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

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    • sartoricS Offline
      sartoric Moderator
      last edited by

      Just for the sake of chatting … I’ve set backlight to 30 😄
      Of course not an S9, maybe it’s different.

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      • Brad_OlwinB Offline
        Brad_Olwin Moderator @Kristen Maria
        last edited by

        @Kristen-Maria I have found gold and green colors are easiest to see, the others appear much dimmer to me. I have my backlight at 30% and turn on standby only in winter.

        Vector/T6c/Ambit 3 Peak/S5 Copper/S3/S7 Ti/S9 baro Ti/S9P Ti/S9PP Ti/Vertical Ti/Race Ti/RaceS/Ocean/Wing

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        • freeheelerF Offline
          freeheeler @Brad_Olwin
          last edited by

          @Brad_Olwin
          s9 seems to have a completely different screen technology than fenix 3…
          I never used backlight… only in the dark

          living sideways

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          • zhang965Z Offline
            zhang965
            last edited by zhang965

            I wear two watches, one is S9b another is a normal automatic watch, I never use s9 for time.

            I have to move several time my wrist to find a best view on s9 time mode. it’s not convenient during a business meeting or dating…

            Winners Wear Winners

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            • Jonas ImholzJ Offline
              Jonas Imholz
              last edited by

              I am not happy with the height measurement of the barometer, this is usually far off even if I calibrate this each time at the beginning of a hike.

              Therefore, I would like to know if there is an option to measure the height via GPS

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              • Brad_OlwinB Offline
                Brad_Olwin Moderator @Jonas Imholz
                last edited by

                @Jonas-Imholz You have a separate thread for this, can we keep one conversation and not two?

                Vector/T6c/Ambit 3 Peak/S5 Copper/S3/S7 Ti/S9 baro Ti/S9P Ti/S9PP Ti/Vertical Ti/Race Ti/RaceS/Ocean/Wing

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                • freeheelerF Offline
                  freeheeler
                  last edited by freeheeler

                  first short evening hike with my new S9B… so far, very nice watch! 👌
                  the track is not too accurate but for slow activity like hiking acceptable… i’ll check all settings tonight… I only had time to setup the sport mode before the hike

                  living sideways

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                  • Torbjørn Høstmark BorgeT Offline
                    Torbjørn Høstmark Borge
                    last edited by

                    I understand those who wants 24/7 tracking and OHR but I would love to see the possibility to turn off step counting. At this point, only Garmin allows you to turn this completely off. It shouldn’t be too difficult.

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                    • freeheelerF Offline
                      freeheeler @Torbjørn Høstmark Borge
                      last edited by

                      @Torbjørn-Høstmark-Borge
                      why? it doesn’t consume noticeable battery

                      living sideways

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                      • freeheelerF Offline
                        freeheeler
                        last edited by

                        after using my s9b for the first time the first thought I have is why is it not possible to toggle the use of satellite systems? I see you can select gps, gps+glonass and gps+galileo… it would be nice to use galileo alone or galileo+glonass

                        living sideways

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                        • Torbjørn Høstmark BorgeT Offline
                          Torbjørn Høstmark Borge @freeheeler
                          last edited by Torbjørn Høstmark Borge

                          @TELE-HO i know, but a minor group (including me), are a little bit more prone to addictions than others. Reaching 40k steps each day is a killer. It really helps when you can turn that feature off.

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                          • freeheelerF Offline
                            freeheeler @Torbjørn Høstmark Borge
                            last edited by freeheeler

                            @Torbjørn-Høstmark-Borge
                            😁 then you better leave it switched on and face your addiction to overcome it 😉

                            living sideways

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                            • sartoricS Offline
                              sartoric Moderator @Torbjørn Høstmark Borge
                              last edited by

                              @Torbjørn-Høstmark-Borge
                              Lower the goal to 100 😄

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                              • Torbjørn Høstmark BorgeT Offline
                                Torbjørn Høstmark Borge @freeheeler
                                last edited by

                                @TELE-HO impossible ☺️. Seriously, it’s not something you want to experience.

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                                • Torbjørn Høstmark BorgeT Offline
                                  Torbjørn Høstmark Borge @sartoric
                                  last edited by

                                  @sartoric 100 steps a day?🤓. I’m more l kind of a 1-point-something-million…

                                  But it should be possible to turn it off.

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                                  • freeheelerF Offline
                                    freeheeler @Torbjørn Høstmark Borge
                                    last edited by

                                    @Torbjørn-Høstmark-Borge
                                    I’m working in an office and try to move in my free time a bit… sometimes I don’t even get 5k steps 😉
                                    but maybe you can place this request in the firmware update/feature suggestion rather that in this thread?

                                    living sideways

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                                    • ianshowalterI Offline
                                      ianshowalter @pilleus
                                      last edited by

                                      @pilleus There’s actually a reason expensive watches with built in OHR tend to have worse readings than cheaper fitness trackers: weight. The heavier that one-sided weight is on your wrist, the more likely it is to bounce around a little and mess up the HR data. So, yes, generally that base-model activity tracker is going to track your heart rate during activities like running better than an S9 or a Fenix. It’s paradoxical, but it’s a limitation of wrist-based HR.

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                                      • Torbjørn Høstmark BorgeT Offline
                                        Torbjørn Høstmark Borge @freeheeler
                                        last edited by

                                        @TELE-HO Thanks for your advice, I’m new to this forum, so after reading a bit here, I thought this was the best place

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                                        • freeheelerF Offline
                                          freeheeler @Torbjørn Høstmark Borge
                                          last edited by

                                          @Torbjørn-Høstmark-Borge
                                          no worries!
                                          Johann has created this thread to give people the chance to compare a bit more between older watches and the S9B…
                                          it finally made me buy the S9B 😀

                                          living sideways

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                                          • Torbjørn Høstmark BorgeT Offline
                                            Torbjørn Høstmark Borge @freeheeler
                                            last edited by

                                            @TELE-HO great 🙂.
                                            I’ve always seen myself as a Garmin man, but I’ve used a lot of watches since I’m reviewing them for my website. Over the last months I’ve started to miss the Suunto 9 Baro. Garmin has so many more features, but there was something about Suunto 9 that made me feel that it was “bombproof”. I could have walked into a storm and found my way out.

                                            I great thing about Suunto 9 though, is that it seems to have such great hardware that it doesn’t get old very fast. It just depends on the firmware. Really thinking of buying another one. Again 😇

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