Frontier X2 ECG heartrate tracker review

The Frontier X2 is touted as the “Best ECG fitness tracker”, but how did it get it’s £579 pricetag? Today I run through this heartrate tracker’s, talk about my experience using it and whether or not I recommend it.

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0:00 Intro
0:10 Product tour
0:39 Features
2:52 App
4:10 My experience
5:22 Things you should know
7:00 Competitors!
7:44 Conclusion

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hey Nish here and as the title says I tested this 550 heart rate tracker this is the frontier X2 and full disclosure it was sent to me to have a look at but everything in this video is my honest experience and opinion so the unit itself is pretty small it weighs just 25 G and you connect it to the chest straps two of which are included with some buttons it has a very small screen and just one button so it’s not a very interactive tool but you can initiate recording from the device itself in terms of some specs it’s IP67 rated so that’s up to a depth of 1 1/2 m in water if you have the micro USB port covered it charges in about 45 minutes and will give you up to 24 hours of continuous monitoring and that’s also how much the onboard memory can store so what is the unique selling point and why is this heart rate tracker so expensive well their killer feature is that it can continuously monitor ECG which is an echo cardiogram which shows you exactly how the heart is beating it can also continuously stream this to another person via a link now your typical SmartWatches that measure heart rate sometimes have ECG tracking capabilities for example the fit charge 5 I reviewed had a feature where you measure it for about 30 seconds while you’re standing still but they don’t typically measure it while you’re doing exercise it’s worth noting obviously the measuring of this device is not the same as a medical grade ECG which has something like 12 leads but they said that they validated it based on one of the lead measurements so aside from measuring this ECG it’s also measuring of course your heart rate your heart rate variability which is the regularity between the heart rate pulses it can measure Cadence and shock when you’re running and also breathing rate there’s also a lot of Anis that is done after the sessions are recorded So at a surface level from the ECG it can look at whether your rhythm is regular or irregular it can then also calculate the strain on your heart as a result of these various metrics and apart from that the final Global thing that it calculates using its intelligence is the amount of load that you’ve put on your body during the session this can then be accumulated during the week with a training load Target and you can stay within your limits now it’s not super clear to me how you decide what training load limit would be appropriate for you but of course maybe there’s a bit of trial and error involved the other unique feature we’ve got here is the ability to set alerts while you’re exercising so there’s an option for two different alerts one with a single buzz and one with a double buzz you can choose one of breathing rate heart rate and strain and set upper and lower limits or upper and lower limits and then it will give you a buzz when you’re outside of those limits so this could be useful if you need to rain in your exercise and you maybe have a heart condition and don’t want to train so hard alternatively you could make sure that you’re outputting a very high level of heart rate to make sure you’re not slacking off it’s worth noting this isn’t really a comprehensive Fitness device because it doesn’t have GPS it isn’t going to measure your distances or your speeds so if you need to know that then you probably need some other device it does have like the option to measure for 20 different activity types but it’s not immediately clear to me what changes when you pick one activity over another apart from running where it can measure your Cadence and your shock so we can take a look at the mobile phone app obviously on Android and iOS and it’s a pretty well-laid out app you can see on the home screen it gives you some metrics and then you can look clearly at your activity history a cool thing they have is they save all your workouts to the cloud unlimited for free and you can access those either from the app or a web app as I mentioned there’s that option to live record your ECG and then you can generate a link and send that to anyone around the world and then they can monitor your heart for you connecting the device is pretty straightforward as well you just press a button on the device once and then you can connect to it on the app and I think it’s pretty easy to connect and disconnect so it’s possible to maybe share this device with another person obviously not two people at the same time but you could you know easily share the use of it by having one person disconnect from their app and the other person connect on theirs on the app there’s some AI features so it continually gives you sort of notifications and recommends what type of session would be good for your training load it also analyzes each activity you’ve done and gives you a summary of how that session went in terms of which you know which metrics Stand Out There is the opportunity to bring in data from other applications there’s ging connect and straa which are available the only program that has a good config configuration in terms of sending data from here is Google fit so you can automatically send your heart rate data to Google fit but it doesn’t have automatic configuration with any of the other Fitness tracking apps before I talk about my experience from testing out the tracker Please Subscribe if you’re liking the video so far helps the video get out there and the channel to grow and I’d appreciate it a lot so I give the tracker a go for a few different activities firstly in terms of the physical aspects of