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TomTom Adventurer - 4.0 / 5

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TomTom Adventurer review: Design

  • 22 x 25mm monochrome display Waterproof to 40m Four-way controller Enhanced strap

TomTom Adventurer review: Functions and features

  • Optical heart-rate sensor Barometer GPS tracking Bluetooth music with 3GB internal storage

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TomTom Adventurer review: Performance and accuracy

  • Excellent heart-rate tracking Useful and accessible altitude features 24hr hiking use, 11hr GPS tracking

TomTom Adventurer review: Sports app

  • New Sports app improves connection Life-style approach to data Syncs with Strava, MyFitnessPal and others

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To recap

The TomTom Adventurer should appeal to those who play in the outdoors. If you run, swim and cycle regularly, it will take care of those things, but stepping beyond is where the Adventurer is more useful. This is for those who like to know altitude in real time, want to cross-reference with a map and like to know how far they’ve climbed on that day in the hills.