V1.3 – 23rd May 2017 This is my opinion of current & future devices across the GPS running/cycling market. Updates to this will be issued as and when information emerges which may include rumors, although note well that any information provided to me under NDA by manufacturers will not appear here. So there might yet be a few…
Polar’s new chest-strap heart rate monitor (HRM) is the H10. I’m going to assume, as I would do with a Garmin or Suunto chest strap HRM, that it’s accurate. Some of Polar’s marketing literature states increased accuracy over the previous H7 model. The H7 has historically been used by Sports Labs as a HRM-of-choice due…
Technically it’s new. Actually it’s not that interesting. What’s more interesting is that Pocket-Lint report a whopping £450 price tag for the non-Sapphire version. Ouch. Well here we go. A sapphire version of Casio’s AndroidWear 2.0 trekking watch with a harder SAPPHIRE glass screen. We can all sleep easy tonight. I think the black has…
Polar’s latest M200 running watch is priced as a budget model yet it has some advanced components on board that make it worthy of consideration for many levels of runner. It generally ticks the boxes with: GPS accuracy; personalised training plans for most levels of runner; and an inbuilt optical heart rate monitor for the wrist. It…
Triathlon gear to make us better, faster, stronger and prettier (well the first 3) in 2017
It looks like the Lenovo-owned MOTO brand will not be continuing with smartwatches, according to The Verge, although the existing MOTO 360 (2015) may well be updated to AW2.0 in Q1.2017. Guess which one of these will still be being sold in 2018. It also looks like Fitbit will be buying Pebble. Fitbit haven’t got…
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…
