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NEW Polar Vantage V TITAN

2 May 2019
tfk, the5krunner
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Polar has just announced the Polar Vantage V Titan.

It is NOT a major announcement and the Polar Vantage V TITAN is just like the V but with PREMIUM MATERIALS. That’s a TITANIUM case which makes the TITAN super-light…oh, and a new two coloured strap that has a textile feel but which is made of silicone.

 

Edit: 59g reduced from 66g …not much. Titanium is cool tho

That’s all folks, no improvement to the existing Gorilla Glass (edit: Gorilla Glass 3) but let’s hope there are new devices to come from Polar as the year progresses.

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Chris

You probably found the rendered pictures/video also:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HD_FldcnwOc
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=3&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwiOkbTB7_zhAhWBs4sKHSifAPgQFjACegQIBRAB&url=https%3A%2F%2Fstudio.polar.com%2FcollectionPub%2F5cca94b746e0900a3d40ee24&usg=AOvVaw0Ra4H8mz8F6AgIVnsWnsHw

I hope it has improved GPS accuracy due to the different material.
Polar should enroll programmers from the extra revenue 🙂

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tfk, the5krunner

– Worth a looks at the zip file if anyone wants to see the renders. standard product shots

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Fred

You mentioned perhaps a hardware change to the Precision Prime sensors in Titan OR a coming FW update that tinkers with OHR on all Vantages. Any more details on this? Thanks.

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tfk, the5krunner

no change, my bad

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Mirko Surf&Run

Very beautiful. But I’m still reading comments of users who complain that it’s not possible to use instant pace of a footpod without disabling auto calibration of gps…

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Nik

Where is that discussion, do you have a link?

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Djsj

Its on every single Polar forum on facebook

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tfk, the5krunner

correct (unless the autocalibrated value is good for you)

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Thomas

amazing they didn’t bump the hardware or glass… just the case

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Cristian

Behold the super-premium Vantage V, now sporting sapphire glass over the titanium shell!

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tfk, the5krunner

😉

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C Y

Really? I can’t see any authoritative reference to sapphire glass instead of the Gorilla.

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Fred

You´re right. He was being ironic in joking that soon a SUPER-PREMIUM Sapphire ed will supercede this old Titan ^^. Both Vantage V and VV Titan have Gorilla glass though. Cheers!

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Fred

“That’s all folks, no Gorilla glass”

…but both Vantage V and Vantage V Titan most certainly has Gorilla glass. What it doesn´t have in either edition is sapphire glass.

On another note, can titanium casing influence GPS satellite reception differently than steel? Better…worse?

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tfk, the5krunner

my bad

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tfk, the5krunner

i’d cautiously suggest that steel has iron in it and is probably more dense but a materials scientist might give a more definitive view.

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Fred

I´m usually really good at finding medical, nutritional (my occupation) and health-related data online but I don’t seem to have the engineering jargon to find an answer to this. Steel is worse than polymers but I couldn´t find anything on titanium and frankly, the texts were so incredibly boring to plough through. Master thesis on “Shielding and variable signal reception in micro-“…Zzzzzzorry but no lol. Hopefully, some researcher or someone in the wearable- or mobile business with know-how reading this can help us out.

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tfk, the5krunner

yeah it’s one of those ‘obvious’ things that will inevitably turn out to be precisely the oppsite of what is ‘obvious’ #experts. as others will say tho, it’s just one part in the overall design

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