Best GPS Running Watch 2017? – Recommendations? Top 10 Reviews & Sports Comparisons
Detailed Product Reviews & Usage-Based Recommendations by Real Runners…NOT Journalists.
Garmin Fenix 3 vs Suunto SPARTAN ULTRA – GPS Test – GPS Face-off
Great news today as my Fenix 3 returns home after a long enforced absence – a ‘friend’ ‘borrowed’ it and ‘forgot’ it was on his wrist! Unfortunately, as you can see from the above image, my 920XT has now ‘gone walkabout’…sigh. 🙂 It was a great time to put the Fenix 3 to my GPS-test-of-doom…
Lezyne Enhanced Micro C GPS – First Thoughts
I first stumbled across Lezyne with their SUPER GPS cycling computer back in 2015. That really is a SUPER little device that I like a lot. It’s a bit quirky in an endearing kind of way, whilst still being solidly made. Simplistically you’d say it was for mountain bikers. For me it’s my back pocket…
GPS Test Results – Top 10 Sports Watches Tested So Far
Here are my Top 10 watches for GPS accuracy that have so far managed to complete my standard test route. I have a 10 mile test route (16.6km) for accuracy of my GPS devices following a known track. It covers very many different types of environmental hazards to GPS accuracy such as buildings, trees and…
Suunto SPARTAN – new GPS algorithm + GLONASS – provisional test results in ULTRA vs SPORT
I knew something was wrong when the autolaps were quite a bit different. With the new gps algorithm, with GLONASS enabled, and with firmware v1.6.14, I re-did my standard GPS test for the Spartan Ultra and the Spartan Sport I followed this methodology and this precise, standard route: http://the5krunner.com/courses/test-route-for-gps-devices/. That link also has all the source files there…
Suunto SPARTAN gets GLONASS – so what?
Today’s new firmware for the SPARTAN is annoying as I now have to re-do a GPS test I did last week 🙂 although hopefully this line from the Suunto update notes “This update also brings a new GPS firmware to improve general tracking accuracy” suggests that the test might be worth re-doing and will find increased…
Misfit announce beautiful VAPOR smart sports watch with GPS; music and oHR
Planning well in advance, Fossil-owned Misfit have announced their new watch for July 2017. It looks GREAT with a REALLY nice looking interface. Perhaps a little too thick a body for a fashion-oriented watch? It seems to be a fairly basic fitness watch from a functional perspective but with GPS, oHR and with untethered music. Which is…