Timex Analogue Watch Small

Advantages: Looks good, very comfortable
Disadvantages: Poor battery life, small buttons

... Stylish, lightweight heart rate monitor Likes This is a very good looking watch, mine has a dark face, black rubber strap and white surround and five, round chrome buttons. The surround has some small text on it, but to be honest, its too small to read and is for show only. The face is larger than many sports watches, but is very discrete, and can be set to a dark backlight, so you'd be pushed to know it was an HRM. I happily wear it even on formal occasions. Its very comortable to wear - the watch is very light, and the rubber strap is soft and pliant - needs tightening a notch before a run though. The heart rate strap is very comfortable and is better made than others I've owned, (Timex and Oregon). The shiny screen is very scratch resistant Dislikes Battery life on my particular watch hasn't been... Read review

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Advantages: Size; simplicity
Disadvantages: Large transmitter; Easy to accidentally reset

...Given how much I like cycling, and how much I like gadgets, there are few little toys I get quite so much fun out of as a cycle computer. Ever since my dad first fitted an analogue speedo to my bike as a kid I've had a fascination with how fast and how far I'm riding. So when building up a new bike one of the first things I got for it was this tiny Cateye Strada Wireless. I hadn't intended on spending so much on a computer (£39.99) but the small size of the main unit (about 2cm x 3cm) sold me with its simplicity. Fitting: Without a wire to fiddle about with this could hardly be an easier computer to fit. The cradle for the main unit can be mounted in the normal fashion on the handlebars, or in the centre on the stem, with the unit able to slip into place in one of two positions so that it's always the right way up to read... Read review

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Advantages: small and light
Disadvantages: pc interface isnt as tough as it could be

.... Backlighting while not an absolute essential is very useful to have, even diving in daylight murky water can make guages hard to read so a lit up gauge is easier to handle. But the main thing visually is that the screen is easy to read underwater, and despite the Mosquitos relatively small size in this way it preforms very well since even a friend who admits to having quite poor eyesight was able to use one and was happy that he could see the information clearly. OF course to my mind an absolute essential when buying a dive computer is that it works on the same algorithm for calculating dive information as your back up if like me you have two computers rather than an set of analogue gauges and a computer which in mycase the Mosquito is actually more conservative than the Octopus so makes more demands for stops at the ends of my dives, a situation... Read review

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