Firmware v2.07: Polar Vantage – available now

December’s v2.07 firmware has today been released for Polar Vantage V and Polar Vantage M models; reviewed earlier here in detail (Polar Vantage Review)

Changes made by Polar are stated to be these:

• Stopwatch, countdown timer and interval timer (image below)
  
• Button and touch lock
• Brighter backlight when looking at the display during training
• Speed sensitivity improved (faster reaction to changes in speed)
• Fixes for cases where distance is missing from the beginning of a session
• Fixes for cadence from the wrist
• Fixes for pool swimming distance. Most of the issues with units when swimming also fixed
• Some touch UI freezes fixed
• (+Bug fixes)

So there we go. That’s Firmware V2.07. Here’s some more related information

• Roadmap: link to polar.com this shows that route navigation is due in early 2019
• Firmware Details: link to Polar.com this shows all Polar firmware updates over time including this one
• Roadmap information for the replacement Polar Vantage V2 is not currently public.

Take Out: The backlight will probably help me a bit, I’m not too fussed about the rest as they haven’t really affected me. I was hoping that the behaviour of the footpod+GPS was going to be addressed, I suspect the required change in behaviour will NOT count as a bug fix.