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Fitness tracker brand Polar has brought a new firmware update to itsbest running watch, the Polar Vantage V3.

The first is Vertical Speed, a feature that will calculate your meters/feet ascended or descended per minute.

Polar Vantage V3

VAM is the second advanced metric, which measures your average ascent speed per hour in vertical meters.

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It might even be more impressive than aGarminForerunner, depending on the price you might pick it up for.

Checking out GPS on Vantage V3

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