Have to say I am intrigued…
I tried to check, any chance it would be Ant+, be sweet to pair HR and footpod…
Yes, curious what this offers to the cycling/triathlon community.
Seems like it could work like a nicer Magellan Echo to leverage a phone’s GPS for speed and distance. Although I have to wonder if the optical heart rate monitor is accurate for exercise
I think I saw DCRainmaker say on his blog that he didn’t find it to be very accurate on another device. Can’t remember which one.
The Basis B1’s optical heart rate monitor doesn’t work at all for exercise but there are some good ones like the Mio Link that are designed and work perfectly well for exercise
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There’s another recent thread on this, but the short answer is that it is designed to complement casual fitness, but by no means capable of the specific needs of a triathlete.
- No GPS
- An iphone is required to tether
- No Ant +
- Can’t swim with it
There’s another recent thread on this, but the short answer is that it is designed to complement casual fitness, but by no means capable of the specific needs of a triathlete.
- No GPS
- An iphone is required to tether
- No Ant +
- Can’t swim with it
yet.
first generation
It’s a glorified activity tracker along the lines of a Vivofit/FitBit/Nike+ Fuelband. It doesn’t even have GPS so it’s got a long way to go before it replaces your most basic run watch, nevermind a multi-sport watch
There’s another recent thread on this, but the short answer is that it is designed to complement casual fitness, but by no means capable of the specific needs of a triathlete.
- No GPS
- An iphone is required to tether
- No Ant +
- Can’t swim with it
yet.
first generation
First generation.
Total fail (for the purposes of readers of this forum).
The first iPhone was bad yet it changed the mobile market.
The first iPad was underwhelming yet it created a new product in an already mature ecosystem.
The first iWatch is at best “meh”.
It seems like many don’t understand the purpose of the apple watch. It is NOT supposed to be a sports watch or health tracker or anything like that. It’s a WEARABLE IPAD. That’s it.
Yes, it has some extra sensors and with those sensors you can do all sorts of stuff that Apple doesn’t care about. It’s up to others to develop. But again, that’s not what this device is about.
It seems like many don’t understand the purpose of the apple watch. It is NOT supposed to be a sports watch or health tracker or anything like that. It’s a WEARABLE IPAD. That’s it.
Yes, it has some extra sensors and with those sensors you can do all sorts of stuff that Apple doesn’t care about. It’s up to others to develop. But again, that’s not what this device is about.
Correct. Smart companies will use this platform to sell their apps on it. Great way to make money. Don’t fear the newcomer - leverage it.
At the moment I’m straining to find reasons to use it in sport, which means it probably isn’t that useful or someone just hasn’t written the killer app yet. The closest I can think of would be to use the haptic feedback (little vibration stuff) as a means to cue a cyclist or runner to adjust pace into a planned effort zone. One could just look at their bike computer/watch though, so this doesn’t seem yet like a killer feature.
At the moment I’m straining to find reasons to use it in sport, which means it probably isn’t that useful or someone just hasn’t written the killer app yet. The closest I can think of would be to use the haptic feedback (little vibration stuff) as a means to cue a cyclist or runner to adjust pace into a planned effort zone. One could just look at their bike computer/watch though, so this doesn’t seem yet like a killer feature.Well the coach may be able to read the data from a remote location and provide feedback via SMS or that drawing thing directly to the racer.
At the moment I’m straining to find reasons to use it in sport, which means it probably isn’t that useful or someone just hasn’t written the killer app yet. The closest I can think of would be to use the haptic feedback (little vibration stuff) as a means to cue a cyclist or runner to adjust pace into a planned effort zone. One could just look at their bike computer/watch though, so this doesn’t seem yet like a killer feature.Well the coach may be able to read the data from a remote location and provide feedback via SMS or that drawing thing directly to the racer.
Yep, as long as athlete is also carrying/wearing the new laptop sized iphone.
At the moment I’m straining to find reasons to use it in sport, which means it probably isn’t that useful or someone just hasn’t written the killer app yet. The closest I can think of would be to use the haptic feedback (little vibration stuff) as a means to cue a cyclist or runner to adjust pace into a planned effort zone. One could just look at their bike computer/watch though, so this doesn’t seem yet like a killer feature.Well the coach may be able to read the data from a remote location and provide feedback via SMS or that drawing thing directly to the racer.
Yep, as long as athlete is also carrying/wearing the new laptop sized iphone.Not required, works with iphone 5 as well.
If the watch could integrate with everything and also display data to other people with the watch or other devices I would totally get one, lets see what apple can develop
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Yep, as long as athlete is also carrying/wearing the new laptop sized iphone.Not required, works with iphone 5 as well.
Oh, that’s much better.
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