Sun
Sep 28
6:25pm
I don’t like my Nike+ SportBand
My positive review of the Nike+ SportBand the other day must have offended the karma police for some reason, as halfway through today’s 14km run the display carked it.
Can’t read that display? No, nor can I.
And a quick Google search for “nike sportband display broken” takes me to the Nike+ forums, where there’s a thread titled “Sportband Display gone bad” with 9 pages of bad experiences.
It seems that sweat and/or condensation is the culprit in most cases. I can vouch for that - I have to unhook the device from the band and wipe the sweat off it when I’m done running. Some forum posters have reported that wearing it backwards (difficult to explain, but trust me) seems to help. My opinion is that it’s the small hole on the underside that’s presumably there to let sweat and moisture out actually lets it in instead.
Certainly there’s a design flaw there somewhere.
Strangely, the rest of it still seems to work. It recorded all 14km of my run. Hmmmm.
I bought mine at Foot Locker Geelong, so I’ll be back there next weekend for a replacement, I think. Fingers crossed that they come to the party.