the device it’s pretty easy to put on pretty comfortable and simple elasticated strap and I didn’t have any problems with that so I tried it for you know a quick meditation which which was obviously zero strain as we can imagine a yoga class which was something that was had some Peaks and troughs and some variation and then also a bit of cycling and running it was interesting that for running I was running running into one of the preconfigured alerts for the breathing rate so I was going over the maximum allowed breathing rate but I think you know I wasn’t going that hard so I think you know maybe with these alerts you just need to adjust them to your level after trying them out overall the tracking Works quite well you can look at the ECG data with a very good granularity I did find sometimes the ECG data became very noisy and I don’t know if this is cuz I didn’t have the placement perfect or I didn’t for example put some water on the contact points which they recommend to improve the uh measurements it’s nice n to be able to see that full ECG Trace but I did find myself scratching my head and thinking what can I actually do with this information maybe I just don’t have the knowledge or the the coach to look at it and tell me that I that I did a good job and you know I don’t really have any heart conditions so I’m not looking out for any regular rhythms so given the testing and the experience I’ve had I noticed a few things that I wanted to make you aware of if you’re considering buying this as a bit of warning so the first thing is regarding the engineering of the device and something I wasn’t very impressed with is that the waterproofing which is IP67 rated is contingent on this tiny little rubber cover on the micro USB port now this cover completely comes off there is no attachment point and you need to take that off every time you want to charge and then put it back on and they give you a spare but I’m a clumsy person I could easily see myself losing this quite you know dropping on the floor or something and it’s such a tiny piece and it just seems like maybe it should have been something that was integrated on the device itself s along that line it only has a oneyear warranty which for a device this premium and expensive and something that’s going to have active use I’m not I don’t know one year just seems a little low the other limitation which I’ve already mentioned is it doesn’t really have integration with other fitness apps so I mentioned you can’t automatically export data to anything apart from Google fit if you want to export the data from here to another app like straa ging connects whatever you have you have to manually download the heart rate data you know easily done in the app for example but it’s still an extra step and then manually upload that to your other app of course one option is to just connect the frontier X2 as an external heart rate tracker to those other apps but then I feel like if you do that you’re probably not going to be able to measure all these ECG and fancy things that you’re able to do when you’re using the frontier X2 app itself another thing which I’m not sure how much it will affect your average person is there’s a universal codec for connecting up health and fitness devices called Ant plus and the frontier X2 does not support this so that could be a potential issue depending on what devices you want to integrate with so is there anything else similar on the market well it turns out that yeah I was having a quick look around and one of the most popular heart rate trackers I found was the polar h10 which costs just 6070 and it looks to be a pretty well-featured heart rate tracker that also has some ECG tracking now of course there are a few things that the cheaper h10 lacks so it doesn’t have a very large onboard memory it can only store one session it doesn’t have real-time streaming of ECG like the frontier X2 has and it also doesn’t have the ability to do those alerts to make sure you stay within you know the parameters of training you want that being said though if all you want is a very accurate heart rate tracking and a bit of ECG information about how your rhythm is I find it quite hard to think why you pay £550 for the froner X2 when you’ve got something that cheap and well established so to conclude this is a really specialist Niche bit of Kit and honestly I find it hard to recommend if you don’t specifically need the special features that this has if you don’t need a full ECG trace of your exercise and sending it to someone to live stream it’s really hard to recommend this and you know sometimes with these fancy devices a normal person like me can play around with it and find some useful information but this honestly seems a case to me if you don’t need it you don’t need it and for that reason I find it a lot easier to recommend something like the polar h10 which is well established that could probably give you the accurate heart rate information that you need if you’re not satisfied with your typical fitness trackers heart rate tracking capabilities aside from that you know like I said it’s not a comprehensive device and I don’t know how many devices you want to have hooked up to while you’re doing exercise but this isn’t going to measure your speeds or distances and I imagine if you’re interested in your heart rate that much you’re probably also interested in your performance in that way you know it’s all not all doing Gloom I think it is a well-made device the app and the online support seems pretty well done although yeah you’ve got the problems of app integration and you’ve got the problems of some of the physical aspects so make of it what you will do let me know what you think of my take on this device if you’ve seen another device out there that does something similar for less money as well thanks again for watching hope it’s been useful subscribe for more to the point content and I’ll catch you in the next [Music] one