Apple Watch Series 8 In-Depth Review
www.dcrainmaker.com/2022/09/series-sports-fitness.htmlHowever, it is clear that Apple (like years past) isn’t listing the correct depth of the Apple Watch 8, and is excluding the heart rate sensor in their measurements. … The reason I don’t look at sleep stage/phase accuracy is that the comparative technologies that are available to do so aren’t all that accurate to begin with (about 80% accurate in most cases), and thus, we’d never judge a heart rate sensor or GPS track against something that was wrong 1/5th the time.
Garmin Forerunner 265/265S In-Depth Review: AMOLED in Two Sizes!
www.dcrainmaker.com/2023/03/garmin-forerunner-review-amoled.htmlFinally, I’ll wrap-up in the heart rate and GPS accuracy sections. … From heart rate tracking to breathing rate, to lactate threshold automatic detection.
Timex Run Trainer GPS 2.0 In-Depth Review
www.dcrainmaker.com/2013/03/trainer-depth-review.htmlDepending on which variant you’re looking at, you’ll either have a heart rate strap or won’t. … In the event you purchased a unit with the ANT+ heart rate strap, you’ll have that in the box as well.
Suunto Ambit 2 and 2S In-Depth Review
www.dcrainmaker.com/2013/04/suunto-ambit2-review.htmlThis will vary slightly depending on whether or not you picked up the variant with the heart rate strap. … Inside the box of the 2S you’ll find the USB charging cable, the manual, and depending on which variant you’ve bought – the heart rate strap.
Garmin Forerunner 745 In-Depth Review
www.dcrainmaker.com/2020/09/garmin-forerunner-745-depth-review.htmlThat includes steps, stairs, sleep, heart rate, as well as Pulse Ox. … For example, steps, or smartphone notifications, or heart rate, or whatever you want.
Garmin Forerunner 645 Music GPS Running Watch In-Depth Review
www.dcrainmaker.com/2018/03/garmin-forerunner-music-watch-review.htmlHere’s a quick gallery I shot of some of the default widgets, which include things like your daily step totals, your current heart rate, and the weather. … From an activity tracking standpoint the FR645 tracks steps, stairs, and sleep (as well as heart rate 24x7).
Polar Grit X Pro GPS Watch In-Depth Review
www.dcrainmaker.com/2021/10/polar-watch-review.htmlBeyond that, the company has pulled in virtually all of the features of the Polar Vantage V2 that it introduced last fall, plus new features added from the Polar Ignite 2 this past spring – including heart rate sharing/broadcasting. … However, others were introduced this past spring on the Polar Ignite 2 (such as Heart Rate broadcasting).
Polar Pacer Pro GPS Running Watch In-Depth Review
www.dcrainmaker.com/2022/04/polar-running-review.htmlMeanwhile, flipping it over you’ve got the optical heart rate sensor. … The sensor is used for both workouts as well as 24x7 tracking of heart rate.
Polar Loop In-Depth Review
www.dcrainmaker.com/2013/12/polar-depth-review.htmlThe Polar Loop is the very first daily activity tracker on the market that not only counts steps, but also connects to a separate heart rate strap – providing you with heart-rate based calorie information for activities. … Next comes likely the most appealing aspect of the Loop – the ability to pair to a Bluetooth Smart heart rate (HR) strap.
Polar’s Unite Fitness Watch: Hands-on Details and First Run
www.dcrainmaker.com/2020/06/polars-fitness-details.htmlFirst, it should be a ‘Cardio Medium’ effort of 1 hour and 4 minutes, staying in heart rate zones 1-3. … Instead, it’s focused on your heart rate.
Fitbit Charge and Charge HR In-Depth Review
www.dcrainmaker.com/2015/02/fitbit-charge-review.htmlFor this post though, we’ll be looking at the Charge variants, both with and without the heart rate option. … Both the Fitbit Charge and Charge HR follow in those footsteps and delivery that, along with stairs climbed and in the case of the Charge HR – heart rate.
Garmin Lily Fitness Smartwatch In-Depth Review
www.dcrainmaker.com/2021/01/garmin-fitness-smartwatch.htmlThe watches include daily activity tracking (including sleep tracking), an optical heart rate sensor, as well as smartphone notifications. … There’s dedicated widgets for an overview of your day (called My Day), heart rate driven stats like stress and intensity minutes (under a ‘Health Stats’ banner), your calendar, weather, hydration, female health tracking, body battery, heart rate, and steps (plus others too).
