Suunto's newest watch is the 5 Peak

[isazi]

My very fast comment on the new watch: it is very light, very comfortable, perfect to wear for long time. It is the watch for me? No, I prefer to have a barometer because I am interested in mountain activities, but to each their own device.

[isazi]

And Joa’s video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=67nrj88lKEs

[DMytro]

@isazi I wonder though, what makes 260 euro difference?
S5p doesn’t have baro, sapphire screen and light sensor, but costs 2 times less.

[isazi]

@dmytro not sure I can answer, market does not always makes sense (no matter what Adam Smit says). But also the body of the S9P is metal, while the S5P is plastic. Also smaller screen.

[dulko79]

@dmytro maybe material grade/quality difference?

[Dimitrios Kanellopoulos]

@dmytro compass + materials

[Łukasz Szmigiel]

@dimitrios-kanellopoulos is compass really that expensive?

[DMytro]

@dimitrios-kanellopoulos oh, so no compass either?

[inkognito]

Couple of thoughts/questions:

• On the back of the watch, one can read 30M water resistance only… Wasn’t S5 50M?
• One can also read OW175 there, which is the Suunto 3 label, right? Perhaps graphic designers weren’t careful enough?
• Is it the same Valencell OHR sensor again that many people were complaining about? Or did it get any better?

[isazi]

@inkognito said in Suunto's newest watch is the 5 Peak:

• One can also read OW175 there, which is the Suunto 3 label, right? Perhaps graphic designers weren’t careful enough?

The real watch has OW202 on the back.

• Is it the same Valencell OHR sensor again that many people were complaining about? Or did it get any better?

The HR is pretty good, not as good as the S9P, but pretty good. Usually few bpm difference from a chest strap. I only had issues in very cold weather where all OHR sensors tend to struggle.

[Bulkan]

@inkognito is the version 2.0 of the sensor.

Is pretty good reading.

[cosme.costa]

I think it is a nice watch and as Joaquin says in his video a good choice for the targeted market.

What I think is a bad strategy from Suunto is present it just 2/3 days after Garmin presented the F7. I think Suunto should have presented it some days before the F7 or wait some weeks. Lots of reviewers have their bellies full with Garmin and they are not talking about the S5P.

[DMytro]

@bulkan you’re a tester too?

[Bulkan]

I found some photos:

[freeheeler]

@inkognito
I thought it looks like an S5 squeezed into an updated S3 body

@cosme-costa
garmin released another flagship, but Suunto is targeting a wider group of people… maybe this release date was clever, because people see a new watch that costs a fortune and only few days later they see a nice new watch that is affordable

[Mff73]

i never get any S5, but i am wondering which functions are managed through the two additional buttons on S5P vs Spartan (SSU)/S9(B)/S9P, etc…

@freeheeler, a comment ?

[inkognito]

@mff73 https://www.suunto.com/Support/Product-support/suunto_5/suunto_5/getting-started/buttons/

[DMytro]

@mff73 there’s a dedicated back button and a function button.

[isazi]

First review?

https://the5krunner.com/2022/01/20/suunto-5-peak-review-specifications/

[Łukasz Szmigiel]

@dmytro and the back button allows to cycle left during the workout. It’s impossible (without touch enabled) on S9, as I’ve been told.