New Sports Watches For May June 2016 – The Contenders Polar, Garmin, TomTom, Fitbit

OK Fellow Sports Gadget Nerds it’s now or never. The next 4-6 weeks are the window…

Polar and 4iiii Announcements Day

Well there’s a few product announcements today. Still none of the fabled new 2016 sports watches…

Polar + Suunto: Proof of something new planned? :: Speculation with a BIT of evidence

Thanks to @nikaranov for this link to a registration on the Bluetooth SIG site. I’m not…

Review: Polar A360

Polar’s recently released A360 super smart band is a highly credible contender in the increasingly crowded…

Polar A360 vs HRM-RUN – HR Running Accuracy This Time

Some much better news today for the A360. This time running tests. OK they were fairly…

Polar A360 vs Garmin HRM-RUN – HR Accuracy In A Controlled Environment

I updated the A360 today with the new firmware v1.128. Even though HR improvements are not…

Polar V800, A360 – more firmware updates NOW

Plug in your Polar and get the new updates. The V800 release has the previous botched…

Polar Rolls Out Complete Training Load/Recovery Status For Cycling Products

One of Polar’s stand-out features has got better…well at least more widely available. The previous implementation…

Optical HR Gallery – Rogues, Vagabonds and Sexy Sirens

FitbitI’ve been checking through some old posts and ‘accidentally’ put together a gallery of optical sports…

polarv850.com and Major Polar V800 bug

Thanks to Andre for that! (Well I thought it was good/clever/funny) On to the more serious…

Polar A360: Goes Swimming // review to follow later

This week is an easy week for me. So what does that mean? Yep, you guessed…

IN DEPTH: The Quest For Wet HRV – Swimming HRV Underwater – Finally

I started off a couple of years ago with the intention to record ‘every heartbeat’ that…

Polar Flow – Spanner In The Works. Here’s some WD40

Edit: This is now fixed. ——————————– Polar Flow is still ‘down’ in the sense that it…

Polar Running Watch Firmware Leak

In the interests of fairness, this time Polar have leaked some info. I’ve not spotted any…