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• 1 Beller

  I liked the POLAR F6 a lot, it is easy to use and useful in order to have the acurate measurement of the heart rate during the excercise session.

• 2 Beck

  To my surprise, you cannot change the batteries on this watch yourself.

  The batteries will die after about 6 months to a year and you have to send it back to the factory (which means being without a watch for several weeks AND paying 30-50$ for battery replacement).

  During battery replacement the factory damaged my watch.

  At first it was just a crack in the lense of the watch… annoying but not worth the trouble of taking it back and using the 90 day guarantee.

  Then a few days after 90 days, the “start” button fell off, the damage to the casing became apparent, and the glass lense completely split in two.

  I am very annoyed with Polar but have not found another solution sooo…

  I’m going to buy another one!

  My recommendation: be extremely VIGILANT when you get your watch back from replacing the battery and take it right back to the store if you see any damage to the casing or the glass.

• 3 Idle

  I really like this polar watch…the only problems that I have had with it is that sometimes it doesn’t keep up with my heartrate. Well, I should say once in a while. Always in the middle of a workout. Usually if I move it around several times it will start to find the correct heart rate. Overall, I am happy with the purchase.

• 4 Aoki

  The heart monitor and watch work fine BUT the display is grainy, small, and hard to see. Far cheaper monitors and watches have far better, brighter, bigger displays.

  And – the beeps to warn that you have gone above or below your heart range are so low that there is no way to hear them on the exercise floor! You have to keep the unit to your ear to hear them.

  People recommended this so I bought this but I am not happy with this unit.

• 5 Getty

  The monitor has great features. Probably the best in the market. My transmitter though only lasted for 64 hours of training. In spite of the good care I took of it after I used it. I had to replace it because you can’t replace the batteries.

• 6 Ramsay

  I liked the POLAR F6 a lot, it is easy to use and useful in order to have the acurate measurement of the heart rate during the excercise session.

• 7 Ugo

  I really like this polar watch…the only problems that I have had with it is that sometimes it doesn’t keep up with my heartrate. Well, I should say once in a while. Always in the middle of a workout. Usually if I move it around several times it will start to find the correct heart rate. Overall, I am happy with the purchase.

• 8 Qureshi

  The heart monitor and watch work fine BUT the display is grainy, small, and hard to see. Far cheaper monitors and watches have far better, brighter, bigger displays.

  And – the beeps to warn that you have gone above or below your heart range are so low that there is no way to hear them on the exercise floor! You have to keep the unit to your ear to hear them.

  People recommended this so I bought this but I am not happy with this unit.

• 9 Valentino

  To my surprise, you cannot change the batteries on this watch yourself.

  The batteries will die after about 6 months to a year and you have to send it back to the factory (which means being without a watch for several weeks AND paying 30-50$ for battery replacement).

  During battery replacement the factory damaged my watch.

  At first it was just a crack in the lense of the watch… annoying but not worth the trouble of taking it back and using the 90 day guarantee.

  Then a few days after 90 days, the “start” button fell off, the damage to the casing became apparent, and the glass lense completely split in two.

  I am very annoyed with Polar but have not found another solution sooo…

  I’m going to buy another one!

  My recommendation: be extremely VIGILANT when you get your watch back from replacing the battery and take it right back to the store if you see any damage to the casing or the glass.

• 10 Terrill

  The monitor has great features. Probably the best in the market. My transmitter though only lasted for 64 hours of training. In spite of the good care I took of it after I used it. I had to replace it because you can’t replace the batteries.

• 11 DeJesus

  It was east to set up, It has great visibility. Large numbers on the face makes it easy for an old guy like me to use.

• 12 Terrill

  Takes a little getting used to, but once I understood the functions, it works great. Keeps me from exceeding HR objectives, both for me and my clients.

• 13 Erkel

  Polar FS2 Heart Rate Monitor Watch (Black)

  I ordered this for my daughter because it’s considered the best. When it arrived, it was defective and the screen was blank. I reported this to Amazon. Immediately, I received a prepaid shipping label to return the defective item. Within three days, I received a replacement, faster than I thought possible. The replacement works PERFECTLY.

  I am THRILLED with the outstanding customer service and recommend this product highly.

• 14 Qi

  This watch does exactly what most people need, and is incredibly easy to use.

  There are only a couple of things that keep me from giving it 5 stars, and that has more to do with me not thinking through everything I want:

  1. A backlight would have been handy.

  2. Minimum heart rate (in addition to max and average) is nice for resting heart rate measurements. (However, if you wait long enough, the average will approach the min.)

  3. Ability to store more than one session. I frequently do multiple cardio sessions while at the gym. It would be have a log of all of the cardio sessions I did that day.

  Overall, though, I’m very happy with it. It gets the job done.

• 15 Ahn

  I had the old model of this model and it lasted me over 5 years. Based on that, and the other reviews I read about this model, I decided to try the FS2. It is great!! It is a very good basic heart rate monitor. No bells and whistles, but I was looking for simple. I highly recommend reading through the manual, which is very short. It will give you some great tips so you can utilize the few features it does have, such as min/max heart rate limits, etc. All and all, a great buy. I’ve only had it a couple of months, so I don’t know about the battery life. Hopefully it will perform as well as the old one did!

• 16 Norikian

  To my surprise, you cannot change the batteries on this watch yourself.

  The batteries will die after about 6 months to a year and you have to send it back to the factory (which means being without a watch for several weeks AND paying 30-50$ for battery replacement).

  During battery replacement the factory damaged my watch.

  At first it was just a crack in the lense of the watch… annoying but not worth the trouble of taking it back and using the 90 day guarantee.

  Then a few days after 90 days, the “start” button fell off, the damage to the casing became apparent, and the glass lense completely split in two.

  I am very annoyed with Polar but have not found another solution sooo…

  I’m going to buy another one!

  My recommendation: be extremely VIGILANT when you get your watch back from replacing the battery and take it right back to the store if you see any damage to the casing or the glass.

• 17 Lahti

  I liked the POLAR F6 a lot, it is easy to use and useful in order to have the acurate measurement of the heart rate during the excercise session.

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