Polar Vantage M: review, price and specification – Sport watch

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If there is one point on which the Vantage M has gaps, it is ergonomics. The watch is a bit capricious, with five buttons of a rare hardness. And the menus are not necessarily very obvious. The easiest thing to do is to focus on the back button, giving access to a drop-down menu thanks to the buttons dedicated to the movements. It includes access to sports activities, notifications, stopwatch and settings. Polar has opted for an aesthetically sober interface, and offers visuals purified to the maximum. We do not have to deal with the most beautiful menus, but they have the merit of being clear. The health home screen is well customizable, but in a small area. The time remains fixed while it is only possible to modify the second complication, in order to display the number of steps taken in the day, the live heart rate or the sleep time. The trick is that each complication is linked to an additional screen. It details the data in question and appears by pressing the validation button from the menu.

To start a sports session, the procedure is simple. A long press on the validation button takes us directly to the choice of the sport. Otherwise, you must press the back button to access the drop-down menu where the basic choice proposes to launch, precisely, a physical activity. Then just press the validation button to get to the list of sports. The last physical activities appear first. Convenient.

The wrist settings are rather complete. They provide access to the "airplane" mode, the "do not disturb" mode or the activation of continuous heart rate monitoring. Note that this last setting must be enabled for sleep tracking to occur automatically.

Notifications are handled in a strange way. If they are displayed clearly and perfectly legible, the mechanisms surrounding them are confusing. By default, Polar accesses all smartphone notifications. A perfectly unbearable choice, because the watch begins to vibrate for absolutely everything and anything. It is therefore necessary to cancel the application-by-application notifications. The first to disable is Android itself. Because from the outset, the watch shivers every time an update is downloaded in the background. Since the smartphone only displays the notification when the download time, if you look at his phone a little too late, it gives a disturbing sensation to vibrate for nothing. So you have to sort and disable some notifications. Fortunately, the option is easily accessible via the Polar Flow app.The display of notifications is itself curious. Sometimes the Vantage M just vibrates without displaying anything, while at other times it displays the content. The mechanism then seems random and unpleasant. In addition, when smart health connected to Spotify or Netflix, the watch trembles when a media is paused or the next one starts. It can quickly become unbearable. Unfortunately, at Polar, application processing is all or nothing.

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