Garmin 010-00658-40 Forerunner 410 GPS-Enabled Sports Watch
16. Sep, 2011 
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- Zone training: heart rate zone training, supports five heart rate zones.
- Enhanced touch bezel interface.
- Training and motivational features: Virtual Partner, courses, workouts and goals.
This advanced sport watch is GPS-enabled and accurately records your time, pace, distance, heart rate, elevation and more.
Price: $ 249.99
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Upgraded from Garmin 405,
I purchased this with hopes of better functioning bezel in wet, humid, or sweaty conditions. This had been a source of frustration with the 405 – either not responding, or scrolling through the screens on its own. The 410 has fixed this issue – allowing for better user control of the watch. In cold conditions, i have found the watch to be a bit unresponsive while wearing gloves – sometimes have to remove glove to get a bezel response…. but still better than the 405.
In addition, i have been pleasantly surprised by how quick the Satellite connects. No more wasting time at the start of a run waiting for the Satellite to establish connecting. The 410 has cut this time in half. Fairly spendy, but well worth it if training/running is a big part of your life.
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|Great tool until battery problems started,
When I first purchased my Forerunner 410 in November 2010, I thought it was the best thing ever. For the first three to four months, I was thrilled with it. Unfortunately, as my marathon training progressed I started to notice the watch doing some odd things. At first it would occasionally reboot for no apparent reason. Over the following weeks, the problem got worse and worse. As it did, the battery life also started becoming unstable. Sometimes the 410 would work OK, but the best case battery life dropped to 4-5 hours instead of the 8 I got out of it during those first months. In the worst cases, I would take the watch off the charger in the morning, shut it down until my run, and had a dead battery before I had gone one mile. The display that shows the battery life remaining is pretty much worthless now. And, it still suffers from reboots for no obvious reason – often at inopportune times, like during my marathon.
If you only do short to medium runs length runs, or are very fast, then the fact that the battery life seems to have problems might be acceptable for your situation. If you’re planning on doing runs of several hours, won’t be able to recharge it before every run, or won’t find reboots during runs/races acceptable, then you might want to look for something other than the 410. When it works right, it really is a great tool for training. But, if you need a device you can count on, you might want to wait and see how the reviews look on the new Forerunner 610 or consider going with one of the older, cheaper, and more proven devices like the 305.
If you’re still on the fence about purchasing a Forerunner 410 (or 405/405cx for that matter), I’d suggest you visit the Garmin forums (forums .garmin .com) and take a look at the posts by various owners who are having similar hardware/software related problems so you can make an informed decision.
Edited 5/1/11 – At this point my Forerunner 410 has become totally unreliable. I had taken it to Nashville to use during the Country Music Marathon yesterday. It had been fully charged and shutdown before I left. When I turned it on an hour or so before the race, it immediately said “low battery” and shut itself down. I charged it again when I got home. This morning it read 100% charged and I shut it down. This afternoon when I tried it use it, it again said “low battery” and shut itself down. I’ve again contacted Garmin about the problem. Maybe they’ll replace it this time instead of just suggesting things like firmware updates and charge/discharge cycling.
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|Great Watch,
I’m really enjoying this watch. Had a Forerunner 50 that was working fine, but was looking for an upgrade with GPS. I’m glad I made the move. The GPS works great. I’m typically picking up satellites before I walk out the door to run. One upgrade I really like is the advanced workout support. I can create all kinds of running workouts in Garmin Training Center and then follow them on the watch. It requires a little prep work, but the watch does the thinking for me during these workouts so I can focus on the work. There seem to be a lot of complaints about the touch bezel. I can’t speak to whether the bezel on the 410 is a significant improvement from the 405, but, as for the 410, I actually kind of like it. I’ve never had any problems with it and I think it’s a better way to navigate the loads of features on the watch. Just my 2 cents, but there’s a lot of features here and the idea of pushing 10 buttons to get to the feature or screen I want is not too appealing to me.
I was concerned about Mac compatibility. Garmin seems to have fixed this as I’m having no problems at all with uploads/downloads, or use of Garmin Training Center or Garmin Connect on my Mac.
As for criticisms – It’s still a pretty big watch. I find myself wearing it some on weekends when I’m not running, but I wouldn’t wear it to work or anything. I don’t think one would want it any smaller though, as the smaller readouts would be difficult to read. Also, at first glance, charging by way of the clip seemed a little chincy to me – but I can’t think of a better way to do it and it works just fine.
All in all, if you can swing $325 for a well made, functional tool that will make your running more fun (but will not do the running for you and will not make you any faster) I highly recommend this watch.
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