iPhones May Soon Work Better With Third-Party Smartwatches

[AndiG]

Oh - and further to your HR comment…nobody riding with a decent head unit is getting HR from their watch. They’re wearing a strap. The wrist is a bad place for measurement on the bike.

That‘s nonsense - sorry. The heart rare monitor of the Apple watch is quite nice - and for professional sport you would rather wear a Garmin. But why not use the data that is available? The same is true if you wear your Garmin or AW for running - or do you want to say that the functionality of AW is crap? - and if, why are you wearing an ultra to collect data?

So you don‘t have a point here. You just want to say anything to defend Apple - but there is nothing to defend. With the old think different and just works approach of Apple, you just would hold your AW to your cycle computer or the gym equipment and it would - just work.

By the way, it works with every Android or Garmin watch.

 

[pdaholic]

I gotta agree with the other guy, my watches don’t do well for heart rate monitoring with biking. I mountain bike and the combo of an extended wrist with constant vibration affects my heart rate reading. I can be dying climbing a long hill, and my watch will read only just above 100 bpm. Running is not an issue. Tightening the strap to the point of being uncomfortable doesn’t help. I’ve seen this behavior with the watch 10, ultra 2, and Amazfit Active 2.

 

[constantsnags!]

That‘s nonsense - sorry. The heart rare monitor of the Apple watch is quite nice - and for professional sport you would rather wear a Garmin. But why not use the data that is available? The same is true if you wear your Garmin or AW for running - or do you want to say that the functionality of AW is crap? - and if, why are you wearing an ultra to collect data?

So you don‘t have a point here. You just want to say anything to defend Apple - but there is nothing to defend. With the old think different and just works approach of Apple, you just would hold your AW to your cycle computer or the gym equipment and it would - just work.

By the way, it works with every Android or Garmin watch.

I’m not defending anything, and it’s very clear here that a lot of respondents have little to no experience of actually using a head unit for cycling. Wrist based HR sucks on the bike. This is well confirmed by the biggest tech reviewers in sport. I love Garmin for what they do, and I love my AWU for what it does. They just don’t overlap on the bike nearly well enough to rely on as my data source.

 

[constantsnags!]

I gotta agree with the other guy, my watches don’t do well for heart rate monitoring with biking. I mountain bike and the combo of an extended wrist with constant vibration affects my heart rate reading. I can be dying climbing a long hill, and my watch will read only just above 100 bpm. Running is not an issue. Tightening the strap to the point of being uncomfortable doesn’t help. I’ve seen this behavior with the watch 10, ultra 2, and Amazfit Active 2.

The people arguing this here don’t have a clue.

 

[AndiG]

I gotta agree with the other guy, my watches don’t do well for heart rate monitoring with biking. I mountain bike and the combo of an extended wrist with constant vibration affects my heart rate reading. I can be dying climbing a long hill, and my watch will read only just above 100 bpm. Running is not an issue. Tightening the strap to the point of being uncomfortable doesn’t help. I’ve seen this behavior with the watch 10, ultra 2, and Amazfit Active 2.

Have tried it with road racing? Mine works quite well, not perfect compared to more professional setup and Iguess rhere is no other sport where you keep your hands that calm. Btw this arguind is complete nonsense since most of the people are using it in the gym and a lot of gym equipment is equipped with Apples GymKit and connects with Apples HR monitor ….

 

[constantsnags!]

Have tried it with road racing? Mine works quite well, not perfect compared to more professional setup and Iguess rhere is no other sport where you keep your hands that calm. Btw this arguind is complete nonsense since most of the people are using it in the gym and a lot of gym equipment is equipped with Apples GymKit and connects with Apples HR monitor ….

Not one single person in my country is using an Apple Watch for HR while racing. I’d bet money on it.

 

[pdaholic]

Have tried it with road racing? Mine works quite well, not perfect compared to more professional setup and Iguess rhere is no other sport where you keep your hands that calm. Btw this arguind is complete nonsense since most of the people are using it in the gym and a lot of gym equipment is equipped with Apples GymKit and connects with Apples HR monitor ….

I don’t bike on the roads, too dangerous around here. I’ll take my chances mountain biking over riding with cars!

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