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It\u2019s been more than five years since Polar updated their base Grit X watch<\/a> (April 2020). Sure, they launched the Grit X2 Pro<\/a> watch about a year ago, but that was designed to be the top-end replacement for the Grit X Pro that came out in October 2021. Unfortunately, that new Grit X2 Pro, was horrifically overpriced.<\/p>\n Thankfully, the new base Grit X2 is not overpriced. Rather, Polar has kept pricing quite reasonable, at 479EUR. In fact, one might even argue they saw the anger at increasing Garmin smartwatch prices and decided to pull a trick from their 2010\u2019s playbook: Undercutting the competition on price. Albeit, they are delaying the US launch, perhaps to avoid a price fumble.<\/p>\n Nonetheless, what\u2019s even better? It\u2019s got identical software features to the Grit X2 Pro. Actually, it does one better, it has more features than the Grit X2 Pro, containing new features from the latest Polar OS 4.0, that\u2019ll come shortly to the Grit X2 Pro as well. Instead, the only differences are hardware-based, primarily around materials and battery life. Still, we\u2019ll need to chat about Polar\u2019s supposed Polar OS 4.0<\/p>\n And that brings us to the bigger question: At this more reasonable price point, is the Polar Grit X2 competitive with the rest of the endurance watch landscape? And then beyond that, do those features work well? For that, I\u2019ve been putting it through its paces. So let\u2019s dig in.<\/p>\n As usual, this watch is a media loaner, and it\u2019ll go back to Polar. After which, I\u2019ll go out and get my own for any future testing needs. If you found this review useful, you can use the links at the bottom, or consider becoming a DCR Supporter,<\/a> which makes the site ad-free, while also getting access to behind-the-scenes video goodness. And of course, it makes you awesome.<\/p>\n With that, let\u2019s get into it!<\/p>\n What\u2019s New:<\/strong><\/p>\n Comparing to a watch from 5 years ago is always kinda tricky, because sure, there are big ticket and easy to identify changes. But there\u2019s also a gazillion little changes. Some of these little changes are forgettable, but some of them probably do matter to someone. After all, the most successful companies in this segment make their wares by making lots of 1% features (features that might only be used by 1% of the users, but are super important to that person, driving them to that product, and in turn, everyone has their own 1% feature, even if they don\u2019t realize it).<\/p>\n In any case, here\u2019s the big ticket changes compared to the Polar Grit X (aka X1, non-Pro):<\/p>\n \u2013 Changed to 1.28\u201d AMOLED display Note that Polar is slowly starting to adopt new naming for their OS platform. Over the last few years, they\u2019ve used it in less obvious ways, but now, they\u2019re starting to call it more prominently, saying \u201cPolar OS 4.0\u201d. That\u2019s because the updates that Polar pushed out to the Polar Vantage M3 on Monday is Polar OS 4.1<\/a>, and contains various new features.<\/p>\n Well, sorta.<\/p>\n As in, Polar OS 4.0 is simply Polar OS 3.0, seemingly renamed. After all, when I turn the way-back machine to January<\/a>, this is almost identically the same feature list promised then under so-called firmware version 3.0\u2026now\u2026just\u2026renamed 4.0.<\/p>\n In any event, Polar OS 4.0 will also come to the Polar Vantage V3 and Grit X2 Pro in Q3 2025 (aka, very shortly). It\u2019s of course already on the Polar Grit X2. The official listed features which Polar OS 4.0 brings are the following, though many of these were previously launched at 3.0 features (I\u2019ve put a * next to the ones that are legit new 4.0 features):<\/p>\n \u2013 Added Points of interest to maps (e.g., shelters, grocery stores, cafes, etc\u2026) Finally, in terms of how the Grit X2 compares to the Grit X2 Pro, the differences are as follows (chart from Polar):<\/p>\n Basically, as you can see, it essentially boils down to material differences, display size, waterproofing, and battery. That\u2019s it!<\/p>\n Phew, got all that? Good, let\u2019s unbox it.