Polar - A360 Activity Tracker + Heart Rate (Medium) - Blue
Model: 90057445
SKU: 5723004
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My daughter and I both love the this, but for some reason the band makes our wrists break out.
This review is from Polar - A360 Fitness Tracker + Heart Rate (Medium) - Charcoal Black
Posted by Laura
I had to return this for the black one because it's for a very small wrist. I don't have a big or fat wrist and it was super tight. (My wrist measures 16cm & 6 1/4in) cutting off my circulation tight. The wrist based heart rate monitor technology is not accurate. It's not just polar. Garmin, fit bit, and Apple Watch are all the same. If you check YouTube reviews you'll see what I mean. Other than that I love love love this watch. I don't use smart notifications and I go 4 to 6 days on the battery charge while exercising and using the heart rate feature anywhere from 1 to 3 hours a day. Usually more than less. The app, Polar Flow, is a must-have with this watch. It's free. It's extremely detailed and helpful in any weight loss or endurance training. It's like having a free personal trainer. The website is even better. Polar goes above and beyond to improve your health and fitness level. I can't say enough good things about this it's so detailed and in-depth. You can use a Bluetooth chest strap heart rate monitor if you want to with this watch. It works well under water while swimming and is fully waterproof. This is ultimately why I chose this watch because none of the others can deliver this. They say that you can use them for swimming and it just isn't true. I think this is because Bluetooth doesn't work underwater. But since this is taking a reading on your wrist this works underwater. The wrist based HRM is close enough for me. Sometimes it takes a few seconds and a little repositioning on your wrist for it to read correctly. You also have to find the perfect tightness. I personally love the convenience of having a HRM on my wrist. I do a lot of random activities & exercise, so for me it's perfect. I do HIIT and that is the only time I have inaccurate readings. What I learned from u tube is that it works by laser and reads the blood flow in your veins. When I do HIIT, the veins constrict and this makes it difficult to read for several seconds. I was on the verge of returning this for an Apple Watch when I found this out. Thank God. I personally do not want a phone on my wrist. Other fitness watches I have had were very bulky. This one is very slim. I like the touch screen. It usually syncs with the app as soon if not b4 I open the app. If it doesn't I just push the button on the side & do it manually. I gave this a 4* because of imperfect HRM. With improved technology this will get better. Matter of fact the next polar update is supposed to improve this. Another plus is that this is like your phone. As time goes on they can make improvements. For instance, when I first got this it was set to light up every time u moved your arm. In my opinion this uses up the battery more. They have since added a do not disturb button that prevents this and still allows get up and move alerts. I do not like the black wrist band and in March they are coming out with other colors that can be changed out if u want. :) It only takes an hour or two to charge, depending on how close to empty it is. When I have 1/4 battery life left, I plug it in and it takes about an hour. This is every 4-6 days with 1-3 hours a day HRM use. Worth the investment. Lost 50lbs with Polar already!! :•>
This review is from Polar - A360 Fitness Tracker + Heart Rate (Medium) - Charcoal Black
Posted by Susan
I really like this watch. I wear it all the time. I already loved Polar so I thought this would be a good step up. They sold me in that is can do wrist HR OR!! H7 Heartrate chest strap (which I like to use for weight lifting or more intense workouts. It's comfortable and I have gotten compliments on it. The touchscreen works well and the battery lasts a long time. I use the heart rate/exercise timing function 3-4 times a week and still only have to charge it for about 2 hours every other week. Why isn't is 5 stars? Because I read in the description which phones the notification works with and guess what? It wasn't accurate. Your phone must have 5.01 android OS or higher. My Galaxy s$ isn't compatible. It's a bummer but not a deal breaker. I guess it's motivation to upgrade my phone? Lol Why I like it WAY more than the Loop: I prefer this to the loop in all aspects. I like how it looks, that you can change the band color that it vibrates that it looks like a real watch (and serves as one) it has a vibrating alarm and inactivity alert function that it hold a charge for a long time on wrist HR monitor that it doesn't run out of memory (or at least it hasn't yet. I hated that about the loop, that if I didn't sync it every 2-3 days, I'd run out of memory and couldn't use the exercise recoding function. On this watch however, I've gone over a week without syncing and it still doesn't run out of memory! I LOVE that. .. The sync is a little slow though) I love the color touch screen, it looks great During training you can see: heart rate workout duration which zone you're in (on a bar graph) the time of day and calories burned after training you can see: amount of time and % of time in each heart rate zone how long the workout was how many calories burned average HR max HR when syncing to the flow app: you see all the data from the workouts, how long you sat/laid down/walked/ran duration of sleep and % of how restful it was steps taken, distance traveled (like 4 miles) what time you want your vibrating alarm for and what days you want it and more! Cons: there's a little piece of metal on the strap and I have a desk job so it got scuffed really fast. doesn't sync to older phones for notification alerts. That's honestly it. Oh yeah about the wrist HR monitor: I think it works great and the people having trouble might not be wearing it correctly. It must be worn a little about the boney part of the wrist, and tight. It needs to stay tight (flush against the skin) so that it can get a good, maintained reading. I think it's very accurate for a wrist monitor and have gotten reading extremely similar to my chest strap. And yes- it goes high! I have a high HR and it is reflective of the 190-200 range I go into during intense workouts with no problem! It's very user friendly and my favorite activity monitor I've tried.
This review is from Polar - A360 Fitness Tracker + Heart Rate (Medium) - Charcoal Black
Posted by ajpeacockk