Recommend the S9Baro to me...

stromdiddily

@RiphRaph have a hard time classifying the vertix as an “adventure watch” when it has literally zero poi or waypoint capability. At least on the original S9 you were able to save and navigate to locations directly from the watch (say originally as they have just dropped poi management for the app and it’s awesome)

Otherwise your post is pretty spot on but I do find the app to be a bit cartoonish.

RiphRaph

@stromdiddily I’ll give you the “adventure watch”/waypoint issue. That was actually the reason I hesitated briefly before pulling the trigger on the Vertix; until the news of full Stryd integration broke I’d been intending to get a Fenix 6X Pro. However, have you contacted them about the issue? Based on my recent experience of communicating with their support people, I’d expect that they would listen to reasoned, constructive comments.

The app, cartoonish? I wouldn’t have called it that, but then my very first running watch was the TomTom Runner 3, where the app (and website) was festooned with literal cartoon people in running kit! Suunto App actually does more to deserve the label, in my book, for all those silly gold stars it hands out on the flimisiest of pretexts.

In Coros App I actually like the muscle heatmap quite a bit, though it would be still more useful if it didn’t seem to think that any strength training move only targets one individual muscle. Which hopefully is an improvement they’ll make in a future update.

stromdiddily

@RiphRaph entirely personal preference on app fit and feel. Color scheme and font I s’pose just doesn’t suit my fancy

Allegedly - there are waypoints coming, but they’ve been saying that for a while.

kk1n76

@stromdiddily i agree with you. and also, Vertix gps accuracy is actually one of the worst of the coros. Take a look at 5krunner gps accuracy test (https://www.dropbox.com/sh/psdyxm93y2m12j3/AABNlbBRsF2E3edvzqnnMPC4a?dl=0&preview=Test+Results+-+All+Watches.xlsx). For coros, the best accuracy is actually with apex, and not vertix. Vertix is way much worse.

While the app itself is limited, i actually find the biggest issue with coros is their totally unreliable matrix. Even if they have any web interface, it won’t matter much. Apart from stryd metrics, which i don’t use, since i’m barefoot / sandal runners, and stryd cannot stick to feet / sandal lol, the rest of metrics of coros are questionable at best or unreliable at worst (from sleep, training load, till recovery). They don’t provide any background / explanation on how they get the data, unlike firstbeat used by garmin & suunto , or polar own RND.

Concept2 integration used to be its coros unique point, but now even Garmin has it.

Coros strongest point is always at its battery life.