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Any idea when you are going to put out your review of the Charge HR?
Thanks for the work you put in!
Yes, yes! Charge HR please! I am ready to purchase an activity tracker with continuous HR monitoring and am eagerly awaiting your guidance.
It will be up either tomorrow, or Wednesday. Thanks!
OGE Cycling Team has just had a go at Uptown Funk too:
link to youtube.com
Will DJ Patil introduce the President to dcrainmaker.com?
If the lobster test isn’t working, at least you can eat them afterwards :P
I may feel slower…but I also feel cleaner.
Care to back up to back up your insinuation?
My god is Mo fast!
Can’t wait for the Fenix 3 review and the availability in Europe.
Did notice the Polar V800 has decreased in price everywhere and now “only” costs about €300 in stead of the €400 about a year ago.
Does Polar feel the heat of Garmin or is there a new even higher end model on the way.
Hi Folks,
I recently bought an Edge 810 for my roadbike. I really like the fenix 3 and I’m struggeling right now with myself, if the edge is really necessary.
I think the main benefit of the 810 is the routing capability.
What about cycling-navigation with the Fenix, any good usage possible?
At present, there’s no navigation in the Fenix3. While some apps will give you some basic navigation functionality, it won’t be at the same offline capability level as the Edge 810 in terms of depth of mapping.
Thanks Ray. I guess, I keep the Edge then. For longer routes – through not familiar places – you better have that option.
I guess cellphone only is not the best idea for a trip through the alps ;)
Yet another sleep tracker that promises to be better then the others:
link to igg.me
I currently have the beddit. This one promises that you don’t have to tell it when you go to sleep and when you wake up so you only need to use your smartphone/tablet to view the results of what it tracks. Plus they claim it can act as multizone mattress pad heater and can connect to other wifi connected devices like IFTTT, Nest, etc. So lots of promises, if it lives up to that I have no clue cause it is indiegogo ;)
Speaking of the USSA Uptown Funk (INTERWEBS #7 above), did you notice the US team in the “10K Ladies (Free)” yesterday (Feb. 24) in Falon at the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships? Not only did they get silver (Jessie Diggins) and bronze (Caitlin Gregg), they also had two more skiers in the top 15 – Liz Stephen 10th, Kikkan Randal 15th. Well done!
On the Fenix auto-climb video, your climb screen shows grade. I can’t find grade as an available data field anywhere. Are you running software 2.50? Could you tell me where to look? I realise I should probably ring Garmin support :).
Found it. Thanks!
Looks like the Microsoft Band has had a major update so cycling is now supported and it has a SDK to write custom apps:
link to winsupersite.com
Hi Ray,
Any idea on when you’ll be able to post your in depth review of the fenix 3?
Later this week.