Fitbit sell more devices in Q4.2019 vs Q4.2019 but make less profit and less revenue. That’s the only vaguely positive take on a dismal holiday season performance. Oh dear! I guess it’s no surprise and it’s no surprise either that the market was not surprised, with the share price remaining broadly unchanged. A $15m Q4.2018…
NPE Runn users will be delighted today as a new Garmin CIQ Data Field is released to enable you to DISPLAY, RECORD and later VIEW your treadmill incline stats. It’s late at night here in the UK and I’ve just had time to play with the new stuff, hopefully, I can try it out tomorrow…
Garmin Reports Great 2019 figures
New Firmware for the Hammerhead Karoo delivers readability tweaks to maps in several scenarios as well as new TrainingPeaks integration.
Here we have the 2020 Ironman UK bike course,
Every year we select the Best of CIQ across a range of categories. There are some great nominees for this year’s awards and those of you who looked closely at last year’s winners might, like me, still have the award-winning Crystal Watch Face adorning your Garmin. Before we dive into this year nominees, take a…
Humon today announced that they are closing their doors – I’ll cover the impact on HEX users in a minute. For those who want it, the full communique from Humon is shown further below. Background The Humon Hex is a muscle oxygen sensor, delivering athlete-metrics along a very similar vein to the existing Moxy product…
STRAVA hit 3bn workout uploads and 50m registered users. The only way is up for cyclists’ favourite data platform.
We talked about some exciting new beta firmware for the Garmin Forerunner 945 last week. Some of which also made its way on to the Forerunner 245 betas too. Now it’s all live and you should be able to get the new stuff either via Garmin Connect Mobile or Garmin Express. Here’s the summary of…
Garmin beef up their top-end Fenix 6 & Forerunner 945 models with some great new swim features.
Stages infrequently issue firmware updates as their PM product set is generally pretty stable in my experience (Gen 3). However this one dropped last week and might well be worth updating to if, perhaps, you were experiencing right-side power spike issues. Enabling the gyroscope is only possible with the Android app and only possible solely…
Pioneer Announces Transfer of Cycle Sports Business Shimano is potentially back in the bike head unit market with the acquisition of what looks to be Pioneer’s entire bicycling components business (assets). As the press release says: Pioneer Announces Transfer of Cycle Sports Business Pioneer Corporation announced today that it has signed an agreement to…
The Professional Triathletes Organisation (PTO) last week appointed Alistair Brownlee and others as directors. Yesterday, 3rd Feb 2020, the PTO made an open offer to Wanda Group to enter into discussions to acquire the IRONMAN® business from the Wanda Sports Group Company, with the offer backed by funding from by North Point Advisors. Paraphrased, the…
Garmin Widget Glances have just made their way to your Forerunner 945. We take a detailed look and add som ethoughts for the future.
Charlotte Arter delivered an awesome 15 minutes 49 seconds at Cardiff parkrun and broke her own parkrun world record to boot. Here is Charlotte’s result: links to parkrun.org.uk And in more detail, this is her parkrun athlete profile: links to parkrun.org.uk. Tip: If you want to see your own stats one way to do it…
Galerdo Swim Tracker with Audio OK the Galerdo swim tracker is a Kickstarter project but it looked interesting if you are putting in those miles in the pool in pursuit of your IM dream and need a bit of light entertainment coupled with audio feedback of some key metrics.. More details on Galerdo Swim Tracker: …
An interestng firmware edition to the now-aging Garmin Fenix 5. Might 12 speed Shimano on the ROAD be on the way soon? Let’s see
Apple’s latest financial statements show that in the three months ended 28 Dec 2019, sales of “Wearables, Home and Accessories” rose to $10bn from $7.3bn. That’s a BIG rise and is where sales of all the Apple watch versions are accounted for. There are no further detailed breakdowns on Apple Watch sales provided by Apple.…
new Polar H9 Specifications & Announcement Polar has just announced a new version of its chest strap & pod. This is the new H9 (nine) pod model and this is a very slightly functionally cut down version of the existing Polar H10 (review here) and th eH9 also has a new type of soft strap.…
Hot on the heels of their innovative running track features in late 2019, Coros have added a few more little firmware gems both in an update this month and others right at the end of last year. Minor Firstly the Coros PACE had the Track Run mode for 400-meter track runs that the other models received…
