Soleus software 2.0

As you can see, the Soleus 1. The only difference is the printing on the watch bezel. Taking that a step further, the only difference between the Timex Marathon GPS and the Soleus units is the band form factor and buttons. Functionally and software-wise, all three watches are the same watch with different paint jobs. Taking a closer look at the Soleus 2.

Additionally, the warning about water sports. The unit allows you to configure gender, weight, and age. The primary reason for this is to assist in basic calorie calculations. Typically it finds satellites in less than 30 seconds. As you run, the unit will display your current time up top, and your time, distance and pace. You can swap between pace and speed by pressing the left button. In addition to total time and distance, as well as the current pace — you can set and mark laps.

You can do this manually by pressing the lap button, or automatically by using the Auto Lap feature. This function will automatically create a lap for you at a set interval. I use this on long runs, since I like to see how pace fluctuates afterwards in mile-by-mile chunks. You can customize the length of the auto-lap setting to fit your needs, and this is available across both kilometers or miles.

As you hit each lap, a lap display will tell you how far the lap was, and your current time for that lap. The problem with the timer mode is that all it really does is create a bunch of timers.

By pressing the right side navigation buttons you can iterate through some of the different data views. One item of note that covers both Soleus watches is that it incorrectly processes stopped time into the average pace. Since the watch supports stopping and resuming, it should also correctly process average paces.

While the watch is definitely running focused, it can easily switch into a pseudo-cycling mode. This past weekend, I took it for a mountain bike ride and was happy to see that the unit recorded very close to the same distance as the Suunto Ambit — despite plenty of sharp turns and switchbacks. You can swap back and forth as you see fit. In the photos above, I simply wore it on my wrist, but you can also get a cheap bike watch mount. In addition to sporting activities, the watch is small enough to use as a regular day watch.

The watch will display time zone, day of week, date, and time on the watch face by default. The unit includes a backlight that displays for 12 seconds upon pressing the upper left button. The time the backlight displays is not configurable, though, the contrast is. Meaning, you can adjust the darkness of the text, but not the brightness of the screen overall, or how long the light displays for.

The unit notes a 8hr battery life. For example, I had the Soleus 1. Overall from a battery standpoint the unit is inline with other slimmer units in the competitive landscape. Given the singular reason to buy the Soleus 2. The software is downloaded free from the Soleus 2. Those additional prongs allow data download. Launching it as a regular user will eventually cause the application to crash elsewhere.

This will in turn bring you to the below menu. At first glance you may want for something else to happen. The screen is as bright and white and blank as a newly fallen snowfield. Note, that both the Enter button and Download button often take clicks, usually not right on the text themselves, but in the general vicinity, to get to work.

Eventually, they usually do open up. I generally just leave the data on the watch until I need it cleared out. Sorta like a backup plan. At this point, your brought to the below screen. So to the data tab we go:. In the middle you have a pace graph of your run. The lines are simply displayed for the fun of it. I like it though.

I did like that it notes whether a lap is done automatically or manually. Note my lap 8 below. Along the side it notes your totals and averages. So these are both for imaginary benefit. This page shows you a map of where you went during the run. With the remainder of the time spent between crashing and not finding the internet even when connected to the internet.

It allows you to configure all of the options on the watch, in the software itself. The next two tabs center around deleting data. It allows you to backup everything into a. DAT file. This is useful if you want to move between computers.

Then we have the most useful tab in the entire suite. This tab spits out a. On the bright side, when you try and import into MapMyRun — that does indeed work. A free account works fine. After a short bit of thinking, MapMyRun will come back to you with the final results. Further, they in turn have partner sites that allow you to move data around to other services and platforms like your phone app.

When you click on this, you receive the following single modal dialog box:. In summary, the native Soleus software is horrible.

They were likely just writing on basic specs that allowed them to market the underlying watch to companies like Soleus and Timex , which in turn rebrand it under their own names.

Here, a gallery full of unique crashes — each their own unique snowflake:. Some models like the Soleus 1. At the end of the day, the very reason they created the 2. Or it could be a partnership with TrainingPeaks. Or just someone else. Really, anyone else. Further, the watch would have to be reduced in price. The Timex Run Trainer waffles in the same territory as well — again, bounds of functionality and stability.

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I have the Soleus 1. Thanks again for the depth and breadth of your reviews. They took the old watch, cut some holes for the pc connectivity, threw in some generic software and increased the price. With version 3. If only I researched online first. Thanks for great review! What really impresses the most is honesty and lack of bias towards the manufacturers who produce crap and you say it outload.

Keep up the great work! I would first like to thank you for all of your help in making my decision on my first GPS watch. All of your reviews have been very helpful. This will be my first race and I am so excited.

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Backpack Size. Sleeping Bag Size. Soleus offers a new way to develop feature phones, allowing network operators and mobile phone manufacturers complete flexibility to build phones and customize them for target customer segments. At the heart of Soleus is a rich set of built-in feature phone applications including calendar, camera, contacts, dialer, file manager, media player and phone settings that can be quickly tailored to reduce time to market of the end product. In addition to these built-in applications, Intrinsyc partners with a select set of third-party independent software vendors that build best-of-breed mobile phone applications, to optimize them for use in Soleus-based phones.

This allows Soleus licensees to evaluate the technology, test it for use with their in-house technologies and ultimately use it in a phone handset. It includes a powerful message composer and viewer capable of handling all standard mobile phone multimedia formats. Since Soleus is built on the Windows CE operating system and uses the Microsoft Visual Studio tool chain just like Windows Mobile, mobile application developers can target both the smartphone and feature phone market segments with minimal incremental effort and substantially increase their market opportunity.

We look forward to working with Intrinsyc and incorporating our browsing and MMS technology in future Soleus-based phones. The company is privately owned and was founded in by Mikael Krogius who currently is the CEO of the company. Intrinsyc is a mobility software and services company.