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Stay away from it. Connecting this thing to your computer requires one MBA, two PhD and half a room of NASA scientists... if in doubt type V650 polar sync problem and you will live better...

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FRANCISCO JAVIER FERNANDEZ

Muy útil para navegar siguiendo un "track" importado

Reviewed in Spain on January 21, 2018

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Para todo el que busque un navegador para ir siguiendo rutas importadas desde otros sitios en perfecto. La pantalla tiene un tamaño perfecto para poder verla bien, situado en la potencia con el soporte que trae no estorba (yo he asegurado el soporte con una brida adicional); el zoom del mapa se va autoajustando, luego puedes definir hasta 5 pantallas ofreciendo toda la información que necesites, pantallas que puedes ir pasando deslizando un dedo por la pantalla (es táctil) o con el botón lateral (en invierno, por los guantes) y la banda del pecho de frecuencia cardiaca, funciona fenomenal, aunque a veces tarda un poco en reconocerla. Además se sincronizan las sesiones de entrenamiento por Bluetooth con la aplicación Polar Flow del móvil donde vas guardando los entrenamiento de otros deportes y puedes ver con gráficas en que zonas cardiacas has trabajado,... En fin, que ha cumplido las espectativas que tenía. Lo recomiendo. El envío, muy rápido, varios días antes de lo programado.

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Peter Cross

It is all good.

Reviewed in Canada on December 25, 2016

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Is as advertised, awesome price. Prompt Delivery.

TUSOA

Sehr guter Radcomputer mit aktuellem H10 Herzfrequenzsensor

Reviewed in Germany on May 11, 2018

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Zum Computer selbst möchte ich mich hiermit nicht weiter äußern, ich persönlich nutze das Teil bereits seit 2 Jahren und komme mit diesem Gerät sehr gut zurecht und bin mehr als zufrieden mit dem Design und den Funktionen. Einziger Kritikpunkt aus meiner Sicht ist die manchmal schlechte Synchronisation mit iOS Geräten, bei mir braucht's oft mehrere Versuche, bevor das Teil mit dem iPhone syncht (am Mac per USB Kabel funktioniert's hingegen gut). Mit Android Geräten habe ich diesbezüglich keine Erfahrungen...

Warum schreibe ich diese Rezension?
Leider ist mir mein altes Gerät heruntergefallen und ich musste mir einen neuen kaufen. Die Frage war dabei, welcher Herzfrequenzsensor liegt aktuell dem Bundle bei? Für alle die das auch interessiert, dem aktuell direkt von Amazon verkauften und versandten V650 HR Bundle liegt der neue H10 Sensor mit dem neuen Brustband bei! Die Bedienungsanleitung ist 07/2017 gedruckt.

Gekauft am 11.05.2018

Ich hoffe dem einen oder anderen nützt diese Rezension :-)

Sport frei :-)

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Peter B.

Reviewed 19 May 2017 - Don't even think of spending more on a GPS Nav capable cycle computer.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on May 19, 2017

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I read all the reviews here - quite a few, and in my opinion - some of them relate to earlier iterations of the firmware. The V650 I have bought is fully capable of displaying detailed zoomable maps (openstreetmap.org) down to street level, It can store routes (and import them from MapMyRide and Strava) and gives you turn directions.

As a cycle computer it offers every permutation I could want and connectivity with a full range of devices (although currently only via Bluetooth rather than ANT+). The display is a high definition colour version, the touch screen controls work through gloves and the menu system is easy and simple.

How does it stack up against the Garmin 1000? Maps are better, the screen is clearer, and turn by turn Navigation? Well it's got the map open in front of you, and will highlight the route and give a direction at junctions too.

Downsides? few - I use a Mac and it took a few goes to get the FlowSync software to recognise the machine - it turns out you have to go into the V650's menus and tell it what OS you are using - my goof, but you need to read carefully as you set it up. Once done, it syncs flawlessly. Selecting maps is a doddle - connect, highlight the centre of the 450km x 450km area you want downloaded and then sync.

For £143 or £164 with heart rate belt it is a bargain considering the only viable opposition, the Garmin 1000 costs £450. I feel like I have discovered a really well kept secret.

