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Our final bugbear with design is the charger. It’s water resistant to 30m so showering, swimming, and sweating are all good and we had no issues here.

When it comes to durability, the Unite feels solid and well-built for the price, even though it’s light. We much preferred the regular buckle on the Ignite.

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The strap it ships with is pleasant to wear though the clip-and-tuck design of the clasp is fiddly to put on, with a tendency to pinch the skin and pull out hairs – if you have them. They’re interchangeable and Polar offers a selection of silicone, textile and leather alternatives if you fancy splashing £31.50 for a different look. The Unite ships with 20mm soft silicone bands in two sizes, small and medium/large. It’s a common problem we’ve had across Polar’s touchscreen devices and it’s sadly the case here too.įlip the Unite over and you’ll see the built-in optical heart rate sensor comes without the familiar heart rate sensor bump which makes it much easier to get a tight fit and you get less digging in and skin imprints. You find yourself prodding at it a lot, particularly on the swipe to scroll. Button controls are limited to a few things like navigating back and launching the quick menu only. The Unite is 95 percent touchscreen controlled. We frequently ended up tapping the single side button to see stats mid-workout, which is a pain. The screen has an automatic sleep mode to save battery but unfortunately, the rise-to-wake is laggy and inconsistent to the point of frustration. Polar picks: Polar Vantage V2 v Vantage V v Grit X There are some minor customization options for the watch face text colors but we’d like the option to invert the display. It doesn’t pack the pin-sharpness of an Apple Watch but it’s bright enough, easily legible in most light, with plenty of room for the rich array of stats on screen. The color touchscreen display has the same resolution as the Ignite and comes with an ambient light sensor to help with visibility. It swapped the stainless steel bezel for a fiberglass polymer casing, used a slightly smaller display, and dropped the skin contact sensors that the Ignite uses to weed out the bad heart rate readings. Polar has stuck with much of the design we enjoyed in the Ignite, albeit with some clear cost-saving replacements. Nightly Recharge sleep and recovery insightsĪt 32g, the Polar Unite is extremely light and comfortable with a pleasantly simple style.FitSpark workout recommendations based on recovery.The slim, round design is very similar and it comes with a lot of the same features, including guided daily workouts, Nightly Recharge sleep, recovery monitoring, and sport-specific tracking for 100 different fitness activities including running, cycling, swimming, and yoga. It could easily have been called the Ignite Light. It joins the budget end of Polar’s growing line-up, below the Polar Ignite.

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It’s much more than just a fitness tracker, not quite as capable as a full multi-sport watch, and lacks the smarts of a fitness smartwatch. But the price puts it directly against the Fitbit Charge 4 – which does pack GPS built-in. In terms of features it's closer to the Fitbit Versa 2, Suunto 3 Fitness, and perhaps the Whoop Strap 3.0 rather than Garmin Vivoactive 4 or Forerunner 245. With no GPS, the Polar Unite isn’t geared for runners – and actually, there’s a different target market in mind.Īimed at beginners improving general fitness but don’t know where to start, or gym and functional fitness types that spend time working out indoors, the Polar Unite is best suited to non-running activities.Īnd the price will attract attention: at $149.99/£134.50 it's a great price.

Let’s get one thing in the open about the Polar Unite – this isn’t a budget running watch.

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