TomTom NOT up for sale
It seemed worth saying. TomTom is NOT up for sale. Source: TomTom.com EBIT -Eu200m 2017… ouch (link to:TomTom.com) Edit: Correction
TomTom Consumer Sales Plummet
TomTom’s Q4.2017 revenues were down 40% on the same quarter from the previous year. Indeed the full year showed 2017 down 27% on 2016 Q4 sales were still Eu91m though. TomTom Down 29% TomTom – Reports big 2015 sales growth for GPS watches Source: TomTom
TomTom Tumble – Great Amazon USA deals … for a reason
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.
TomTom Down 29%
TomTom’s latest quarterly results (link to: tomtom.com) do not make for any kind of cheerful reading for the Consumer Division. Q3.17 vs Q3.16 show revenues down by 29% from Eu137m to Eu97 with a comparable YTD decline of 22%. Ominously the report quotes “Strategic review of Consumer Sports in progress“. This information would clearly have…
TomTom Spark / Runner / Adventurer – Recommendation Removed
I have taken the decision to remove the recommendations I have for TomTom sports products. The current tranche of Runner-based products (Adventurer, Runner 3, Spark 3) are fundamentally sound and, in many respects, market-leading in their functionalities. coupled with that there have been platform improvements this year. However the longerterm future of your sports watch…
New TomTom Runner 2 & 3 & Adventurer Features Introduced & a comment about MIO
TomTom have added some new Firstbeat metrics to their Runner 2 and Runner 3 ie also including their Spark (2) and Adventurer sports watches. Essentially it is an age-graded, points-scoring system for differing intensities of exercise. Firstbeat say, “…Firstbeat relies on a scientifically validated method of tracking exercise intensity in terms of the amount of oxygen…
TomTom Consumer/Sports – Selling Off? More New Products? Or Something Else?
I did NOT want to write this but I had read a few articles around the same subject even before some other info surfaced last week in the press. So ‘here goes’ anyway. I DO look at several of the financial statements of the endurance market players on a regular basis and have also exchanged a few…
April 2017 : Cycling/Running/Triathlon ‘Watches’: Current Models and expected replacement dates. Garmin, Polar, Suunto, Wahoo, TomTom
V1.1 – 4th April 2017 This is my opinion of current & future devices across the running/cycling market. Updates to this will be issued as and when information emerges. Please let me know of errors or omissions. Thank you . Enjoy. Manufacturer Device Comments Garmin Fenix/Fenix 2 Effectively Discontinued Garmin Fenix 3 Fenix 3 HR +…
March 2017 : Cycling/Running/Triathlon ‘Watches’: Current Models and expected replacement dates. Garmin, Polar, Suunto, Wahoo, TomTom
Definitive list of future running/cycling/sports watches. Maybe. Perhaps.
Best Running Watch 2018 | Top 10 | GPS Review, Recommendations & Comparisons
Detailed Product Reviews & Usage-Based Recommendations by Real Runners…NOT Journalists.
TomTom – New app, New Band. Similarly functioned app, similarly functioned band.
TomTom today announced a new variant on their band product The TomTom TOUCH. This is the “cardio” version released in March at about $/Eur/£90. The Version released last year was the “TomTom Touch Cardio + Body Composition” ie last year’s was the fat/muscle tracker and this announcement is for the same product but without the fat/muscle…
TomTom Sports updates
TomTom have just announced an impending update to their mobile app. I was a bit surprised by the image on the right…sometimes locations where I run and cycle. Maybe I secretly work for TomTom? Quickly glancing at some of the official content, below, the app does seem to offer some sensible and significant UI/UX improvements (the…
Mystery Watch(es)
Well folks, there will definitely be an announcement of at least one new sports watch at CES2017. and probably NOT this one.. well definitely not this one as it’s an old Polar 🙂 It says GPS on it not GP3 🙂 Oh yes. then there’s this Garmin Fenix 5 thing
Christmas Spoiler – Here is what you'll get. Christmas-time is Garmin-time.
Sorry about this. I’m just about to spoil your Christmas as I know what you’ve got from Santa. Here are some Christmas sales stats and these were the top 7 selling sports watches(*) through the awesomely-priced Amazon links over there to the right => Many thanks for your support and in no particular order: Suunto Ambit…
TomTom Adventurer Review
The TomTom Adventurer is the ‘off-road’ version of The TomTom Runner 3/SPARK 3 and is designed for: beginners-to-fairly-serious runners; trail runners; & hikers who may wander across the odd hill and not wish to get lost. Back home, sure, they will all also delve into gyms, classes and maybe partake in the most modern of pastimes – ‘activity tracking’. Like the…
Review : TomTom Touch
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…
Apple Has Best Optical HR – err…… no it hasn't
A bizarrely scientific, yet incomplete, study by the Heart and Vascular Institute, Cleveland Clinic published through the American Medical Association purports to show that the Apple Watch has the best accuracy of wrist-based optical HR. Or at least that is how it is being headlined by various tech publications on the internet. This is the first page:…
adidas quits GPS Watches: Leaving TomTom Runner 3/Spark 3 as one of a kind…for now
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…
GPS Accuracy: Suunto's SPARTAN SPORT *AND* ULTRA vs TomTom's Runner 3 (Spark 3)
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 Runner Review (Runner 3 aka Spark 3)
TomTom’s Runner/Spark 3 is BY FAR the best value, best featured and most accurate device. There is just one catch…
