Coros Apex

PRICE: £269.99 | amazon.co.uk

here is the THE STANDOUT FEATURE battery life – from a full charge, and with typical use, it was 24 days before the Apex needed its first recharge. Navigating through menus both at rest and on the run is done by a ‘digital crown’, a scroll wheel/button at the two o’clock position. It works well, but it’s a tad oversensitive.

The mobile app is the hub of most data-storage activity and works fine, exporting quickly to Strava, too. However, there is currently no desktop site and the app doesn’t really let you track long-term training trends. There are multiple sports modes (eg indoor and trail runs), as you would expect for the price.

As with other Coros watches we tested, the screen is not particularly readable on the run. We had to bring the watch close to our face to read data while on the move.

Setting up the watch is timeconsuming, the wrist-based heart-rate monitor readings weren’t accurate compared with a chest strap and the auto-pause feature is slow to react – sometimes taking up to 10 seconds to stop when we halted at a road crossing.

This offers a lot of features for a very competitive price, but is let down by some rougharound-the-edges functionality.