The COROS health application is part of Health Connect, launched by Google in 2022 to unify health data, in order to make them compatible and bring great value to COROS Pace 3 smartwatch we analyzed in EL ESPAÑOL – El Androide Libre.
A COROS Pace 3 watch that can be purchased in Europe for 249 dollars and which is characterized by its health and exercise functions, as well as a very special design that makes it a very striking smart watch; also due to its low weight and size to be a smart watch which can be recommended to female audience; You may have trouble finding one that fits your wrist size.
Without a doubt, one of the aspects that attracts the most attention is its design. In our case We tested the white model with a silicone strap. On the COROS website in Europe different variants are available with the possibility of purchasing the nylon model in different colors and another in silicone in black and white.
We first focused the plan on the design, not only for its external visual appearance, but also for its dials and its clock interface on the screen that goes hand in hand with generate a great visual experience in unison in all its peaks. It is a smart watch that attracts attention from the outside and also stands out with its specifications.
We start with Its dimensions: 41.9 x 41.9 x 11.7 mm. Its size is very similar to that of the Galaxy Watch 6 and we can say that it does not “eat” all the space on the wrist, so we emphasize once again that it is an ideal watch for the women. Its weight is 39 g with the silicone strap, and remains at 30 g with the nylon strap.
They are the screen takes center stage with 1.2 inches and resolution of 240 x 240 with 64 colors; some desaturated colors to create an interface that tries to damage the battery as little as possible to extend the autonomy of the watch and is precisely one of its key aspects. In fact, it almost offers a monochrome experience. Of course, you have to forget the AMOLED panel to be an LCD panel; but that almost doesn’t matter, and that’s just one of its strong points.
Its interaction: two buttons
The COROS Pace 3 watch Includes digital dial and back buttonso the interaction is a different experience, but satisfying on every level, and even more so if for some reason your hands aren’t dry enough and you have to make do with this smartwatch.
Actually, By default it is configured without touch controls on the screen so that it can be easily operated with the two physical buttons. This is another point that sets it apart from other models from other brands and can be the ideal watch for practicing water sports or for wearing in the shower. It’s a smartwatch designed to control everything with physical buttons.
In this case, the physical buttons behave differently from other phones like the Galaxy Watch 6 or those from Huawei. The button at the bottom, with a single press, exactly changes the data that appears under the hour: time of sunrise, sunset, height or stairs climbed. If you hold it down, it opens a dial with the most important options such as system, music, battery and more; Yes, to move between them you do so using the wheel on the other button.
They are Customization is also important with a good variety of watch faces (many of them with a scary retro appearance), and the possibility of modifying the training menu to the taste of the guest, in order to eliminate sports practices that will never be practiced; daily data, with an interface that allows you to sort the data or even eliminate what is not necessary; and tools, such as applications and thus reduce their number (which are quite numerous).
On this last point, the CHORUS Rhythm 3 It has applications such as compass, heart rate, altitude performance, resting HR, battery usage, metronome, navigation, one to record position, satellite, stopwatch, timer and typical alarms, the night mode, music, mobile camera control, find my mobile or sync via WiFi.
That being said about WiFi, it is another of his most interesting relationships
Measuring health and exercise
To measure health and other experiences, offers a good range of sensors: optical heart rate monitor, barometric altimeter, 3D compass, thermometer (for body temperature during activities) and optical pulse oximeter. Of course, it also allows sleep tracking.
A quality detail is that at the end of the sporting activity, each time the GPS is active, it presents a first screen with a summary of the total time, the average time per lap and a small map showing the route taken. Of course, it wouldn’t be bad if the screen with the exercise data summary had a timerbecause it may stay on for a few minutes (this could be easily fixed during an update due to a battery issue).
When you return home to transfer the exercise data, the COROS application is very complete and on the first screen as a summary —and with an interface that differs from that seen in others like Samsung Health or the Huawei Health app— It stands out with a dark theme and the use of brightly colored icons to highlight the different health cards.
At the top you can read the total number of steps taken, calorie consumption and time spent exercising for the day. You will then be able to find a small card with a summary of the sporting practice, the training schedule, loadand other data, when you already swipe down to view recovery status, such as heart rate, sleep, body mass and other data.
By retrieving what has been said on the course map, on the summary screen you can access it with all the training data such as distance covered, race time, average pace, pace effort, best km, average HR, calories, ascent, race status and training. load onto the first card. Just after Different high-value graphics appear and are very well presented visually. measure the min/km pace with the different sections according to the pace achieved in the race or in tests.
It is offers a complete experience to which other graphs such as cadence, stride length, running power and lap time can be added. Nail perfect application in this sense to measure all aspects of health and physical exercise and thus be able to measure progress in weeks.
There are other high value aspects such as ability to create a training plan by days and weeks or download verified workouts from the coros.com website.
Another strong point of the application are the personal records, and finally, in terms of sports practice experience to take into account each data, it is a watch that offers great value with a very well designed application and its own design.
Your autonomy
Regarding autonomy, with the use of GPS and in our tests it reaches almost two days with GPS systems and, if all available geopositioning systems are already used, it increases to 25 hours and 9 hours of music. With daily use you reach 17 days measure sleep and health on a daily basis; and with stress up to 15 days.
In a sporting practice consisting of going out to run 11 km, consumption with GPS active when configuring the watch (not the full one receiving all geopositioning signals) was 5%. Nothing bad.
I buy it?
And for the rest, it’s a perfect accessory for a mobile to receive call notifications and configure all the messaging apps you want to receive your chats from. That is, as a companion to the smartphone, it also fulfills its function.
Of course, you can’t make calls, but it has 4 GB of internal memory for storing music. Generally speaking, it is a different watch from those on the Spanish market and which surprises with its interaction concept to do everything via physical buttons.
If we add its particular design, which is not one of those large watches and which has a well-worked application in terms of functions and visual appearance to follow health and sports practices (with its great variety of sensors), this leaves the feeling that you are dealing with a brand that knows what it is doing and that you are not there simply to try to capture market share by copying others.
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