Sense 2 manual

[Guy_]

No manual has been released yet so it's difficult to see the features and the accessories such as the charge cable to see if it has been fixed.

[t.parker]

I'm also waiting for the manual to be released and more information about watch. So far, the release is very "generic" and made to tell as little as possible. I was hoping to find out more from the manual.

[N8teGee]

If past experience is anything to go by, we'll be waiting some time for the user manual. I'm more interested in seeing some early reviews from the likes of DC Rainmaker to see if the important things have been fixed. 

[t.parker]

@N8teGee and by past experience I don't expect the manual to answer too many questions. My main focus is sports tracking and can't get Fitbit (in social media) to give me a simple answer whether there are any improvements in that area (or even whether the new 20 sports are just new labels without their own sport-specific metric). Not even a full list of new modes. Just getting canned responses and no concretes. Considering that it's possible to pre-order the new watches now all the information should be out there.

[LZeeW]

@t.parker   This page is from The Keyword, Google's blog.  It mentions HIIT, CrossFit and dance.  It doesn't give the rest of the list.  Not what you were hoping for, but all I have.

[t.parker]

@LZeeW this I also got from Fitbit representative + (wait for it..) indoor rowing!!! After so many years of waiting users will be able to track indoor rowing (although not users of previous models, that Fitbit confirmed to me, too). Yet still, that's not what I am after. I wanted to know whether Sense 2 could be a milestone in sports tracking that jumps way ahead of previous devices but I expect that this is going to be nothing more but a bunch of new labels.

Here's response I received:

 

[LZeeW]

@t.parker   Just out of interest, what's your dream shortcut that's been missing all these years?

[t.parker]

@LZeeW I don't have one unless they do support sport specific metrics (labels don't really matter to me). But if we get there I have a list of what I log on regular basis (my major sports)

- cycling with variants (road, gravel, indoor/virtual with specifying the equipment used like bikes, sensors)

- trail running (kind of run that usually runners don't want it to contribute to VO2Max)

- bouldering (counting problem attempts and grades)

- rock climbing (counting route attempts and grades)

- structured workouts - not type on its own but rather option to be used with other workouts to add structure into them, most of my indoor cycling is based onstructured intervals.

It's not about label but what comes with that label 🙂