New owner of Suunto Race - first feelings

Tieutieu

Those things where in the specs, so not a surprise (but a good one nevertheless !). SV will/should get it to with the update to come.

ChrisA

@Tieutieu actually it’s funny how often you suddenly use those feature, you first thought you will not need very often or at all

Tieutieu

@ChrisA let’s see ! For now I don’t really use alarm on my SV, but, how knows !
But Searching phone could be useful for me sometimes !

Mff73

@Tieutieu
Thanks, I don’t read specs , so when I read that from @ChrisA (thanks) i assumed SV should got it as well.
Multiple alarms is nice for me. One for work days, and at least one different for exception nal wake up .

General_Witt

@Egika I was asking because I read that spo2 is a battery killer, to turn it off if not necessary or in a mountain environment.

Egika

@General_Witt said in New owner of Suunto Race - first feelings:

@Egika I was asking because I read that spo2 is a battery killer, to turn off if not necessary or in a mountain environment.

While it does not seem to consume a lot of battery, this one definitely is a metric without use for mortals in the lowlands.

General_Witt

Just opened mine.
The Titanium in the Race must be a different alloy than the Vertical. It’s less dark and has a different tint, between beige and light grey.
And of course the initial firmware upgrade takes 60 minutes to complete…
Other than that this watch is just beautiful looking, not even remotely comparable to Garmin watches. It looks like a generation ahead.

mikekoski490

@General_Witt

Vertical - Bezel material: Titanium Grade 5
Race - Bezel material: Titanium (not specified what grade it is)

Egika

Titanium - like Aluminum - is almost always anodized, otherwise the surface would not be inert as it is.
The anodization can be done in various colors not affecting the metal alloy structure otherwise.

inkognito

To find out more, feel free to send me both SV and SR and I will perform the X-ray diffraction and X-ray fluorescence analysis to get the phase and chemical composition.

It is non-destructive but I will be very tempted to keep both watches afterwards

Kostas Zinelis

I believe Suunto is back in the game but I am facing the following bugs with the Suunto race all black:

Can’t answer/respond to a call through the watch.
Lagging/Image distortion at map viewing especially at 500m and 250m view.
Can’t rearrange the date format on watch face.

I hope all of the above to be solved with the next update.

David l

@Kostas-Zinelis said in New owner of Suunto Race - first feelings:

I believe Suunto is back in the game but I am facing the following bugs with the Suunto race all black:

Can’t answer/respond to a call through the watch.

Lagging/Image distortion at map viewing especially at 500m and 250m view.

Can’t rearrange the date format on watch face.

I hope all of the above to be solved with the next update.

What is the default date format? mm/dd/yyyy or dd/mm/yyyy?

Kostas Zinelis

@David-Lown can’t change from mm/dd/yyy to dd/mm/yyyy.

BrunoH

@Kostas-Zinelis it is a known bug which will be fixed.

riccardo88ve

Hi everyone, my new Suunto Race titanium arrived yesterday… until yesterday I was using an Enduro 2!!
I have some questions:
•When I put it in do not disturb mode it takes a while before the display turns off.
•When sleeping mode is active, is it possible to see the time without the watch waking up completely, like on the Apple Watch which can only see the time in low light?
Thanks

ChrisA

@Kostas-Zinelis I am pretty sure you can’t answer calls with it at all. I read it nowhere in the specs! You‘ll get notified about a call, but you would answer via the phone

Egika

@ChrisA said in New owner of Suunto Race - first feelings:

@Kostas-Zinelis I am pretty sure you can’t answer calls with it at all. I read it nowhere in the specs! You‘ll get notified about a call, but you would answer via the phone

if used together with an iPhone, you can choose to decline or answer the incoming call, like with Suunto watches before. Of couse you need to speak into your phone after this.

ChrisA

@Egika said in New owner of Suunto Race - first feelings:

@ChrisA said in New owner of Suunto Race - first feelings:

@Kostas-Zinelis I am pretty sure you can’t answer calls with it at all. I read it nowhere in the specs! You‘ll get notified about a call, but you would answer via the phone

if used together with an iPhone, you can choose to decline or answer the incoming call, like with Suunto watches before. Of couse you need to speak into your phone after this.

Yes that’s what I meant

lexterm77

I got SR today and now SV feels like a 2 years old watch

freeheeler

@lexterm77
really?
I’m using both and I think they’re very similar, despite the screen technology.
I’m frequently using other Suunto watches, too

but we can’t discuss the fact away that the Race IS the newer watch