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Garmin (GRMN) on Tuesday introduced its first GPS running watch that measures heart rate at the wrist. The product comes roughly two weeks after Apple (AAPL) launched its Apple Watch, which also features a heart-rate sensor. Previous Garmin sports watches linked to a $50 chest-worn heart-rate monitor. Garmin’s Forerunner 225 watch uses an optical heart-rate sensor from Mio Global of Vancouver, British Columbia. It also has built-in activity-tracking features. The Forerunner 225 costs $300 and will start shipping this quarter. “Garmin management’s historical rhetoric has been that wrist-based optical heart rate monitors are much less accurate than a strap worn around the chest,” Dougherty analyst Charles Anderson said in a report Tuesday. “We believe Garmin has recognized that consumers want a wrist-worn heart rate monitor, which has been offered by the likes of Fitbit, Apple, Samsung and TomTom on fitness (bands) and smartwatches.” The Forerunner 225 is the fourth new… Scalper1 News
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