If your workouts of choice tend to focus on running, cycling, or swimming you’re in good hands here with an excellent level of detailed analysis and insights during and after your sessions. The Unite features 100 sport modes with tailored algorithms designed to improve the accuracy of the insights dished up for everything from running to Les Mills. It’s also problematic for a lot of plugs where the USB port points downwards and the socket is too close to the ground/worktop, where there’s not enough clearance to plug it in. Polar ditched the cable from the Vantage V, M, Ignite, and Grit X and opted for a slightly odd USB clip/stick/dock that’s exactly the kind of thing you lose in a bag or suitcase. Our final bugbear with design is the charger. It’s water resistant to 30m so showering, swimming, and sweating are all good and we had no issues here. When it comes to durability, the Unite feels solid and well-built for the price, even though it’s light. We much preferred the regular buckle on the Ignite. The strap it ships with is pleasant to wear though the clip-and-tuck design of the clasp is fiddly to put on, with a tendency to pinch the skin and pull out hairs – if you have them. They’re interchangeable and Polar offers a selection of silicone, textile and leather alternatives if you fancy splashing £31.50 for a different look. The Unite ships with 20mm soft silicone bands in two sizes, small and medium/large. It’s a common problem we’ve had across Polar’s touchscreen devices and it’s sadly the case here too.įlip the Unite over and you’ll see the built-in optical heart rate sensor comes without the familiar heart rate sensor bump which makes it much easier to get a tight fit and you get less digging in and skin imprints. You find yourself prodding at it a lot, particularly on the swipe to scroll. Button controls are limited to a few things like navigating back and launching the quick menu only. The Unite is 95 percent touchscreen controlled. We frequently ended up tapping the single side button to see stats mid-workout, which is a pain. The screen has an automatic sleep mode to save battery but unfortunately, the rise-to-wake is laggy and inconsistent to the point of frustration. Polar picks: Polar Vantage V2 v Vantage V v Grit X There are some minor customization options for the watch face text colors but we’d like the option to invert the display. It doesn’t pack the pin-sharpness of an Apple Watch but it’s bright enough, easily legible in most light, with plenty of room for the rich array of stats on screen. The color touchscreen display has the same resolution as the Ignite and comes with an ambient light sensor to help with visibility. It swapped the stainless steel bezel for a fiberglass polymer casing, used a slightly smaller display, and dropped the skin contact sensors that the Ignite uses to weed out the bad heart rate readings. Polar has stuck with much of the design we enjoyed in the Ignite, albeit with some clear cost-saving replacements.
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