Garmin Forerunner 165 GPS Smartwatch 43 mm Black and Slate Gray (010-02863-20) | New
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Overview of Garmin Forerunner 165 GPS Smartwatch 43 mm Black and Slate Gray (010-02863-20) | New
The Garmin Forerunner 165 GPS Smartwatch 43 mm Black and Slate Gray (010-02863-20) is a cutting-edge running companion created for sportsmen looking to improve their performance. This sleek and powerful device combines superior tracking capabilities with intelligent features, making it an indispensable tool for runners of all skill levels. The Forerunner 165 has a vivid 1.2" AMOLED touchscreen display with a resolution of 390 x 390 pixels, ensuring great clarity in any lighting scenario. The 43mm black and slate gray casing is matched by a comfy silicone band, achieving a combination of beauty and functionality. With up to 11 days of battery life in smartwatch mode and 19 hours in GPS mode, this watch is designed to keep up with the most demanding workouts.
Key Features of Garmin Forerunner 165 GPS Smartwatch 43 mm Black and Slate Gray
• Brilliant 1.2" AMOLED touchscreen display with button controls
• Built-in GPS for accurate pace, distance and route tracking
• Advanced heart rate monitoring with abnormal heart rate alerts
• Daily suggested workouts that adapt to your performance and recovery
• Garmin Coach for personalized 5K, 10K, and half-marathon training plans
• Morning report with sleep insights, HRV status, and training outlook
• Over 25 built-in sports apps, including running, cycling, and swimming
• Body Battery energy monitoring and stress tracking
• Garmin Pay for contactless payments
• Smart notifications and music controls when paired with a smartphone
Benefits of Garmin Forerunner 165 GPS Smartwatch 43 mm Black and Slate Gray
🗹 Optimize your training with personalized workout suggestions and adaptive plans
🗹 Monitor your overall health and wellness with comprehensive tracking features
🗹 Stay motivated with real-time performance metrics and training effect insights
🗹 Enhance recovery by understanding your body's needs through sleep and stress data
🗹 Improve race performance with course-specific training and predictions
🗹 Track your progress across multiple sports with specialized activity profiles
🗹 Stay connected on the go with smart notifications and contactless payments
🗹 Enjoy extended battery life for uninterrupted tracking during long events
🗹 Customize your experience with Connect IQ apps and watch faces
🗹 Trust in the durability of a water-resistant design built for active lifestyles
Specifications
Specifications for Garmin Forerunner 165 GPS Smartwatch 43 mm Black and Slate Gray (010-02863-20) | New
| Manufacturer | Garmin |
| Manufacturer Part Number | 010-02863-20 |
| Product Name | Garmin Forerunner 165 GPS Smartwatch 43 mm Black and Slate Gray |
| Product Type | Smartwatch |
| Strap material | silicone |
| Lens Material | chemically strengthened glass |
| Bezel Material | fiber-reinforced polymer |
| Quick Release bands | yes (20 mm, Industry standard) |
| Physical size | 43 x 43 x 11.6 mm |
| Fits wrists with a circumference of 126-203 mm | |
| Weight | 39 g |
| Display Size | 1.2" (30.4 mm) diameter |
| Display resolution | 390 x 390 pixels |
| Color display | Yes |
| Large font option | Yes |
| Battery type | Lithium ion |
| Battery life | Smartwatch mode: Up to 11 days |
| Battery Saver Smartwatch mode: Up to 20 days | |
| GPS-Only GNSS mode: Up to 19 hours | |
| All-Systems GNSS mode: Up to 17 hours | |
| Charging method | Garmin proprietary plug charger |
| Memory/History | 4 GB |
| Clock Features | |
| Time/date | Yes |
| GPS Time Sync | Yes |
| Automatic daylight saving time | Yes |
| Alarm clock | Yes |
| Timer | Yes |
| Stopwatch | Yes |
| Sunrise/sunset times | Yes |
| Health & Wellness Monitoring | |
| Wrist-based heart rate (constant, every second) | Yes |
| Resting heart rate | Yes |
| Abnormal heart rate alerts | yes (high and low) |
| Respiration rate | Yes |
| Fitness age | Yes |
| Body Battery™ energy monitor | Yes |
| All-day stress | Yes |
| Relaxation reminders | Yes |
| Relaxation breathing timer | Yes |
| Breathwork | Yes |
| Sleep | yes (advanced) |
| Nap detection | Yes |
| Hydration | yes (in Garmin Connect™ and optional Connect IQ™ widget) |
| Women's health | yes (in Garmin Connect™ and optional Connect IQ™ widget) |
| Health snapshot | Yes |
| Sensors | |
| GPS | Yes |
| GLONASS | Yes |
| Galileo | Yes |
| Garmin Elevate™ wrist heart rate monitor | Yes |
| Pulse Ox Blood Oxygen Saturation Monitor | Yes |
| Barometric altimeter | Yes |
| Compass | Yes |
| Accelerometer | Yes |
| Thermometer | Yes |
| Ambient light sensor | Yes |
| Daily Smart Features | |
| Connectivity | Bluetooth®, ANT+® |
| Connect IQ™ (downloadable watch faces, data fields, widgets and apps) | Yes |
| On-device Connect IQ™ Store | Yes |
| Smart Notifications | Yes |
| Text response/reject phone call with text (Android™ only) | Yes |
| View images from notifications on watch (Android™ only) | Yes |
| Morning report | Yes |
| Calendar | Yes |
| Weather forecasts | Yes |
