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…
Best Running Watch – Top 10, Full Guide, Recommendations & Comparisons of all models, updated through 2020. Garmin, Polar, Apple…more
I have a few great deals to post over the next few days some from my partners and some that I just found. Like this one directly from TomTom (links to sale at: TomTom.com) There is more information below. This SHOULD click-through to the local sale in your own country in your local currency even…
TomTom’s recent troubles are well known. But who ever let that get in the way of a great deal. Here the Adventurer is discounted a lot but still quite expensive whereas the regular Spark 3/Runner 3 is looking well-priced indeed for the features.
Best Running Watch for each type of runner
You can see from the photos that this is a fitness band or activity tracker of some sort. You probably already know that there is quite a lot of choice in that area. Yet here we have another one, this time from TomTom with their first foray into this particular format of device. What is…
adidas just announced that it will not be following up the optical HR enabled miCoach SMART Run GPS watch (2013). Essentially it has pulled out of that part of the hardware market. Note: adidas bought Runtastic and its 70million users for about GBP200m last year! It was/is a nice enough watch with music, colour screen and a…
Suunto Spartan Ultra vs. Suunto Spartan Sport vs TomTom Runner 3. Well, you’d expect two identical lines and one that is a bit different wouldn’t you? Two near-identical Suuntos? Not quite. This is my inadvertent test to belatedly see how the ULTRA handles GPS Ephemeris Data. I’m tapering, so this was a short run (4k) and…
TomTom’s Runner/Spark 3 is BY FAR the best value, best featured and most accurate device. There is just one catch…
@GregZeger suitably chastised me for my GPS test earlier I the week. Basically I need to (wo)man-up and get out there on the streets with 4 watches on my arms. I need to be proud of what I am. Well. Something like that. Anyway, I did. Just for Greg I sort-of repeated the run test…
The main purpose of this test was to put my mind to rest about what seems to be great hardware in the Suunto SPARTAN ULTRA using last week’s firmware v1.1.30. Hopefully my GPS test might, or might not, also allay the fears of some AMBIT 3 users contemplating a Suunto upgrade for Christmas. Backstory: I’ve probably used…
The improved TomTom Runner 3/SPARK 3 range is available to pre-order now for an imminent September 2016 delivery. Prices starting around £120/US$130. The Runner 3/SPARK 3 is designed for beginners-to-fairly-serious runners who may also delve into gyms, classes and maybe the odd duathlon/triathlon. It’s focused entirely for RUNNERS but then adds features around what runners also do…
I’m under strict instructions from TomTom to point out that this is a Runner 3/Spark 3 pre-production unit and so things might go wrong. So what’s going on here then? Looks pretty awesome to me, pre-production or not this is optical HR accuracy that can be used at my maximal effort levels … This is…
We’ve already seen the announcements from the very busy TomTom R&D department with the new Runner3/SPARK3, The Adventurer and the Touch. But what has changed from last year’s Runner2/SPARK? The Touch is obviously a new product entirely. So that’s 100% new. The Adventurer and Runner3/Spark3 both LOOK like the same hardware/form as the previous iteration. But are…
Lots of announcements today of new stuff from TomTom. Let’s start with the SPARK 3 / RUNNER 3. The previous version in the UK was the similarly-looking RUNNER 2 which itself followed the UK’s original RUNNER product. The RUNNER 2 was released in the US as the SPARK (Sept 2015). To cut a long story…