<\/p>\n In the Box:<\/strong><\/p>\n I like easy sections, and this\u2026this is definitely an easy section. Above, the box it comes in.<\/p>\n Below, the box once deboxed:<\/p>\n Inside you\u2019ve got four things:<\/p>\n 1) The watch Here\u2019s a closer look at things:<\/p>\n And the band as well:<\/p>\n This is the same charging connector used on other recent Polar watches, and now with the USB-C on the other end (as Polar has been doing for a year or two now).<\/p>\n With that, let\u2019s dive into things.<\/p>\n The Basics:<\/strong><\/p>\n In this section, I\u2019ll cover all the day-to-day basics of the Grit X2. This includes things like the hardware basics, watch faces, widgets\/dashboards, smartwatch features, daily activity & sleep tracking, and more. Whereas in the other sections, I\u2019ll cover sports and related usage.<\/p>\n Starting with the hardware, the Grit X2 has five dedicated buttons, plus the AMOLED touchscreen. While the touchscreen largely works fine, I just find buttons faster (on virtually all sports watches), and thus tend to use those for getting around the menus. I do appreciate that the buttons have a nice grippy texture to them as well.<\/p>\n Note that for sports in water (such as swimming), the touchscreen is disabled. I haven\u2019t had too much of a usability issue with sweat and rain on the screen (not perfect like most watches, but mostly fine), though again, I tend to use buttons the majority of time during workouts especially.<\/p>\n In terms of the AMOLED display and visibility, I had no issues seeing it, especially during the now bright summer sun of the Mediterranean. It\u2019s easy to see in both night conditions and bright daylight conditions.<\/p>\n Interestingly, I did stumble into a condition the display was virtually unreadable, which is when the battery gets below 8% during a workout. Polar will *dramatically* reduce brightness, to the point that even covering the watch with your hand makes it only *barely* visible. But, in talking with Polar, what they do actually makes a ton of sense. This is a last-ditch effort by the watch to try and eke out just enough battery for you to finish your workout. By effectively shutting off the display, they save a ton of battery. It\u2019s actually super logical, and other companies do variants of this.<\/p>\n Speaking of backlight, with that AMOLED backlight, they can make a flashlight which you can access by swiping down from the top:<\/p>\n Sure, it\u2019s not a dedicated LED flashlight like you see on Garmin watches, but it\u2019s still bright AF and better than nothing.<\/p>\n Note that like most AMOLED-dispaly watches, there are two core modes: Gesture-based backlight, and always-on. In the case of gesture-based, the display will turn on when you raise your wrist. And in the case of always-on, the display is in a dimmed state, and then turns to full brightness as you raise your wrist. Below, you can see the dimmed state clock, before it would be full brightness when raised.<\/p>\n I used it initially in gesture-based mode for a day or so, and then switched to my preference of always-on. As with the past, gesture recognition on Polar watches is OK, but not great. Specifically, it\u2019s both a touch bit slow to fully illuminate, seeming to wait until it\u2019s really sure that your wrist is going up, versus getting ahead of the game.<\/p>\n When it comes to watch faces, you\u2019ve got a couple of different ones to choose from, but there isn\u2019t any sort of Polar watch face store, or deeply customizable watch faces (e.g. with your pictures\/photos\/etc\u2026). It\u2019s more about tweaking the data on the stock ones.<\/p>\n Instead, you\u2019re more likely to scroll through the dashboard widgets for all your data. You do this by pressing the lower right button, or swiping. This will show a high-level category page first, and then you can tap into that category for more details. For example, there are categories for Activity, Nightly Recharge, Skin Temp, Workouts, and more.