Oura Ring 3: First Impressions After A few Days
www.dcrainmaker.com/2021/10/first-impressions-after.htmlIt does this using small sensors on the inside of the ring band, inclusive of heart rate tracking. … The new Gen 3 version adds in SpO2 sensing, period prediction, workout tracking, and daytime heart rate tracking, using both new sensors as well as new software features.
COROS Vertix 2S In-Depth Review: Worth The Upgrade?
www.dcrainmaker.com/2024/04/coros-vertix2s-in-depth-review-tested.htmlSome of it is to ensure COROS’s top-end unit retains COROS’s best optical heart rate sensor and GPS performance, while other hardware tweaks are related to component/chipset upgrades from a manufacturing standpoint. … As you can see, the newish optical heart rate sensor actually plays into a lot of these changes.
Garmin Instinct GPS Watch In-Depth Review
www.dcrainmaker.com/2018/10/garmin-instinct-review.htmlSo if you want to show steps instead of heart rate on the little graph on the left, you can. … Looking at that heart rate sensor, it’ll constantly monitor and record your heart rate, 24x7 at 1-second intervals.
JetBlack VOLT Smart Trainer In-Depth Review
www.dcrainmaker.com/2021/07/jetblack-trainer-review.htmlPlus, it’s got a nifty feature that passes through your heart rate sensor data via the trainer, allowing you to pair the entire trainer/power/cadence/heart rate as a single channel on Apple TV, saving you one further channel for steering (with Zwift). … This means you can pair the trainer and get power/cadence/control, while also pairing up a heart rate strap.
Fitbit Ionic GPS Smartwatch In-Depth Review
www.dcrainmaker.com/2017/09/fitbit-smartwatch-review.htmlAt this point you’ve got the date/time, as well as progress towards your goals for steps and calories, and an icon for your current heart rate. … This includes steps, distance, calories, floors (stairs), active minutes, all alongside your resting heart rate.
Garmin Vivosmart 3 Activity Tracker In-Depth Review
www.dcrainmaker.com/2017/04/garmin-vivosmart-activity-tracker.htmlThen they layered in a bunch of new heart rate variability metrics to measure stress and VO2Max. … And you’ve got an optical heart rate (HR) sensor in there that works during both workouts and 24x7 monitoring.
Oura Ring Generation 3 In-Depth Review
www.dcrainmaker.com/2021/11/oura-depth-review.htmlBelow that is my daily heart rate graph widget. … Now back on that main dashboard you can tap on the little heart icon that’s supposed to show your real-time heart rate.
Garmin Forerunner 965 In-Depth Review: Now with AMOLED Display!
www.dcrainmaker.com/2023/03/garmin-forerunner-965-depth-review.htmlFrom heart rate tracking to breathing rate, to functional threshold power and chronic training load. … Many of these metrics are derived from data captured by the optical heart rate sensor located on the bottom of the Forerunner 965.
Initial thoughts on the new Adidas Smart Run GPS watch
www.dcrainmaker.com/2013/10/initial-thoughts-adidas.htmlPerhaps the single biggest item of note is that this is the first GPS watch with built-in optical heart rate recognition. … This means that your heart rate is optically measured at your wrist, rather than requiring you to wear a heart rate strap.
Garmin Vivomove Trend In-Depth Review: First Garmin Wireless Charging Watch!
www.dcrainmaker.com/2023/02/vivomove-wireless-charging.htmlIt'll track your activity, heart rate, workouts, and just about every other health/wellness feature that Garmin watches normally track. … Both this and all the heart rate metrics leverage the optical HR sensor on the bottom.
Garmin Enduro 2 GPS Watch In-Depth Review: Tested to the Limit!
www.dcrainmaker.com/2022/08/garmin-enduro-review.htmlUltimately this is true for every one of the different metrics Garmin tracks from 24x7 heart rate, to stairs, to breathing rate, and so on. … Most of these metrics are driven by the optical heart rate sensor on the bottom of the Enduro 2.
Garmin Venu with AMOLED Display: Everything You Ever Wanted to Know
www.dcrainmaker.com/2019/09/garmin-display-everything.htmlThere’s also the brilliantly pretty looking heart rate graph. … The new respiration rate feature does not require a heart rate strap, and is working constantly behind the scenes within the optical HR sensor to measure respiration rate (basically, breathing rate).
Suunto 5 Peak In-Depth Review
www.dcrainmaker.com/2022/01/suunto-depth-review.htmlWrapping up on the back we’ve got the optical heart rate sensor, which appears to be the same as from the original Suunto 5 series and doesn’t match the newer Suunto 9 Peak one (which has SpO2 readings, the Suunto 5 Peak does not). … It’ll constantly monitor your heart rate, or, you can take spot-checks on the front watch face, as well as look at the past few hours of heart rate details.
