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    Pros/Cons of Suunto 9 BARO * ONLY * be fair and polite!

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      johann.fuehrer Bronze Member @zhang965
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      @zhang965 I had an “SSU Titanium Customized” until last week and dropped it because of issues … I’m now waiting where to go and stay with the A2 Peak Sapphire

      And I had Also an S9 BARo & S9BARO Titanium which I also get rid of as long as I could get my money back. I’m not giving up, but I will not wait forever …

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        zhang965 @freeheeler
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        @TELE-HO said in Pros/Cons of Suunto 9 BARO * ONLY * be fair and polite!:

        @zhang965
        what is, by your experience, the battery life in best GPS mode?

        and another technical question: is it possible to get oxygen values with these LED’s or would it require a different sensor?

        I never did a long time activity, my longest move was a 12km 48min run, so for me the battery is enough.

        It needs a different sensor for blood oxygen

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          A Former User @johann.fuehrer
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          @johann-fuehrer said in Pros/Cons of Suunto 9 BARO * ONLY * be fair and polite!:

          @zhang965 what makes you think so? Bluetooth/ANT+ consumes also energy and WHR is optimized to use also as less as possible? Just because chast Belt has it’s own battery for sensor and transmission?

          It is easy enough to try because Suunto 9 shows estimated battery life on activity start screen.

          If my memory is correct, with full charge in Performance mode S9B promises the following:

          • With OHR - 25 hours
          • With BT HR sensor - 30-31 hours
          • With HR turned off - 33-34 hours
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            zhang965 @johann.fuehrer
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            @johann-fuehrer said in Pros/Cons of Suunto 9 BARO * ONLY * be fair and polite!:

            @zhang965 I had an “SSU Titanium Customized” until last week and dropped it because of issues … I’m now waiting where to go and stay with the A2 Peak Sapphire

            And I had Also an S9 BARo & S9BARO Titanium which I also get rid of as long as I could get my money back. I’m not giving up, but I will not wait forever …

            i had almost complexe feeling about SSU, it was so awful in 360 degrees.

            I was telling myself , when buying S9, there will be nothing awful as ssu, there will be nothing awful as ssu.

            Until I opened s9’s package

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              pilleus @zhang965
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              @zhang965 said in Pros/Cons of Suunto 9 BARO * ONLY * be fair and polite!:

              Personally I recommend you to get a second hand SSU

              +1

              I just got a new one for 225 EUR (including heart belt).

              But I think that my Ambit 3 is the best choice further on. 😎👍

              https://www.instagram.com/moves.are.life/
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              Suunto 9 Peak Pro Black
              Suunto Spartan Ultra Stealth Titanium

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                johann.fuehrer Bronze Member @zhang965
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                @zhang965 said in Pros/Cons of Suunto 9 BARO * ONLY * be fair and polite!:

                @johann-fuehrer said in Pros/Cons of Suunto 9 BARO * ONLY * be fair and polite!:

                @zhang965 I had an “SSU Titanium Customized” until last week and dropped it because of issues … I’m now waiting where to go and stay with the A2 Peak Sapphire

                And I had Also an S9 BARo & S9BARO Titanium which I also get rid of as long as I could get my money back. I’m not giving up, but I will not wait forever …

                i had almost complexe feeling about SSU, it was so awful in 360 degrees.

                I was telling myself , when buying S9, there will be nothing awful as ssu, there will be nothing awful as ssu.

                Until I opened s9’s package

                I’m not bounded to a brand, I’m using V800 and A2PS together, because I need only good pace/power and time/distance during my workouts. The rest is “candy”. And for GPS track quality and battery lifetime these two are still unbeaten (IMHO) for my needs …

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                  freeheeler @Guest
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                  @silentvoyager said in Pros/Cons of Suunto 9 BARO * ONLY * be fair and polite!:

                  With BT HR sensor - 30-31 hours

                  that would be perfect for my extended skitouring weekends 👌

                  living sideways

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                    freeheeler @zhang965
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                    @zhang965
                    why is ssu and s9 aweful?
                    do you like the a3ps design better?

                    living sideways

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                      zhang965 @freeheeler
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                      @TELE-HO said in Pros/Cons of Suunto 9 BARO * ONLY * be fair and polite!:

                      @zhang965
                      why is ssu and s9 aweful?
                      do you like the a3ps design better?

