The charging and connecting cradle is mildly awkward to connect and disconnect. It is perfectly intuitive, if a little clunky at times. Instead you navigate the TomTom Multi-Sport Cardio using a four-button pad that sits below the display. Overall TomTom has done a good job of building a watch around a clunky, sensor-heavy device. Those wristband holes allow you to affix the strap at multiple levels of tightness, too. You don’t want your watch slipping around as you, well, slip around. The clasp itself works well, which is important. (Compare that to your watch, it’s wide.) This is a device that screams out to be noticed, which is fine when you are running or cycling, less so in civilian life. A bright plastic strap with wholes punched out of it, the wrist band element of the TomTom Multi-Sport Cardio is more than 3cm wide at its thinnest point. It is also unlikely to sit on your wrist at the Lord Mayor’s banquet. It is, it is fair to say, an aquired taste. The TomTom Multi-Sport Cardio turns heads. We shoved it in water to know obvious negative outcome, and for more than a month it has been either in a rucksack or in use, without coming to any ill effect. This is important, because if – like me – you decide to find out what happens when you don’t update the watch, you will find yourself pounding the streets running 6.45s and being told by your stupid useless watch that you are crawling along at nine minutes a mile. You then visit the TomTom Get Started web page at and download the MySports Connect desktop software, and it in turn updates your watch. The desk dock is a slightly clunky plastic nugget to attach, which then connects to your PC via USB. You are warned on the box, and in the instructions, to always connect your TomTom Multi-Sport Cardio to a computer before you start exercising, using the desk dock provided. Setting up an using the TomTom Multi-Sport Cardio is not a seemless and slick experience. TomTom Multi-Sport Cardio sport watch review: before you start So the TomTom is well priced, but only for fitness enthusiasts. You will pay the same of more for the Fitbit Surge, which is the equivalent FitBit fitness device.
But it isn’t waterproof, and can’t be used for swimming as can the TomTom. The Microsoft Band retails for around £145, for instance, and offers some smartwatch features such as email notifications.
Which is important, because this is a fitness gadget, and not a smartphone extension. Creeping toward smartwatch pricing, without being quite there. I guess when in doubt just keep rebooting.This puts the TomTom Multi-Sport Cardio in the upper echelons of fitness wearables. After the second factory reset, the registration process popped up and allowed me to add the new watch to my existing account. I figured another factory reset can't hurt anything since I had only some test data on the watch.
The watch was factory reset however, the MySport Connect application was not recognizing the watch as a new, yet to be registered device (hence the error message) which I found out later is the only way of invoking the registration options. However, there were no prompts to follow. It was clear that the new watch had to be registered against my existing account to be able to add data to the account however, there are no registration options you can select to register an additional device (and nothing in the manual other than follow the prompts once connected). So I can use either watch to add to the existing account and data on my PC. I resolved the issue and have both watches registered and pointing at the same data.
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