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The Mysterious Smartwatch I've Been Wearing...
Nov 8, 2025
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Alright, so a lot of you guys asked in the past, you're like
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Lou, what's that watch you're always wearing? I changed around from different ones for a while
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I used to wear Casio G-Shock watches forever, and then I dabbled in the smartwatch territory
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And then eventually I ended up on this one, which is from this company in front of me, Polar
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This is the Vantage M. It came out a little while back. It's really a fitness watch, but it has some smart features in it
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The one in front of me here, the new one, this Vantage V Titan that I picked up to upgrade the M version
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that's on my wrist right now. It gets notifications and things from your phone
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if you want it. At the same time, it's sort of tracking your activity level
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and other things without the necessity of constantly checking your phone or being connected to your phone
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even if you don't want it to be. It kind of can work a little bit independently
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The benefit here is that you get way more battery life. So that was like stage one, step one for me
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I just, the experience of the fully smartwatch was not for me as it stands right now
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I tried the Apple Watch. I tried various Android Wear devices and so forth
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Anyhow, I landed here. I ended up here. This is the Vantage M. It can kind of give you some feedback as to how hard you should be working at a particular time
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Oh, and then the other part, too. If I do decide to go on the bike, go for a ride, then I want to track the heart rate
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and I don't want to be messing around and maneuvering it. Now, you may have noticed in the past there's some arm hair going on here
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and it's kind of been hit and miss with a number of different heart rate trackers. So what Polar did with their product is apparently like they just went to the next level with their heart rate tracking
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You can see all these various little nodes on there. And that's really the history of this company
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You can see I actually busted the strap a little bit. I don't know if they can see that right there
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I don't know. I was lifting something. This one, the price goes up quite a bit
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It's like 700 bucks or something. So I just don't expect it to be for everyone just because of that reason
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Premium multi watch Polar Vantage V This is the titanium one What do they say on the back Polar Vantage V Titan is a premium multi watch for anyone who trains like a pro That uh from this point forward
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I might have to embrace pro status. So anyway, this is the unboxing experience here
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Almost like a fabric weave type of feel on the outside, but then on the inside
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it has this rubberized finish with the red, as you can see right there
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The thickness of the thing is almost identical actually at this point. Now, one thing I should say, on the M model
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the wrist strap is interchangeable with any traditional watch band. This one, it's gotta be exclusive
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We have the same really high-tech heart rate tracking here. Number of textured buttons on the outside here
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One thing I don't like too much about the watch, design of the charger. It's this little plastic puck looking thing
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Now, it's great for travel because it's so small. it's a very soft magnet kind of thing it's just not the most satisfying click on there as much as
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you might like it's a typical usb cable over on the other end all right now let me go ahead and
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see if this thing has any power on it may have to plug it in this one also has gorilla glass the v
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version a more expensive model now the gorilla glass thing is kind of important i don't know if
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you guys can tell but mine is is nicked up i don't know see if i can yeah there that's a good
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Maybe right in there. Their ability here is welcome. You launch the app
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It's pretty straightforward. This one is touchscreen now. So you could just scroll like that
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Or you can use the buttons. I like having both potential input methods
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A couple of other little differences here. Because I know you're going to have questions like, why would I spend extra money
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This one has greater waterproofing. The higher end version. It also has audio alerts
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So I guess it has a little speaker on it. Because I noticing I didn even realize it that this one with notifications and stuff it strictly visual Battery life should also be better on the V model This one is strictly button interface whereas the V model has the touchscreen
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Look at this muscle load, cardio load. Apparently this one didn't have muscle load
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That one does. There's something called nightly recharge recovery and serene breathing exercise
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So that could be fun as well. Can we get the US prices, will he do, for all three
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Okay, so $600 for the Titan model. This one here in USD, will he do, coming with the update
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The M is $275, and the regular Vantage V is $500. I've got it all set up now
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So by default, it's in this status right here where it tells you the amount of activity you've done in the day
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You can see the last few days here on the other watch, I have missed the activity goal
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but I did set it up for a high activity goal. You know, I'm running around, I get outside, okay
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I mean, I'm not jogging or anything, but like I like to play sports and do things like this
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So you can see, even though this is like 61% activity, that's like almost seven hours that I'm active
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When you shift to other screens, this will show your heart rate instantaneously
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If you just want to quickly check it, this will show you your most recent training sessions
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And this is your sleep data on this one over here. I actually like this button
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This is how you can start a training session really quick from the watch without using the app
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And this will sync to the app later. So even if the phone's not on you and you're like, I'm about to hop on the bike and do a little bit of exercise
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you can go ahead and start training and pick your activity, at which point it'll start tracking your heart rate
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And it'll give you a pretty cool readout. Strength training, hiking, mountain biking, walking, cycling
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Oh, also in this menu, there's more basic stuff like timers, orthostatic test
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What is that, Will? to evaluate the balance between training and recovery It not a permanent sync which is kind of weird compared to a smartwatch Like it sync up every so often which again I think has its benefits
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for battery life, but it means it kind of just interacts with your phone a little bit differently
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There are some tasks that are a bit more manual. It can get notifications. It can tell you when you
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get a call. It does have a speaker on it. As I mentioned previously, the other one does not. You
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You can also add training results and targets into Google Calendar. It's a robust utilitarian
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It's a tough watch with a long battery life with a great heart rate sensor and activity tracking
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And then it can do notifications too, but that's not typically what I use it for. All right, so when you're setting the device up to map it to your physical activity level
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you can go over here. It's in the settings. It's called Activity Goal
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and you can have level one two or three obviously depending on how athletic you are how many
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activities you're doing i have it set to number two i hit it sometimes sometimes i miss you put
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in your training background i probably train i probably actually do more activity than one to
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three hours a week if you think about it play hockey all the rest of it jack let's think about
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it also maximum heart rate in there so it's really configurable it's cool i like it if you're looking
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for a smart watch this might not fit the criteria i'm gonna go ahead and try it on now and see how
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it feels compared to the other one and of course switch over to it now that it's synced up. All
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right so the band is quite a bit different. Much, much nicer band. It's the new Vantage V Titan. I
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like the look of it better. It's just a slight upgrade on my previous model. I think for most
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people if you like what I talked about but you don't want to splurge on the crazy price point
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you could probably be happy with this one as well. If you want to be real fancy, flashy potentially
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or if you just like titanium, you could step up to the V model and do this one as well
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