speculations and rumours about upcoming Suunto watches

Tieutieu

@Hristijan-Petreski good question…probably large enough for further evolutions !

I was wondering : and if map were also added to S9pp afterall ??
The range would be awesome :

big screen with maps => new watch to come
big screen without maps => S9b
small screen with maps => S9pp
small screen without maps => S9p

That would explain why « new » S9b was recently added (black titanium version) ?

This is pure speculation indeed !

isazi

@Tieutieu unfortunately S9PP does not have enough memory to store maps

dulko79

@isazi if maps are the only difference and other functions are the same, that would be great.

Egika

@dulko79 I think some more added features would be more than welcome. 5krunner is hinting a superb GPS accuracy…

Tieutieu

@isazi said in speculations and rumours about upcoming Suunto watches:

@Tieutieu unfortunately S9PP does not have enough memory to store maps

I wasn’t able to find the information of memory avalaible on S9pp, but I tought it was unfortunatly so !

EzioAuditore

@isazi Any hint or speculation if the rest of the internals are upgraded (enough for maps, etc.) or same as s9pp?

nseslija

@vlado nice…

Egika

@Tieutieu maps would need memory in GB size (like 16/32/64GB or so) to store some regions.
I am very sure, that S9PP does not have this capacity…

Tieutieu

@Egika @isazi do you know what is the memory size of S9PP ? I didn’t find the information anywhere (includind on S9pp thread)

fluca

Based on what I could see we are gonna get weather forecast into watches. Hope this will be back rolled to S9PP and fromer models.

DMytro

@fluca likely just new UI watches in my opinion.

A Former User

@Egika said in speculations and rumours about upcoming Suunto watches:

@Tieutieu maps would need memory in GB size (like 16/32/64GB or so) to store some regions.
I am very sure, that S9PP does not have this capacity…

Fenix 1 already had “hacks” that enabled maps. If suunto could come up with a “newer” version of that hack, maybe it would help: like just download a small zone from the app, and then delete it.
For sure it seems easier that it is to implement, but…

DMytro

@André-Faria ‘hacks’ are not reliable are presume?

A Former User

came across this one

Dimitrios Kanellopoulos

@André-Faria its 2023 and if we learned something from hacks is that they don’t work eventually. (development wise)

A Former User

@Dimitrios-Kanellopoulos said in speculations and rumours about upcoming Suunto watches:

@André-Faria its 2023 and if we learned something from hacks is that they don’t work eventually. (development wise)

Guess I didn’t express myself well. What I meant to say is that at that time that hack made possible a watch with low resources to have a function. Today with all the evolution, maybe we can use the same principle to have a function on a watch with less resources.
For sure the best is to have a full experience…

ChrisA

@Egika I think it depends in how much details you need. The Coros maps are quite small, but not very detailed (no street names, place names etc) on the picture you can see that the chosen area (blueish rectangle with blue dot) only would have 38 MB ). The S7 also had map tiles you could download, so let’s see

Egika

@ChrisA right.
and you see, that the watch has some twenty something GB available

Next to the use of maps you would need to hink about how to transfer 1GB of map data into a watch that has only a BT connection…

I highly doubt that it would work well. And Suunto is not a company of “hacks”, I have got to know Suunto as a company with solutions that actually work and are well thought through.
They don’t deliver data of questionable quality just to show dome value.

But let’s see. Do we already know if the new watch will have maps anyway?

ChrisA

@Egika said in speculations and rumours about upcoming Suunto watches:

@ChrisA right.
and you see, that the watch has some twenty something GB available

Next to the use of maps you would need to hink about how to transfer 1GB of map data into a watch that has only a BT connection…

Ah yes, thats right, since the S9Ps don’t link to Computers anymore, that maybe difficult . I am really curious, how the maps on the vertical will look like. I still find the maps on the Suunto 7 are the best maps out there, when it comes to sportswatches.

Tieutieu

@Egika said in speculations and rumours about upcoming Suunto watches:

Do we already know if the new watch will have maps anyway?

99,999999 % sure