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Basically, it lost the plot the entire time. It was only correct for about a 5-minute chunk between 43 and 48 minutes. The FR735XT was mostly correct, save a short section around the 38 minute marker. I see no reason to analyze this ride further, it was a mess. Ante el auge de los wearables, Google decidió hace unos años meterse en el mundo de los relojes inteligentes y lo hizo con Android Wear. Del mismo modo en que Android es el sistema operativo de millones de smartphones y tablets en todo el mundo, Android Wear es una versión adaptada a pantallas pequeñas, permitiendo a cualquier desarrollador crear aplicaciones para él. Since the GPS recording is NOT on in the battery saver mode, you'll get a notification if the battery saver mode is on when you're about to start training with the Polar app or if the battery falls below 5% while you're training. Don't leave the battery fully discharged for a long period of time or keep it fully charged all the time because it may affect the battery life time. Also, do not charge the battery in temperatures under 0°C or over +40°C or when the charging port is wet or sweaty. If the charging port of your M600 has gotten wet, let it dry before plugging in the charging cable.

The smartwatch aspect means you can say, "OK, Google," followed by a question or command, and in many cases get either an answer or results in a few seconds. You can compose and send a text message using your voice and never touching your phone. You can also take a note, set a reminder, and get calendar notifications. And plenty of third-party apps from Google Play expand what the watch can do. A microphone enables the use of the “OK Google” voice commands. Basically, everything you expect from Android Wear is present, including the ever-expanding catalogue of apps designed for your wrist. On the watch itself, all that info is presented in brief under the My Day part of Flow (just for that current day) but inside the smartphone app, it's much more detailed. One of the best parts of My Day is you can see what activity you need to perform to make your daily goal; whether that be running, walking or just standing up. But those three corners were really the only parts where it fumbled in the town. The rest of the corners (and even smaller roads), it actually did well. All three did.I’ve also used the unit in both hiking as well as cycling. In terms of the menus and such, it all works the same way there. The only notable item is that it does *not* pair to any Bluetooth Smart cycling sensors. It can only pair to a Bluetooth Smart heart rate strap, which it will prompt you about if it finds one in range: You can control pretty much everything from the touchscreen, but Polar has still added two physical buttons. The one of the left acts as the home button, and the one right below the display jumps you straight into Polar’s training app. Next, to line it up to some other watches in the space, most notably the TomTom Runner 3/Spark 3 (which has music and GPS & optical HR), you’ll see that it’s a big bigger than that. It’s roughly at this point that everything went to crap as I started the first longer interval. It stayed collectively crap for the first few minutes. Both optical HR sensors were wrong, the chest strap was correct. Then the M600 got the memo and did well for a few minutes before crapping out again. Followed by the FR35 doing well and then crapping out. Both woke-up by time I finished that interval. Seriously? As a Polar M600 user myself,I like to add on to your comments, for navigation, one can also install citymapper. It comes with a cycling routing that can prompt our watch for turn by turn navigation. This beat many garmin watches (i have garmin 735xt myself) where you have to create a course on garmin connect to have simple turn by turn navigation. This app is very good for travel overseas if the country you go to is supported by the app.

Except the problem there is that the connection constantly times out. If I go out of range of my phone (even just to the bathroom), it’ll lose the connection. That’s fine. But what’s not fine is that it won’t ever repair that connection by itself. Instead, I have to manually do it. Every…single…time. It just gets old, every…single…time. So, as I often say: Buy a device based on what’s there today, not what’s being promised or hinted at down the road. Polar has noted that consumers shouldn’t expect to see all Polar watches become Android Wear, and they proved that themselves just a few weeks ago with the M200. Similarly, they’ve been clear that you shouldn’t expect to see that in future versions of high-performance watches, like the V800. They noted that the interfaces for Android Wear (as well as battery requirements) just don’t lend itself well to those scenarios today. Perhaps down the road, but…not today or anytime near-term. I’ve been using the M600 with both iOS and Android phones, so I’ve got a pretty good idea of where it works well…and where it’s not so awesome. With that, let’s begin! Unboxing:But what about taking the Android Wear based M600 and comparing it against the Apple Watch Series 2? Ask and you shall receive! It’s here you can open up 3rd party apps (Android phones only), or the default Android Wear apps (like Google Fit, Flashlight, and others).

The other challenge with cycling is that if you leave it on gesture based (the screen), then it’s awfully wonky to get to display the screen, and it’s really ideal. Still, if you only ride sparingly, then it’s probably not a huge deal to you.

Accuracy

As far as music goes, creating a playlist in Google Music, and being able to add and/or remove any song on whim, knowing your phone will sync with the web version automatically as well the M600 syncing automatically with your phone is AWESOME. Could not be easier and more fun. I couldn’t feel the lap vibration, also the lap summary didn’t stay on screen long enough (I wonder if these are configurable). However, that was really the only incident on this run. The rest of the run along the wall and below other bridges went off just fine:

Continuing the M600’s fitness theme, flip the watch over and there’s an optical heart rate monitor that uses six LEDs to take measurements. Below this is the charging connector – which, rather annoyingly, is proprietary.

quería poder desconectar lo de la actividad diaria, vamos que no me interesa que me diga la información diaria de los pasos que doy (realmente no le veo utilidad para mi) de hecho hasta me parece molesto cuando me sale en la app, se puede desconectar la actividad del cuenta pasos? Polar isn’t short of know-how when it comes to sports watches; its M400 GPS Running Watch was one of our all-time favourites. The M600 is altogether a different wrist-based wearable. I can see myself using the watch all the time. It’s not gorgeous, but it’s not as ugly as it looks in pictures either. Suunto ya tenía aplicaciones que instalar en sus relojes a través de Movescount y Garmin tiene su plataforma Connect IQ, pero Polar se había quedado atrás, y en lugar de desarrollar su propia plataforma (lo cual es un gasto importante en recursos y tiempo), han optado por meter el sistema de Google, así que el Polar M600 funciona con Android Wear. I’m also hoping Polar adds a multisport option, which would be nice at the gyn – so I could record the treadmill and strength training as one workout.