Suunto 7 in 2021! Is it a good buy?
-
@Optics-field-Test around one year back I take the decision of move from S9B to S7, today I still believe, that at least for me, it was the right decision. I love the smartwatch functionallity and yes, the battery lasts less than on S9B but are two kind of different devices. You will love the S7 and its features.
For baro I use Baro Trend app among others.
I can get 15-18h of GPS on good fix with the S7.
@brad_olwin you get this using the Location Accuracy in GOOD or with other additional tweck?
Thanks! -
@flypg said in Suunto 7 in 2021! Is it a good buy?:
@brad_olwin you get this using the Location Accuracy in GOOD or with other additional tweck?
Thanks!Yes, no additional tweaks except I put the watch in airplane mode so no notifications. You can occasionally view the map page but loading a course will reduce the battery life.
My last run this last Sunday (2h) with GPS set to best and no course loaded estimated 11h of GPS tracking
-
@brad_olwin Thank you!
-
I just want to share my experience with all the baro/alti applications. So, from my point of view neither of them work fine. Especially comparing to original widget in SS, 9 baro and etc.
I don’t want to knock any of developers/applications but I’ve tested them all and I’m not satisfied with any of them.
To be clearer - I just can’t rely on the information from those applications. The only things one gets are funny numbers and charts which usually don’t show the real picture.
However, the altitude measurement during the activities is quite accurate
@Optics-field-Test - as I understand that this is a big question for you, just be aware of that.
Frankly, If I hadn’t my SSU which basically covers all the drawbacks of S7, I would not be happy with S7.
Have a good one!
Suunto Spartan Ultra, Suunto 7 Ti, Suunto Vertical Ti Solar
-
@rooldaa said in Suunto 7 in 2021! Is it a good buy?:
I just want to share my experience with all the baro/alti applications. So, from my point of view neither of them work fine. Especially comparing to original widget in SS, 9 baro and etc.
I don’t want to knock any of developers/applications but I’ve tested them all and I’m not satisfied with any of them.
To be clearer - I just can’t rely on the information from those applications. The only things one gets are funny numbers and charts which usually don’t show the real picture.
However, the altitude measurement during the activities is quite accurate
@Optics-field-Test - as I understand that this is a big question for you, just be aware of that.
Frankly, If I hadn’t my SSU which basically covers all the drawbacks of S7, I would not be happy with S7.
Have a good one!
I completely agree with this
-
@rooldaa thanks for your input, greatly appreciated.
I currently have a Suunto Traverse Alpha and it’s Baro-Alt are second to none. The Storm Alert always come to life whenever a big L hits the UK. If the S7 third party app isn’t on par then it would be disappointing.
-
@flypg Thanks pal, that’s a nice graph!
How accurate is the auto switch between Baro/Alt?
My Suunto Traverse takes about 13 minutes to move from Alti to Baro reading?
-
So, from my point of view neither of them work fine.
@rooldaa Didn’t accurate results?
On baro apps I got good ones, for example now my National Weather Service display 1017.3 hPa for my city and I get 1017.6 hPa on the app, a logic difference. With altimeter I had similar results but with the altimeters my bad experience was about battery consumption. I uninstalled them and posted this thread just in case that we can get a great altimeter tile from Suunto like the recent additions of the HR, Sleep, etc.
@Optics-field-Test You’re welcome!
You mean about switch the altimeter source from GPS to Baro? Some apps use directly the barometer sensor information and others also are calibrated with baro + GPS.On my experience with the Storm Alarms, always I got false positives here, with the apps but also with S9B and A3P in their moment. But I repeat, with the apps that I tested for this, I got too much battery consumption until now. One advatage on S7 is that all of these app it’s on continue evolution and you can test one or other, and repeart the test few months after, perhaps the app that for me is great for you no, and viceversa.
-
@flypg said in Suunto 7 in 2021! Is it a good buy?:
with the altimeters my bad experience was about battery consumption
even with this one? it works pretty well in my opinion without depleting battery (~1…3%)
-
@g-q yes, It is one of the ones I tried and I published here. Maybe I need to give a new chance testing this apps again because this was few months back. Thanks.
-
@optics-field-test I use My Radar Pro for weather because
-
@brad_olwin Thanks mate!
Ordered my S7 and should have it tomorrow. Will report back once I install ABC app.
Any tips to get best battery life?
I am aiming to use it for the odd hikes on weekend and to check notification ie: text messages and ring doorbell
Thanks
-
@optics-field-test
Congrats!
Tons of nice infos after you have your S7
https://forum.suunto.com/topic/6163/first-steps-with-the-s7
More apps to test:
https://forum.suunto.com/topic/6168/suunto-7-list-of-useful-apps-to-complete-the-several-options-via-google-play
Enjoy! -
@flypg thanks mate for sharing those links, very much appreciated!
Exciting times
-
@flypg hi mate, how do I install this app Alti-Barometer please?
-
@optics-field-test said in Suunto 7 in 2021! Is it a good buy?:
@flypg hi mate, how do I install this app Alti-Barometer please?
-
@egika I cannot find the third post that is supposed to have the instruction on how to install it
Please share it if you can
Much appreciated
-
@optics-field-test https://forum.xda-developers.com/t/app-alti-barometer-app-w-tile-auto-calibration-notifications-and-more.4136449/#post-83143665
From “ADB Tutorial”, 8 steps.
-
@optics-field-test just scroll down. 3rd post is on the same page…
-
@flypg Thanks i found it however, I cannot install 1.16 apk.
The direr time I was doing it I got a prompt on the watch to always allow, I did that but then I realised that I typed in the command version 1.15apk. Oops
Since that nothing seem to work. My understanding is you place the apk file Inside the ADB folder anywhere ? Correct?
