Thanks to Andre for that! (Well I thought it was good/clever/funny)
On to the more serious speculative stuff.
You might want to prove to yourself that www.polarv800.com goes to where you would expect it to. And then maybe also try www.polarv850.com and even www.polarv900.com. Owned by a Finnish Company (presumably Polar) and pointing to their site. (www.polarm400.com works too but www.polarM450.com www.polarM500.com seem to have been pre-emptively bought by someone else)
Of course Polar could have just bought the V850 site to stop someone else buying it. Or bought it ‘on the off-chance they develop a new V800 at some point in the future’. Hmmm.
Just a scintilla of evidence supporting a new and improved V800 this year. Maybe. Perhaps. Hopefully. You never know. PLEASE.
this domains were registered in 2013!
I always said Polar were brilliant at LONG TERM PLANNING 🙂
good article, jeje
So what is it that everyone want’s from a V850 that isn’t available hardware wise from the V800? other than optical HRM.
Screen res. Color touchscreen. . Smartphone wifi links. Ant compatability. Glonass. Stryd power. Activity tracker. But point taken. It needs a new story to compete. There will be a new garmin 920 this year prob. What does that need? optical hr prob!
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We’re going to need a bigger battery……..
indeed so. and there the downward tech spiral starts. you end up with an apple watch and wish you hadn’t bothered.
I’ve a few things I would love to see arrive with the V900 though with the launch of the M600 on the Android wear platform it means the future could be a whole lot more promising for app creation and custom software.
https://allrunningmatters.wordpress.com/2016/04/14/speculate-to-innovate-polar-v900-what-will-it-be-my-wish-list/
yes I agree. The v900/850 will most probably not be on Android Wear though.
Interested in your thoughts why not? I know it will affect the battery life but as a platform for app development it opens up something similar to Movescount from Suunto.
it’s the battery rather than the apps
I went into this at http://gpsrumors.com/polar-v800-next a while ago. Unfortunately this shows how much better at secrets Polar are than Garmin. With Garmin we can do a simple image search of their site and often find the new toys early. This is because they are not only on the same site and domain but also on the same servers behind the same load balancer (or just a server maybe). Polar, on the other hand, put v650 and v800 on a different provider with different IP with different DNS provider. This, I suspect is either because they are secret agent geniuses who know how to hide stuff, or because they completely outsourced the marketing of the gadgets prior to launch. We probably all remember that v800 wasn’t even on the Polar.com site for a while after official launch, and this theory backs that up.
Where does that leave us now? Guessing. If that’s the case then we will get literally no clues other than eagle eyed watching of athlete wrists. Or watching DCRainmaker’s postman like a hawk!
best start looking this weekend…””something”” out next week I reckon
any evidence for that? v850 and v900 still point to the same web service at Polar for the moment as far as I can see so assume you’re no longer talking about the domains? Also can’t see any new pics on their site. Unfortunately I’ve not had time to look around in forums this week 🙁
sy meant look for garmin. s/be something next week. I think about 5 weeks time for something meaty tho (looking at release dates-of-the month as ‘evidence’)