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Review on Coros PACE 2 Premium GPS Sport Watch: Heart Rate Monitor, 30h Full GPS Battery, Barometer, Strava & TrainingPeaks Compatible by Bali ᠌

Revainrating 1 out of 5

The product is worse than ever, disappointed with the purchase.

I compared it with a heart rate monitor, with AW, with a chest strap, with GPS programs on a smartphone - and everywhere the data from Koros turned out to be very different. It was especially infuriating during street training that alerts worked constantly and this was not due to incorrectly set ranges, but due to jumping false indicators of heart rate or speed. Special song application. In fact, this is an ineptly implemented web interface that does not provide any analytical data for the user, it just stupidly shows numbers. Against this background, data analytics with AW looks like the Library of Congress compared to a newspaper in a rural closet. connection you will have to dance with a tambourine turning on / off the network or GPS and poking at the clock icon in the application. Without access to the network, the application does not work. I mean web interface. With the seeming abundance of watch faces, choosing at least one that would be beautiful, informative and convenient is not a trivial task. There are simply no such dials. Sleep data is pure random. At 5 hours of sleep, they may show 13, at 9 hours, 3, and so on. I also noticed that at night the LED works much more often than the set interval "1 time in 10 minutes" and this green light shines so brightly from under the cover that it constantly wakes me up. This has never happened on AW. Another joint of Coros. The "toothbrush" test does not pass, steps are counted with random hand vibrations; even in a dream they manage to count 300-500 steps, although I do not suffer from sleepwalking)) So what's the bottom line? The conclusions are as follows: - this is not a sports watch, but a fitness bracelet - exact readings cannot be obtained from this device - you can use it just like a watch, but Casio for $20 will still be preferable because it's cheaper and without show-offs - there is very little hope that someday the software will be heavily "finished" - I can’t say about the other models of this manufacturer, but I suspect that marketing outweighed everything else there too - regret buying

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Pros
  • - long battery life - good readability of the display in the light - lungs
Cons
  • - not accurate indicators (heart rate, sleep, speed) - inconvenient application - dials - poor display quality Comment: The company Coros is very actively promoted everywhere, promoting itself as Garmin-2, has a very distinct product line and clear positioning. This is what sparked my interest. I thought that for 200 Baku you can have better than Garmin or Apple watch. Some kind of feeling that they want to "love you" arose already when studying the box; the word Premium is always alarming, and even more so when applied to cheap plastic "watches". And so it turned out. I didn’t come across any premium when studying the “watches” themselves. So what do we have? We have a fitness bracelet similar to Chinese consumer goods such as Amazfit with a microscopic proprietary firmware weighing about 3.5 MB, with a specific display, long battery life (as a result of the same low-functional OS and economical display) and heart rate, sleep and GPS data taken from the ceiling. Moreover, the creators of this fitness bracelet knew in advance about these shortcomings, because they provided the ability to take GPS readings from a smartphone, and heart rate from a chest strap. Then one question: why do I need this fake watch as an intermediary, if the smartphone itself can process GPS data and data from the chest strap? More than half a year of attempts to get at least some truthful results from this fitness bracelet turned out to be a failure.