speculations and rumours about upcoming Suunto watches
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I hope that, if a new watch comes, it will have long battery life and good accuracy for GPS/altimeter. And it needs a screen that I can look at easily. If it has this, I’ll order one on release day. If not, I will keep my S9 Peak for a while longer.
Watch: Suunto Vertical Ti
Blog: isazi's home
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@isazi My guess is something similar to polar maybe where the central timekeeping info is static and you can ‘rotate’ screens based on what you want to see?!
Contrary I would love for the bezel to half-rotate as someone said (like zoom on camera). Just imagine scrolling through screens while training with the bezel - cool
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Whatever the shape, weight, or material, I hope Suunto keeps maintaining a simple and effective user interface, which is the main reason I love this brand…
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Did I miss anything or why are we talking about rotating bezels? That’s a feature that didn’t even cross my mind when thinking about new Suunto watches.
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@Ivan-Vasilev I suspect the bezel is rotating. For me, your arguments against having a rotating bezel are totally valid.
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@skifun I don’t think it will rotate because I don’t think Suunto will be adding such a complication to a newly designed uX (if think s9pp has this new UX ) plus adding a moving part (rotation) would mean a very difficult hardware implementation to maintain waterresistancy at 100m …
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So much buzz today, it has not been like that I do not remember
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@dulko79 it’s the spring buzz!
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@isazi since when 5cm is huge?
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Did I live under a rock lately?
New watches, rumours, rotating bezels… -
I think this is the long awaited successor of the Ambit series. IMHO the S9 needed nearly 4 years to come to the same feature level.
I hope we will see maps with routing capabilities and dual frequency GNSS. I would like to see at least 3 S+ apps at once and the possibility to upload a gpx track during an activity. Maybe something like ClimbPro and a PacePro feature which works better for trailrunning with a slower pace on steeper climbs would round up my wishlist.
A nice to have is autodetect uphills and downhills and set laps based on this natively (not as S+ app) and location based laps (e.g. a set waypoint in a tracks triggers a lap). TBT navigation but ETA/ETE/distance/elevation to the next set waypoint (not TBT direction) would also be very nice.Let‘s see what we will get soon
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@thanasis I hope it will not rotate.
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@trailcafe said in speculations and rumours about upcoming Suunto watches:
the possibility to upload a gpx track during an activity
you can already do that
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I hope Suunto don’t make as Garmin with a lot of models like titanium or stainless steel, solar or not…
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@Mi_chael
Don’t you like being able to choose? -
I prefer Suunto do what they always done:
Quality
Fiability
Accuracywhat answer to the marketing rules.
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@Mi_chael
We agree. I choose Suunto for the same reason. Having more choice doesn’t always mean sacrificing those values -
As far as solar goes - I think it might make sense on something like a bike computer, where you have a larger surface for the solar panel, but also constant exposure to sunlight due to its static position.
With watches you lose both of these advantages - I think any benefit from the solar charging is going to be marginal and it wouldn’t make sense for Suunto to invest resources in something, I would consider mostly gimmick. -
@Ivan-Vasilev DCRainmakers tests of the solar variants of Garmin’s bike computer does not show significant battery loadings from the solar power. The only watch that benefits of it is the Instinct solar as far as I know.
Anyone can judge if solar is an advantage or not. I think it’s a nice to have, but battery itself is definitely enough for my needs (Enduro 2).
I use GPS with automatic settings, so it switches between single- and multi-band depending on the signal quality which should end up somewhere between 70-80h of GPS recording…never tested it
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If there will be solar charging, it does not necessarily mean “solar like others do it”…
