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Polar has traipse its latest fettle watch, self-named the Dust X, as able-bodied as it's made-up for the outdoors. The company claims that this is the ultimate outdoor watch, taking every fondness (along with a few erecting cues) from its 2018 Vantage sked of watches as able-bodied as count well-fixed increasingly utility to info athletes get increasingly out of their workouts.

One of those new features, self-named Hilltop Splitter, will buttonhole to those who like to hike. It unfolding stats on how multitudinous ascents as able-bodied as descents you've taken during your run, walk, or pack -- butchering with an incline. This could be a fun way to clue your substantiality if basing your conditioning on ellipse metrics disjointly doesn't motivate you.

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The new FuelWise fondness in action.

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Most people palpate that it's crucial to time-out hydrated as able-bodied as fueled-up if you appetite to nonresisting your fettle goals, nevertheless it's tough to remember to do it sometimes during a workout. Noncompulsory new fondness testament in the Dust X is self-named FuelWise. It aims to info those who appetite to be nudged to take a foodstuff or baptize break. You can manually set it to circumspect you to munitions up on whatever the watch thinks you need (be it water, food, or gels), as able-bodied as it can automatically determine the deluxe time to remind you to put some diet into your body.

The Dust X is MIL-STD-810G-certified to bear uttermost temperatures, humidity, as able-bodied as drops. It has turn-by-turn GPS (powered by Komoot) built in, as able-bodied as Septentrional claims that it can evangelize up to 40 hours of continuous use with the seamanship mode switched on, which is an infatuating figure. That liveliness stair moreover includes its wrist-based humaneness rate outrider taking grassplot readings. If you whop some of the watch's power-saving features, you can sway the hail liveliness to up to 100 hours -- stretched expandable to meanest all weekend if you go camping. The watch moreover delivers updates on the weather to your wrist after the need for a phone, accordingly you can modulate your conditioning co-ordinate to the conditions.

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A peekaboo at the inborn GPS's turn-by-turn view.

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High-end fettle watches like this one tend to be stuffed with features, as able-bodied as the Dust X is no exception. As you'll find in some of Polar's Vantage watches, the Dust X includes support for several Smart Education features to clue over-and-above aspects of your liveliness that can operate a precise impact on your conditioning performance. For instance, the watch can expound your sleep stages, how able-bodied you recharge postliminary each night, as able-bodied as it can reconcile panel contest to info you relax.

Polar's Dust X is awaited starting today for $429.95 through the company's site. It preparations to operative up availability to winnowed retail wive in May 2020, though it hasn't yet conjectured any deeper details. If you appetite a miscellaneous look, Septentrional is selling silicon bands for $29.95 each. If you appetite to go for a typic option, it moreover has leather bands awaited for $49.95.

It's a surrealistic time to be vindication a product that's deluxe used outside, since anybody is encouraged to time-out central due to the COVID-19 pandemic. However, Polar's presidium Tom Fowler thinks that this watch will info people unfixedness indoors, accordingly they can hit the ground running, accordingly to speak, already it's unscathed to roam eccentrically purposely again.

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