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Tickr X: best heart rate monitor and bonus for runners
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Tickr X: best heart rate monitor and bonus for runners

TICKRx heart rate strap and Wahoo Fitness app

It may be a bold statement to say that Wahoo's Tickr X heart rate monitor transmitter is the best I've ever tried in the past 15 years, but this is no ordinary workout strap. It has onboard memory, an advanced accelerometer for not only counting steps, but also evaluating running smoothness and more. Plus, it's waterproof and can be used for swimming.

Typical heart rate monitors are dumb. That is, they transmit your heart rate to a watch or your phone, but that's all. Workout data is saved to the receiving device (watch or phone). The Tickr X has onboard memory. This means that you can wear the strap while you workout and sync it to your phone later to track your stats.

A fitness tracker and heart rate strap all-in-one

Actually Tickr X can be considered a combo fitness tracker and heart rate monitor. As I do hot yoga no less than 4 days a week, I want to track my calories burned and heart rate. Fitness trackers that are worn on the wrist get in the way for some poses (and have yet to be accurate as they minimize calories burned because…

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Deal alert: Samsung Galaxy Tab 3 LTE and Galaxy Alpha on the cheap via eBay

Face it, $400 isn't a lot of money to score new mobile gear with, even in the age of ultra-low-cost Chinese flagships, Moto Es and Gs. If you hurry though, you can use it to buy not one, but two above-average LTE-capable Androids, and you'll still have enough change to accessorize both gadgets.

The catch? You'll need to trust eBay seller mobilepros1, which shouldn't be hard, since it holds a stellar 97.3 percent positive feedback…

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LG G4 benchmark hints at dubious hexa-core Snapdragon 808 endowment

Well, this is odd. Check that, it's outright befuddling. An otherwise reputable and usually dependable benchmarking authority currently lists an unreleased, unannounced but hotly anticipated LG G4 as packing a hexa-core 1.8 GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 808 CPU paired with an Adreno 418 GPU.