<\/p>\n In the case of sleep, Polar breaks this into a few different dashboard pages. As I\u2019ve argued in past reviews, I think Polar really needs to think about how they display their sleep data. Polar has a *TON* of metrics here, and the core metrics are really good. But it\u2019s all over the place in an assortment of dashboard pages, like spaghetti onto the wall. There\u2019s Nightly Recharge with ANS Charge & Sleep Charge, and then Boost From Sleep, and then Sleep Gate, and Sleep Score, and Continuity, and HRV and Sleep Structure, and so on.<\/p>\n And while many of their competitors have varying metrics too, the user interface structure is far simpler, allowing people to go from the basics to more complex data. In Polar\u2019s case, there\u2019s really almost no order to the data (as if someone ran into a conference room, tripped, and reams of paper with your sleep metrics flew out and splashed across the table in random order).<\/p>\n On the bright side, with the Grit X2, I\u2019ve found all of the time I fell asleep\/woke up data correct, having no problems with correctly tracking going back to sleep in the middle of the night. In my previous Polar Grit X2 Pro review, I went down a big-ole rabbit hole of sleep data comparison. This is the same sensor\/algorithms\/etc from Polar, just in a less expensive watch body. Check that out here<\/a>.<\/p>\n In any case, as you\u2019d expect, all of this data is concurrently synced to the Polar Flow smartphone app (iOS\/Android), and then onwards to the Polar Flow web platform. You can see your stats within the app or via browser on their desktop site:<\/p>\n When it comes to smartphone notifications, you\u2019ll get basic notifications on your watch, just like most other watches. There isn\u2019t a way to answer any texts on your watch, though in the case of iOS, that\u2019s more a limitation imposed by Apple \u2013 likely why Polar hasn\u2019t bothered pursuing that avenue.<\/p>\n Meanwhile, for music, there\u2019s no music storage\/playback on the Grit X2. While it does have 32GB of storage space for maps, Polar hasn\u2019t implemented any sort of offline music\/playback functionality. That makes sense, given there\u2019s zero chance Polar would get Spotify\/etc offline music access, and relatively limited demand for manual copying and offline playback of MP3\/etc files in 2025. That said, Polar can control music on your smartphone. Technically, it\u2019ll control any media your smartphone is playing, so that can be music, podcasts, or anything else that shows up in your media controls on your phone.<\/p>\n Oh, and as for contactless payments (NFC), Polar lacks any native\/built-in watch features. Those payment company walls are well established, and at this point there\u2019s unfortunately no real business path forward for a company of Polar\u2019s size to get payments on their devices (short of going to WearOS). That said, Polar did semi-recently announce a partnership with Fidesmo<\/a>, which lets you pay with special watch straps\/bands that have NFC chips in them, and are compatible with Polar watches. This is ok-ish, but due to various regulations, you can only do a certain amount of transactions before you have to have a phone\/computer to re-authorize the band, because there\u2019s no security PIN built into the band itself.<\/p>\n Sports Tracking & Maps:<\/strong><\/p>\n In most cases, if you\u2019re buying a Polar watch, you\u2019re likely doing it for sporty reasons. Thus, in this section, I\u2019ll cover all the sporting aspects of it. Note that because it\u2019s the same exact software as the Polar Vantage M3, V3, and Grit X2 Pro, I\u2019m going to go a little bit lighter on the mapping pieces (in terms of all the nuances to loading maps\/etc\u2026), since I\u2019ve already written about this in those reviews<\/a>. It\u2019s identical. Still, I\u2019ll cover how it works and some of the gotchas of the new turn-by-turn option for Strava routes.