Garmin's next smartwatch has leaked on its own site... and it's the Garmin Lily 2

Date:
Thu, 04 Jan 2024 12:48:39 +0000

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Garmin's next fitness watch has leaked, and it's physically very different to its recent Venu and Vivoactive models.

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The first image of the Garmin Lily 2 has leaked online, a slimmer style-forward smartwatch with a narrower band than most of the best Garmin watches . Its unclear when exactly well be seeing the watch, but its likely
to be unveiled at CES 2024 , which starts on January 9.

The Garmin Lily 2 was accidentally revealed on Garmins own Japanese website support page. Spotted by Notebookcheck , the slip-up can also be found on the Wayback Machine .

The Garmin Lily 2 seems to follow in its predecessors footsteps by being a style-focused watch with a slimmer band, echoing the look of classic ladies watches. This is unlike the recent Garmin Venu 3 and Vivoactive 5, which
offer similar fitness lifestyle capabilities in a more traditional-looking chunky fitness watch. The leaked image showcases its Cream Gold and Coconut finish, although we have no doubt this is just one of several colorways.

Given the timing of the leak and the fact promotional images are ready to go, were expecting the Garmin Lily 2 to be unveiled soon. Its likely to debut at CES 2024, the global technology conference hosted in Las Vegas starting on January 9, as Garmin will be exhibiting there.

The original Garmin Lily, which debuted three years ago, was a smartwatch aimed at women and surprisingly feature-light. It lacked onboard GPS,
limiting its use for runners and cyclists, although it carried other fitness tracking features along with wellness stuff such as menstrual cycle tracking capabilities. There are currently no rumored specs or feature lists around
for the watchs next iteration, but we wont have long to wait to find out what Garmins been cooking up. (Image credit: Garmin) Analysis: The original Lily needs improving

In our original Garmin Lily review , we found the watch surprisingly lacking in features, with the one capability that made Garmin a household name GPS missing from the slender watch.

We said with many slim gender-neutral devices on the market now from the
likes of Amazfit and Apple, it's hard to justify paying this much for a watch that looks nice, but does less. Were hoping the Lily 2 can change that by adding GPS, improved heart rate sensors and some of Garmins fitness advancements its developed in the last few years, such as the Training Readiness score. You might also like... The best Garmin watches to buy in
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