Polar has been in the smart fitness tracker beat for quite a few years now and the company is upping their arsenal with the addition of their new A370. Although the model sounds like a new Boeing Airbus plane’s, it offers some big features.
The new fitness tracker comes with continuous wrist-based heart rate sensor and advanced Polar Sleep Plus analytics that are used to provide continuous monitoring of the body’s heart rate and sleep patterns. It is a successor to the A360. The water-resistance sports-oriented watch offers more robust hardware for better gauging the changes in the body during workouts.
Interestingly, although the watch does not have its own GPS, the company has gone around that by allowing it to connect directly to the phone’s GPS system and use the co-ordinates from the companion phone, thus saving costs for manufacturing, without skimping on the function of GPS, which has been so widely scoured for by users when searching for smart wrist-bands. Very smart indeed.
The new watch does not only operate and track the body while the user is awake, but can also adapt its tracking technology when the user is asleep. It can gauge when the sleep has been interrupted, for how long sleep continuity lasts. The device will then take all of the information that it has collected over the period of time, tracking active and non-active hours and give the user a picture of the over-all health situation.
Wareable reports that the watch will be able to provide notifications through vibrations for anyone who is trying to get in touch with the user through the phone. All of the data that is captured will be made available in detail with the companion app, the Polar Flow, which will offer methods for improvements to provide the user with better tips on maintaining a healthier sleep cycle as well as provide insight on how to improve the user’s overall fitness.
The device will be available come June and is currently available for pre-order for $179. There are also additional bands that cost about $25 per band. Being one of the first to offer a complete overall tracking experience for users, the cost price comes within the territory of the FitBit Charge 2 and the Garmin Vivosmart 3, which were great options when they first came out.