New to S9Peak from S9B

[Efejota]

Update. Battery life

Just a small and very relevant update for battery life. Simply unbelievable.

Real world data: 100% charged on Saturday night. Two cycling activities 4 hours each (one with a long rest of about 4 more hours, so the whole day with a 4 hours stop-resume break). Another one of 3 hours. Running for around one hour on Saturday. 24/7 HR and sleep measuring. Every activity involved navigation, hence best possible GPS, 1 sec recording and permanent screen.

Next charge: Saturday afternoon after running when the watch reached 3%!!! Could not believe it.

[Brad_Olwin]

@efejota We (testers) told you battery life on the Peak with OHR was as good or better than baro with a belt.

[Efejota]

@brad_olwin good point. I forgot to say that for bike rides I used HR belt. Important point. Nevertheless, the battery life is really impressive.

[TheGuyFromTheSummit]

The peak looks so elegant and sleek. Awesome

Just one question regarding the display-readability:

Are the data fields when using a 7-field screen easy to read compared to the S9baro?

99% of the time I use this display type during tracking.

Thanks!

[Dimitrios Kanellopoulos]

@theguyfromthesummit for me there is looses a bit readability.

[Efejota]

@theguyfromthesummit Cannot say. I hardly read 5 in both 9B and 9P

[surfboomerang]

@theguyfromthesummit depends on the sport type.
For hiking I do use 7 field screens, but running (or other sports which involves arm movement) I don’t.

[TheGuyFromTheSummit]

thanks for the replies!

It looks like, I stick to my S9Baro

[isazi]

@theguyfromthesummit similar to @surfboomerang I only use the 7 data fields in mountaineering cause I am not going to fiddle with my watch, and want everything at once. I find the readability good, but my speed is low.

[MiniForklift]

@isazi Same, I only really use 7 data fields for when I am climbing or if I am doing an activity where the speed is going to be slow. Most of my main screen have 3 fields or 4 at the maximum, easy to read when you’re flying down the side of a mountain

I just find the thought of dropping from 50mm to 43mm a bit too much of a jump. One of my friends is waiting for their S9P to arrive so I’ll check theirs out once they have it

[TheGuyFromTheSummit]

How can you have enough with only 4 fields

I always use 7, no matter if biking, trailrunning or hiking, I just don’t like to switch between screens.

[Brad_Olwin]

@theguyfromthesummit said in New to S9Peak from S9B:

How can you have enough with only 4 fields

I always use 7, no matter if biking, trailrunning or hiking, I just don’t like to switch between screens.

How can you need 7 fields??? Mostly I need ascent and distance, I don’t understand how the data are of any use when running/MTB. When road cycling I would use cadence, speed, distance and power, not much else. I have 4 fields and one screen for everything but races where I use 2 screens with 3 fields each on both S9P and S9b.

[Łukasz Szmigiel]

@brad_olwin etas perhaps. I use ETA / ETE for end and POI, sunrise, sunset and it’s 6 fields already. But that’s for hiking or a second screen for long trail runs in case I get lost or something unforeseen happens.

[Efejota]

@brad_olwin In my case, in addition to what you use, I also put sunset, temperature, average pace or speed, vertical speed and things like that depending on the sport. In most of the cases (unless sunset, TBH) I must confess that I could live without those data . But, what the heck, I have a S9P, I must have tons of information at any moment!!!

[Efejota]

@theguyfromthesummit I rather switch screens than having my watch constantly reminding my age when trying to read those tiny numbers

[Brad_Olwin]

@łukasz-szmigiel So if you engage SuuntoPlus Weather and have a route loaded, an ETE/ETA field and Sunset is already there. Why I try to keep the data in the watch simple.

[Łukasz Szmigiel]

@brad_olwin valid point. But it’s unavailable in S5 and besides - one might want to limit screen switching and S+ requires to shuffle the screens.

Btw. is it possible to switch screens to the left in S9 series as there’s no dedicated back button?

[DMytro]

@łukasz-szmigiel only via touch

[Łukasz Szmigiel]

@dmytro well, I would have to change my habits and redesign the screens if I had S9 then. I often jump between navigation and the screen before it. I’d have to cycle all the way forward if on 9?

[DMytro]

@łukasz-szmigiel sadly so. It’s fine with me as I rarely look at the data other than hr and duration, map - so only two screens basically.