Buy.com has the Garmin Forerunner 50 GPS Personal Trainer with Heart Rate Monitor for $90 with free shipping. Features training time, pace, distance, lap pace, lap time, lap distance, average and best pace, calories, maximum and average heart rate and lap history records 7 hours of data.
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#1
NotATool - Posted 11:20 am PST 02/5/08 (126 Posts)
How does this compare to similar Polar units?
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lawnsprinkler - Posted 12:31 pm PST 02/5/08 (1801 Posts)
If you're interested in Polar units, kid, PM me. I'll show you the North Pole.
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Coyote - Posted 12:36 pm PST 02/5/08 (75 Posts)
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How does the GPS work on this, does it come with map software preinstalled, is the resolution within 50 feet, does it track your journey? I'd think with GPS in the name there would be some details on what seems to be its selling feature.
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Wand - Posted 3:18 pm PST 02/5/08 (1244 Posts)
#3 GPS is not used only for driving it is a technology with which 3 D co-ordinates of the place can be determined where the that "GPS receiver" is located. So these kind of devices use simple kinematics to calculate different things like, distance, speed, velocity etc.
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sleepydog - Posted 9:32 pm PST 02/5/08 (228 Posts)
the specs say:
Waypoints/favorites/locations: 0 (sports watch is not GPS-enabled)
SO does this (really inexpensive watch) really have GPS?
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sleepydog - Posted 9:57 pm PST 02/5/08 (228 Posts)
The Garmin web site has a demo of the capabilities of this watch:
http://www8.garmin.com/buzz/fr50/
It does NOT have a GPS, it uses an optional foot pod to determine distance and pace. It requires a USB reciever (not sure if it's an accessory or included) in order to upload data to your PC. Seems like all you get is a nice heart rate monitor/recorder with this watch.
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