RS 800 Silver

by Polar

Product Features

• Heart rate (displayed as bpm)
• Heart rate (displayed as % of maximum heart rate)
• Heart rate (displayed as graphical trend)
• Heart rate (displayed as HRR%)
• Automatic/Manual target zone (% / bpm / HRR%) %/bpm/HRR%

Product Description

The RS800 is designed for the elite level athletes and coaches who wants to improve performance by planning, monitoring and analyzing training data.

* Heart rate (displayed as bpm)
* Heart rate (displayed as % of maximum heart rate)
* Heart rate (displayed as graphical trend)
* Heart rate (displayed as HRR%)
* Automatic/Manual target zone (% / bpm / HRR%) %/bpm/HRR%
* Visual and audible alarm in target zones
* Water resistant 50m
* Backlight
* HeartTouch™, button-free operation of wrist unit
* Heart rate sets: pre-program favorite exercise settings
* Manual target zone (% / bpm)
* Automatic age-based target zone (% / bpm)
* Item: 5203-90026373

Product Details

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• ASIN: B0055J45PW
• Average Customer Review: 2.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #234,710 in Sports & Outdoors (See Top 100 in Sports & Outdoors)

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Polar dropped the ball with the IR interface, July 17, 2008

By 

Lyle Mcdonald (Austin, Texas) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: RS 800 Silver (Sports)

I have used Polar Heart rate monitors for years and, having become interested in tracking heart rate variability choose to purchase the RS800 so that I could do the analysis.

I'd note that I had the same problem as the other reviewer with Watchsavings, who did not include the IR interface (they claim that Amazon mis-listed the product).

While the watch has excellent features and an easy interface, there's a major problem: the infrared transmission system (used to transfer the data into the computer software) crapped out after 3 weeks and completely stopped working.

Looking over the web, this is not an isolated incident. People are reporting that they get data off the watch for a day or two, a week or two, one friend I have who bought one never go a single piece of data off his watch. I contacted a local running store and their employee told me that she had an identical problem, the watch stopped transferring data after 2 weeks. Polar kept telling her that the problem was on her end until she returned it for a refund.

Polar refuses to address this, they ignore it in their forums and will not answer emails.

This is unacceptable, the features of the watch (namely the heart rate variability) are contingent on getting the data transferred to the computer. That Polar refuses to admit or deal with the problem only makes it worse.

Given that other products can readily make a physical USB interface work, there's no reason for Polar to have gone this route and used a technology that is clearly faulty. This is one top of the fact that Polar decided to use a non-standard USB driver for Windows.

I have since replaced the Polar with the SuuntoT6 which went with a physical (clip) USB interface. While their software is not as good as Polar's at least I can get the data off of the watch.

I will NEVER purchase another Polar product.

Lyle

12 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This watch delivers as promised, February 4, 2008

By 

Nisey (NY) - See all my reviews

This review is from: RS 800 Silver (Sports)

This watch is perfect!! You can create your own program either with the software or in the watch directly. I did extensive research and this is the best value I found. The watch is well made and I have had no glitch or funny readings as with some of the cheaper watches I have tried like the Mio or Polar's lower brands without coded belt. Speaking of which, the coded belt is comfortable and I have gotten zero interference from all the equipment in the gym or anyone else's hrm. My friends have had this problem with other brands. I spent about 1 1/2 hours reading the manual and playing around and I pretty much can navigate around in the menu with my eyes closed. Best deal I found was from a company which had free shipping and free IRD device..which you need if you want to view your session in the software. I paid $369.

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars great features but limited life, September 15, 2008

By 

markluck (Raleigh, NC USA) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: RS 800 Silver (Sports)

I had to work through three of these before I got one that functioned for any period of time. First one quit second time in pool, second one band fell off. Then, after a year, moisture got inside the cover on the third just as I started to like it. I sold it after that. Three was enough.

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