Comments about Polar Polar RS 200 Black Heart Rate Monitor:

Own it.

Have used it since March 2007. Watch does basicly what it is suppose to do. Good features to price. BUT the online software is a JOKE. When it works it is basic at best, but trying to get the soniclink to actually upload your data from the watch is a real hit-n-miss proposition. It usually takes me about 4-8 tries to get the uplink software to let me get the exercise uploaded. It will take it and then give me an "errors in connection" message. Or just quite at the start with the same message. Then some times it just does not recognize the watch at all. There is an indicator that tells me it can "hear" the watch, but the software will not respond.

Try to contact customer support and they have consistantly blamed my end claiming "there is no problems on their end". What it seems to be is a crowded server, but they will not tell you this.

I work to hard to get the data in the watch to have to fight it to get to be able to analyze it. Also, if you are serious about your HR, get a different watch as this one does not take your rate in real time samples, only in averages ... so you cannot graph your HR in a minute by minute fashion. And it will not work with other software that does becasue it does not record the HR in a useable manner that other software programs can read.

For my money, I would look elsewhere .... If you are still interested, I got one for sale.