KUALA LUMPUR: Garmin Malaysia has announced the release of a new series of software updates applicable to its broad range of Garmin smartwatches. Supported with Garmin's proprietary Health Science data, the updates help deliver an enhanced health monitoring experience with an amplification on its safety features, sports activity profiles and a greater day-to-day usability.
Garmin Asia assistant general manager Scoppen Lin, in a statement, encouraged its users to perform software updates regularly for better user experience as well as for safety.
"We encourage our users to update their devices regularly to ensure that they can benefit from our technology in more aspects of their daily lives.
"As champions that continue to strive and 'Beat Yesterday', Garmin innovates through the best of our abilities to deliver the ideal user experience through optimising features, data accuracy, battery life and reliability of our smartwatches," said Lin.
Garmin's health data has the Firstbeat Analytics engine built into its devices to integrate advanced analytics for wellness and performance. With a comprehensive suite of data, users can pick up their own health trends, improve their training, and most importantly, understand their body and health better.
The updates involved four segments:
Health monitoring
l Advanced sleep tracking – Improved on-device sleep detection and sleep staging, new combined restlessness score and graph.
l Intensity Minutes widget – New Intensity Minutes widget for users to gauge intensity minutes daily
l Breathwork Activity and Respiration widget – New Breathwork activity and Respiration Rate data field and Respiration widget in the Instinct 2 Series.
l Body Battery Algorithm update – Enhanced algorithm in the Instinct 2 Series.
l Fitness Age display – Newly added Fitness Age display to user profile settings.
Safety feature
l Incident detection update – Updated Incident Detection recognition across different activities including Walking, Hiking and generic use.
l Safety and Tracking – Easily share live location with preselected contacts, or pre-designate emergency contact. In an emergency, the watch will send an alert.
Activity list
l New sports activities including Horseback Riding, Tennis, Jump Rope.
l Green Contours – Pair with Garmin Golf app to see the slope direction of the green on selected courses from watch.
l Run/ Walk/ Standing detection – Enhanced algorithm to improve detection for stops during activities, and added Run/Walk/Standing detection to the activity summary page for running sports.
l Up Ahead – Updated Up Ahead feature to support imported GPX files for the latest outdoor range of watches.
User interface
l Garmin Connect App Real-time settings keyboard – Newly added feature to modify settings in Garmin Connect mobile app across latest Outdoor models.
l Post activity summary – Added post-activity metrics including Acclimation, Pace, Detailed Speed, Bouldering metrics, Strength metrics and Indoor.
Climbing metrics across corresponding activities.
How to update your watch
1. Firstly, download the Garmin Express App on your PC or laptop
Windows: https://www.garmin.com/en-MY/software/express/windows/
Mac: https://www.garmin.com/en-MY/software/express/mac/
2. Connect your smartwatch to your device using the charging USB cable.
3. Sign in to your Garmin Connect Account and follow the steps from the Garmin Express App.
4. Upon seeing your smartwatch and its serial number, you directly install any software updates available for the watch.
5. Upon completion, disconnect the smartwatch from your device and restart your respective smartwatch for immediate access to the upgraded features.
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