System update – PXDZ.201119.005.A1
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@Dimitrios-Kanellopoulos thank you to you and your team for all the hard work you’ve done on the Suunto 7. I’d heard rumblings of a new smartwatch sports brand coming in 2020, and only managed to get my hands on a Suunto 7 now, as it’s gone on special (as do all WearOS watches 9-12 months in).
Anyways, i’ve gotten back into running and I’m impressed with the features the Suunto 7 and the solid quarterly firmware updates. New January update also works very well in showing my route and if i’m on-route or off-route, and also when the waypoints are approaching. I use the “Good” GPS setting, and currently draining 6% per hour which is pretty good to me.
I know other brands like Fossil have managed to bring sleep tracking, but I think in time with the Snapdragon Wear 4100, the battery life for the watch when it comes to notifications and general smartwatch usage, will finally be solved. Hoping that the Suunto 7 does well enough to get a successor.
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@Hughesy-and-Annalise you are most welcome
I personally think sleep tracking is a must
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@Hughesy-and-Annalise said in System update – PXDZ.201119.005.A1:
and only managed to get my hands on a Suunto 7 now, as it’s gone on special (as do all WearOS watches 9-12 months in).
I think this is important to be aware of. Some people seem to think the price drop somehow means that Suunto is either struggling to shift units or have lost interest. Just about all smart watches have big price drops after about 1 year.
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@Dimitrios-Kanellopoulos are you dropping hints about future feature updates haha
but on a serious note, future looks promising and this is honestly the first WearOS watch i’ve owned that doesn’t make me want to tear my heart out. and bodes well for getting back into shape too with my personal fitness.
will stay tuned
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@Aleksander-H Anyone think the watch will be discounted further before March 31? I have a 30% loyalty discount I’m thinking about using on one…I think it was priced even lower over the holidays but I’d not yet received the code…
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@Aleksander-H nailed it, as you said its pretty much the case with every smart watch. Suunto 7 will be a very big value proposition in even six months time.
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@fazel depends what your launch price was. it was launched here in Australia for $799AUD. last week was the first time it had a price drop, down to $390AUD from the official Suunto Store on Amazon Australia. had to get them to price match it in-store at JB Hi-Fi (a major electronics store chain here in Australia). So that’s a 50% drop.
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@Aleksander-H I don’t believe the price drop statement to be true at all unless maybe your focusing more on WearOs devices which in general have failed to reach large sales numbers (particularly from any one WearOs watch). Examples like the Garmin 945 and 245 haven’t dropped in their MSRPs and they are older watches then the Suunto. Polar Vantage M and Ignite are older still and have the same MSRP as they did at launch. Sure sales pop up from time to time but the MSRP hasn’t drop on any of those watches.
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@brotzfrog10 I don’t think the Garmin or Polar watches are considered smart watches. Apple’s smart watches on the other hand, do not get huge price drops. But I guess that’s true about all Apple’s devices.
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@aeroild said in System update – PXDZ.201119.005.A1:
@brotzfrog10 I don’t think the Garmin or Polar watches are considered smart watches. Apple’s smart watches on the other hand, does not get huge price drops. But I guess that’s true about all Apple’s devices.
Depending on the definition, but the market seems to consider any watch that can run third-party apps as a smartwatch.
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@brotzfrog10 sorry but have to disagree here. As the other poster pointed out, the Garmin and other brands are fitness watches first and smartwatches second. As opposed to WearOS which is Smartwatch first, fitness watch second.
Galaxy Watches hold their value because like Samsung phones, they’re Samsung. True that WearOS watches don’t make a huge dent in sales, but they do get reduced heavily about 9-12 months into their life cycle.
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@Hughesy-and-Annalise the fossil gen 5 caryle (the only WearOs brand to make any kind of dent sales wise) running on the same architecture as the Suunto 7 I believe is still the same MSRP with having a similar release date
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@brotzfrog10 and has been on sale multiple times. Fossil Garrett Gen 5 which is the same internals with different casing to the Carlyle, was on sale last month for 225 AUD from Fossil Australia.
Diesel Fadelite is on sale for 215 AUD from JB hi-fi here in Australia at the moment. Puma watch too for same price. And in USA, their discounts for models go even more extreme.
I could go on and on and on mate. Sure not all of them are on sale at the same time, but within a year of release they’re heavily discounted.
I own six WearOS watches at the moment and have had probably 15 or so over the years. I keep an eye on sales, ok.
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@Hughesy-and-Annalise I too have seen the Fossil Gen 5 Caryle on sale, i.e. as low as $139, which is more than half price. I have also read about people picking it up at $119. The Wear OS Smartwatches group on Facebook is good to follow for those with a general interest in Wear OS smartwatches.
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@Hughesy-and-Annalise a sale and lowering the MSRP indefinitely are two different things. Hell just about every watch was on sale and in some cases steeply in the last month or so. Amazon had the Apple Watch series 6 for $60 off. I guess it must be selling poorly this year.
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@brotzfrog10 whether it’s on sale or MSRP doesn’t matter in the broad overall context. Prices do drop, and people either do their research and get something when it’s on sale, or they don’t and pay full retail. That’s all that matters. RRP, MSRP, SRP, whatever acronym doesn’t matter in the slightest.
If folks wait for a while after the initial release of a product , then they can get a good deal. Simple as that. End of conversation.
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@Hughesy-and-Annalise that’s fine we can end it. But in the sales world MSRP only drops for really two reasons. Sluggish sales and needing to move some units or a newer model is on its way on old models need to be cleared out. Either option doesn’t bode well for Suunto 7 users myself included. Sales however happen for all kinds of reasons.
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@brotzfrog10 The Suunto website shows the following for the Suunto 7:
Which to me looks more like a sale price than a permanent reduction.
Suunto have also recently launched the Graphite Suunto 7 which is still retailing for the £429 price.
This implies to me that sales are doing fine and at the very least are meeting Suunto’s targets, why else would you bring out a special edition at full price? If sales were bad then there would be SIGNIFICANT reductions.
In fact, the big reductions were on the Suunto 9 and I think we can all agree that has been a huge product for Suunto.I agree with the other posters on here that almost all tech, whether it be watch, phone, TV, console, camera, anything, is more likely than not within 12 months of release to go through sales or a permanent price drop.
Heck, since the launch of the S7 there has been Black Friday, Christmas Sales, and now January Sales (and that’s just in the UK). I have seen reductions on almost all Fossil watches, most Garmin watches, the Apple Watch, and in fact, most tech out there.Saying that a product is selling badly simply because they are putting it on sale is both inaccurate and indeed shows a significant amount of naivety of the subject. Unless your only goal is simply to bash Suunto, in which case I for one will simply disregard all of your posts from now on.
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We are in sales season, feel free to guess what you want to think, but is a classic almost in every web.
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@olymay that’s a good tip. It shows completely different here in the U.S. it’s just $399.00 as a regular price no sale or discount mentioned through suuntos site. Third party retailers like REI etc also have it listed at $399 regular price (this was after it opened here in the states at $499 regular price). Might be different marketing strategies depending on the market?
