 "Great Purchase" | 2009-11-05 |
| - Reviewed By User: A3NQESTMT9VV35 |
| I bought this heart monitor to help me get the most out of my work outs. So far it has been great at helping me stay in my target heart heart zone and I love the weekly summary. It beeps when your heart rate is too low or too high. The calories burned it correct as well. It is a great product! |
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 "Most important detail: DISPOSABLE" | 2009-11-03 |
| - Reviewed By tedo71 |
| The most important thing you need to know: the Polar F6 is essentially a disposable product that lasts about a year. The battery must be replaced by the factory; A MAJOR HASSLE. Other than that, functionality, usability, and accuracy are quite good. However, given the battery issue, I will not buy Polar again. |
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| "Heart Rate; Now I know" | 2009-10-27 |
| - Reviewed By User: A1GUP3QS051GY2 |
| This works great. It shows my heart rate while I exercise. It also shows calories burned. It works as promised. It arrived on time. I am pleased. Good product. |
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 "maybe the best available -but- designed by a nonexerciser" | 2009-10-26 |
| - Reviewed By bob23933 |
This works fine and is compatible with the monitor on my precor elliptical.
But I am surprised and unhappy at one property. It should be no secret to the Polar folks that I bought this to monitor my heart rate. Imagine my surprise that the Polar designers chose to make that difficult! The heart rate number is very often not visible. What must have been the thinking when this decision was made??
With a couple button presses (wearing the band), the heart rate does come on. Okay that is fine. The numerals could be larger, but whatever. Next is the feature for which this device should have been designed: a couple more button presses, and it is supposed to display and measure for an exercise period the elapsed time and the heart rate. NOW the heart rate *B L I N K S* off and on....... What? Why?
For example, when I'm riding my bike thru the park, most recently in the late afternoon, under the trees---it is not particularly easy to glance at an LCD watch and read the small numbers. But it is even more difficult if the number you want to check is blinking off...and...on. Mostly when I glance it appears to be OFF. Is this blinking supposed to help me? To be synced with my heart rate and inform me in some way about my pulse? Ya know, I just want the number, please. Instead of a brief glance of a second or less, it truly may take me 3 or 4 seconds to actually read the heart rate! Okay, this seems innocuous, but even traveling my modest 5-25 mph, I am sharing a narrow trail with random fallen nuts, leaves, sticks, dirt, occasional pedestrians, other bikers, baby strollers, and last week even a deer ran across the trail in front of me (a first for me). Why make my desire to just glance & check my pulse more difficult and more dangerous?
Sure, reading the blinking number would be very easy in bright or medium indoor lights, when I'm able to concentrate mainly on that task (as I suppose the Polar engineers must have been doing when choosing this behavior). But even when I'm inside lifting weights, I don't want to take several seconds to fully read the d*@#n pulse number.
There may be some unusual way to modify this behavior and have the pulse number just display. Some firmware switch which can be accessed by an unusual combination of button presses. But that--like many of the apparently 'advanced' aspects of using the heart rate monitor--is not mentioned in the accompanying guide (some web site is mentioned where one is encouraged to buy some added software). Yes, I could possibly just forego timing the exercise session & recording the pulse history, but I did pay a hundred bucks for this thing and I feel I'm entitled to being able to record the session and see my pulse clearly. |
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 "Good heart rate monitor" | 2009-10-07 |
| - Reviewed By User: AV8HGBJ1OORNF |
| I really like this polar watch...the only problems that I have had with it is that sometimes it doesn't keep up with my heartrate. Well, I should say once in a while. Always in the middle of a workout. Usually if I move it around several times it will start to find the correct heart rate. Overall, I am happy with the purchase. |
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| "Poor Display, Low beep volume" | 2009-09-28 |
| - Reviewed By User: A3L2K07WENL9VL |
The heart monitor and watch work fine BUT the display is grainy, small, and hard to see. Far cheaper monitors and watches have far better, brighter, bigger displays.
And - the beeps to warn that you have gone above or below your heart range are so low that there is no way to hear them on the exercise floor! You have to keep the unit to your ear to hear them.
People recommended this so I bought this but I am not happy with this unit. |
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