Explainer: How does Garmin's LTE Watch Emergency Button Work?

What happens when you need emergency help on Garmin's newest LTE connected wearables? I set out to find out.

Garmin’s new Forerunner 945 LTE isn’t your typical LTE watch. It doesn’t allow you to make or receive calls over LTE. You can’t stream music over LTE. In fact, you can’t even make or receive text messages over LTE. And that’s just the way Garmin wants it for now.

Instead, the watch’s LTE functions are purely 100% sport and safety-focused. They allow you to contact an emergency response coordination center if you’ve gotten hurt out solo on a trail. They let your friends and family follow your progress training or racing in real-time, automatically, every time you press start. And they allow your family members to send you quick audio messages mid-race, streamed to your headphones. Be it taunts or cheers.

This change in direction is the realization that a company not named Apple or Samsung simply can’t leverage the telecom carrier over-lording to have a fully seamless experience for end users. At least this year, and likely not anytime soon. But, in losing one battle, they’ve done what they’ve done best over the last 3-5 years: Given up trying to be everything to everyone, and instead focused mainly on the sporty person. As a result – sales and revenue have never been higher.

In this video I show what happens when you trigger that emergency button, as well as the numerous ways it can be done. All of which ends up contacting the International Emergency Response Coordination Center (IERCC).

With that, let's dive into it.

0:00 Background on why
1:20 Triggering an Emergency
2:50 Messaging with command center
4:55 Alternate triggering options
6:38 Messaging your emergency contacts
9:00 Wrap-up

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