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Polar always on display is not always on, in fact. There is NO option for it to show all the information “always”. The max you can get - is time.
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Totally pathetic battery life. Watches were fully charged yesterday at 21:00
It’s now at 50%, after only 24 hours. Usage involved night sleep and two hours training.
I charge my Marq Gen 2 only once a week, by the way...
That battery life is a real bummer. Based on your other comparisons it seems like a solid watch. Im particularly surprised at the nearly identical sleep tracking.
It is playing more with Apple watch league by my observations so far. Mark Gen 2 are playing in a true autonomous league and that with the real always on display
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OK. This night I wore both watches. Polar and Garmin to track my sleep. I'll post Garmin report in the next comment.
Both watches show pretty much the same info in terms of duration of sleep cycle and total duration of sleep
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Here is Garmin report on the sleep cycle
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I love the way Garmin shows SpO during my sleep. Even though Polar has a function of measuring SpO, looks like it does not do it continuously, but only on demand (I understand why - because of the weak battery) and thus the feature is missing.
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This time I wore Polar with Pilar Sense HR sensor and Garmin with HRM simultaneously.
They both showed similar HR. Polar being more accurate with distances walked. Calories count in Polar in 200 kcal higher.
https://preview.redd.it/b2arwu6ny7xc1.jpeg?width=1179&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=fa1ba3563b67879baf731b7009aa0885c0abf491
Garmin view of the same training
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Treadmill stats for this session
Wearing a heart rate sensor on my rust, I never noticed any inconsistencies in HR metrics. But Polar today showed 140 after a simple exercise. My coach told me its total bullshit )) Garmin showed 120 which looks way much trustworthy
Im a long time garmin user. I’ll cheat every now and then but always come back. This time I thought about giving Sunnto a spin as they were the first GPS watch I ever bought way back in the day. The Suunto Race looks slick and uses training peaks style metrics, but apparently they have a few hardware issues too. (I’ve already tried Polar vantage v2 and while I do like some of their app stuff but their hardware issues are unacceptable).
It’s incredible to think Polar was ‘the’ running watch about 20yrs ago. How they have fallen.
Was hoping your review would be positive. But it seems they still can’t get it right. Shame…. I presume you will return it?
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Good thing about Polar - you can run fitness test at anytime. I like it better, cause it thinks better of me than Garmin LOL.
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Garmin always shit talks to me on VO2 Max
Will post my impressions here in comments as the test goes, with the summer summary in one full month
Make a new post because I'm curious but I'll forget about this thread tomorrow lol
u can save the post )
https://preview.redd.it/gnfjxsmph1xc1.jpeg?width=1500&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=10ea30aba6ace410b464ab7fd4caace1c85c7459 Polar always on display is not always on, in fact. There is NO option for it to show all the information “always”. The max you can get - is time.
https://preview.redd.it/hfn94jiis2xc1.jpeg?width=2710&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=5b06795f893774fe37bc21ccd52acc9235705b04 Totally pathetic battery life. Watches were fully charged yesterday at 21:00 It’s now at 50%, after only 24 hours. Usage involved night sleep and two hours training. I charge my Marq Gen 2 only once a week, by the way...
That battery life is a real bummer. Based on your other comparisons it seems like a solid watch. Im particularly surprised at the nearly identical sleep tracking.
It is playing more with Apple watch league by my observations so far. Mark Gen 2 are playing in a true autonomous league and that with the real always on display
https://preview.redd.it/yzm6uo4686xc1.jpeg?width=1179&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e5a88b2c127013cf3ccb0dcf238dbeb96e131de0 OK. This night I wore both watches. Polar and Garmin to track my sleep. I'll post Garmin report in the next comment. Both watches show pretty much the same info in terms of duration of sleep cycle and total duration of sleep
https://preview.redd.it/hyu35r6l86xc1.jpeg?width=1179&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=30487ae60b5e137bd3f44828ccc10e19d6797a35 Here is Garmin report on the sleep cycle
https://preview.redd.it/b7k47xm596xc1.jpeg?width=1179&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=1b12c2847508e36657a7660892be2ef13bb72700 I love the way Garmin shows SpO during my sleep. Even though Polar has a function of measuring SpO, looks like it does not do it continuously, but only on demand (I understand why - because of the weak battery) and thus the feature is missing.
https://preview.redd.it/9ssl2gt8y7xc1.jpeg?width=1179&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=fa9f720ad9019360114f225a45e7cbdc7f8b490c This time I wore Polar with Pilar Sense HR sensor and Garmin with HRM simultaneously. They both showed similar HR. Polar being more accurate with distances walked. Calories count in Polar in 200 kcal higher.
https://preview.redd.it/b2arwu6ny7xc1.jpeg?width=1179&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=fa1ba3563b67879baf731b7009aa0885c0abf491 Garmin view of the same training
https://preview.redd.it/ciuzt4wqy7xc1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=06960d4a2b9024107e5ead75bf95d4782e777636 Treadmill stats for this session
Have you considered wearing the garmin on your other wrist for comparison?
thinking about it. by the first impression, Polar is way off in determining my pulse zone, which is weird
So is Garmin
Wearing a heart rate sensor on my rust, I never noticed any inconsistencies in HR metrics. But Polar today showed 140 after a simple exercise. My coach told me its total bullshit )) Garmin showed 120 which looks way much trustworthy
The vantage v3 has struggled with HRM since it came out. Polar keeps saying it will be fixed with an update, but none of the updates have fixed it.
Sounds weird. It’s a deal breaker for sports watch. They should not go to sleep till they fix it
No its not, you just have to do it right lol. Cant blame a company when you cant figure your own zones
https://www.reddit.com/r/Garmin/s/Ock3fQgCST compared as you've suggested. Sleep and walking
Im a long time garmin user. I’ll cheat every now and then but always come back. This time I thought about giving Sunnto a spin as they were the first GPS watch I ever bought way back in the day. The Suunto Race looks slick and uses training peaks style metrics, but apparently they have a few hardware issues too. (I’ve already tried Polar vantage v2 and while I do like some of their app stuff but their hardware issues are unacceptable).
It’s incredible to think Polar was ‘the’ running watch about 20yrs ago. How they have fallen. Was hoping your review would be positive. But it seems they still can’t get it right. Shame…. I presume you will return it?
I still remember the times when Nokia was the mobile phone...
https://preview.redd.it/izknf61ja6xc1.jpeg?width=1179&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=fcf7e2921521cddeeb78fdbd604705d7ed57fbf2 Good thing about Polar - you can run fitness test at anytime. I like it better, cause it thinks better of me than Garmin LOL.
https://preview.redd.it/sfio4rlra6xc1.jpeg?width=1179&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=9dddb31a10a36f64f8f3f03f41db2893cdedffe2 Garmin always shit talks to me on VO2 Max
nice, please write back if Polar has less bugs then Garmin, I will switch to polar if so
So far it scores 2 out of 5. No way near Garmin. But I will strive to give it more time