Customer Reviews:
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 Great monitor at a great price October 18, 2009
L. Ratliff (San Diego, CA)
I have been using this heart rate monitor a month now and love it. It picks up my heart rate instantly and is easy to use. I love the fact you can enter age and weight for accurate calorie counting. Has many many features, such as zone training, calorie tracking, watch, and stopwatch. I have a very small wrist and it is not to large.
Has a great "review" feature to track all workout details, elapsed times, min/max heart rate, heart recovery rate, and total calories. Does not show calories burned for each split time, but that is the only thing I have found that I wished it did, but does not.
Price was ridiculously low for this great watch, made in China so may not last forever, but at this price not an issue. Also, love the idea it shipped from Amazon.com and not a 3rd party reseller.
No issues reading at outdoors at night like other reviews mention, the Indiglow is great.
I would buy again and again!
 Works as advertised June 16, 2009
George Kamikubo (Cypress, CA)
Nothing remarkable to say. As the title says, this heart rate monitor works just like it says. This is the first heart rate monitor I've ever owned, so I don't really know how it compares to similar products. So far, no problems. It seems like it has a fairly full set of features, and the controls seem fairly intuitive.
 Little hard to figure out! April 12, 2009
C. Salazar (Grand Junction Colo.)
Purchased it for my husband, it was a little hard for him to figure out, and since he is an engineer it must be hard for anyone to figure out, also a little hard to get around chest area. Other wise a very good product.
Excellent Tool for training March 5, 2009
Bernard Asencio (Dominican Republic)
This watch do exactly what they say, numbers are big, very easy to use and the size its perfect for my wrist, the strap in the chest is very confortable, I use this wacth every day for runnig and gym and its the perfect tool for a good training, I do recomended for those who are serious about training, the only thing I found is the watch is 30M waterproof not 50M but I dont care about this because Im not going so deep anyway.
Works great, but not with the gym's exercise machines March 3, 2009
Robert Withrow (Swampscott, MA USA)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
I'm 6 feet 4 inches and 210 pounds. The watch is just the right size for me and the band seems quite heavy duty and has a nice feature where the tail of the band has a tab that fits into a notch in the buckle piece so it doesn't flap. The HRM sensor fits comfortably on my 42 inch chest with the detachable band expanded to it's maximum extent. I think it would be too tight for larger chests.
I run the sensor electrodes under the tap and strap it on and the watch always gets a solid heart rate signal. I wear it while using a number of cardio and weight-training machines and in exercise and stretch classes flexing into a lot of crazy positions, and the sensor has yet to drop out. The batteries were fine out of the box.
The watch has a number of fancy watch features, most I don't use. One great feature is the dual timezone setup. I keep the second zone set to UTC and a push of the "start split" button accesses it. If you are into HIIT, note that the timer feature doesn't have the capability for doing (for example) 30 seconds HI and 60 seconds recovery.
The only problem is that I have been unable to get the sensor to work wirelessly with the Precor and Nautilus machines. Note that the product literature doesn't claim that this should work and there doesn't appear to be any standard for interoperability between machines and wireless HRM devices. Some reviews for Timex HRM devices claim that the sensors DO talk to machines. If someone has gotten THIS specific product to work with machines, please tell us how in a comment to this review.
Otherwise I think this product gives very good value. I give it 4.5 stars and if it worked with the cardio machines I would give it five stars. Some may feel it is unfair to downgrade a product rating for lacking a feature it doesn't claim to have: I think a five-star rating should indicate total satisfaction. I really wish the industry would get together and create a standard so these things can work together!
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