COROS Launches $449 Pace 4 Pro With 1.47-Inch AMOLED, Chasing Garmin’s Premium Tier
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Updated · DC Rainmaker · Oct 9
COROS Launches $449 Pace 4 Pro With 1.47-Inch AMOLED, Chasing Garmin’s Premium Tier
2 articles · Updated · DC Rainmaker · Oct 9
Summary
$449 COROS Pace 4 Pro adds a 1.47-inch AMOLED display, titanium bezel, sapphire glass, speaker, microphone and a new fourth-generation heart-rate sensor as the brand pushes above its budget-watch base.
3,500-nit peak brightness and up to 60 hours of claimed GPS battery life headline the hardware, but the review said real-world endurance was closer to 4-6 days overall and often under 20 hours in max-GPS workouts.
COROS attributed the battery shortfall to GPS and Bluetooth scanning bugs and said a November software update is planned; no Pace 4 Pro-exclusive software features ship at launch.
GPS performance was described as broadly solid, while the new optical heart-rate sensor improved on prior COROS models but still lagged top rivals, especially in harder cycling efforts.
Garmin’s $549 Forerunner 570 appears the clearest target: COROS undercuts it by $100 and includes offline maps, but still faces the bigger question of whether buyers will pay a premium for largely familiar software.