Recent content by danielson1978

I too returned my Fit2 and opted for the Garmin Vivioactive HR model, it arrived yesterday and I am happy so far, a slight confession, my partner has been wearing one for around a week so I've seen it working before purchasing. Went for a run last night and took my phone with me, using...

Apologies for the sweaty selfie but this is how hard I worked to give you an example of the innacuracy of the readings Posted via the Android Central App

Ok so I've just done and insanity workout, 59 mins 45 seconds on the running setting, without location, the watch gave me a 247 Kcal for the whole acticity, it avergared out my hr at 124bpm (insanity is interval training so I expect a bit lower average HR) but using an online calculator this...

It *could* be a really good watch and most of the annoyances *could* be smoothed out via a software update but it's a case of do you wait and risk it, send it back or put up with it the way it is. I am in the UK where this device hasn't been officially released so ordered it from Amazon France...

Thankyou for the reply, I read your original comment after I'd written my question (I should really learn to read the threads first!) and just tried it on a short cycle, the cycle came back as having burnt 100 Kcal in 10 minutes, this was based on heart rate calculations and turning location...

So yeah I've had my gearfit 2 for around a week now and most of the annoyances have been mentioned here, but something that is really troubling me is the calorie calculations whilst exercising, I did a 10km run this morning (47 mins, average HR 141bpm) and the treadmill gave me a calorie count...