Suunto 7

A Former User

Now if they could use this AMOLED screen and optical sensor to develop a true Spartan/Suunto 9 successor, that would be another story; but I wouldn’t really count on this to happen.

AMOLED screens are very power hungry, especially when they are high resolution, so don’t count on building an S9 like watch with S7 screen. There is a reason Garmin continues to use low resolution screen on their Fenix line watches even though they have Venu.

Prenj

Not impressed at all…

clemens.renzl

@Prenj …

Luís Pinto

@Brad_Olwin i’m pretty sure that amoled screens or equivalent at some point will substitute actual major screens. But with another ultra-low CPUs and with another batteries. This is the begining. My concern with S7 sucess is price. I really don’ t know if a casual sport guy or girl will buy this watch with so many choices in market.

jsuarez

@Prenj That’s really really bad…

freeheeler

@Prenj
but this one is nice and I want that in S9B

isazi

@Prenj if firmware it’s not final, they will optimize stuff in the next month.

Prenj

@isazi said in Suunto 7:

@Prenj if firmware it’s not final, they will optimize stuff in the next month.

True. But still, as with any wear os device, you will probably need to charge it every day, maybe even more frequently. Until better batteries get developed this kind of devices will only be toys. At least for me. What good is HR sensor and it’s ability to monitor your sleep if you need to take off your watch for recharging every night?

I wish suunto focused it’s efforts more on developing some unique features that really distinguish them from others. There are a lot of similar devices on the market already. Mostly much cheaper.

Egika

one other question:
will be Suunto WearOS watch app be made available for other WearOS smart watches?

jw cou

@NickK said in Suunto 7:

Run a few miles in a park, hike around a lake, stretch at a yoga studio, get your pumpkin latte while listening to a podcast. Is it for you? Probably no. Apparently it’s not for me either. Sucks to be us, pal

Don’t you think there’s a middle ground between athletes / pro / elite / very wild runners, whatever you want to call them and the Sunday runner you describe? This middle ground is to me the target audience of the S7.

I don’t think I can be categorized as running a few miles in the park before my latte and yoga session. I do 20-30km trails every 2 weeks, that is 3-4 hours run, run > 50km once a year and go hiking > 1500m+ a couple of times a year. So a 10 hours battery life per activity is enough for me, and I would not encounter extreme conditions but need something robust. As a training I do long flat run (2 or 3 hours) and would definitely welcome some music then.
I don’t seriously train, so intervals / planning are not for me. I don’t need very robust navigation, when I go for trails it’s on marked path so maps “only” are very good for that --> that’s what the S7 is for in my opinion, and that’s why the “Sunday runner” will go to a cheaper watch (unless they are Suunto addicts).

It’s alos very good for Sunnto to expand their strategic target consumers, as you don;t want to rely on only one crowd (= the hardcore guys). Of course the risk is loosing a bit the focus for one or the other group.

sartoric

@jean-william-cousin said in Suunto 7:

Of course the risk is loosing a bit the focus for one or the other group.

Only if this “expansion” doesn’t give you more resources (da money ) to work with

Maryn

I wonder how long the battery will last if the watch is charged every day or every day and a half. Very quickly its performance will decrease. I think that 300 cycles will come out under one year and then it will only get worse.

Correct me if I’m wrong.

PS. I generally like this watch.

Luís Pinto

@Brad_Olwin Any tester with .fit or .json with NAV+BDS tracks?

Luís Pinto

@jean-william-cousin said in Suunto 7:

Don’t you think there’s a middle ground between athletes / pro / elite / very wild runners, whatever you want to call them and the Sunday runner you describe? This middle ground is to me the target audience of the S7.
I don’t think I can be categorized as running a few miles in the park before my latte and yoga session. I do 20-30km trails every 2 weeks, that is 3-4 hours run, run > 50km once a year and go hiking > 1500m+ a couple of times a year. So a 10 hours battery life per activity is enough for me, and I would not encounter extreme conditions but need something robust. As a training I do long flat run (2 or 3 hours) and would definitely welcome some music then.
I don’t seriously train, so intervals / planning are not for me. I don’t need very robust navigation, when I go for trails it’s on marked path so maps “only” are very good for that --> that’s what the S7 is for in my opinion, and that’s why the “Sunday runner” will go to a cheaper watch (unless they are Suunto addicts).
It’s alos very good for Sunnto to expand their strategic target consumers, as you don;t want to rely on only one crowd (= the hardcore guys). Of course the risk is loosing a bit the focus for one or the other group.

I understand all you said and agree with most. Suunto have to expand market as Garmin does. And offer different products for different targets of people. S7 is an attempt to do that.

Luís Pinto

@Prenj said in Suunto 7:

True. But still, as with any wear os device, you will probably need to charge it every day, maybe even more frequently. Until better batteries get developed this kind of devices will only be toys. At least for me. What good is HR sensor and it’s ability to monitor your sleep if you need to take off your watch for recharging every night?
I wish suunto focused it’s efforts more on developing some unique features that really distinguish them from others. There are a lot of similar devices on the market already. Mostly much cheaper.

Is not just battery. Maybe graphene material will make a huge step. And also cpu consumption.
https://www.businessinsider.com/samsung-graphene-battery-tech-super-fast-charging-2019-8

freeheeler

@Luís-Pinto
Arc’teryx came up with the super ugly Veilance series… even these jackets remind me of the movie Equilibrium I would never wear anything from the Veilance series… but I don’t have to, everyone can choose what they like

The disappointment here is that there are running new developments while older products could still need some attention.
I don’t know if the discussion about a Suunto Web is off the table with the S7 completely?

pilleus

A short hands-on …

https://youtu.be/vv9tp5Rl9Kg

Luís Pinto

@TELE-HO Unfortunately i think web will be past. Mobile is expandind very fast. There are rumors that Garmin and Polar will make that move. Garmin connect app is very complete in some way much better than web. Coros and Huami (Xiaomi) just have app.

But there is hope with Dimitrios’s Quantified. I propose a new name @Dimitrios-Kanellopoulos QS Sports!

freeheeler

@Luís-Pinto
I think you are right. It’s good that we have Dimitrios with his nice QS project

Prenj

@Luís-Pinto
Yes. The point is that this particular watch model will not utilize this technology and I’m afraid that taking current battery life limitation in consideration will not be a success story when it hits the market.

So if Suunto management decided to make this watch to gain larger users base and make good profit out of it this could easily turn out to be a fail.

But if they did it because they want to gain advantage in this platform on time, expecting some huge advancement in power efficiency that industry will offer soon, that could be a success. But I’m not that optimistic about some big changes in power efficiency as we see how things go with mobile phones. After so many years we still have devices that mostly squeeze one day of use out of battery at most.

Also keep in mind that Suunto is notoriously understaffed in IT department, so balancing between all these platforms could be a big challenge for them.