Nike+ Sportband Dies

by warriorwoman on 3 June, 2008

The Nike+ Sportband is clearly not designed for use in British weather conditions, after this mornings run in the rain the watch has died on me. It was admittedly tipping it down but it’s supposed to be a running watch and runners run in the rain, they have to.

The screen has clouded up with condensation and half the display seems to have disappeared.

It’s quite a shame really as I enjoyed the motivating aspect of the online challenges. Oh well, at least it frees up another wrist.

Tagged as: Nike, Nike+ Sportband, review

{ 16 comments… read them below or add one }

JoggerBlogger June 3, 2008 at 9:23 pm: They are shitte! It looked good, but offered no real substance (like many a boy/girl band) I love my Garmin it may look like a brick but it keeps on going.
warriorwoman June 3, 2008 at 9:25 pm: But it was the girliest looking watch I possessed and I was getting fond of it.
londonjogger June 3, 2008 at 10:22 pm: take it back – i’m sure they will swop it !
Karen June 4, 2008 at 7:07 am: SEND IT BACK….. I know it rained a bit yesterday (believe me I live in Berkshire) but it shouldn’t have done that – what nonsense!!!!
Emma June 4, 2008 at 9:13 am: Well I may have said it before but you really have saved me some money… I get so fed up with waiting for the Garmin to get a signal, and I’m obsessed with gadgets, so I was going to rush out and buy one of these nike things, but I’m not going to bother now. I’ll just continue leaving it outside on the windowsill ten mins before I go for run (or 30 mins if it’s cloudy and overcast)
jogblog June 4, 2008 at 9:36 am: It may dry out? I wish mine was accurate. I keep wearing it because I love the charts and widgets and challenges and stuff but it’s out by a mile so pretty pointless really. I wonder if we all got sent sub-standard ones? My first one had an unreadable screen so I asked for a replacement but it’s so inaccurate, as was joggerbloggers. They can’t be selling this crap to the public can they?
Highway Kind June 4, 2008 at 10:13 am: That is amazingly bad.

By definition any outdoor equipment is going to get wet.

Maybe its designed for posing in the gym
monica June 4, 2008 at 2:59 pm: i won’t buy….that’s the end of it!
Runner Leana June 4, 2008 at 3:23 pm: RIP Nike sportband! I can’t believe it went belly up after the rain though. What kind of athlete do they think is going to use it if it can’t stand up to some precipitation? I imagine there should be a warrany on it, you should be able to get it replaced…??
Adele June 5, 2008 at 4:33 pm: Oh dear. How does it cope with sweat? It would die after a few minutes on my moist wrists! Good old Garmin keeps going whatever the weather (unless, of course, you allow your other half to borrow I like I do and then it just dies of lack of energy!).
Jonathan June 5, 2008 at 6:03 pm: You got further than me WW – I couIdn’t get the software installed. I can’t believe a big corporation is trying to push this stuff out and letting free speaking bloggers plaster the web with bad reviews.

Anyone want mine?
vasek from czech June 23, 2008 at 1:04 am: to Highway Kind: I’m not sure it’s designed for gym, because I have bad experience with this band in summer day. my second workout was last for it, because I sweated …. and you can image it … (like picture)
Ed August 23, 2008 at 4:04 pm: No “wet” issues with mine however I left plugged into my laptop overnight charging and when I got up the next day, all the pixels were fried and it was unusable. Nike did replace it for me.
Sergio September 10, 2008 at 5:54 pm: Today I took my second sportband to the shop because of the same problem. The first one lasted only 15 days and the second one 2 months.

In the Nike Town they told me that they’re not selling this version anymore and that I’ll have to wait till February when the new model with some problems fixed and new features will be released….
WT May 22, 2009 at 6:27 am: I’ve had two SportBands. First one died of sweat in a California dry season – no rain, just me. Screen turned to glitter (as if the LCD dissolved). This was replaced – but not without a challenge fro the salesman – and the new one has lasted much longer, although some of its display has also turned to spread-out glitter…
HopiRunner November 16, 2011 at 11:05 pm: I loved my Nike Sportband until I lost the watch off the band. Now I can’t find anywhere to just buy the watch itself. I had a Garmin given to me from parents of team and I really enjoyed it, though a little bulky.
Anyone know where I can just buy a replacement watch…I still have the band…ha!
Thx.