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A fiasco
The main purpose of buying such an expensive monitor is to review detailed info on your computer (info otherwise non displayed on the watch itself but suposedly sent to your computer), well guess what, the people at polar sell a defective ir 2.0 infrared stick.
This device do not work Ive tried with all the alternatives both for xp and vista.Their last is that the silver colored stick is defective and subject to exchange for a new golden colored unit. Problem again since the people at Polar forum saythat this new golden shtick wont work either.
Very disapointed
[Tuesday, November 11, 2008]
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Great Heart Rate Monitor
Bought this in the springtime to go along with my SX627/725. I do like the GPS sensor, it wasn't important to me to be able to download my routes. What I especially like is that paired with the Polar software I can create a very varied set of phases/intervals for my runs. The software is a tad tricky to use, but I like being able to load in my walking warm-up, a running warm-up then speedwork intervals of miles at a certain pace followed by a 1/2 mile recovery jog and then a final running and walking cooldown. Mine came with the new footpod, too. Much lighter and easier on your foot when you need to use it. As for the not working with cardio equipment in the gym/fitness center, I didn't care about that either. The new WIND heartrate strap is much more reliable than the old strap for talking to the watch, with the 625 I did experience heart rate dropouts at various times. I've had good battery life with the G3 GPS sensor. If you keep up with updating your program in the provided software you'll get a battery life indication for your speed sensor(s), watch and heart rate strap. Can't wait to see what Polar comes up with next.
[Tuesday, August 05, 2008]
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RS800 good but GPS, software and data connection are a let down
I bought this to use for training for the NY marathon '07. Although the instructions were very badly written and the software is poorly set out I think with some messing round most people will be able to figure out how to use it. It was a great way to track my progress on the watch as I trained although the infra red download features do not work with Vista or a Mac (only old versions of Windows). It was also useful to keep my heart rate steady during the race when adrenaline had me champing at the bit, the large screen made it easy to see the key measure. These can be adjusted to show speed, HR, cadence time or various other measures. The GPS sensor is ok as an averaging speed /distance tool over the whole run but not great for your current pace or if you want to extract your gps coordinates also it only has a battery life of around 7hrs. If you want to use it a lot then I suggest you get some rechargeable batteries. I would recommend this watch as a useful tool but do not buy it if you think your going to be downloading data into you computer and tracking your progress in detail on screen.
[Tuesday, May 20, 2008]
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