geonaute heart rate monitors,opinions?

[sriram.bmsce]

hello

i just happened to notice GEONAUTE heart rate monitors at BOTs store.i was about to buy a heart rate monitor(hrm) for

myself,the geonaute hrms cost abt 1500rs which is much cheaper than most hrm like POLAR..?has anyone bought the geonaute hrm?

if so can someone post a review about the applications in it,user-friendly quotient.etc?..i have almost decided on polar f7 hrm..

Best

Sriram

[Vasu]

Hi Sriram,

As far as I know Iggy, Siva Sai and Nelly have used the Geonaute. Iggy uses it everyday and he is very glad he has it. Nelly just tried mine for a few days to see how good it is and he says the stuff is pretty good for the price tag that it comes with. 

It has a feature which when set beeps when the Heart Rate goes above or below pre-set numbers.

Hope you get a good speedometer for your heart.

Thanks,

-Vasu

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[Rohan Kini]

you also got to look at the features - whats available and what you would need

- would you want to download stuff onto your comp to play with pretty graphs
- are you looking at multi sport kinda features ?
- do you need your hrm to lock-in with your watch ? (if you are running with a group of guys all of whom have HRMs this would matter, else not)
- et cetc

the cheaper HRMs dont have most of these features - and do one thing pretty well (that is measuring your heart rate).
The advanced ones (like the Garmin 305/405 etc) - you can have a virtual partner on ur watch whom you can program to compete with you.

compare the features on the polar vs the Geonaute - Im sure you will figure out which model you want pretty fast.

On Sat, Jun 6, 2009 at 4:20 PM, sriram.bmsce <sriram...@gmail.com> wrote:

[sriram.bmsce]

yes thanks all of you..

i think i will go ahead and buy the polar f7 from 20north.com..

[Vasu]

You are lucky because until 5mins back I didn't know the price of a Polar F7 HRM else I wouldn't have replied previously. 

Lets be practical, the Polar F7 is 8,456 INR the Geonaute is 1,500 INR. The Polar is meant for sportspersons; The Geonaute is a general HRM and not specifically for cycling. Infact the Geonaute is Decathlon's mountaineering brand. The Geonaute Vs Polar was like comparing your full carbon bike with a full steel bike. They are in diff leagues, how on earth can one think of comparing them???

-V