Summary: Garmin has launched its latest smartwatch, featuring built-in GPS, sleep tracking with heart rate variability, and a suite of health and wellness tools, including fitness tracking, women’s health monitoring, and guided breathing exercises. The watch also offers features like a sleep score, on-screen workouts, and safety measures such as incident detection and live location sharing.
Key Takeaways:
- Comprehensive Sleep Tracking: The smartwatch provides detailed sleep insights, including heart rate variability and sleep stages, along with a daily morning report summarizing sleep quality.
- Integrated Health Monitoring: Users can track key health metrics such as heart rate, respiration, and pulse ox through Health Snapshot, along with features for managing stress and monitoring energy levels.
- Safety and Fitness Features: Equipped with built-in GPS, fitness tracking, and safety tools like incident detection, the watch supports outdoor activities and aims to provide peace of mind during workouts.
Garmin announced the Lily 2 Active, its latest in the lineup of smartwatches that add built-in GPS and include popular sleep tracking, health, wellness, and connected features.
Lily 2 Active provides users with a morning report that includes an overview of their sleep, including their heart rate variability, plus a daily calendar, weather, and more upon waking up. It also adds Health Snapshot, which lets users log a two-minute session to record key health stats like heart rate, pulse ox, and respiration.
In times of stress, the meditation activity guides users through meditation practices, while the breathwork activity provides different breathing techniques to follow right from the watch. Lily 2 Active also includes women’s health tracking features, letting users track their menstrual cycle and pregnancy while also getting exercise and nutrition education.
Lily 2 Active Features:
- Built-in GPS: Accurately track outdoor activities including walks, runs, and more.
- Body Battery energy monitoring: Monitor energy levels throughout the day to help find the best times for activity and rest.
- Sleep score: Receive a score for last night’s sleep quality, plus insights on how to do better. Also keep track of different sleep stages, heart rate, heart rate variability, stress, Pulse Ox2, and respiration.
- Fitness tracking: Keep track of steps, calories burned, intensity minutes, and more.
- New sports apps: Switch up a workout with new built-in sports apps for tennis, pickleball, indoor cycling, and golf.
- On-screen workouts: Download and follow workouts for strength, HIIT, yoga, and more right from the watch screen.
- Garmin Coach: Train for an upcoming race with free adaptive training plans from expert coaches.
- Garmin Pay contactless payments: Breeze through select checkout lines and transit systems through participating providers.
- Garmin Connect smartphone app: View health and fitness data, connect with friends and participate in challenges—all for free.
For life on the go, the Lily 2 Active is compatible with iPhone or Android smartphones, so users can receive emails, text messages, and alerts on their watch. Safety and tracking features like Assistance and Incident Detection can help provide peace of mind during outdoor runs, walks, or bike rides by sending a message with a user’s live location to their chosen emergency contacts should they need help or if the watch detects an incident has occurred3.
Lily 2 Active, Garmin’s smallest smartwatch with GPS, has up to nine days of battery life in smartwatch mode and up to nine hours in GPS mode.
Available now, Lily 2 Active has a suggested retail price of $299.99.
Photo caption: The Lily 2 Active from Garmin features built-in GPS and popular health and wellness features.
Photo credit: Garmin
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