<\/p>\n So starting off with doing a sport, you\u2019ll tap the lower left button and choose training (you can also long-hold the middle right button too). That\u2019ll bring you here:<\/p>\n You can choose which sport mode you want here, though this list is customizable on Polar Flow (smartphone or desktop). That\u2019s where you\u2019ll choose which sports are on the watch, and all of the settings for each sport mode. This can be data pages, data fields, options etc\u2026<\/p>\n Once you\u2019ve selected a sport mode on the watch, you\u2019ll see the newly revamped start screen within Polar OS 4.0. \u2013 obviously, it\u2019s not a massive difference, but a difference nonetheless.<\/p>\n I will note that I have noticed a bug on this new screen where sometimes there\u2019s an exceptionally long wait\/pause before it actually started the activity. Other times it\u2019s perfectly fine. I haven\u2019t figured out the pattern.<\/p>\n In any event, you can tap settings to do things like set up a structured workout, change display settings, add timers, and select a route. More on routing & navigation in a moment. With everything sorted, we\u2019ll hit the start button and off we go. At this point you\u2019ll get the metrics based on whatever you configured in the settings for that particular sport profile.<\/p>\n I had no issues with screen display visibility during the workout, and no issues with metrics or usability during any of my swims\/rides\/runs. Speaking of seeing things, if you\u2019ve got a route loaded, you\u2019ll see your upcoming elevation<\/p>\n After the workout, you\u2019ll get summary stats that you can sift through:<\/p>\n And then all of this is also synced up to Polar Flow as well, for deeper digging on the Polar Flow smartphone app, or Polar Flow site:<\/p>\n In terms of navigation, the Grit X2 comes with preloaded North America & Europe maps, at the \u2018basic\u2019 map level. Polar has two levels of maps, \u2018Basic\u2019 and \u2018Detailed\u2019. The basic ones take up far less space, but have less details, and lack POI. Whereas the more detailed ones\u2026well\u2026have all of that. You can easily download (for free) the more detailed ones from Polar\u2019s site for your specific country\/region, which is what I did:<\/p>\n They just copy to the Polar Grit X like copying to a USB drive.<\/p>\n With the maps all set, we\u2019ll go back and load up a route. In my case, I made a Strava Route, which synced to my Polar account. Note that you don\u2019t have to have a route to see maps, nor do you have to use Strava. You can import GPX files directly into Polar\u2019s site, or use Komoot. The option to load a route is located within the sport settings when you go to select a sport to do.<\/p>\n Once you\u2019ve got the route loaded, and the activity started, you\u2019ll need to *separately* also enable turn-by-turn directions for Strava & GPX routes specifically (for Komoot you don\u2019t have to enable it). You do this after you press start, by going back into the settings and enabling it:<\/p>\n Honestly, this is silly. Well beyond silly. Who on earth chooses to select a route, but not actually want to be told when the route turns are coming? And if that person exists, I promise you, they are less than the number of people who want the turn-by-turn (TBT) setting enabled by default. I\u2019ve never seen a watch that requires you to do a secondary enablement of the TBT feature after already selecting to enable a route.<\/p>\n In any event, once that\u2019s selected, you\u2019ll get turn notifications for the route as you go along:<\/p>\n Plus of course, you\u2019ll see your place on the route as you go along, including distance to finish.<\/p>\n In the event you go off course, you\u2019ll get a notification that you\u2019re off-course, and it\u2019s on you to get back on course. It doesn\u2019t do dynamic re-routing on the fly. But in most cases that\u2019s fine, you can usually pretty easily backtrack.<\/p>\n Now, one new thing here with Polar OS 3.1\/4.0 is being able to populate a list of them from the map, sorted by categories. Here\u2019s an example of one near the route:<\/p>\n Ultimately, I do like Polar\u2019s map layer\/styling, and it makes it pretty darn easy to see where I am in relation to other things nearby. It\u2019s not quite as detailed as some of their competitors (e.g., fancy relief shading, heat maps, etc\u2026), but it is perfectly fine to get me where I need to be.