Coros Pace 4 ZDNET's key takeaways The Coros Pace 4 is available now for $249 with either a silicone or nylon band.
The watch weighs just 32 grams with the nylon band, and has a brilliant AMOLED display, long battery life, and a microphone for voice notes.
Streaming music services are not supported and there are no third party apps available. View now at Coros
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When the Coros Pace 3 was released in 2023, I praised its lightweight form factor at just 30 grams. The all-new Coros Pace 4 continues that trend with some significant improvements at nearly the same weight, while including a brilliant AMOLED display, new optical heart rate sensor, and a microphone for recording training logs and voice pins.
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Coros also added a new left-side button, similar to the Nomad and Apex 4, for specific functions within sport modes. Despite the sub-$250 price, the vivid AMOLED display is also a touchscreen so you can use the buttons and the touchscreen to navigate the UI, with the top right button acting as a dial that's easy to scroll through the various menus and widgets.
Software feature improvements in the Pace 4 include menstrual cycle tracking, connected smartphone music controls, and a flashlight utility that has three levels of brightness for the AMOLED display. By the way, this flashlight utility is now available on other AMOLED Coros watches, so go update your watch if you have a different Coros model.
Unlike the comparable Garmin Forerunner 165 base model, the Pace 4 supports on-board music support, but it's only for downloaded MP3 files -- not offline subscription music.
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