I have a Polar S725 monitor and will be away for a weeks training next year so am trying to think of different ways to keep the information.
The ideal way would be to store the info on my windows smart phone using the mobile link. I have contacted polar and they have no plans to use any other manufacturer apart from Nokia, I am not going to buy a new phone so has anyone been able to transfer info to their smart phone for storage and retrieve it at a later date?
Get a Windows laptop with an IrDA port on it. The infrared on the 725 works perfectly with a standard IrDA port, so you don't need the Polar interface. The standard software that Polar ships with the unit works fine. Then, you are only limited by the size of the hard disk on the laptop - a typical day's ride is in the 20kb region, so you'll get a month of training in one megabyte. And if you want, you can email them to your coach directly from the laptop.
If your smart phone has an IrDA port, and it really is running the embedded version of Windows, then you might try transferring the included software to it and running it. But, the app is pretty graphics intensive - might not be usable on such a low resolution screen.
