In the looks department, there's no difference between this and last year's model, with both packing a 168 x 144 display and a four-way navigation button below. If you like to wear your timepiece loose and close to the wrist bone, you're going to struggle here, as the unit has to be worn tight and high to ensure good contact for the sensor to work. It's a small price to pay for the use, and we found launching into a training routine to be tremendously simple.

The unit is capable of accompanying you when you run outdoors, cycle, swim (it's waterproof to depths of 50 meters) and when you hit the treadmill, as well as just behaving like a standard stopwatch. There are also options to add in interval, lap and zone-based training programs to each of the functions. When we took it out for a ride, it found a GPS signal within 20 seconds and offered up very accurate location, elevation and speed data. The only place we found fault was when it came to calculating our calories, which we found skewed heavily toward the pessimistic side compared to other systems we've used.

You can dock the watch on your desktop, or share your data with the companion iOS app over Bluetooth, although we found that transferring files was horribly slow and the app itself offered nothing more useful than placing our vital statistics beside some colorful icons. Considering that the watch has a vibration motor, we were hoping that it would offer up some smartwatch features like call alerts, but alas, this is a fitness-only device. If you're in the market for a new unit, this is certainly one to consider, although we're not sure we'd upgrade if we'd already shelled out nearly 300 clams on last year's model. Speaking of which, the Multi-Sport will set you back $300 (£280), with the Runner priced at $270 (£250) and both will arrive toward the end of the month.