Polar FS2 Heart Rate Monitor (Black)
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Customer Reviews
Good simple monitor
I like this watch.....its easy to follow, stopwatch, time of day and heart rate. i dont want a watch that requires a degree in applied science to operate. If you want to monitor more information you need a watch higher up the range, but if you want to time your run, monitor your heart beat and tell the time/ date, this is perfect. Got to disagree with last review, this is dead easy to operate. Press start, run, then scroll through display by briefly touching the chest strap with the watch as you run. Easy. It even tells you your max HR and average for you to input on the superb running log....
polarpersonaltrainer.com. Very impressed as a basic watch.(looks quite cool too).
Lisa Patterson
Strange shape and complecated back light.
This watch, as with all other Polars, is very good for heart rate monitoring, but if I had my choice again, I would have gone for the next one up in the range. The reasons being that this watch only has one large button to navigate through all the menus, but most annoying is when you try to activate the night light in the dark just to tell the time, and instead it goes through all its menus rather than showing you the time, because you slightly did not press the one button in the right way! I suppose Ill get used to this, but not keen.
The watch is also a strange thin design that may not suit all male wrists, with not much flexability in its thick plastic strap to sit comfortably. If you can, go for the next up in the line.
Kirkus
Dont make my mistake; product warning.
Polar heart rate monitors work by recording the tiny radio signal emitted from a belt that attaches around your chest, a bit like a cupless bra in effect. I bought a Polar device last year; it is excellent but the transmitter battery died and, since the battery is sealed in and irreplaceable, I was left with little choice but to buy a new transmiter strap for £30. Polar, when contacted, were exceptionally rude and arrogant in their reply to my suggestion that the battery should be a £5 stand-alone replacement item. The cost of spares is a rip-off!
Dont buy youll get stung when the batteries need replacing.
G. E. Downie
Impressed
It really has all the necessary functions, no need to go any more complicated and pay for features you probably wont use very much. The single button problem mentioned in another review is really not an issue - you wouldnt use this during exercise as you can easily change functions simply by raising the watch close to the chest transmitter, the button is more about setting up.
After doing a lot of research and initially rejecting this HRM I realised that a significant factor for me, having to use reading glasses (which is not practical whilst training!), was to be able to read the display easily and this one has a particularly large and uncluttered display. I personally like the design and the watch is comfortable to wear.
Yes, not being able to change the battery in the transmitter is a downside, but the HRM is good value and a with bit of research on the internet youll find a post where someone has apparently managed to do this!
D. Fontaine
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