Along with a firmware replace and new cell app introduced final week, the GPS maker Coros introduced it was reducing the worth on its Apex 2 and Apex 2 Professional fashions to mirror fluctuations within the worth of the U.S. greenback.
The Coros Apex 2 Professional, initially retailing for CAD$699, is now $599, and the bottom Apex 2 is $499. The Kilian Jornet version is now $649 (initially $749).
The replace additionally includes new API integrations with Google Well being Join, Intervals, and HRV4Training, in addition to updates to its EvoLab coaching platform, which is free to all Coros customers.
Additionally with this newest replace, the model’s Tempo 2 mannequin additionally now provides breadcrumb navigation, which was missing within the unique launch.
With the replace, the brand new Coros app now options 4 pages titled Progress, Actions, Discover and Profile. The Discover web page features a route builder that permits you to draw, edit, erase and obtain customized operating routes. Customers can save places, both within the app or immediately on the watch, and the map supervisor enables you to obtain or delete maps in your watch from the app. (This is applicable to the model’s dearer Vertix 2 watch additionally.)
The Coros Apex 2 and Apex 2 Professional are each sturdy and user-friendly instruments for endurance runners in a touchscreen-plus-three-buttons format. Launched in November 2022, the Apex 2 and Apex 2 Professional are very related; the primary variations are that the bottom Apex 2 lacks multi-band GPS, and the Professional has virtually double the Apex 2’s battery life (as much as 75 hours or three steady days in GPS mode or as much as 30 days in smartwatch mode) and a bigger display screen. Each now have Wi-Fi and Bluetooth connectivity, a brand new optical coronary heart price sensor, blood oxygen sensing and extra storage (32 gigabytes for the Professional).
Each fashions supply the entire normal coaching, restoration and sleep monitoring options frequent to most operating watches, and you should use them to trace your cross coaching in as much as 28 completely different sports activities.
To obtain the firmware replace, click on right here.
See the Could & June 2023 problems with Canadian Operating for a overview of the Coros Apex 2 Professional.
