Sports watch "Polar Ignite" is better than smart watch!

　If you were to buy a watch now, it would be a smartwatch. So, I spent a lot of time looking for various things, but there were too many points to worry about, so I couldn't feel free to click. As a writer who mainly uses Android smartphones, I would like to think based on Wear OS-equipped devices, but it is easy to say that the battery does not last, it is relatively large, it is expensive and unaffordable, the generational change is fast, etc. I can see the parts that seem to be uncompromising.

However, if you think about it, it's main purpose is to check the time and monitor/manage your activities, so it doesn't have to be a smartwatch with lots of functions to link with your smartphone, right? "I started to think." Rather than that, I thought it would be better to have a sports watch that is not a smart watch with functions limited to activity management. That way, you can easily solve the problems of batteries, size and price.

In that sense, "Polar Ignite" was a sports watch that hit the middle of my taste. Even if you wear it 24 hours a day, the battery has a long life of about a week. The price is reasonable at about 30,000 yen at the official online store.

Since it is a sports-focused watch, it is possible to display smartphone notifications on the screen, but it is not possible to make calls or reply to SMS from there. Instead, the built-in sensor constantly measures your heart rate, and monitors and displays your steps, distance walked, calories burned, and other daily activities. It analyzes the quality of sleep while you sleep, so I put it on as much as possible and enter the futon. I wonder if it's about time to take a bath to remove it.

Of course, it is also possible to record and analyze training content such as running, walking, cycling, and swimming. It also supports data linkage with the training app and service "Strava" that you usually use, so the data will be automatically linked to Strava immediately after training.

　You can always see a little data by operating the touch panel screen, but I would like to link it with the dedicated smartphone app "Polar Flow". Activity data is displayed in beautiful graphs and numerical values, and you can look back on your daily life situation in detail, and regret that you should exercise more.

　I'm happy with the fulfilling activity monitoring function, but what makes me happy is that, in many ways, it's "obtrusive." No. With a smartwatch (although there are some settings that can be changed), if there is a notification on the smartphone, the watch will also be notified. I'm a little annoyed. On the other hand, in the case of Polar Ignite, at most, suggestions such as "(because I haven't moved for a while) why don't you exercise?"

Also, it is good that there is only one operation button on the bottom left, so it is difficult to operate it by mistake. I've touched a few smartwatches so far, but there was a big button on the right side, and when I bent my wrist, the button was pressed without permission, and some kind of function worked without permission. . As a sports watch unlike a smartwatch, the Polar Ignite feels right for me because it doesn't make a lot of self-assertion.