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Hands-on with the new Garmin Vivomove watch

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That watch was merely an activity tracker that connected via Bluetooth Smart to your phone.

Samsung Galaxy Watch 7 In-Depth Review: Half the price, half the accuracy?

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While the new Samsung Galaxy Watch Ultra and new Samsung Galaxy Ring got all the attention during Samsung’s trio of fitness products launch, the reality is that most people are going to end up buying the more affordable Samsung Galaxy Watch7.

Suunto Ambit3 Multisport GPS Watch In-Depth Review

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It also brought a few other minor features like daily activity tracking and the ability to use your phone as a display for the watch.

Apple Watch Series 10: Everything You Need To Know

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Today Apple announced Apple Watch Series 10, with a substantial hardware change and upgrade.

Polar RC3 integrated GPS watch In-Depth Review

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Previously, Polar watches connected to a separate GPS pod (about the size of a thin pack of gum) to get GPS information.

Apple Watch Power Meter Support: Everything You Ever Wanted to Know

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Last month at Apple’s annual developer conference the company outlined the future of Apple Watch, at least in terms of software, for the next year.

Hands-on: Polar’s new M200 GPS watch with Optical HR

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Today Polar announced its latest device – the M200, which is a budget focused running GPS watch, but one complete with optical heart rate, smartphone notifications, and even structured training options.

Hands-on: Garmin’s Forerunner 645 Music GPS Watch

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After all, the running focused unit doesn’t just have music, but rather all the latest features and functions that Garmin’s been adding lately – such as NFC contactless payments (Garmin Pay), latest Connect IQ app support, and finally in their high end dedicated running watch: A barometric altimeter (only the triathlon variants have had that till now).

Polar M600 Android Wear GPS Watch In-Depth Review

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It’s been a touch bit over two months since Polar announced their first Android Wear device, the M600 GPS-enabled watch.

Garmin Forerunner 945 Multisport Watch In-Depth Review

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It also takes in all of the new features of the $1,500 Garmin MARQ watches, including temperature and altitude acclimation as well as more detailed training load/focus metrics.

Tri Amsterdam Race Report (Testing Apple Watch Triathlon Mode!)

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Earlier this summer, Apple announced WatchOS 9, which is by far the company’s most ambitious push into endurance sports to date for their Apple Watch platform.

Garmin Forerunner 245 Music GPS Watch In-Depth Review

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Sure, the FR235 had more buttons than the Vivoactive 3, but ultimately the Vivoactive 3 was a more rounded watch in terms of features.

Garmin Fenix3 Multisport GPS Watch In-Depth Review

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The Fenix3 aims to further blend the multisport watch realm (previously dominated by the Garmin Forerunner series), with the outdoor watches (such as the Fenix1 & Fenix2, as well as outdoor handhelds).

Pixel Watch 2 Hands-On: Here’s everything that’s new!

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Google has just announced the Pixel Watch 2, and as expected by the rumors, it’s largely incremental upgrades this year.

Apple To Halt Sales of Apple Watch Ultra 2 & Series 9: Explained

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Apple has confirmed they’ll be halting sales of the Apple Watch Series 9 and Apple Watch Ultra 2, following a ruling this past October by the International Trade Commission that ruled in favor of a patent dispute with Masimo, a medical technology company (the original judge’s decision was last January, this was an appeal).

Apple Watch Series SE: A Fitness First Impressions Untangled

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At first glance, the Apple Watch SE seems like a straightforward Apple Release with SE branding: Take a roughly year-old model, cheapen out some materials, and call it the SE.

I Tested All Three Apple Watch Ultra Band Types

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Since first trying on the new Apple Watch Ultra, I’ve been inundated with questions about which band to choose.

Oura Ring & Apple Watch Integrations: A Closer Look

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Late last week Oura launched a new integration with the Apple Watch, adding both an app to display data as well as data fields that can be used in watch faces.

Hands-on: Polar’s new Android Wear based M600 GPS Sport Watch (with music!)

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The Polar M600 takes the best of their M400 GPS running watch (mid-range unit released 2 years ago) and combines it with a revamped optical HR sensor and adds in some.

First look at the Suunto Ambit3 multisport GPS watch

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This morning Suunto has announced their latest endurance and multisport watch, the Suunto Ambit3.

Garmin FR60 Review – In Depth

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The watch arrived a few days later and I got to work using it day in and day out – for some 45 days now.

A look at Garmin’s new Forerunner FR70 running watch

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And then finally, there are cases like today – where the watch is so similar to an existing watch that for now I wanted to give you a sneak peak at the most relevant portion of the product: What it looks like.

Hands-on: Garmin’s New Forerunner 30 Running GPS Watch

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Today, Garmin announced the new Forerunner 30 GPS watch, which is currently slated only to be sold in Europe and takes the existing Forerunner 35 watch and ‘streamlines’ it (which is a fancy term for ‘remove features’).