New firmware updates for all the latest Suunto watches are announced today. There is a staged rollout but most of you should be able to get them now. There is nothing that particularly stands out other than Galileo support being added for the Suunto 9. We’ve know for a long time that the Sony GPS…
Congratulations, once again, to the organisers of the River Arun 3.8k swim which is always a great event. All was not the same on the gadget or goggle front. Today I had 4 devices that I wanted to do an open water GPS test for but I was limited by only having two arms. The…
I hope we shall hear more from Polar and Final Surge as the year progresses but, for today, Polar and Final Surge have announced a simple link-up where your completed Polar Trainings are piped through to the Final Surge coaching and analysis platform Existing Polar users can set up their account to link to their…
V2.107 – 14 Jun 2019 This post is regularly updated before being periodically replaced, with a refreshed introduction & commentary. The intent is to give you an idea of which GPS Triathlon, Bike and Run sports devices are available NOW and likely to be superseded SOON or which have been DISCONTINUED. As well as reviewing…
â–· Biblical in its depth and coverage this Garmin Edge 530 Review takes a detailed look…
â–· Biblical in its depth and coverage this Garmin Forerunner 945 Review takes a detailed look…
Garmin Forerunner 945 – Firstbeat Insights You get all of this clever stuff from Firstbeat thrown in. And it is clever. I’ll talk about the more interesting features further below in more detail. Â Be mindful that optical HR from the wrist might cause issues with the accuracy of the data that Firstbeat has to…
When Suunto released the Suunto 9 model last year they made a big play, at the time, of the watch’s suitability to extreme environments and they, Suunto, stated that the Suunto 9 met these tests/criteria Temperature cycling Thermal shock Shock test ISO1413 Static pressure 100m ISO22810 Pressure cycling 66m Tumble test (100 drops) Seawater test…
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Mobvoi Ticwatch S2 Review – A nice enough ‘value’ WearOS smartwatch with lots of apps, smarts and ruggedness for sports
There are two sports watch reviews to come this week (hopefully). I’m pretty sure that one watch is the same as a review that DCR will release at the same time. And I’m pretty sure that the other one won’t be covered by him – not a Garmin and not an announcement ie already released,…
Yay ! Lots of people are going to be happy that Polar will be including manual footpod calibration in the V4 release for October 2019. It’s taken a while, with pressure and polite requests from many sources. October is still a little bit too far away for my liking as I had hoped to use…
Polar have just announced the Polar Vantage V Titan. It is NOT a major announcement and the 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.…
Polar have just released an importantish firmware release for the Polar Vantage range as well as updating the 2019 roadmap. All good stuff. I’ve added in the full details from Polar, below, and the main area of interest to me is the GNSS/GPS accuracy improvements. Sometimes it takes a while to get an aGPS fix…
V2.101 – 24 May 2019 This post is regularly updated before being replaced, periodically, with a new one that contains a more pertinent introduction & commentary. The intent is to give you an idea of which GPS Triathlon, Bike and Run sports devices are available NOW and likely to be superseded SOON or which…
Both the older Polar OH1 and newer Polar OH1+ both have a firmware update. Older Polar OH1 users should now find that they have Garmin’s ANT+ compatability…#cool. Similarly you should be able to get ANT+ on your Polar H10 via the FLOW app or, soon, via the BEAT app.
Polar have now added and made available Garmin’s ANT+ compatibility to their top-end H10 heart rate strap. The new feature pretty much does what it says on the tin and you can get it now via the Polar FLOW app. The same update will be available through Polar BEAT shortly. If you never intend to…
I like the occasional heatmap. Sometimes they are very pretty, like the one below from Suunto’s MOVESCOUNT in 2016 and could almost be a work of art for your pain cave’s wall. Sometimes you might be ‘somewhere new’ with little idea of where to cycle, swim or run. Sure you have a satnav but is…
THE MOST ACCURATE optical HRM suitable for just about any sport and compatible with just about any 3rd party app or watch.
ELEVATE is a browser plugin that provides deeper insight into your workout data that resides in STRAVA. It used to be called STRAVISTIX but the developer ThomasC, recently decided to re-brand it to ELEVATE FOR STRAVA. It’s currently only available on Chrome & Opera but the Firefox plugin is also imminent. It takes a while…
