Race 3S & Race 3 rumours

GiPFELKiND

Available at Amazon since today

martintrail

@GiPFELKiND That’s crazy. How can they already be selling it officially before they’ve even officially announced it? Only Suunto can do that.

GiPFELKiND

@martintrail shipping at 21.10

aiv4r

@GiPFELKiND most interesting part:

At least we know what future update will carry (Race planner and offline music)

Squirrel

Previous Amazon link does not work for me, but this one does: https://amzn.eu/d/02nLG6C1

Too bad the display stays at 1.32, I was hoping they would bump it closer to 1.4

sky-runner

@aiv4r The same Amazon listing shows a photo of a runner wearing the watch with the map screen, and the map rendering looks quite different vs. the current version - with more high contrast colors. Let’s hope that Suunto has listened and optimized map contrast.

With regards to music storage - I couldn’t care less.

Squirrel

@sky-runner said:

and the map rendering looks quite different vs. the current version

From the video, to me it looks pretty much the same

aiv4r

@sky-runner interesting about the maps there is also a frame in video where some kind of AI assistant is used, looks horrible. Could not care less about music, but interesting how race planner will be implemented, but also not on top of my wishlist.

Steven Hambleton

Offline music would be great, it would mean I can leave my phone at home for shorter runs - I’d still take it with me for longer runs like trail etc.

sky-runner

@Squirrel here is what I saw:

Note the white background and the black trails.Also the current position arrow looks different - more like in Run 2 software.

Rayfox

https://www.suunto.com/en-gb/Support/Product-support/suunto_race_3s/suunto_race_3s/getting-started/

The Race 3S is probably coming soon—there’s a manual for it, at least.

Egika

@sky-runner said:

@Squirrel here is what I saw:

Note the white background and the black trails.Also the current position arrow looks different - more like in Run 2 software.

This is the Winter map style. Available in your watch too

sky-runner

@Egika said:

This is the Winter map style. Available in your watch too

I don’t think so. In the winter map style the background is grey rather rather than while, bodies of water are light blue and almost invisible against the background, trails are nearly invisible against the background too because their color is just a shade different from the the background. If trails were visible on winter map, it would be my favorite map theme, but I think it is intended for winter sports rather than trail running.

OutdoorMan

@sky-runner I think this is just because of photo editing. I think the t-shirt is also white, but looks yellow-ish due to that.

Egika

My winter background in places is white, not grey.
Release FW of R3s has no extra map style.
The black structure at the bottom or the Pic is how cliffs are rendered.

sky-runner

@Egika Ok, in that case it was disingenuous to show the map in winter mode in that advertisement that shows a trail runner. Trails are nearly invisible on a winter map. The choice of colors is such that for a long time I thought that trails are not rendered at all.

jthomi

Also funny! https://amzn.eu/d/081B7uga

Tami999

@jthomi said:

Also funny! https://amzn.eu/d/081B7uga

Probably the same they used to sell for Race S (same size?). But anyway nice pre-order for screen protector

aiv4r

I guess it is officially out!
https://apac.suunto.com/products/suunto-race-3s-titanium-orchid

Nothing really what we already did not know. Can see Race Planner screen. Wonder when we will get that update.
Another a bit scary thing, seems that AI coach will get a bigger role and can be used as an assistant, we will see how it is implementet.

Steven Hambleton

@aiv4r Some questions remain -

Will there be a non-titanium version?
How much will the Race 3 be?
Will the Race 2 and Vertical get the same updates given they run on the same chip (Apollo 510) albeit with less storage
Will they reduce the Race 2 further?