We’ve just seen the announcement of Polar’s latest ‘proper’ running watch – the M430. It’s essentially a refreshed and updated oHR-packed, M400. But how do they compare? What’s missing? And, instead, might it be worth going for the AndroidWear2.0, market-leading Polar M600? There is a comparison table further below. There are links to detailed, individual…
The STRAVA app has already been working fine on AndroidWear v1.X (AW). Naturally the company have confirmed it will be upgraded to support the impending release of AndroidWear 2.0 where it will grace the screen of the Polar M600, New Balance RunIQ, Asus ZenWatch 2 &3; Casio WSD F10; Fossil Q Founder/Wander/Marshall; Huawei Watch; LG…
We looked at the Polar M600 a few months back in a detailed review and it faired well. I’ve seen a few other AndroidWear watches and have seen the specs of yet more of them. There seems to be a broad consensus that the M600 is the best of the AndroidWear bunch for sports usage. With…
I was looking for AndroidWear sports apps for the Polar M600. I found a few and some were even interesting! Although there was not too much to tempt me away from the POLAR app that is inbuilt into the M600. Then I stumbled across swim.com (ios and android and other platforms) and the chart to the…
Polar M600 Review This Polar M600 Review is a detailed look at the Best Running Watch for AndroidWear. This product marks an exciting new direction for Polar. Indeed it probably marks the start of another significant turning point in the market for sports and fitness devices. I’m only going to look right now at the M600 with…
Another day, another test on the new Polar M600. Despite a relatively nice day outside I settled down to watch the newish ‘Independence Day: Resurgence’ movie…on the bike, in the shed. It was either that or the ‘Unbearable Lightness of Being’ but I thought I just might understand the former and could pedal a bit…
I was a bit tired today but still managed 8×1 minute @’quite fast’. The Polar M600 managed to keep up quite nicely. This time I was comparing to a HRM-TRI as the STRYD+Garmin Strap I had been using seemed to be throwing out a few spikes early in previous runs. The little blue M600 peak anomaly…
Polar’s M600 is one of the few wrist-based oHR devices that will ‘properly’ support HR when swimming. By that I mean that there is a swimming mode AND the optical HR works in that mode. Other watches, such as the Garmin 235 (optical HR), have optical HR DISabled in swim mode. Of course it’s possible…
After yesterday’s relative walk-in-the-park, today was a chance for a run-in-the-park. I took the M600 out for a demanding threshold run of about 90 minutes with 10 minutes warmup. You can see the HR performance against a STRYD HRM pod (Red) on a Garmin HRM4 strap (recorded by a 920XT). Bizarrely the optical M600 (Blue) would be considered to have…
This is the test that is the lull before the storm for the M600. A nice easy run. I also ran with a 920XT and a STRYD HRM. So really the test is the M600’s oHR vs. the STRYD’s pod. I’m only using the STRYD as I’ve been playing with STRYD quite a bit recently…
I’ve only had the M600 a little while. It looks good. First up and most importantly: YES IT DOES MANUAL LAPS Glad that’s out of the way, it was a recent firmware addition. You press the button. It adds a manual lap. Simple. Note: This is a first impression of the product and not in…
Polar have a new entry-level watch for runners. One of the great things is that now ‘entry level’ watches need to have optical HR and GPS. Polar meets this criteria. But look at the price: $150/€150/£120. Nice. The battery level is stated as 6 hours of training time with GPS on. That’s just about OK…
Polar today announced the M600 sports watch. It’s positioned as a 247, top-end sports watch for generalist sporty people who perhaps; run, do gym and do classes. It’s priced initially at: UK£265, US$330. It’s an innovative move for the company by building Polar hardware around Google’s Android Wear platform – rather than developing their own on-board sports…
So here is the M600. Polar classify it a Sports Watch. Not a fitness watch. It’s better. Not a running watch. It’s not as specialized. As we shall see though it will probably be good for both those two uses. So this is probably not the optical-HR enabled M400 we were waiting for. That may…
he he he. Looks like it’s got GPS and HR then. EDIT: This product has now been formally announced Essential Reading: Initial Thoughts & Specs – Polar M600 Essential Reading: Polar M600 – Opinion The colour screen display looks very similar in style to the A360. This baby is going to be all nav’d-up hopefully…
Ok guys and girls. No-one has yet guessed the two watches from this post earlier in the week. Tut. Tut. Must try harder. Essential Reading: **Initial Thoughts & Specs – Polar M600** Essential Reading: Polar M600 – Opinion However Polar have not left us without SOME EXTRA interest this week with their tantalising image above as…
