Garmin unveils a gorgeous new smartwatch for women with a hidden display and loads of sensors

Garmin unveils a gorgeous new smartwatch for women with a hidden display and loads of sensors،

Garmin may be best known for making big, muscular smartwatches aimed at (mostly male) outdoor enthusiasts and capable of putting the rugged Apple Watch Ultra line to shame with their incredible and sometimes literally unbeatable battery life, but the company offers also a family of wearable devices that can be seen in many ways as the exact opposite.

This makes the aptly named Garmin Lily 2 a little more expensive than the OG Lily at $199.99, and the same goes, unsurprisingly, for the $279.99 Lily 2 Classic compared to the first generation Lily Classic at $249.99.

What's new, what's (exactly) the same?

Although Garmin claims that the Lily 2 series brings “big updates” over the original duo of women-centric smartwatches, we'll be honest with you and say that we don't see any major changes outside of what is abundantly obvious at first glance.

For the most part, the Garmin Lily 2 and Lily 2 Classic appear to use many of the same tricks and present the same key selling points as their predecessors with an identical 5-day battery life, a nice hidden touchscreen capable of displaying all of the information. the health information you care about and a set of sensors that can monitor everything from your heart rate, to your body battery energy, to all-day stress levels, to blood oxygen, to breathing , sleep quality and the menstrual cycle.

Of course, that's already a pretty impressive list of features for a smartwatch focused on fashion more than anything else, so it's hard to imagine what more you could have realistically expected from the Lily 2. Yes, standalone GPS connectivity would have been nice, but it would also have increased the aforementioned prices and reduced uptime between charges.

As it stands, it's really hard to argue with that value proposition when you consider the cleanliness of a screen that only appears if you need it, a health monitoring arsenal that includes at pretty much everything that most of the best smartwatches on the market have. offers, and these undeniably beautiful leather and nylon strap options from the Classic model.

Garmin also doesn't have much competition in the small “women's smartwatch” space, with the cheaper and more rudimentary Fitbit Luxe tracker coming to mind as probably the only half-decent alternative available right now, seems -he. It's safe to assume that the Lily 2 series will sell like hot cakes and eventually spark a trio with hopefully built-in GPS support.

What's new?

Oddly enough, the company isn't unveiling any other new smartwatches for the CES 2024 show in Las Vegas, however updating its Connect app and website “in-depth” to provide “a more simplified and personalized home page experience.”

Garmin Unveils Gorgeous New Women's Smartwatch With Hidden Screen and Lots of Sensors

Unsurprisingly, the main focus of the update will be to make it easier for users to track and track their personal health and fitness goals, and if you want to be among the very first people to experience it , you can try a beta version of the updated Garmin Connect platform starting today.

It's unclear how long these public beta tests will last, as Garmin is only ready to commit to a full, proper release for the general public at an unspecified time “later this year.” That could mean February… or it could mean December, so you might want to be patient and expect occasional beta-specific bugs while you test the “refreshed” Connect experience.