I test fitness tech for a living, and two of the newest products on my wrist right now are the Garmin Forerunner 70, Garmin’s latest, entry-level running watch, and the Fitbit Air, a $99 screenless fitness tracker. To see how the affordable Fitbit compared to Garmin’s $249 Foreunner 70, I strapped both to my wrist and headed out for a 4-mile (6.4-kilometer) run.
Of course, to truly place the two watches head-to-head, we’d need to do more extensive testing, and we will, but after seeing what happened when my colleague Dan took these devices on a walk test, I was intrigued and ready to test for myself. Read on to find out more.
