Latest scientific tests from Valencell show that the Apple Watch (Review) has further problems Apple Watch failed to deliver accurate heart rate readings when users engaged in interval training And that’s in addition to the tattoo issue as well as the inadequate battery life. ————Valencell Press Release Verbatim ——————————————— RALEIGH, N.C., June 23, 2015 /PRNewswire/ — Valencell,…
Why isn’t there a Polar Optical HR Sensor? After all Polar have been the gold standard in sport HR monitors for a long time. Why has it taken Garmin so long to pair up with MIO Global to include MIO’s optical HR technology in the new Garmin 225? The answer is that these companies want…
When buying sports gadgets I suspect that many people are faced with the “choice” ‘what is the most expensive Garmin I can afford?’. Whilst this strategy is generally not a bad one, sometimes it might be good to cast the net a bit wider and be a bit different. Would you have been the person…
The Samsung Gear Fit is the fitness variant of the Gear fit introduced in early 2014. The Gear ‘S’ and NEO models are of the wider-watch-like device format. The GEAR FIT is a ‘band’ format. It really is a beautiful-looking smart activity tracker. SMART in the sense that it links to your smart phone and…
I’m in the late stages of my Microsoft Band release and was bemoaning the lack of exporting or sharing of detailed data. No need…here’s strava!! Super cool. Also linking to MAPMYRIDE these will let us get lap data and the detailed HR data out of the BAND environment. I should be able to do a…
I’ve had the Microsoft BAND for a few weeks now and I have had a good chance to play with it, hopefully looking at it from what you would consider to be an ‘athletic’ perspective. It’s good. If you want a review on the SMS/text and notifications features and how to press the two buttons then,…
I’ve just finished a rather sweaty indoor bike/turbo session. Sweaty because today is hot, it was an endurance session going into Z3/Z4 at times (if that means anything to you, if not it means ‘fairly hard’). I had the Microsoft BAND in ‘bike’ mode (silly really as there wasn’t much of a GPS signal indoors…
It must take a while to get used to the Apple Watch. It’s more than just getting to grips with what seems to be a not-quite-so-intuitive interface but also what is it trying to do in the wearables space? Then, of course, you have to consider how it may impact on your life and how…
