Polar’s new team sports shirt, I believe, includes an H10 module. The players do their stuff on the training field and then at the end the coach syncs data from all the shirts. This could be the prime driver in itself behind the new H10. (It’s not!).
The conspiracy theory is that the H10 is actually much more wonderful than it is letting on at present. I understand that it has motion sensors (Source:
FCC filing) ie an accelerometer. From what I’ve described so far these are probably only of use in the team sports’ shirt. Clearly, with an onboard accelerometer, some form of running dynamics is on the cards for the Polar Vantage series.
The description of how caching currently works, above, also seems quite restrictive.
My strong suspicion is that the H10 is destined for greater things this year or next, with a new generation of running, triathlon and maybe cycling watches. Indeed I expect some form of running dynamics to be introduced into the Polar Vantage series in 2019. We shall see.