Garmin Forerunner 210 vs Garmin Forerunner 410

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Forerunner 210 compared with Forerunner 410

	GarminForerunner 210	GarminForerunner 410
Overview
Released
Released	2010	2010
Display
Case sizes
Case sizes	45 mm	48 mm
Always-on display
Always-on display	Yes	Yes
Display detail
Display detail	Backlit monochrome screen, 25 mm diameter and 52 × 30 pixels; four physical buttons and fixed training pages. Garmin does not publish the panel technology.	Backlit monochrome screen, 27 mm diagonal and 124 × 95 pixels; touch-sensitive bezel and two buttons. Up to three configurable training pages with one, two or three fields each; panel technology is unpublished.
Health and fitness
ECG
ECG	No	No
Blood oxygen
Blood oxygen	No	No
Skin temperature
Skin temperature	No	No
Sleep apnoea alerts
Sleep apnoea alerts	No	No
High blood pressure alerts
High blood pressure alerts	No	No
Body composition
Body composition	No	No
Fall detection
Fall detection	No	No
Crash detection
Crash detection	No	No
GPS
GPS	Single-band	Single-band
Sensors
Sensors	High-sensitivity GPS receiver with HotFix satellite prediction; optional ANT+ heart-rate chest strap and foot pod for indoor speed, distance and cadence. No optical wrist sensor.	High-sensitivity GPS receiver; ANT+ heart-rate chest strap and optional foot pod or cycling speed/cadence sensor. No optical wrist sensor.
Fitness features
Fitness features	Time, distance, calories, instant pace, lap-average pace and run-average pace; manual laps, Auto Lap and time- or distance-based interval workouts with optional warm-up and cool-down.	Heart-rate-based calorie estimates, custom and interval workouts, courses, Virtual Partner, Auto Lap, Auto Pause, Auto Scroll and pace, heart-rate, time and distance alerts.
Safety features
Safety features	–	Stores up to 100 locations and provides navigation to a saved location; no base maps.
Battery and connections
Battery life (maker's claim)
Battery life (maker's claim)	Up to 8 hours	Up to 8 hours
In low-power mode
In low-power mode	Up to 21 days	Up to 14 days
Mobile data option
Mobile data option	No	No
Works with
Works with	No phone pairing	No phone pairing
Battery life detail
Battery life detail	Rechargeable 200 mAh lithium-ion battery; up to eight hours with GPS, three weeks in power-save mode or one week with forty-five minutes of GPS training each day.	Rechargeable lithium-ion battery; up to eight hours with GPS or two weeks in power-save mode, according to Garmin China and the English manual. Garmin Slovakia instead quotes nine GPS hours. Can be shut down manually.
Charging
Charging	USB contact charging clip and AC adapter.	USB contact charging clip and AC adapter.
Connectivity
Connectivity	USB computer activity transfers and Garmin Connect; ANT+ sensor connections. No direct phone pairing.	ANT+ wireless computer transfer through a USB ANT stick; Garmin Connect and Garmin Training Center. No direct phone pairing.
Storage
Storage	Up to 1,000 laps; the oldest data is overwritten when memory is full.	Up to 1,000 lap records and 100 stored locations.
Design
Weight (lightest version)
Weight (lightest version)	52 g (better)	60 g
Software
Software	Garmin	Garmin
Case materials
Case materials	IPX7 immersion protection, one metre for thirty minutes; the owner's manual says the watch is not intended for swimming.	IPX7 immersion protection, one metre for thirty minutes; Garmin Slovakia explicitly excludes swimming.
Size
Size	45 × 69 × 14 mm and 52 g. Width is used as the case size.	48 × 71 × 16 mm without the strap and 60 g. Width is used as the case size.
Bands
Bands	–	Standard wrist strap and additional fabric wrist straps.
In the box
In the box	Watch, charging/data cable, AC adapter and documentation; heart-rate strap and foot pod included in some bundles.	Watch, AC adapter, USB charging clip, USB ANT stick, additional wrist straps and documentation; premium heart-rate chest strap included in HR bundles.