<\/p>\n Heart Rate & GPS Accuracy:<\/strong><\/p>\n Next up, let\u2019s take a look at the GPS & heart rate accuracy of the Polar Grit X2. While the Grit X2 contains the same GPS chipset as the Grit X2 Pro, the reality is that with different bezel materials\/design, all bets are off in terms of assuming it\u2019s going to perform the same way. Likewise, while the optical HR sensor is the same as the Polar Grit X2 Pro, Polar has continued to substantially tweak their algorithms over the past few years, and I see wildly different results each review. So, I wanted to certainly look at both.<\/p>\n We\u2019ll start off with an easier trail run, then some longer intervals, then some shorter intervals, plus some rides. Oh, and a swim.<\/p>\n Starting off with the easier trail run<\/a>, while this has some short and steep ups and downs, the workout goal for the day was \u2018chill\u2019, thus, nothing too crazy here.<\/p>\n And as you can see, all was good there.<\/p>\n Looking at the GPS track here, starting with the super wide look at things, no obvious issues.<\/p>\n So, then picking a section in the trees, again, looks solid (as I\u2019d expect based on past history).<\/p>\n In looking at the rest of this run, there were no concerns in terms of GPS on the rest of the route, it was spot on.<\/p>\n So, looking at another run, this time some longer sets. These weren\u2019t super intense, as they were just off an indoor ride, but, as you can see, spot on:<\/p>\n Likewise, for the GPS side of things, this was a relatively open route, that we did back and forth, and no issues here:<\/p>\n Lastly on the running side, we\u2019ve got these 400m repeats<\/a>. Simply put, Polar heavily struggled here. Like, epically struggled. It basically missed every single interval, either in whole or in part.<\/p>\n I\u2019m legit surprised. It was worn properly\/snuggly, it was a warmish day, and had plenty long warm-up (though, it failed there too in the first 4 minutes). This should have been a relative cake walk. These weren\u2019t super hard 400\u2019s, but eased into each of them, and hardly crazy fast (e.g. like doing 200\u2019s).<\/p>\n I suppose on the bright side, at least the (also easy) GPS track accuracy was good. This was simply doing loops on relatively open-sky roads.<\/p>\n Ok, so let\u2019s look at an indoor cycling workout real quick, then an outdoor one. First, the indoor one<\/a>:<\/p>\n As you can see, overall pretty good. Except, it entirely missed the hard sprint at the end. And then the half-hearted surge in the middle, it missed that too, briefly.<\/p>\n Next, moving outside<\/a>. Thankfully, it did much better here, apparently trading the doghouse to the HRM-600, which is oddly showing a whole bunch of drops (could be an Edge 1050 issue, gotta dig deeper and grab my data sets from the Wahoo ROAM 3, to see if it also shows the dropouts). In any case, the Polar did mostly solid here, minus only a handful of points where it was offset (mostly descents, though one sprint it seemed to have missed).<\/p>\n As for GPS, at a high level, it looks good:<\/p>\n And then zooming all the way down into some of the mountain switchback sections, it too looks perfect, zero issues.<\/p>\n So finally, let\u2019s head out for an openwater swim:<\/p>\n And that\u2019s where things went poorly. When I finished the swim, the Polar was well over 3,100m (on a swim that was only about 1,900m). Once back and looking at the GPS track, before even doing the comparison set, you can see why. It apparently thought this was a swim-run event:<\/p>\n And here\u2019s the comparison track, with the Forerunner 970 on the other wrist, and then a reference GPS on the swim buoy. Ouch.<\/p>\n At least if we set aside the swim track, all is well on land. But at this point, without further successes, I\u2019d avoid it if I were a triathlete. On the heart rate side, it seems to struggle with short-bursty type intervals, be it running or riding. I\u2019m perplexed as to why it failed so badly on the 400\u2019s. Yet, it wasn\u2019t just a single one-off interval, it gave up on life on every single interval during that run.