Polar Vantage V2 Shift Silver/Black
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With the Polar Vantage V2 Shift Silver/Black, you can improve your sports performance. On this Shift version, you can easily swap the watch strap for another universal 22mm watch strap. With the wrist sensor in the watch, you can continuously keep an eye on your heart rate. Based on your heart rate, the watch sets a personal activity goal for you and helps you accomplish it. On the multisport watch, you can review all your training data. Choose from different sports profiles and adjust your screen and settings for every sport. With Training Load Pro and Recovery Pro from Polar, you optimize your workouts and prevent injuries. The sports watch tracks how your body recovers from your workouts and stress at night.
Note: an adapter isn't included. Do you want to charge the watch via a socket? Use the adapter of your phone charger or order a separate adapter.
This watch is recommended for a wrist circumference of 18 to 22cm.
Compatible with operating system | Android, iOS | |
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Recommended for wrist circumference | 18 - 22 cm | |
Battery life in time mode | 168 hours | |
Type of heart rate measurement | ECG heart rate measurement, Optical heart rate measurement | |
Required iPhone model | iPhone 6s or later | |
Independent music player | ||
Width | 47 mm |
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In a nutshell: a nice sports watch, but with a mediocre screen.
What is immediately noticeable is that the screen has a moderate brightness. In normal light it is sufficiently legible, but it does not last. The automatic lighting that comes on when you turn your wrist does not always work as quickly. Sometimes you have to turn your wrist annoyingly often for the lights to come on. Fortunately, the lighting can be set to 'constantly' during a workout. The screen is then sufficiently readable outside or in darkness. However, a brighter screen would be desirable.
Then the design, which is relatively slim and without large protrusions. As a result, the watch does not quickly catch on things (clothing). Sleeping with the watch (which you want to do because it also measures your sleep) becomes less uncomfortable due to the design. Operation with gloves on is fine.
The heart rate monitor is accurate. In the hospital I tested it next to a medical device and that was spot-on. However, that was at rest. While running, the registered heart rate sometimes changes. Sometimes there are some strange outliers, especially downwards. In general, however, the heart rate is well recorded.
The GPS is a bit less accurate. Or actually the current GPS speed. At the end of a workout (or lap) you do get accurate data of your distance traveled, km/h or min/km. But while running, at a constant pace, the displayed speed/time can fluctuate quite a bit. My speed recently fluctuated between 5m30 and 7min per kilometer. So I really had nothing to do with that.
The watch offers numerous sports and health functions. Whether they are useful depends on what kind of athlete you are. Note: you do need the chest strap for the orthostatic test. The watch also records your sleep. Polar combines that with your heart rate data and then says something about how well you slept and what that means for your recovery. I found this interesting, but consider it indicative. My feeling (how rested I woke up) sometimes deviated from what the watch was thinking. Furthermore - but I have not been able to test this definitively - polar assumes that you are active during the day and sleep at night. If you work night shifts and this rhythm is sometimes the other way around, I don't think the watch understands it anymore.
The watch also says something about how productive you train. You can undertrain, conservatively train, productively and overtrain. Handy in itself, were it not for the fact that the watch does not look back 7 days, but a week. And it starts again on Monday (or however you set it yourself). And so I was still pretty productive on Sunday, only to read on Monday that I was severely undertraining.
The user-friendliness also leaves something to be desired. Example: You cannot run the stopwatch in the background. The timer does, but the stopwatch doesn't. If you leave that menu, the stopwatch will stop. You can also add sports profiles via the app, but how to remove them, that was a search.
You can also change a lot within a sport profile, for example heart rate zones or which information is displayed on your watch and where on your screen. You can personalize quite a bit there.
The watch offers limited smartwatch functions. Controlling music and reading WhatsApp messages in combination with an iPhone works well. However, it is by no means a smartwatch with fancy dials. You can change the display of date and time slightly, but to a limited extent.
In Polar-flow (app, but also online) all data is stored and displayed. This is very comprehensive and can be very useful.
All in all an extensive sports watch, but in too many areas just not what I'm looking for.
