Anonym 28.2.2020 -
cardiostrong EX90 Touch Cross Trainer
The EX90 Plus Touch has its pros and cons. It gives you a good work-out, and its compact size and adjustable stride length makes it fit our home and family members. However, it lacks a bit of quality in some areas.
It has a knob which allows you to lock and unlock the pedals. But on my EX90, I couldn’t turn the knob to fully unlock it, not without risking damaging the knob. What the knob actually does is controlling a wire which releases a brake on one of the wheels, and I had to take away the covers and release the brake manually, and then keep it unlocked to be able to even start using my EX90.
Having a touch display and a set of apps is a great feature, but the software quality is a bit too low. The main problem is that it doesn’t keep the WiFi connection after being powered down, you’ll always need to re-connect manually when powering it up, so you tend to always keep it powered to avoid that. But after using some apps for a while, a slider that takes you back to the main menu isn’t available any more, so you need to restart the cross-trainer, and then manually re-connect to your WiFi again. There are a lot of other small, but annoying, software problems too.
The quality of the built-in loadspeakers is quite poor, and there’s no headphone jack or Bluetooth connection, so you actually tend to use your own iPad and place on top of the touch display. Therefore, if you really aren’t interested in the KinoMap app, a better choice would be to buy the EX90 Plus _without_ the touch display, and buy (or use) your own iPad instead.
That being said, the KinoMap app is a bit of a killer app for me, it makes the work-out much more fun. So I’ll actually be nice, and give the EX90 Plus Touch a 3-star rating.