{"id":353974,"date":"2026-03-29T17:45:17","date_gmt":"2026-03-29T17:45:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/353974\/"},"modified":"2026-03-29T17:45:17","modified_gmt":"2026-03-29T17:45:17","slug":"polars-cheaper-street-x-smartwatch-is-here-to-steal-away-garmin-users","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/353974\/","title":{"rendered":"Polar’s Cheaper Street X Smartwatch Is Here to Steal Away Garmin Users"},"content":{"rendered":"

With the Loop, Polar took on Whoop<\/a> by basically offering a similar screenless fitness band with one big selling point: no monthly subscription. Now it has Garmin in its sights. The company just announced the Street X, a fitness-focused smartwatch that combines features from Garmin watches like the Vivoactive 6 and Fenix 8<\/a>, though at a slightly lower price point than previous Polar smartwatch offerings.<\/p>\n

The $250 Street X is an \u201curban-ready smartwatch\u201d that comes with pretty much every feature you\u2019d expect in a fitness watch in 2026, including sleep tracking (it detects sleep duration, quality, and stages). It can also monitor recovery periods using metrics like nighttime heart rate, heart rate variability, autonomic nervous system activity, and skin temperature.<\/p>\n

Polar\u2019s newest smartwatch supports 170 different sports and activity types, including strength training, running, HIIT, and cycling, as well as calisthenics, and comes with GPS, an optical heart rate monitor, and goal-tracking features like \u201cTraining Load Pro,\u201d which helps you gauge when to train and when to focus on recovery.<\/p>\n

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Hardware-wise, the Street X has a 1.28-inch AMOLED touchscreen with Gorilla Glass 3 and weighs 48g. Polar<\/a> says the watch has up to 10 days of battery life if you\u2019re just using it as a standard smartwatch. For training, Polar says the Street X gets 43 hours when continuous GPS and optical heart rate tracking are turned on, though it also says you can get up to 170 hours depending on which power-saving settings you have turned on.<\/p>\n

Polar is positioning the Street X as being able to handle the \u201cdemands of city life,\u201d including \u201cdaily knocks and bumps to crowded commutes and life on the move.\u201d To that end, the Street X has a polymer body and an \u201ceight\u2011screw chassis\u201d and reaches the military standard MIL\u2011STD\u2011810H, meaning it can withstand harsh conditions, including shocks, extreme temperatures, humidity, and dust. It\u2019s also water\u2011resistant with a WR50 rating, meaning it can withstand a 50-meter depth\u2014no deep-sea diving here.<\/p>\n

\"Polar\u00a9 Polar <\/p>\n

While price-wise, the Street X compares to Garmin\u2019s Vivoactive 6, in its ruggedness, it goes toe-to-toe with more expensive Garmin watches like the $999 (starting) Fenix 8, which is also MIL-STD-810 and has some of the same features, including a flashlight, which is a Polar first on the Street X. The Street X is also significantly less expensive than previous Polar smartwatches like the Vantage M<\/a>, which starts at $499, and does not have a paywall for any of its features.<\/p>\n

If you\u2019re into Polar\u2019s mix of urban and rugged, the Street X is available today and comes in black and \u201csnow white.\u201d Other color options, like forest green, will be available in a \u201climited batch\u201d from polar.com, though more availability is expected in Q2.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With the Loop, Polar took on Whoop by basically offering a similar screenless fitness band with one big…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":353975,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[356,1799,111,139,69,78383,8664,145,3492],"class_list":{"0":"post-353974","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-gadgets","8":"tag-gadgets","9":"tag-garmin","10":"tag-new-zealand","11":"tag-newzealand","12":"tag-nz","13":"tag-polar","14":"tag-smartwatches","15":"tag-technology","16":"tag-wearables"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353974","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=353974"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353974\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/353975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=353974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=353974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=353974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}