Thomas
15 December 2020
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I've had this watch for a week now. Likes it very much! Was looking for a sports watch for a long time that for now (starting runner) until the moment that I am going to ask the utmost of myself and therefore this watch. I think I succeeded in that quest.
Everything I wish is simply shown. Operation is intuitive and versatile. An endless amount of data can be analyzed in the very clear Polar app. Spotify works fine and notifications from the phone come through well.
Watch is of course a sports watch, however, it can also be worn as a 'normal' watch. Get a lot of compliments on the watch. The different colors of the strap are also nice to combine.
Edwin
1 January 2021
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It promotes my sports performance and always give feedback on my performance
Mouloud Raïss
19 February 2021
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Product number | 892562 |
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Manufacturer code | 900101216 |
Brand | Polar |
Warranty | 2 years |
Processing of your defect | Carry-in warranty |
Compatible with operating system | Android, iOS | |
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Required iPhone model | iPhone 6s or later | |
Year introduced | 2020 | |
Guaranteed support with updates | 60 months after release date |
Watch case color | Black | |
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Watch case material | Aluminum, Plastic | |
Watch case shape | Round | |
Width | 47 mm | |
Depth | 13 mm | |
Weight | 49 g | |
Size watch case | Extra large | |
Recommended for wrist circumference | 18 - 22 cm | |
Total storage capacity | 0,32 GB | |
Water resistance | 10 | |
Shockproof | ||
Controlled via buttons on device |
Watch strap material | Leather, Plastic | |
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Watch strap color | Black, Red | |
Closure type | Buckle | |
Interchangeable watch strap | ||
Compatibility watch strap | Universal | |
Minimum wrist circumference | 14,5 cm | |
Maximum wrist circumference | 21,5 cm |
Screen type | LCD | |
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Always-on display | ||
Data display | Digital | |
Touchscreen | ||
Color screen | ||
Adjustable watch face | ||
Type of glass | Gorilla glass |
Battery life in time mode | 168 hours | |
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Battery life in sports mode | 40 hours | |
Wireless charging |
Bluetooth | ||
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ANT+ | ||
Independent music player | ||
Music controls | ||
Built-in microphone | ||
Built-in speakers | ||
Spoken directions | ||
Smartphone notifications | Notifications, Receive messages | |
Smart reply | ||
App installation possible | ||
Camera operation | ||
NFC |
Pedometer | ||
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Measures distance | ||
Speedometer | ||
Calorie counter | ||
Measures stairs climbed |
Heart rate measurement | ||
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Heart rate zones | ||
Heart rate sensor | Chest strap sold separately, Integrated pulse sensor | |
Type of heart rate measurement | ECG heart rate measurement, Optical heart rate measurement | |
Heart rate measurement moment | Continuously | |
Notification exceedance heart rate zone | Yes | |
Irregular heartbeat notification | ||
Heart rate measurement under water |
Skin temperature sensor | ||
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Oximeter | ||
Blood pressure monitor | ||
EDA sensor | ||
Sleep score | ||
Measure REM sleep | ||
Average heart rate during sleep | ||
Measure recovery during sleep | ||
Menstrual cycle tracking | ||
Pregnancy monitoring |
Recommended for sports | Biking, Fitness, Outdoor, Running, Swimming, Triathlon | |
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Adjust sport profiles | ||
Manual training programs | ||
Save personal records | ||
Measure fitness age | ||
Recovery advice | ||
Interval training | ||
VO2 max measurement | ||
Automatic pausing | ||
Measures minutes of intensive training | ||
Measures average speed during activity | ||
Lap counter | ||
Race prognosis | ||
Measures step distance | ||
Measure running cadence | ||
Measures swimming distance | ||
Measures swimming speed | ||
Swimming lap counter | ||
Connection to fitness machines possible |
Built-in GPS receiver | ||
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Global satellite navigation system | GLONASS, GPS, Galileo, QZSS | |
GPS application | Navigation, Route registration |
Compass | ||
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Altimeter | ||
Type of altimeter | Always On altimeter, Barometric, GPS, Via smartphone | |
Accelerometer | ||
Thermometer |
Fall detection | ||
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Alarm function | ||
Emergency button | ||
Geofencing |
