Updates for V1

[LitchiMonster]

@plopes73 this happened to my watch, I sent it in. They checked the solar module, agreed it wasn’t working, and they replaced the watch. Unfortunately the original was made in Finland and the replacement watch made in China. Oh well, it works now.

[Egika]

@LitchiMonster said:

Unfortunately the original was made in Finland and the replacement watch made in China. Oh well, it works now.

So maybe this turns from unfortunately into fortunately

[plopes73]

@babychai No no, never used screen protector. Suunto saphire glass is very good, no need to protect it with a weaker layer IMO. But I think it’s a hardware issue, watch is not in warranty anymore, but I can live with it, until Suunto Vertical 3 release :). Cheers.

[ChristopheRamon]

@Tieutieu said:

The only major issue for me is that climb guidance as not been updated like it has been on SRs, SR and SV2 SR2
It’s still almost unusable on SV1 because extra zoom level on current segment is not there when POI are on the route.
This has been adressed very nicely on my SRs, but it’s a big miss on my SV1.
For all other new potential new features (tide app and so…) i perfectly understand that SV1 comes to it’s limits, so minor/bugs corrections will be fine now.
It’s still my favorite and I have not decided to go for a SV2 (will wait for a further generation)

Fully agree with you. Let’s believe that adding back the extra zoom level on current segment when there are some POIs will not be that difficult. Much easier at least than adding all these new features related to maps ! Come on, Suunto developers

[stromdiddily]

@ChristopheRamon even without the climb guidance zoom levels, you can’t add “Ascent to Waypoint” as a data field on the V1 which would be enormously helpful.

[vminaev]

Vertical V1 is not working correctly with Stryd.((

[thanasis]

Hi Team

any news here? at least let’s have some visibility of whether anything changed or not, would be really beneficial.

thanks

[martintrail]

@thanasis No one will answer you. Certainly no one officially. That’s just the way it is.

[VoiGAS]

@martintrail Yes, but I think its good to keep the topic active. Last info was that the V1 isn’t discontinued, but April and July Updates just didn’t come. Now with end of September another quarter ends and we will see if a new Update arrives - for the V1
Still hoping

[martintrail]

@VoiGAS There are rumors that Q3 will likely be delayed and shipped together with Q4.

[2b2bff]

@martintrail would be great if Suunto could just have a short message on their blog “Sorry guys, for reason xyz we have to delay Q3 and ship it together with Q4.”, wouldn’t it?
I mean customer communications and so. Would help for all the “is it there, yet?”-people.

[André Faria]

@2b2bff said:

@martintrail would be great if Suunto could just have a short message on their blog “Sorry guys, for reason xyz we have to delay Q3 and ship it together with Q4.”, wouldn’t it?
I mean customer communications and so. Would help for all the “is it there, yet?”-people.

I guess most companies don’t share that kinda of stuff. Also if I recall correctly suunto doesn’t have a public plan aobut releases , like garmin for example.

[2b2bff]

@André-Faria I know there is no exact plan but in the past there have been quarterly updates all around. The release videos of Janne have been delivered only after the release has been made, but on the other hand he talks about updates coming later for specific device models.

So, why not publish a short video - if that is the known outlet - about Q3, with “sorry, will come together with Q4”. They don’t even have to name the real reason. “Release is not up to our quality standards, yet” is as good as any reason.
In my books this only will increase credibility instead of being tight lipped for three months.

[ChristopheRamon]

@André-Faria said:

@2b2bff said:

@martintrail would be great if Suunto could just have a short message on their blog “Sorry guys, for reason xyz we have to delay Q3 and ship it together with Q4.”, wouldn’t it?
I mean customer communications and so. Would help for all the “is it there, yet?”-people.

I guess most companies don’t share that kinda of stuff. Also if I recall correctly suunto doesn’t have a public plan aobut releases , like garmin for example.

I’m a new Suunto user, but a long-time user/admin/lover of the Debian Linux distribution. It looks like both share the same principle: a new version is released only when it’s ready (i.e., virtually bug-free), and not according to any predetermined schedule. This is why Debian runs business-critical applications all over the world, and probably why some choose Suunto products over others, despite the wait for new releases. I will not blame Suunto’s developers for dedicating time to thoroughly testing their solution because, imho, robustness matters more than timeline.

[thanasis]

we are discussing various software engineering schools of thoughts here … I never liked the fixed long update cycles in any software (and never really stuck with it in my company).
in any case, we do know that V1 is an old device, released some 3 years go etc
we also know that there are issues with the firmware never addressed etc. Probably Suunto is not going to invest a ton on this device, but still any official statement would make sense.

Now if Suunto’s policy is : use it if /while it works, don’t question /ask anything, don’t expect any visibility …that’s the way things are, go buy another device etc… it’s another thing. I hope it isn’t though because the usual buyers of a next generation of a watch are happy - loyal- customers of some previous ones. And… It seems that much of Suunto’s loyalty comes from the Ambit 2-3 peak days

[Stefano M64]

@thanasis said:

Now if Suunto’s policy is : use it if /while it works, don’t question /ask anything, don’t expect any visibility …that’s the way things are, go buy another device etc

the fact that a 600-to-800 euros watch can became obsolete and not supported after just 3 years is a bit frightening … it isn’t?

[BrunoH]

@Stefano-M64

Obsolete? No, my V1 works just fine, there’s nothing obsolete about it.

Not supported? Being supported does not mean getting all the new bells and whistles with the latest watch models. I still get support if I need and I believe there will be a release addressing the most outstanding issues.

[Łukasz Szmigiel]

@Stefano-M64 my 22-year-old Yaris is no longer supported as it’s not getting any firmware updates. But hey, it works, is cheap to maintain and gets me from A to B so I guess it’s ok.

[VoiGAS]

@BrunoH Full support of the HRM2 is something I would not call “Bells and Wistles”. My wife (long discontinued) Forerunner 245 support Running dynamics from Garmin HRM. My (still sold by Suunto) V1 doesn’t support running dynamics from Suunto HRM. Thats absolutely not balanced

[Stefano M64]

@BrunoH said:

Obsolete? No, my V1 works just fine,

I didn’t mean obsolete from the functional point of view, but from the Suunto’s one, old hardware cannot receive new features (and that could be ok) while the fix of old bugs seems to be procrastinated to no date
such a flagship devices should worth to be supported for longer period as Samsung does guaranteeing 7 years of updates for the galaxy line top smartphones