![]() The battery life of the Tomtom is very good actually at a little over 7 hours with HRM and GPS turned on with my device being more than 6 months old. I'm planning to do an all-day charity walk in the summer, my training walks all exceed the battery life of the Tomtom. Also get the HRM working for swimming, if it’s a different strap or a shim between the watch and the skin then so be it.The ability to turn off the GPS requirement for Freestyle.I actually think it needs a small wizard menu that you can use to select your exercise and if you want the HRM on or off and also if you want GPS data.There needs to be a Strength training option, and options for Gym based exercises like a static cycle, rowing machine etc. For a 'MultiSport' device being limited to Running, Cycling, Swimming, Treadmill and Freestyle is quite poor.Lap counter for swimming need to be better.Then because it has a GPS fix it will upload that data to Strava which will ruin the accuracy as the GPS fix dances around all over the place it thinks I've been teleporting. This is utterly useless, if I'm in the Gym doing Kettle-bell or rowing machine why would I need a GPS fix for an exercise I'm doing standing in one place? The watch will not start logging until it has a fix. I'm working on the assumption that all of my devices may not always be Tomtom so if I use Strava it will take the data and will make it the same from whatever device I'm using. I'm using the Tomtom to upload data into Strava for all my exercises as this will 'normalize' my exercises before they go into MyFitnessPal. (Luckily Strava seems to cope with the Tomtom's inability to count) Swimming is also useless as the lap counter is junk I can do 30 lengths and it will count maybe 8. Recovery of the walks today was possible by using iTunes to get the ttbin file off the iPod then using the Tomtom MySports Connect app to import the file but it’s still a pain in the arse. We think there is a fault at Tomtom HQ but there are no notices on the Tomtom website, Facebook page of forums. Also today my wife's watch has lost all of her walks. About two weeks ago one went MIA and today both of my walks including a biggie went missing. Recently my watch has started losing walks again. The update to allow the Tomtom to connect to a Lollipop device has taken months to come out as of the time of writing this update has only just been released. Then along came Lollipop and when I updated my phone the Tomtom was not compatible and I found myself having to sync up to my iPod the same as my wife. Thankfully this was only necessary for the initial set-up. This was lousy as I then had to repair everything else back up. We realized that my wife's iPod touch was compatible and started to sync her watch using this.Ībout this time I changed out my HTC phone for a Samsung S5, although Tomtom said it was compatible in order to get the watch to connect I had to delete all my associations with all my other Bluetooth devices and connect to the watch using the mobile app. I thought this was because I'd only ever used the desktop application 'Tomtom MySports Connect' to initially configure the watch and only used the mobile app to sync. Whereas my MultiSport Cardio hadn't missed a beat. Unfortunately after a short period of time it started to lose walks, factory resets later and various software updates and firmware updates to the watch occasional bouts of data loss still persisted. Turns out her phone was too old to support Bluetooth Smart. Silly me for not checking the supported phone list. The Tomtom also didn't work with her phone. That is when my opinion on this unit changed. ![]() Unfortunately the Mio didn't work with her phone so reluctantly I ordered up another Tomtom. Her walks were much shorter than mine so there were no issues with battery run time etc. We had tried a Mio HRM to tether to her Strava on her phone. My watch was so successful my wife wanted one too. When my watch arrived it connected perfectly to my HTC One Mini (M7) and worked flawlessly. I wasn't interested in smart notifications and having a display to show heart rate zone information and other metrics such as duration etc seemed to make the Tomtom the only choice. The Tomtom MultiSport Cardio was about only sports watch out there that combined all the features I needed. I had used Strava on a phone for a few months but wanted more accuracy from a heart rate sensor and using Strava on a phone really runs down the battery quickly and with the amount of weight I needed to lose having a working mobile was essential. I wanted to do a lot of swimming and walking and needed something that would run interdependently of a phone. I was looking to lose a serious amount of weight (7 stone lost so far at the time of writing this article) and needed a watch I could wear all the time. I've been using a TomTom MultiSport Cardio for several months now and this is my users review.
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