Swim count accuracy? (And ease of use?)

[Jon44]

I love my S2 and also am an avid swimmer. Has anyone tried the Sport in the pool yet? I'm particularly interested in accuracy of counting laps while doing crawl and how practicable it is to view the stats while swimming (e.g., while doing a turn).
Thanks, J

 

[Forest Snow]

I have just tried mine in pool and it dropped a couple of lengths but then picked a couple of extra up. Averaged out ok but individual length analysis is stuffed by this of course.
It also recorded all my lengths as butterfly. In actual fact they were breast and crawl. So very odd. I have my watch face set to gesture so did not see it when turning. When stopping to check it after every couple of lengths it was really easy to pause and heart rate info was good.

It’s a nice watch but swimming accuracy not perfected yet by any means.

 

[Forest Snow]

Tried it again today doing single length work outs, still things no matter what style I do it’s butterfly or perhaps that’s the way Samsung health app interprets data received. It does add on lengths and drops the odd one even on single length work out. So for swimming not that great.

 

[LapSiLap]

I bought watch to track my swimming progress but the accuracy is really bad! I've tried it 2 times only though (Samsung Health). First time in 50m pool and since I sometimes switch from front crawl to breast swim it messes up the laps. Also the time is usually wrong, and it probably doesn't care if you pause, it will count it into your lap time... and it doesn't know when you end your lap... sigh. But it shows correct swim style for me, front crawl, breast sim and mixed, no butterfly

I tried the speedo on app once as well and that one could be better, at least for me, since I always pause between laps, and this app allows you to pause by pressing the back button. It counted the laps wrong though... 3 instead of 4.. how hard can it be?

Maybe I should code a swimming app myself