The Coros Pace 4 updates Coros’s popular affordable hardcore fitness watch line with added AMOLED screen tech.
Two years and change after the Pace 3, the Coros Pace 4 upgrades to an OLED display, with just a slight price bump. It costs $249, up from $229 in the last generation.
It’s a light and fairly small watch, with a 43mm diameter face and 1.2-inch AMOLED screen of 390 x 390 pixels.
As well as a touchscreen and a pair of side buttons, the Coros Pace 4 has a rotary dial, used to scroll through menus.
Its casing is plastic, allowing for low 40g weight, including the silicone strap, and like most in this class the Coros Pace 4 has 5ATM water resistance. It’s enough for pool swimming.
Coros rates the Pace 4’s max brightness at 1500 nits, enough for good outdoors visibility, while the battery can last up to 19 days, or six days when using the Always On display mode. Or for 24 hours of GPS tracking using the most power-draining mode and with the screen lit during exercise.
The Coros Pace 4 has dual-band GPS, which is notably absent from the rival Garmin Forerunner 165. It lets the watch hold onto signal better in more challenging environments. And if you don’t need it, battery life can reach 41 hours of GPS tracking in the right mode.
Other higher-end features include 4GB (1.7GB accessible) storage space for music and podcasts, which can be played through wireless headphones or a Bluetooth speaker.
The Pace 4 offers navigation of planned routes using breadcrumb-style tracking, just not full downloaded maps. Training plans and structures workouts are an option too. These are picked in the Coros app and then transferred wirelessly to the watch.
Some enthusiast-grade stats are served up too, including recovery tracking, training load and a training status indicator.
New for this generation, the Pace 4 has a microphone, used to record “voice pins” and your impressions of a workout just as you finish it. Coros says it has other future plans for the microphone too, although it can’t at present be used to communicate with your phone’s digital assistant.
What’s missing? Aside from full maps, the Coros Pace 4 lacks the hardware required for ECG readings. Its display glass is also an unspecified “mineral glass,” which is likely to keep scratches away less effectively than a higher-end Corning Gorilla Glass style or Sapphire.
The Coros Pace 4 is available to order now, with silicone strap, while one that ships with a nylon strap will go on sale in “late 2025.” You also get to pick between subtle two-tone black or white finishes.
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