![]() We shoved it in water to know obvious negative outcome, and for more than a month it has been either in a rucksack or in use, without coming to any ill effect. The TomTom Multi-Sport Cardio turns heads. It is, it is fair to say, an aquired taste. It is also unlikely to sit on your wrist at the Lord Mayor’s banquet. A bright plastic strap with wholes punched out of it, the wrist band element of the TomTom Multi-Sport Cardio is more than 3cm wide at its thinnest point. (Compare that to your watch, it’s wide.) This is a device that screams out to be noticed, which is fine when you are running or cycling, less so in civilian life. The clasp itself works well, which is important. You don’t want your watch slipping around as you, well, slip around. Those wristband holes allow you to affix the strap at multiple levels of tightness, too. Overall TomTom has done a good job of building a watch around a clunky, sensor-heavy device. Instead you navigate the TomTom Multi-Sport Cardio using a four-button pad that sits below the display. It is perfectly intuitive, if a little clunky at times. The charging and connecting cradle is mildly awkward to connect and disconnect. We have been using the TomTom Multi-Sport Cardio for over a month, and I have still never managed to get it off- or on without a sweary struggle. TomTom Multi-Sport Cardio sport watch review: displayĪ 1.5in backlit greyscale display (22x25mm technically), the TomTom Multi-Sport Cardio’s screen has a resolution of 144×168 pixels, which makes for a pixel density of around 148ppi. When on the move the TomTom Multi-Sport Cardio is clear and easy to read even when bouncing around in front of a face full of sweat. It isn’t a touchscreen, but we can forgive that. TomTom Multi-Sport Cardio sport watch review: in useĪfter our failure to update false start, we have been impressed by the TomTom Multi-Sport Cardio. The GPS locks on quickly, and is very accurate. Moreover, we like the viewing options: even on the same run it is good to be able to view, at different times, speed, average speed, distance travelled, and heartrate. Throughout you can see time taken, distance travelled and heartrate on every screen. You simply choose the big figure in the middle.Pocket-Lint Recommendations: Fire TV Stick.Pocket-Lint Recommendation: Amazon Echo Devices.Pocket-Lint Recommendation: Google Nest.Pocket-Lint Recommendations: Xbox Console.Having a responsive 'one-button control' is useful.įirstly, underneath the display there’s a large button, which makes it very easy to navigate the menu before you get moving. GPS watches from other manufacturers generally have four buttons (two on each side of the watch) so having a responsive 'one-button control' is useful. Secondly, the watch face and the button slip out of the watch band as one unit, which is easily slotted into a small cradle and plugged into a USB connection for charging. The TomTom Multi-Sport model also ships with a bike mount so the watch face and button can be easily clipped onto the handlebars of a bike. Simply push the button to the left to view the watch status, including battery level, amount of available storage and the 'tick' that indicates TomTom’s QuickGPS technology - claimed to find GPS satellites fast - is operating. The large button under the screen makes it very easy to navigate the Multi-Sport's menu. Pushing down on the button let's you set the clock, activate the heart rate monitor, view the runner's profile (weight, height, age, gender and language), and change options (kilometres or miles, and backlight for running at night). Pushing the button to the right presents four options: run, cycle, swim and treadmill. These options are selected by pushing the button up and down. The 'race' option allows the runner to try and beat a previous time. ![]() We selected the 'run' option and the watch started searching for GPS satellites. In this mode, pushing up shows activity history and pushing down shows training and display settings. The 'race' option in the training folder is useful as it allows the runner to try and beat a previous time, or select one of five pre-set races on the watch and compete against them. Read more: TomTom Runner Cardio GPS watch Good performance, average battery life 'Goal' mode allows the runner to set a distance, time or calorie goal before running and view their progress while the ‘zone’ feature allows the user to set a target pace for pace or heart rate and view how they are going throughout a run.
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