In the beginning of this year I was very excited to hear Garmin would be releasing the new Garmin 405 and I promptly placed my order with delivery dates expected February 21st and a late date of end of Q1 2008.
Well now Garmin has delayed the release date to the mysterious Q2 2008. It seems they are pushing back the release date to coincide with the 2008 Boston Marathon. Great for marketing, terrible for us early adopters who need to receive the first shipment of running gear.
Garmin has decided to appease us with new shots of the display of the Garmin 405 and this did not help. It only made me wish I had this yesterday.
UPDATE ON 04/29/08 - See my post on delivery
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10 Responses
RunColo
April 1st, 2008 at 9:51 pm
1Thanks for the update. I sold my Garmin 205 back in January hoping to pick up the 405 in February, but it looks like Garmin keeps pushing back the release date.
Those pictures look sweet!
Hunter
April 4th, 2008 at 10:25 am
2Garmin is saying Mid May now!
Tish
April 5th, 2008 at 9:19 pm
3Mid May!?!?! Are you kidding me this is horrible, I feel like I have been waiting forever already!!!
Tish
April 5th, 2008 at 9:19 pm
4Mid May!?!?! Are you kidding me!!! This is horrible. I feel like I have been waiting forever already
Hunter
April 7th, 2008 at 2:20 pm
5No Joke! Garmin store Chicago is saying Mid May. Amazon is June, some online store is saying mid to late April. But those sites haven’t been able to confirm whether or not that is delayed. I hope it doesn’t get delay any more because it will screw a lot of people’s marathon training coming up in October.
joba
April 12th, 2008 at 10:10 am
6going the Manhattan in june ( I’m from Denmark). Anyone here who can give me an adress of a sports shop to buy this garmin and running schoes etc (in the center of manhattan) (I’m sing Acics shoes.
pleased to hear
Steve
April 20th, 2008 at 10:17 am
7Do you know if I have a heart rate strap or band that goes around the chest, can I pre-order just the watch and use my old strap? Can’t wait to get mine as well? Mid May???
Steve 2
April 21st, 2008 at 3:39 pm
8I have the same question about the HR monitor, and is the 405 any better than the 305 when its comes to HR monitor???
Hunter
April 28th, 2008 at 9:59 am
9I just got my 405 last Thursday. I ran with it and is loving it. You can use existing HRM strap. The Bezel is extremly sensitive to touch in my opinion. GPS picks up signal fairly quickly much quicker than my Nokia N95. I wish that the upload to garmin connect would indicate min/mi already. The site is said to have that soon. I can careless about mi/hr. Love that I can map it. Makes me want to run off the the usual maked path just to see myself going nuts on the google map =)
RunColo
May 13th, 2008 at 10:56 pm
10http://www.runcolo.com/Product-Reviews/Garmin-405-Review.html
My review of my Garmin 405.
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