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GPS watch with voice recorder?

  • 06-06-2017 12:35AM
    #1
    axe2grind
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 551 ✭✭✭


    Currently have FR220, but want to upgrade to watch with voice recorder capability.
    Any suggestions?


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  • #2
    Krusty_Clown
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,551 ✭✭✭✭Krusty_Clown


    Not sure if that would technically be described as an upgrade, but realistically, you'd be looking at a smart watch rather than a dedicated GPS watch, so while it will do voice recording 100% better than dedicated activity GPS watches (I'm assuming), it will likely not do as good a job in terms of activity tracking.

    You might be better off having a separate wrist-based device for audio recording, as in theory, they'll both do a much better job than a combined device.


  • #3
    axe2grind
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 551 ✭✭✭axe2grind


    Appreciate the reply Krusty and had reluctantly reached similar conclusion. An ideal spec for me would be to have the voice recording GPS stamped. I could probably tolerate time stamped and cross reference with GPS track, but this is probably too cumbersome for me to stick with.
    Going to start looking at smart watches as I know nothing about them and see if I can tolerate the 'downgrade' and also see if any can gps stamp voice recording but I assume this is app based rather than watch based.


  • #4
    Krusty_Clown
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,551 ✭✭✭✭Krusty_Clown


    That requirement is a little more complex, as I don't imagine there's a wide variety of sound recording apps that offer geolocation tagging and your best bet would be a mobile phone app. Really unlikely that you'd get a smart watch app that could handle that type of requirement (or that has been built to service that need). Some results from google that may be helpful.


  • #5
    BeepBeep67
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,125 ✭✭✭BeepBeep67


    Krusty_Clown wrote: »
    That requirement is a little more complex, as I don't imagine there's a wide variety of sound recording apps that offer geolocation tagging and your best bet would be a mobile phone app. Really unlikely that you'd get a smart watch app that could handle that type of requirement (or that has been built to service that need). Some results from google that may be helpful.

    I believe you trialed one of these yesterday :pac:


  • #6
    Krusty_Clown
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,551 ✭✭✭✭Krusty_Clown


    BeepBeep67 wrote: »
    I believe you trialed one of these yesterday :pac:
    Buggy... :)


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