Polar launches 2 new GPS Watches: Vantage V and Vantage M

After teasing this launch for a while, Polar has finally announced today the launch of its two new GPS running (and triathlong) watches: the Vantage M and Vantage V.
The Vantage V is the higher-end of these watches, retailing for $549, while the Vantage M is the mid-range option retailing for $279.
Both watches come with Polar’s brand new “Polar Precision Prime” wrist heart rate monitor, which combines optical heart rate measurement with skin contact measurement in order to rule out any motion artifacts that might disturb the heart rate signal and produce unreliable readings.
Since I have been training with the Polar M600 I was waiting for Polar to release something new.
These are the main unique points of the Vantage V:
The cheaper Vantage M has these differences:
The news of this release is very new – so we don’t have much information at our disposal right now. We are definitely buying them both and putting them through the paces for a while (we are testing/reviewing a LOT of GPS watches lately, stay tuned…).
Keep following us for the full review on these two units!