No possibility to quit and resume the Trekking activity: so DISAPPOINTED
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Of course, it’s perfectly fine that you don’t need or miss certain features. Others do, however. The fact that you can use them on Garmin from time to time is because they’ve implemented it there. That way, as a user, you’re free to choose for yourself whether you think it’s worth using or not. Now, Suunto has made that choice for you. And for a watch costing €600, I’d personally like to be able to use all the features whenever I want, not when Suunto or a user on the forum decides whether or not it’s useful.
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@elbee I think the examples above give a good idea:
Multi Day Hike: As you cannot resume later, you maybe let the activity run paused. Then you cannot set the Alarm to get up early next day or use the torch to light the way to the toilette
Running/Hiking in the Dark: No Access to torch
Hiking: No weather forecast (Now solved with Gustin, thanks for that)For me its also no problem, but for multi day adventures like UTMB - sponsored by Suunto - thats absolutely a great feature. Or something you for sure miss when switching to Suunto
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@elbee we all are puzzled on what the priority is. It would be interesting to see the results of the questionnaire that was sent out, and the delivery of features and bug fixes that came around.
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Can I just ask why such a feature is needed? I had this on my Garmin when I did the Tour du Mont Blanc, which is a multi-day hike. I recorded each activity separately, as technically these are separate activities. Later on, I merged the GPX files to see the whole trek(just curious), but I prefer to keep them separate, as I slept between them, etc.
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@elbee we all are puzzled on what the priority is. It would be interesting to see the results of the questionnaire that was sent out, and the delivery of features and bug fixes that came around.
Oh, yeah. I would really like that. And why some bugs are left untouched for more than half a year. (and I think keeping a bluetooth connection to a heart rate sensor is some basic functionality)
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@nico1234 You know what I am disappointed in? In people buying a watch for 600eur and coming here to complain that it does not have specific very important (for them) feature. You have 600eur to operate with, you can research which watch represents the things you would like to have and buy that one. You do not need to buy Suunto, you can buy Garmin/Coros/Polar that has the one function you need.
We all have the functions we need and the functions we do not need and I would never buy a watch that does not have features I really need.
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Can I just ask why such a feature is needed? I had this on my Garmin when I did the Tour du Mont Blanc, which is a multi-day hike. I recorded each activity separately, as technically these are separate activities. Later on, I merged the GPX files to see the whole trek(just curious), but I prefer to keep them separate, as I slept between them, etc.
I do some social rides on a bike and we have coffee half way. It’s convenient to use your watch as a watch during coffee break. And the gps is turned off, which saves battery life.
Have to say, I recently bought a wahoo bike computer because a watch with oled screen isn’t the best for navigation on a bike. A mips watch I had earlier I could attach to my steer and the display would always be visible.Also, during all day hikes, it’s convenient and saves battery, if you could stop the recording during lunch break. (If you pause and activity on a suunto, the gps chip is still active).
Personally, I would not use the resume later function for multiday events.
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Yes, I wouldn’t use it for multi-day hikes either. But my use case might be different from others. I often run and stop somewhere to handle something, talk to people, or buy a few things. That is when this feature would be useful for me. The same goes for cycling.
I used to have a Garmin where I used this feature, and I knew when I bought the Vertical 2 that it wouldn’t have it. I just wanted to say that this is the feature I miss the most, but I can live with it. Everyone is different and uses things differently.
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I would prefer merging activities in SA, ymmv ofc.
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@nico1234 I agree, almost all brands now offer this function. I am testing an Amazfit Active 3 Premium, for 150€ this watch can save & resumen later, you can even go to the watch screen during an activity, open any of the apps and seamlessly go back to the activity without having any interruptions in it. Being blocked out of every function during and activity is not a good design decision no matter how you slice it.
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@igalan you just destroyed everything here
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I think if it is your first watch, you don’t even think about some functionality that is not there. If you already had a Watch before, you expect all the newer ones to include functionality that you are used to. And this is what people see as essential functionality. And other do not miss it.
Just as an example the other way around: If you have a Suunto, you are used to see running timers in the watch face, you are used to the auto sorting of sports mode for last recently used. Garmin - as the usual example - has neither of them. Sure, you can dedicate one data field to a running timer, but Suunto solves this way more elegant.
It’s just expectations…
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