Polar is as we speak launching a brand new pair of watches designed to encourage you to get your sneakers on and begin working. The Pacer and Pacer Pro are back-to-basics gadgets with an emphasis on high-quality knowledge that can assist you prepare, run and recuperate. Both gadgets use light-weight our bodies and spherical circumstances, with colour Memory In Pixel shows sat under a Gorilla Glass 3.0 crystal. And each use the identical customized system-on-chip which the corporate says will run a lot quicker than lots of its older gadgets.

If the Pacer title rings a bell, it’s as a result of it was the title Polar used for a wrist-worn heart-rate monitor on the flip of the millennium. Back then, the info was being pushed from the chest monitor, however the level of reusing the title is to let clients know this can be a very gentle weight working watch before everything. They’re each fairly light-weight, too, with the Pacer / Pro clocking in at simply 40 / 41 grams, or 1.4/1.44 ounces.

Both promise superior optical heart-rate sensing applied sciences, in addition to evaluation to measure your coaching load and relaxation. But the Pacer Pro will get a number of options its cheaper sibling doesn’t, together with a barometer for extra correct energy monitoring and gradient counting, in addition to turn-by-turn steering. It’s price mentioning, nevertheless, that when you’ll have the ability to get push notifications and share knowledge with third-party working apps, neither machine could be classed as a correct smartwatch.

The Polar Pacer Pro is accessible as we speak in grey, white, blue and maroon, priced at $299.90 / €299.90, whereas a inexperienced model will start transport later within the yr. The Pacer, in the meantime, will set you again $199.90 / €199.90 in black, white, teal and purple, and can start transport in May.