After the selection of annual running shoes products, Aiguobao finally brought the last part of the 2014 product selection award: GPS sports watch. So among these dazzling and dazzling watches, which ones have become the final choices worth our recommendation?
In addition to running shoes, perhaps a sports watch with GPS function is another important equipment product that we need when running. At the end of 2014, we finally set the best road running choice, best off-road selection, best cost-effectiveness, best innovative technology and annual editorial selection in the most popular GPS sports watches of the year based on our evaluation and use process. We don’t know if this is the choice in everyone’s mind! ?
annual editorial selection, the best off-road choice: Suunto Ambit 3
If the most eye-catching watch in the first half of 2014 was the Garmin FR620, then in the second half of the year, people's attention was obviously attracted by Suunto's new flagship sports GPS watch Ambit3 series.
is the latest successor to the Suunto Ambit series that once pioneered the concept of GPS outdoor sports watches. Ambit 3 has made very bold and radical changes in many aspects.
abandoning ANT+ to join Bluetooth 4.0 is a new attempt made by Ambit3. It obviously has greater advantages and broader prospects for the Bluetooth 4.0 wireless interface commonly used in mainstream smart mobile terminal devices in terms of applicable scope and expansion compared to ANT+.
In 2014, with the release of AppleWatch, smartwatches once became the focus of people's discussion. Coincidentally, in the field of GPS sports watches, the intelligence of the products can be said to be the most mature and useful of all wearable smart products at present. When Suunto Ambit was launched, it emphasized that Ambit is a sports computer worn on his hands, and Ambit3 is obviously the product closest to this concept.
has more powerful functions, better intelligent scalability and consistently stable performance, which gives us enough reason to recommend this product that has not been on the market for the two awards of our year-end product selection, namely the editor of GPS sports watch editor and the best off-road choice.
Best road running option: Garmin FR 620
It can be said that from last fall to the first half of this year, Garmin's FR620 and a series of unprecedented changes it has brought have always made it the most concerned GPS sports watch product with the highest exposure in major road running competitions.
uses the new Hum Run heart rate to capture and record running postures. For the first time, Garmin uses this intelligent technology that was originally only seen in the professional sports field to realize the possibility of civil use, allowing more running enthusiasts and ordinary people to enjoy the training changes brought by intelligent dynamic technology. Its thin design and fashionable appearance also make GPS watches accepted by more people like running sports. After a significant firmware upgrade in the second half of the year, the originally unstable system problems of the FR620 have also been improved to a certain extent, and after the upgrade, it can be more supportive of cycling and sports use.
is undoubtedly the most powerful and suitable GPS sports watch we can buy for road runners. I believe that in the long term, FR620 will also become a milestone product and be remembered. But the speed of technological progress is always beyond people's expectations, and the FR620's position as a leader is also in jeopardy as time goes by. I believe that new strong competitors in this award will soon appear in our vision.
Best cost-effective choice: Bryton S430
If you have a limited budget but want to have a powerful GPS watch to help yourself record the running process or help you run faster, then the Bryton S430 is undoubtedly a very cost-effective choice.After successfully launching the Cardio series GPS sports watches last year, Bryton has incorporated more intelligent elements into the product this year, and has made more optimizations and improvements in the battery performance to create a new GPS sports watch Amis series, and the Amis S430, which focuses on running sports, is undoubtedly the most cost-effective product among them.
has a regular standby time of up to 180 days, wireless transmission and information interaction with mobile smart terminals through Bluetooth, a built-in complete running training mode and a customizable running training plan. It can be said that the S430 almost covers all the requirements for beginners for a GPS sports watch. In addition, its highly competitive price is undoubtedly our best choice when we have a limited budget.
has the most innovative technology choice: TomTom Runner Cardio
Speaking of TomTom, it may be a bit unfamiliar to many people, but if you talk about Nike's SportsWear sports watch, you may be very familiar with it. In fact, Nike's GPS sports watch product is produced by TomTom, a world-renowned GPS equipment manufacturer from Europe. Now Tomtom has also launched a heavyweight product that allows people to remember their brand, and a new GPS sports watch Cardio series that combines the latest photoelectric heart rate detection technology.
As we all know, heart rate detection is currently recognized as one of the key elements necessary for a smartwatch. Even Apple's first smartwatch production, the industry giant Apple Watch, has listed it as its most important feature. The most attractive convenience of TomTom's new Cardio series watch is that it integrates this revolutionary new heart rate detection method into the design of the GPS watch, so that the user's heart rate data can be completed without relying on the heart rate band that also needs to be worn.
Although this is not the first time this technology has appeared on sports watches, we think TomTom's Cardio is the best product to combine this technology with traditional GPS sports watches. Especially Runner Cardio, which focuses on running, has performed much better than our original expectations in the design and use of the product.
Of course, TomTom still needs to improve in terms of the applicability of some supporting software and the functionality of the operating interface, but this innovative technological reform is undoubtedly worth recommending.
Nowadays, the speed of smart sports electronic products is getting faster and faster, and sports smart wearable products represented by these GPS sports watches will also emerge more and more in our vision. In the future, we will continue to make in-depth and detailed reviews and recommendations of these various products, hoping to help everyone find the product that suits them the most and make a better self in the new year!
