Polar's latest running watches - Pacer and Pacer Pro - are designed for both beginner and advanced runners

- Polar has unveiled a brand new pair of operating watches - the Pacer and Pacer Professional - designed to cater for each newbie and superior customers. 

The Finnish firm's subsequent era of watches follows comparable design language to what we have seen with its Vantage sequence of sports activities watches, although each Pacer wearables will supply a monitoring expertise particularly designed for runners.

The extra superior mannequin of the pair, the Pacer Professional, options the total suite of Polar's superior coaching instruments - corresponding to Working Energy and personalised restoration suggestions - and pairs them with week-long battery life (or 35 hours of steady GPS monitoring). Polar says that an all-new antenna design, too, will enhance GPS accuracy - one thing we anticipate might be most noticeable when utilizing the watch's turn-by-turn navigation.

On account of the included barometer and magnetometer, Pacer Professional customers also needs to be capable to obtain very detailed suggestions on the finish of their train.

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The corporate's shiny, sharp-looking MIP color show can also be current, packed behind a Corning Gorilla Glass 3.0 display screen that ought to supply customers loads of sturdiness within the open air. The brand new CPU beneath the hood and the 5MB of RAM, Polar suggests, will supply a smoother, sooner expertise across the watch, as properly. 

Polar Pacer, alternatively, is aimed toward first-time runners who're simply starting to log their jaunts. It retains all of the fundamentals which might be provided within the Professional mannequin, corresponding to coaching schedules, sleep monitoring and restoration instruments, in addition to options like Strolling Take a look at, which gives an perception into the consumer's VO2 Max. 

As seen above, the Pacer shares a really comparable design to its sibling, with the identical MIP show, Gorilla Glass show and lightweight, round bezel all that includes. Polar's vaunted Precision Prime coronary heart price monitor, naturally, can also be central to the expertise of each watches.

The common Pacer is obtainable in black, white, teal and purple, and can start delivery in Could for $199.90 / £169.50 / €199. 

The Pacer Professional, in the meantime, is obtainable right this moment for $299.90 / £259 / €299, and is obtainable in gray, white, blue and maroon, with a inexperienced colourway touchdown later this yr.

We'll be testing each watches over the subsequent few weeks and months, so make sure you look out for our full verdict.