need or want.Wished they’d add the LTE emergency feature to the Fenix line.

I purchased this watch for the battery life and LTE functionality, although it is only for use in emergency situations. If you want to make/receive texts and calls without your phone nearby, this may not be the watch for you. If you don't care about full-fledged smartwatch functionality when you aren't in bluetooth range of your phone, and want a fitness-centric device, it is worth the money. My Samsung watch 4 LTE has fantastic smartwatch capability when out of bluetooth range, but you pay the price in battery drain. When tracking a workout with music on my connected headphones, I'd be lucky to make it through a day. One other thing I love about the 945 LTE is the Garmin Coach running plans that are included through the Garmin Connect app. Just choose one and start completing activities, and it automatically adjusts your training based on your fitness level, and continues to adjust the activities throughout the program.Syncing albums from Spotify was a pain at first, but I joined Garmin's Beta testing program and after a software update, it was easy peasy. I am extremely satisfied!

I was an avid user of Garmin since the 910xt back in 2013. Has used the 920, and Fenix 5 before quiting and switch to apple watch because my Fenix 5 GPS was so unreliable. Whilst Apple Watch is great but it was a smartwatch first and sportwatch second, and not quite fit my need for longer workout with granular workout data tracking.So glad to be back in Garmin again. This time my GPS is spot on.

Okay, Garmin is greedy, there I said it. I did everything in my power to get even a 10% discount from Garming. But they were not having it. They made me pay full price $650.00 and no discounts period!NOW THEN, believe it or not, the Garmin 945 LTE is ABSOLUTELY WORTH EVERY PENNY. This is my first Garmin watch and won't be my last. I bought this watch because, I was training to run my first marathon. I needed a watch that could last 6 continuous hours playing music, providing GPS tracking accuracy, and provide cellular coverage for safety. Leave the bulky smartphone at home. Garmin exceeded my expectation.

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Have used garmin watches for the past few years. Upgraded for the new software on the 945 LTE such as HRV monitoring, training readiness, and LTE emergency tracking.Unfortunately, there’s bug. Many buyers of the new watch are unable to connect to Wi-Fi. No Wi-Fi synching, but more importantly, no synching of Spotify. I got one partial album on before the bug hit and have been listening to the same music over and over and over and over on runs. First world problems, but so far Garmin support has not been able to solve.Come on Garmin, get your bugs tested and fixed faster!

Its a great watch for fitness tracking but the cost of the LTE additions is too much for little enhanced value

I love this watch: it tracks everything very accurately and explains how to use all the data, looks great, functions well as a day to day smart watch, etc. It seems very durable and I plan to use it as my daily driver for a long time.However, I can only give it two stars for 2 chief complaints. There is a bug with pool swim workouts that renders that feature unusable. You can still track pool swims but the on screen pool swim workouts breaks after one lap/interval. It seems like there are a few other bugs that other users are experiencing but this is the only one that I've encountered/affects me.The other complaint is that the sleep tracking is awful. It can barely tell me when I go to sleep and wake up, let alone accurately determine what state of sleep I'm in.The software support seems lazy for these reasons.I strongly recommend this watch but for a $650 product I can't give it more than 3 stars until these things are addressed.

"Babe Paley had only one fault," commented her one-time friend Truman Capote. "She was perfect. Otherwise, she was perfect."While the Garmin 945 LTE is not perfect, it is darn close.Here are my thoughts on running with the 945LTE for a month. Since we all have specific needs, I'll briefly describe myself so you can determine if my review would have any merit for you. I'm a 67-year-old marathoner. I'm not a triathlete, so I cannot address the tri features of the watch. I don't listen to music when I run but did test this feature as described below.I use Training Peaks, and the watch seamlessly integrates with TP. I don’t use Strava but assume Garmin works with a popular platform like Strava.My other running watches are a Suunto Peak 9 and a Coros Pace 2. The LTE will replace a Fenix 5X.The LTE version of the 945 is smaller than the original but retains the screen size. The screen is crisp and easy to read. It is not a touch screen, which I see as a positive feature on a running watch. Buttons always work, and I find touch screens duller than regular screens, and clumsy to work with when wearing mittens.My main interest in the LTE was the cellular safety features. These worked flawlessly. Tracking notifications went automatically to my selected contacts, and it was comforting to know that I could be found if needed. Fortunately, I did not have to test the emergency response feature. (I'm willing to take one for the team, but hey, there are limits!)To my mind, this is the best of both worlds. You have the safety running with a phone provides, without the nuisance of dragging a clunky phone. And the LTE does not bombard you with emails, texts and messages. We run to get away from the world, right? (I know you can turn notifications on and off, but I am constantly turning off notifications Sunday morning when I go to Church and discover they are still turned off next Thursday.)Do bear in mind that you pay a monthly fee to Garmin for this. It is $12 a month in Canada. The peace of mind is worth it to me. If you always carry your phone or have an Apple Watch cellular, this service has little point.The music feature worked as stated. I loaded up the entire Smiths' catalogue and the watch easily paired to my headphones. The interface to control music is elegant and simple. I confess it was quite cool to go running with Morrissey. :-)The metrics Garmin provides are beneficial and easily understood. I especially loved the climb pro feature-useful here on PEI, where you are either going up or down a hill. The body battery is interesting and much cheaper than a Whoop subscription. It is not something I will use, as I've been around long enough to know when I'm overtraining or had a bad night of sleep. (Which is all the time.)There are two areas where I'd love to see some changes. Both could be done via a firmware update, so fingers crossed. These may not matter to you and are not deal breakers. I use a Stryd footpad as running by power works best in the hilly, windy environment on the North shore of PEI. While the Garmin does integrate with the Stryd through a Connect IQ app, I wish it would work natively as the under $300 Coros Pace 2. Secondly-and this is because I'm an old guy with big hands and aging eyes-I wish Garmin would allow customizing the watch via a phone or web portal. I find that quicker and easier than pressing buttons and scrolling a tiny watch screen. Both Coros and Suunto have a phone/web interface. (Well, Coros will have a web interface at the start of 2022-I'm testing the beta now, and it is quite nice.)I mentioned the watch was not perfect. Perhaps a better statement would have been that the watch is not perfect for me. It might be for you. In the price range I think it is impossible to beat. Thanks for reading this, and I wish you all miles of smiles in 2022.