Curious - how does this study declare "best on market" when only 3 other brands are compared? No Garmin? No TomTom spark? No Suunto? No modern Fitbit, say something that was released after 2014? Can we have something better than hollow victories?
Attention! The market space also include Garmin, and I am not seeing any data with them, pitted against the Apple Watch. Other are also excluded, like those from Samsung, and Jawbone. So, not a complete picture of the situation.
Just so, you know, I do not own an Apple Watch. For the kind of activities I do, mainly the gym, and hiking, I chose Garmin products, the Forerunner 15, and a good GPS, the eTrex Touch 35. I need to have a GPS track for at least 8-10 hours. The Apple Watch is not capable of doing that on a single charge
Sorry guys but you need to face reality. Fitness trackers have come down to two brands, Apple and FitBit.
I was reading an article about a week ago regarding Apple Watch sales and the multi-paragraph article went on about these 2 companies. The first paragraph declared Android Wear dead along with all these other brands you guys were mentioning.
I wish I could link to this article but I found it a week ago on my Apple News feed. Going back to look for it could take an hour or more.
Interesting. Always pays to read the original. Based on that one page summary, I think this AI article might be wrong. The Mio Fuse had almost the same results as the Apple Watch so the sentence "The others dropped into the "low 80s," seems to only refer to the Fitbit and Basis
I was wondering how the AI article managed to lump the Mio in with the other low-end watches as that is usually considered one of the better consumer optical HR monitors. Nice bit of selective journalism there, AI. LOL
It would be interesting to see a more comprehensive study with more devices, including more devices that are in the same higher-end category as the Apple watch (Garmin, Suunto, etc). But as the original research letter (ie, not a full-blown study) said, this was just a "convenience sample" (probably the devices the researches already personally owned LOL) of devices and "results should be confirmed with different types of exercises and with other devices."
I think you should make that comment to Time magazine, which made that allegation, not Appleinsider.
Fair point. I should have noted that AI copied their article, much of it word-for-word, from the Time article.
I have used the original Apple Watch for the past year and the accuracy of the heart rate tracker degrades significantly with intense exercises. If I work out with series of exercises, as the heart rate goes up rapidly the tracker keeps showing very low results. It still not accurate enough to be a fitness tracker.
Yet it seemingly beat the other wrist worn devices off course you could get a chest strap to get real accurate results
Attention! The market space also include Garmin, and I am not seeing any data with them, pitted against the Apple Watch. Other are also excluded, like those from Samsung, and Jawbone. So, not a complete picture of the situation.
Just so, you know, I do not own an Apple Watch. For the kind of activities I do, mainly the gym, and hiking, I chose Garmin products, the Forerunner 15, and a good GPS, the eTrex Touch 35. I need to have a GPS track for at least 8-10 hours. The Apple Watch is not capable of doing that on a single charge
They mostly are using the same sensor tech on the wrist and they got a weaker processor (so less post processing of sensor data) at best they would be no better in mesuring pulse rate and probably worse as for the rest, this watch is half the volume in the 42mm version than Garmin products and still lasts 5-6 h with the gps, heart rate and playing blue tooth music
it doesn't make much sense to use a british english word in the lead of your story for an american site. and yes while there are U.K. readers here, it still doesn't make style guide sense to do so.
It sounds to me like another red neck who doesn't know where is U.K. in a map...
which has nothing to do with my point. I'm willing to bet most american readers have no idea what "bespoke" means.
I daresay a fair few British readers wouldn't be familiar with the word either, it's not exactly common parlance. But not using words because of obscurity leads everyone to talk like 10 year olds. Let's aim a little higher.
Attention! The market space also include Garmin, and I am not seeing any data with them, pitted against the Apple Watch. Other are also excluded, like those from Samsung, and Jawbone. So, not a complete picture of the situation.
Just so, you know, I do not own an Apple Watch. For the kind of activities I do, mainly the gym, and hiking, I chose Garmin products, the Forerunner 15, and a good GPS, the eTrex Touch 35. I need to have a GPS track for at least 8-10 hours. The Apple Watch is not capable of doing that on a single charge
This was not an AI study. It was done by the cardiology department of the Cleveland Clinic because patients kept asking them to explain the results they got from their devices and they didn't know if they could trust those devices. Yes, it should have included Garmin, etc. but these guys are heart specialists, not runners.
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I was reading an article about a week ago regarding Apple Watch sales and the multi-paragraph article went on about these 2 companies. The first paragraph declared Android Wear dead along with all these other brands you guys were mentioning.
I wish I could link to this article but I found it a week ago on my Apple News feed. Going back to look for it could take an hour or more.
off course you could get a chest strap to get real accurate results
as for the rest, this watch is half the volume in the 42mm version than Garmin products and still lasts 5-6 h with the gps, heart rate and playing blue tooth music