May 16, 2017 at 13:37Croise Urban S: urban sports heart rate monitor
The South Korean brand is already familiar to GeekTimes readers: we used to talk about a thermometer , one of the bracelets, and just recently showed Croise.R headphones .
Today we have a short story about the Urban S fitness bracelet.
If you did not collide this model, for example, with the Xiaomi mi Band 2 bracelet strictly at a price, then it seems to us that Croise would be a good alternative, primarily in terms of the accuracy of the heart rate monitor.
And we came across, and here in the comments it was repeatedly said that the version of Xiaomi 1S, for example, is monstrous in principle, and Mi Band 2, with good accuracy at rest under load, can draw something “from the bulldozer”, which significantly reduces its value In sports.
Croise did not reach the popular optical ones, like Mio, in one single thing - it “cannot be in a Bluetooth heart rate monitor”, or, more simply, is not synchronized anywhere except for its own software.
During the sales since the end of last year, the heart rate monitor was not satisfactory and fairly honestly worked out what was declared both during physical activity and at rest. What Croise Urban can do.
Heart rate monitor
One of the strengths and one of the strange defeats. What is good: the heart rate monitor works as if by the principle of "three in one." The user can measure the pulse on demand, can set the interval at which the bracelet will record data, as well as in the mode of a constant sports heart rate monitor.
On-demand pulse is more or less clear. He pressed the button, got the result, saved it to history.
The user sets the “interval” pulse on his own: in the range from 3 minutes to 60. It is noteworthy that you can set the bar that you would not want to step over: in this case, the bracelet will give a warning.
But the sports heart rate monitor is implemented, we will be honest, ambiguous: the fact is that it (there is no deception) is constant at the moment when you look at the smartphone’s display, which, obviously, is not always comfortable. But Croise writes to statistics anyway with an interval: a minimum of three minutes! Heart rate zones you see, but you don’t feel. This point is quite controversial. For example, the proprietary application Mio Global will also not show numbers, but here you can object, they say, I can connect Mio to another software. Here again, you can argue that for other software and its advanced features you will have to pay extra, but ... and so on and so forth.
In addition to the fact that the Mio and Croise graphs are similar in numbers, the heart rate monitors also coincide:
As with the Lifetrak chest sensor.
In general, this is the case with the pulse. It is quite stable, does not get lost on a wet hand, under water, and is also quite “penetrating”: it can act as a pulse oximeter, taking data from the fingertip.
What else can?
Croise Urban S is not an absolute classic of the genre: steps of calorie distance, but also a sports bracelet, for which there is a special mode with switching between types of activity. The main menu is the collection of statistics on physical activity and sleep analysis. Additional - workouts.
Each training session is saved in a story with its own metrics, including a map, if you train with a smartphone: he writes all the same.
Calculation of consumed calories occurs according to a simple formula, which becomes clear when applying a “schedule” of calories with a “schedule” of activity: the more I moved, the more I burned.
Basic settings The
menu is quite simple and you can configure the bracelet "for yourself" in one window. Here are the settings for the operating modes of the bracelet, notifications, and settings for the heart rate monitor, etc.
Notifications that you program will be displayed with icons on the display along with the vibration signal.
What exactly do you want to see, configure individually:
Thus, directly to the same Mi Band 2, the bracelet may lose in price and autonomy (Croise works, depending on the selected measurement mode, for an average of about 5 days), but there are much more sports opportunities and a much more accurate heart rate. The bracelet was created initially for those who do something more than just walk up steps, but so far do not take into account the needs of a professional audience.
Design
He is ascetic. Before you is a black stripe.
On the back is an optical sensor.
The bracelet is controlled by a button - clicking on it switches the menu on the display. By the way, it doesn’t constantly burn.
The bracelet is packed, as expected, in a box:
But inside is a bit: a miniature docking station and the bracelet itself. MicroUSB cable will have to search for yourself.
As a result, Croise Urban S turned out to be a pretty good, stable gadget with a good heart rate monitor, which works in several modes. Something seems like a compromise, but overall it seems appropriate. If it was possible to add something, then, firstly, in sport mode, we would leave the possibility of a constantly burning display, and, secondly, a second-by-second heart rate recording. Vibration would not hurt when moving from zone to zone.