| Realtime settings sync with Garmin Connect™ mobile | Yes |
| Battery saver (customizable low power watch) | Yes |
| Controls smartphone music | Yes |
| Find My Phone | Yes |
| Find My Watch | Yes |
| Find My Phone during GPS activity | Yes |
| Compatible with Garmin Messenger app | Yes |
| Pairs with Garmin Connect™ Mobile | Yes |
| Smartphone compatibility | iPhone®, Android™ |
| Garmin Share | Yes |
| Passcode | Yes |
| Workout and Training Plans | |
| Cardio workouts | Yes |
| Strength workouts | Yes |
| HIIT workouts | Yes |
| Yoga workouts | Yes |
| Pilates workouts | Yes |
| Activity Profiles | |
| Gym | Strength, HIIT, Cardio, Elliptical Training, Stair Stepping, Floor Climbing |
| Wellness | Walking, Pilates, Yoga, Indoor Walking |
| Indoor running | Treadmill Running, Indoor Track Running, Virtual Running |
| Outdoor running | Running, Outdoor Track Running, Trail Running, Ultra Running |
| Outdoor recreation | Hiking |
| Cycling | Biking, Indoor Biking |
| Swim | Pool Swimming, Open Water Swimming |
| Racket sports | Tennis, Pickleball, Padel |
| Safety and Tracking Features | |
| Incident Detection during select activities | Yes |
| Incident detection alert on phone for wearables | Yes |
| Assistance | Yes |
| LiveTrack | Yes |
| Live Event Sharing | Android™ Only |
| Activity Tracking Features | |
| Step counter | Yes |
| Move alerts (displays on device after a period of inactivity) | Yes |
| Auto goal (learns your activity level and assigns a daily step goal) | Yes |
| Calories burned | Yes |
| Floors climbed | Yes |
| Distance traveled | Yes |
| Intensity minutes | Yes |
| TrueUp™ | Yes |
| Move IQ™ | Yes |
| Garmin Connect™ Challenges app | yes (optional Connect IQ app) |
| Automatic rep counting | Yes |
| Training, Planning and Analysis Features | |
| Customizable data pages | Yes |
| Downloadable training plans | Yes |
| Course guidance | Yes |
| HR zones | Yes |
| HR alerts | Yes |
| HR calories | Yes |
| % HR max | Yes |
| % HRR | Yes |
| Recovery time | Yes |
| Auto max HR | Yes |
| Race glance/widget | Yes |
| HRV status | Yes |
| HR broadcast (broadcasts HR data over ANT+® to paired devices) | Yes |
| Respiration rate (during exercise) | Yoga and Breathwork only |
| GPS speed and distance | Yes |
| Customizable activity profiles | Yes |
| Auto Pause® | Yes |
| Interval training | Yes |
| Advanced workouts | Yes |
| HRM running pace and distance | Yes |
| Auto Lap® | Yes |
| Manual lap | Yes |
| Rest timer | Yes |
| Configurable lap alerts | Yes |
| VO2 Max (Run) | Yes |
| VO2 Max (Trail Run) | Yes |
| Training effect | Yes |
| Training effect (anaerobic) | Yes |
| Primary benefit (Training Effect labels) | Yes |
| Voice alerts | Yes |
| Finish time | Yes |
| Touch and/or button lock | Yes |
| Activity history on watch | Yes |
| Physio TrueUp | Yes |
| Running Features | |
| GPS-based distance, time and pace | Yes |
| Running dynamics | Yes |
| Vertical oscillation and ratio | Yes |
| Ground contact time and balance | yes (but not balance) |
| Stride length (real time) | Yes |
| Cadence (provides real-time number of steps per minute) | Yes |
| Running power | Yes |
| PacePro™ Pacing Strategies | Yes |
| Run workouts | Yes |
| Race predictor | Yes |
| Course- and weather-specific race predictor | Yes |
| Foot pod capable | Yes |
| Run/Walk/Stand detection | Yes |
| Outdoor Recreation | |
| Point-to-point navigation | Yes |
| Bread crumb trail in real time | Yes |
| Back to start | Yes |
| TracBack® | Yes |
| UltraTrac mode | Yes |
| Elevation profile | Yes |
| Distance to destination | Yes |
| Total ascent/descent | Yes |
| Rest Timer (Ultra Run only) | Yes |
| Auto rest | Yes |
| Future elevation plot | Yes |
| Area calculation | yes (via Connect IQ™) |
| Fish forecast | yes (via Connect IQ™) |
| Sun and moon information | yes (via Connect IQ™) |
| Cycling Features | |
| Courses | Yes |
| Alerts (triggers alarm when you reach goals including time, distance, heart rate or calories) | Yes |
| Compatible with Varia™ radar (rear-facing radar) | Yes |
| Compatible with Varia™ lights | Yes |
| Speed and cadence sensor support (w/sensor) | Yes |
| Swimming Features | |
| Open-water swim metrics (distance, pace, stroke count/rate, stroke distance, swim efficiency (SWOLF), calories) | Yes |
| Pool swim metrics (lengths, distance, pace, stroke count, swim efficiency (SWOLF), calories) | Yes |
| Stroke type detection (freestyle, backstroke, breaststroke, butterfly) (pool swim only) | Yes |
| Drill logging (pool swim only) | Yes |
| Basic rest timer (up from 0) (pool swim only) | Yes |
| Repeat on rest timer (pool swim only) | Yes |
| Auto rest (pool swim only) | Yes |
| Time and distance alerts | Yes |
| Countdown start (pool swim only) | Yes |
| Underwater wrist-based heart rate | Yes |
| Kid Activity Tracking Features | |
| Toe-to-Toe™ Challenges app | yes (optional Connect IQ Toe-to-Toe™ Challenges app) |
User Guides
Frequently Asked Questions
Garmin Forerunner 165 GPS Smartwatch 43 mm Black and Slate Gray (010-02863-20)
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ's)
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Does the watch support Garmin Pay?