                      A3ps is the best of ambit line, but it’s in past, as a famous suunto community manager said, ssu s9 are not ambit.

                      You cannot interpret ambit with s9’s logic, ambit3p is the best and s9 is the best as well- in different lines.

                      The distance between software and hardware makes ssu s9 awful.

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                        johann.fuehrer Bronze Member @freeheeler
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                        @TELE-HO said in Pros/Cons of Suunto 9 BARO * ONLY * be fair and polite!:

                        @zhang965
                        why is ssu and s9 aweful?
                        do you like the a3ps design better?

                        he said awful - not ugly!

                        😉 the design of the A3 & A2 is — ähm, unconventional (yes, they are ugly) but the SSU and S9 are also not eye candy. But this is different topic …

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                          freeheeler @johann.fuehrer
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                          @johann-fuehrer
                          I actually like the a3ps design with the brushed silverish ring and buttons and the external gps chip! and it is hopelessly comfy, too 🙂

                          living sideways

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                            zhang965
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                            Nowadays the companies release a unfinished product is a common strategy, ssu’s development was a mess, three years later I’m still feeling ssu is not completed.

                            And s9, I mean that the moment you know it will be hardly completed again,

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                              freeheeler @zhang965
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                              @zhang965
                              for distance, alti and some more issues I would still hasitate to upgrade to S9… but I think this could be an option once the dust has settled 👍

                              living sideways

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                                freeheeler @zhang965
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                                @zhang965
                                product is finish with improvements and immediately goes phase out 🤔
                                strange strategy…
                                but I think with my phone it’s different. I choose Sony Xperia as they seem to be deeply tested and have very… veeery few bugs 👌
                                …and the frequency of releasing phones is higher than watches. but then Sony is much bigger and amount of sold phones hundret times more…

                                living sideways

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                                  johann.fuehrer Bronze Member
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                                  @Dimitrios-Kanellopoulos whom to talk to to close this thread? Statler and Waldorf occupied this as well so it makes no more sense for others to keep it alive …

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                                    zhang965 @johann.fuehrer
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                                    @johann-fuehrer you can delete it by your own

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                                      freeheeler @johann.fuehrer
                                      last edited by freeheeler

                                      @johann-fuehrer
                                      no, leave it open, it is not under SA and gives room for some philosophic chats, I appreciate that!
                                      by all the “this and that is missing and not working” I need some info that could convince me to buy an s9 one day instead of getting scared to ever take a step ahead again…
                                      🙂

                                      living sideways

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                                        johann.fuehrer Bronze Member @freeheeler
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                                        @TELE-HO said in Pros/Cons of Suunto 9 BARO * ONLY * be fair and polite!:

                                        @johann-fuehrer
                                        no, leave it open, it is not under SA and gives room for some philosophic chats, I appreciate that!
                                        by all the “this and that is missing and not working” I need some info that could convince me to buy an s9 one day instead of getting scared to ever take a step ahead again…
                                        🙂

                                        I don’t want a philosophic chat, I wanted to know from users what their pro/cons of the S9BARO are.
                                        And this thread is now the usual “Suunto does not right and do not listen” stuff. Make an own thread for this … You will have at least one guy posting there. Sorry.

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                                          freeheeler @johann.fuehrer
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                                          @johann-fuehrer
                                          my takeaway of this threat is:
                                          today my ambit us right for me.
                                          tomorrow, s9b will be my watch when the following is optimized:
                                          gps accuracy (for distance)
                                          baro accuracy (for alti)
                                          lighting will be hard to fix with existing hardware… but if the screen is good to read in bright sunlight i’m fine
                                          👍
                                          now you can close it 😉

                                          living sideways

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                                            Saketo Nemo Moderator @freeheeler
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                                            @TELE-HO
                                            screen is a transreflective, perfectly readable in sunlight. More is bright, more it’s readable.
                                            GPS accuracy: actually isn’t so bad, indeed, and will se if next fw release brings gps enhancement.
                                            baro accuracy: I do a lot of mountain and in correspondence of the known altitude, s9 is always precise, better than SSU. I also have some pictures about it, if you are interested.

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