So Difference between Race 2 and Vertical 2 = Flashlight and Digital Crown

isazi

@Desdinova flashlight, buttons instead of crown, larger battery, design I believe

Desdinova

@isazi Just seems a small amount of differences to warrant a different name. If MIP is truly dead, then this is really only a Race 2 without a crown and a flashlight really. If larger battery is a thing, it just sits above the Race 2 like the Race S sits below the Race.

Just seems a little odd there’s little product differentiation here.

maszop

@Desdinova said in So Difference between Race 2 and Vertical 2 = Flashlight and Digital Crown:

Just seems a little odd there’s little product differentiation here.

Because it is cheapest for the manufacturer.

Tomas5

I like Race 2 design more. I was thinking the crown doesn’t make sense, but I like it. I don’t like to use a touch screen on a watch; basically, I prefer not to use it at all, and scrolling with the crown is convenient.

Badmo

@Desdinova Race Pro

Tomas5

@Badmo than we need Race Pro Max and Race Air too

VoiGAS

I am really happy that it is (for me) disappointing and expensive. So I don’t need to buy a new watch.
If the Vertical 2 would have been a Vertical1 + Suunto Run features + better OHR + dive functions (like fenix) I could not resist…

Audaxjoe

@VoiGAS haha, I thought the same but have just ordered the V2… I will have a good look at it against the V1. Like you say the difference doesn’t look great!

VoiGAS

@Audaxjoe Normally I react the same way - the GAS in my username stands for Gear Aquisition Syndrome

Mister PYC

@Tomas5

I was with a RACE and I decided to shift to a VERTICAL 2 . Honestly I was a concerned by my choice because I liked a lot the crown … btu still I took the risk because I liked the idea of the red light also better lighting when white and also the batery and the bigger buttons when you do some winer sports …
Finally I DO NOT REGRET AT ALL my choice
The crowns is for sure a very good things but the way they designes the 3 buttons of the VERTICAL 2 … even I’m not using so much the touch screen
I’m not sayign that if the crowne was on the VERTICAL 2 I will nto have appreciated it … but it is not so mising me at the end

sky-runner

@Mister-PYC One negative thing about Vertical compared to Race is that upper button is more likely to press accidentally and pause the ongoing activity.

In a short time of owning Vertical 2 I have already done that once.

OutdoorMan

@sky-runner you can lock buttons during an activity to avoid that.