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Jim Chorostecki

Best bike computer

Reviewed in Canada on October 3, 2015

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Excellent quality, easy to use, easy to read , great info!

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Un excellent compteur/GPS

Reviewed in France on December 11, 2017

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Commandé - reçu - commande conforme - en parfait état.

Pour ce qui est du produit :
En lui-même, parfait.
Grand écran, bien lisible, très convivial, une programmation sans difficulté sauf ...
J'ai eu un problème pour synchroniser mon compteur avec mon ordinateur (MAC).
J'ai dû faire appel à un ami ... et résoudre le problème pour obtenir la cartographie.
En réalité c'est la faiblesse du réseau qui posait problème et tout a été fait très facilement ... avec son ordinateur et chez mon copain.
Donc pas d'affolement.
Quant aux cartes, elles sont parfaites ! J'en ai fait le contrôle pour mon secteur que je connais bien. Tout y figure, y compris les pistes cyclables récentes.

Reste à éprouver ce compteur/GPS dans le temps ; il donne à priori une bonne impression de robustesse.

Recommandation : Acheter en même temps la coque protectrice (env. 10 euros) et les films protecteurs pour l'écran.

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Paul

Good once you get over the nightmare of setting it up!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on February 9, 2016

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Getting this device to sync with Polar Flow was a real technical nightmare. If you can't sync with Flow Sync its massively diminishes its usefulness.

Took me 3 or 4 hours of troubleshooting - I was close to sending it back.

The first issue is that the device I bought from Amazon ( Amazon themselves not a marketplace seller ) in Feb 2016 had its firmware dating from June 2015.

Normally this is not a big issue - except I have a Mac computer with El Capitan - and this was only supported by Polar later in 2015.

Of course I didn't figure this out at first and spent a lot of time figuring what was wrong!

Once I did I switched to my old Windows 7 computer - which is supported.

But this failed to pick up the device - after a lot of swearing, changing of settings, re-changing settings, re-booting of computers and device I discover the cause was NDIS Remote Sharing not correctly set up for the device.

If you check the Polar v650 FAQs on syncing issues you won't find this solution! I did try calling Polar support but this went to an answer phone message about them being rather busy at the moment! Which given half the Polar website was down at the time was probably not surprising!

It took a lot of Googling and eventually I found this:

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The issue causing my problem was under "Make sure your computer recognizes your V650 correctly"

It was "Remote NDIS based Internet Sharing Device" issue that was stopping the USB connection.

Issue fixed - though not after a lot of stress and resisting temptation to smash the v650 in to bits!

Firmware updated - I could now use the device on my Mac. If I'd not have had a Windows 7 PC to and I'd have been really stuck!

So at last I could use the device - or could I?

Tried getting a GPS lock. 10 minutes still no lock. Re-started the device. Waited 15 mins - still no lock. Stood on a hill away from all buildings in the rain trying to get a lock - nope!

I could feel my stress levels rising again! I couldn't find a solution on Google at all. Without GPS it was useless for me.

Out of desperation I called Polar - their website was working at the time and support did answer my call. They suggested a factory re-set and re-syncing.

I tried this and it worked!!!!

All this stress is now behind me and its the day after. I've had some chance to use the device and overall its not bad.

I compared GPS accuracy by mountain biking for 7 miles over the moors. I wore my Suunto Ambit3 as well as using the Polar v650. Accuracy was fairly good - nowhere near as good as the Suunto Ambit3 but good enough to not be a major issue.

I also did some indoor biking with the HRM running. All worked fine - lots of useful data.

I did sync my data to MovesCount for the Suunto Ambit3 and FlowSync for the Polar.

Both MovesCount and FlowSync are good - but you can tell that Polar are more health/heart rate oriented and Suunto is more GPS ( location, hiking, etc ) based in terms of their company origins.

Suunto has better location info. Polar has better heart rate info.

But I would be happy to use both.

No issues since the first day - the Polar has a much more limited battery life compared to the Suunto Ambit3 - but they are aimed at different markets. The Ambit3 is also more sophisticated in its options and programmability - but the Polar easier to use.

If you get past the first day of setting up the sync its a good device and fairly reliable so far.

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