Today we have a short story about the Urban S fitness bracelet.
If you did not collide this model, for example, with the Xiaomi mi Band 2 bracelet strictly at a price, then it seems to us that Croise would be a good alternative, primarily in terms of the accuracy of the heart rate monitor.
And we came across, and here in the comments it was repeatedly said that the version of Xiaomi 1S, for example, is monstrous in principle, and Mi Band 2, with good accuracy at rest under load, can draw something “from the bulldozer”, which significantly reduces its value In sports.
Croise did not reach the popular optical ones, like Mio, in one single thing - it “cannot be in a Bluetooth heart rate monitor”, or, more simply, is not synchronized anywhere except for its own software.
During the sales since the end of last year, the heart rate monitor was not satisfactory and fairly honestly worked out what was declared both during physical activity and at rest. What Croise Urban can do.
Heart rate monitor
One of the strengths and one of the strange defeats. What is good: the heart rate monitor works as if by the principle of "three in one." The user can measure the pulse on demand, can set the interval at which the bracelet will record data, as well as in the mode of a constant sports heart rate monitor.
On-demand pulse is more or less clear. He pressed the button, got the result, saved it to history.
The user sets the “interval” pulse on his own: in the range from 3 minutes to 60. It is noteworthy that you can set the bar that you would not want to step over: in this case, the bracelet will give a warning.
But the sports heart rate monitor is implemented, we will be honest, ambiguous: the fact is that it (there is no deception) is constant at the moment when you look at the smartphone’s display, which, obviously, is not always comfortable. But Croise writes to statistics anyway with an interval: a minimum of three minutes! Heart rate zones you see, but you don’t feel. This point is quite controversial. For example, the proprietary application Mio Global will also not show numbers, but here you can object, they say, I can connect Mio to another software. Here again, you can argue that for other software and its advanced features you will have to pay extra, but ... and so on and so forth.
In addition to the fact that the Mio and Croise graphs are similar in numbers, the heart rate monitors also coincide:
As with the Lifetrak chest sensor.
In general, this is the case with the pulse. It is quite stable, does not get lost on a wet hand, under water, and is also quite “penetrating”: it can act as a pulse oximeter, taking data from the fingertip.
What else can?
Croise Urban S is not an absolute classic of the genre: steps of calorie distance, but also a sports bracelet, for which there is a special mode with switching between types of activity. The main menu is the collection of statistics on physical activity and sleep analysis. Additional - workouts.
Each training session is saved in a story with its own metrics, including a map, if you train with a smartphone: he writes all the same.
Calculation of consumed calories occurs according to a simple formula, which becomes clear when applying a “schedule” of calories with a “schedule” of activity: the more I moved, the more I burned.
Basic settings The
menu is quite simple and you can configure the bracelet "for yourself" in one window. Here are the settings for the operating modes of the bracelet, notifications, and settings for the heart rate monitor, etc.
Notifications that you program will be displayed with icons on the display along with the vibration signal.
What exactly do you want to see, configure individually:
Thus, directly to the same Mi Band 2, the bracelet may lose in price and autonomy (Croise works, depending on the selected measurement mode, for an average of about 5 days), but there are much more sports opportunities and a much more accurate heart rate. The bracelet was created initially for those who do something more than just walk up steps, but so far do not take into account the needs of a professional audience.
Design
He is ascetic. Before you is a black stripe.
On the back is an optical sensor.
The bracelet is controlled by a button - clicking on it switches the menu on the display. By the way, it doesn’t constantly burn.
The bracelet is packed, as expected, in a box:
But inside is a bit: a miniature docking station and the bracelet itself. MicroUSB cable will have to search for yourself.
As a result, Croise Urban S turned out to be a pretty good, stable gadget with a good heart rate monitor, which works in several modes. Something seems like a compromise, but overall it seems appropriate. If it was possible to add something, then, firstly, in sport mode, we would leave the possibility of a constantly burning display, and, secondly, a second-by-second heart rate recording. Vibration would not hurt when moving from zone to zone.
