Coros Nomad vs Coros Pace 4 Pro

The Nomad is Coros's adventure watch: a rugged plastic-and-aluminum case in the style of a Garmin Instinct, a sunlight-friendly memory-in-pixel touchscreen, and global offline maps with trail and street names, which the Instinct 3 doesn't have. It adds dual-frequency GPS, ECG, a speaker for hands-free calls, and voice notes that feed an Adventure Journal, with 22 days of daily use and 34 hours of dual-frequency GPS. It skips NFC payments, a flashlight, and streaming music, and the MIP screen is less vivid than the AMOLED on Coros's Pace line.

The Pace 4 Pro takes everything that made the Pace 4 popular, dual-band GPS, EvoLab's full training suite, a genuinely light build, and adds the two features Coros has never offered before: a real ECG sensor and a built-in speaker for hands-free calls. A titanium bezel, sapphire glass, and a much brighter 3,500-nit display round out the jump. It still skips NFC payments and streaming music, and at 5 ATM it's not meant for diving, but at $449 it's undercutting Garmin's closest ECG-capable rival by $300.