<\/p>\n Wrap-Up:<\/strong><\/p>\n The Polar Grit X2, and with it, Polar OS 4.0, seems to imply some changes in thinking at Polar. Starting off with the Grit X2 and pricing, Polar has kept the pricing relatively reasonable, only a 50EUR bump since the Grit X1 launched 5 years ago. In a time when some companies are substantially raising prices, Polar\u2019s increase here is quite modest. Even excluding competitors, that\u2019s quite notable in light of Polar\u2019s own price fumble last year with the Grit X2 Pro, launching with a complete non-starter of a price.<\/p>\n However, at first glance, I was intrigued by Polar OS 4.0, or at least the concept of it. But as I quickly realized, it was almost entirely Polar OS 3.0\u2019s promised features; it feels like someone moved the cheese. Yes, Polar did add a few smaller things to the list of 3.0 features, but at the same time, I\u2019d have thought we\u2019d see substantial movement forward on new features. After all, again, the whole point of the consolidated OS was getting new features out to all watches, and theoretically all watches at the same time. At this point, they only just delivered the new then 3.0 features for the Vantage M3 two days ago (now relabeled 4.0 features), that were announced the first week of January.<\/p>\n And perhaps this re-orientation just takes time. And to Polar\u2019s credit, I think they are doing a good job at offering various hardware options at different price points, namely for those who want different material options. \u00a0Setting the lack of wider platform new features aside, the Polar Grit X2 in particular does do a good job at delivering a fair bit of value at this price point, especially as their competitors\u2019 prices continue to rise (substantially).<\/p>\n It\u2019ll be interesting times ahead to see if Polar can launch this product in the US, and then more curiously, how we might see COROS and other more-direct competitors launch products under the current pricing pressures.<\/p>\n With that \u2013 thanks for reading!<\/p>\n FOUND THIS POST USEFUL? 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\u2013 Increased to have 810H durability mil spec
\u2013 Upgraded to sapphire crystal lens
\u2013 Increased processor speed by 129% vs GRIT X1 (275 MHz processor)
\u2013 Added dual-frequency\/multiband GNSS\/GPS
\u2013 Redesigned GNSS\/GPS antenna
\u2013 Increased storage to 32GB (mainly for maps)
\u2013 Includes North America & Europe maps downloaded (and free downloadable maps for everywhere else)
\u2013 Changed Polar charging cable to USB-C (still magnetic on watch side)
\u2013 Added historical track\/route on navigation map (previously only showed planned route)
\u2013 Added Vertical Speed and VAM (Average Ascent Speed)
\u2013 Added 3D speed (how it calculates speed in steep situations)
\u2013 Upgraded to Polar\u2019s 4th Gen optical heart rate sensor + ELIXIR (same as Vantage V3\/Grit X2 Pro)
\u2013 Added heart rate ECG functionality (Note: Does not include Afib detection)
\u2013 Added nightly skin temperature
\u2013 Added skin temperature tracking feature and baseline\/guidance
\u2013 Added optical heart rate backdated error correction feature (fixes bad HR data in real-time)
\u2013 Added new watch faces
\u2013 Added virtual flashlight (display-based)
\u2013 Waterproofing spec reduced from 100m to 50m
\u2013 Battery life decreases from 40hrs to 30hrs in GPS training mode, and from 100hrs to 90hrs in eco mode.
\u2013 Price increases from 429EUR to 479EUR, US launch planned for \u201clater\u201d (likely due to the watch being manufactured in China)<\/p>\n
\u2013 Added Find My Phone
\u2013 New watch faces and widgets
\u2013 New internal notifications (e.g., upcoming training sessions, leaving phone behind, etc\u2026)
\u2013 New Post workout route overview\/summary
\u2013 New Swimming styles in workout summary
\u2013 Revamped training start menu
\u2013 Revamped cardio load status
\u2013 *Added PIN code option
\u2013 *Added Turn-by-turn guidance for all route types (Komoot & Strava too, albeit manually enabling it for Strava)
\u2013 Added New Heart Rate Broadcasting settings
\u2013 *Adding sleep phases\/stages graph on watch
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