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Polar’s new smartwatches aim to help runners pace themselves
The pandemic sparked a working growth, with one research discovering that roughly 28 % of present runners bought their begin throughout quarantine. To cater to this new crowd, Polar introduced immediately that it’s launching two new GPS watches designed to assist runners get higher on the sport. The $199.90 Pacer is geared toward novices, whereas the $299.90 Pacer Professional is supposed to assist severe runners up their sport.
Polar says that each smartwatches will characteristic quicker processors than their predecessors, with 5MB of RAM. It’s an improve that’s meant to enhance efficiency and ship a greater person expertise. That’s been sorely wanted in Polar watches, which generally lag throughout syncing and sometimes wrestle with menu transitions. Each watches even have Polar’s Precision Prime coronary heart charge monitoring tech.
So far as design and options go, the watches have a whole lot of overlap. The Pacer and Pacer Professional share the identical minimalist design, bodily buttons, and memory-in-pixel colour shows for higher out of doors visibility. Battery life can also be the identical, with an estimated seven days on a single cost and as much as 35 hours of GPS coaching with coronary heart charge monitoring. Lastly, each watches help push notifications, climate, music controls, and third-party integrations with working apps.
The primary design variations between the 2 come right down to weight, straps, and colorways. The Pacer is barely lighter at 40g, whereas the Professional weighs 41g. Each watches accommodate 20mm straps, however the Pacer requires these with quick-release spring bars. The Professional is the one one which has an adapter that allows any normal 20mm strap. As for colours, the Pacer is available in white, black, teal, and purple. The Professional is available in grey, white, blue, maroon, and inexperienced.
Regardless of the watches’ similarities, Polar says they’re focused at runners of various talent ranges. The Pacer is designed with newbies in thoughts. For instance, it introduces a brand new strolling check that may estimate cardio health after a 15-minute stroll on a flat floor. Whereas you too can do the strolling check on the Professional, the corporate says the check was designed for freshmen who could not have the power to finish Polar’s extra strenuous Working Efficiency Check.
The Professional, alternatively, is for, effectively, execs. On prime of turn-by-turn navigation, it provides a barometer to measure a runner’s “energy values” in watts from the wrist. In easier phrases, the concept is to observe how a lot effort a runner exerts throughout a run to allow them to run on the proper depth degree. We’ll should see the way it works in apply, nevertheless it sounds just like Garmin’s stamina gauge.
In any other case, each watches make the most of Polar’s longtime working and restoration instruments, like coronary heart charge coaching on guided runs, coaching load, sleep monitoring, and working index rating (Polar’s metric for measuring progress over time).
The Polar Pacer Professional is obtainable immediately for $299.90 at Polar’s web site and in retail shops. The $199.90 Pacer is obtainable for preorder on Polar’s web site and is predicted to ship in Might.
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The Pixel Watch 3 may be the shining refinement Google’s wearable lineup needed, but the last-gen Pixel Watch 2 is still a great buy. That’s especially true when you can get it for as low as $224 ($26 off) — which is the watch’s current starting price at both Amazon and Best Buy.
Although the Pixel Watch 3 introduces a host of solid improvements — including a bigger and brighter display, a new 44mm size, AI-generated workout suggestions, and offline Google Maps — the second-gen Pixel Watch is still a looker. It only comes in one size (41mm), and the usable display area is only about 10 percent smaller than the third-gen model. It also uses the same Qualcomm Snapdragon Wear W5 Gen 1 chip, though it lacks the ultra wideband chip that lets you unlock nearby Pixel devices and select BMW vehicles.
Overall, performance between the two is similar and battery life on the 41mm models is about the same, averaging about 24 hours per charge. With the Watch 2, you’re only really missing out on the new workout features (other once-exclusive Wear OS 5 features have started to trickle down to the Watch 2), plus a screen that’s said to be twice as bright. If you don’t feel those Watch 3 traits are worth the $350 starting price, we’d still happily recommend picking up the older model.
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Google is rolling out a new set of features aimed at making it less easy for thieves to access your data. That’s according to Mishaal Rahman, who posted on Reddit that the features are showing up in a new update after seeing that his Xiaomi 14T Pro phone now has Theft Detection Lock and Offline Device Lock, two of three features Google announced in May. Others say they only see the third one, called Remote Lock.
The flashiest of the new features is Theft Detection Lock, which uses AI to lock your screen when it detects “common motion associated with theft,” like someone snatching your phone out of your hand. Meanwhile, Offline Device Lock locks a device’s screen when it’s offline for a while, and Remote Lock lets users lock their phone using only their phone number when they can’t log into Find My Device with their password.
So far, I’m not seeing any of the features on my own Pixel 6. You can see screenshots of the new features’ settings in the overnight Threads post from Rahman below.
Theft Detection Lock and Offline Device Lock are supported on any Android device running Android 10 and up, while you’ll need at least Android 5 for Remote Lock. If you don’t have the features yet, you can try updating Google Play Services, though Google tends to roll out new features over time, rather than to everyone at once, so, like me, you may have to wait.
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