NordicTrack Commercial 1750 vs Garmin Forerunner 645

I've had the NordicTrack "Commercial" 1750 treadmill now for just over a year and wanted to write a quick review. My TL;DR is: purchase a different treadmill and stay away from NordicTrack. The basics are there - it (currently) works, it turns on, connects to iFit, you can walk/run on it, move the incline, all of that basic stuff. But it hasn't been a great treadmill, and I would purchase another kind of treadmill were I to make that decision today

I've run using an old Tomtom watch for years and have recently upgraded to a Garmin 645. Both work but the Garmin has many more features and a better app. Also a much longer battery life which is why I finally upgraded.

I bought a Nordictrack commercial 1750 around Christmas time and I absolutely love it. I’m not a ‘new’ runner but I’m getting a ton out of some of the iFit programs.

The colors are a little more washed out when the light is on, but it is still very easy to read in most lighting conditions. This is not going to satisfy anyone looking strictly for a smartwatch, but it has enough smartwatch features to make it a useful everyday watch. Access to your phones calendar, and notifications are useful. The internal alarms come with more options than Fitbit's offerings

I've never, I mean NEVER write reviews on products and I felt the need to do so after what I've experienced to date with Nordictrack - simply is the worst. Please take my advice and purchase other manufacturer equipment - anything else will be better. I will be finding as many places to post this review to as I can't believe how bad of an experience this has been after spending the amount of money we did on this equipment.

I freakin’ love this GPS/watch. So, today, in the car, the watch just fell off my arm. The plastic anchor where the band attached had actually broken. The band no longer had a way to stay attached and came loose

Now iFit is pretty good but there are a few things that seem to be developing pretty slowly on their end. They finally were able to add support for bluetooth headphones a couple of weeks ago which I can't imagine why it would take so long for such a basic feature. My biggest wish is that they would integrate with other aggregators (google fit, fitbit, apple, anything) as well as have Spotify or other music integrations on the console. In their defense they do not state that this is a feature and I purchased the treadmill without any promise that this would be done

So far I'm loving the watch. I enjoy seeing all of the health and running statistics in the Garmin Connect app and I think its a big motivator. The last running watch I had was an old Forerunner 305 that died a few years ago, so I'm really amazed on how much improved the whole experience is along with the Garmin Connect app. The app makes it easy to upload runs and to update the watch, just open up the app after the initial Bluetooth paring and it starts to sync

Still haven't heard from them. Calls and emails, just go ignored. After spending 2k plus, disappointing to say the least.

Great features, but I have now had tow of these watches, neither lasted a year. Time, timer and GPS distance monitoring is solid. The heart rate monitor sometimes switches off for a few days. The step monitor often goes a couple days and measures steps on an intermittent basis