This is a good point you bring up and I would like to follow to see if someone has a good suggestion. I find myself sometimes struggling to activate the raise to wake to brighten the display and would prefer to be able to quickly glance at the watch without an exaggerated raise to wake gesture

Screen burn is a known issue on the S7 unfortunately, Suunto will replace the screen for you if the watch is within warranty (2 years for me, I’m unsure if that is the same worldwide). I have only this week had my watch back from repair, a refurbished screen was fitted and the watch is as good as new… for now…

the “dark” in the manual is most likely referring to the backlight, not the information on the screen. No worries, Suunto’s sports watches are designed to always show information (watch face in standby). Different than smart watches like the apple watch (or the Suunto 7), this dows not cause additional battery consumption and is the way it is supposed to be.

@flypg the standby option only enables a very dim backlight while you wear the watch. If I’m not mistaken it will still put the watch screen off after a couple of minutes without movement.

@zavlak the S9 has sooo much more. Color screen, touch, optical heart rate, etc, etc etc. Just if you buy the model without barometric sensor, you don’t get constant altitude information. And you won’t get it with GPS either. It just makes no sense to switch on GPS for 15mins (it usually takes 12mins to get enough GPS samples for a good altitude reading), just to find you are indoors and there is no signal. The impact on battery would be huge and the data bad to not usable. It’s like you’ve got a BMW 5 with manual gearbox and complain it does not shift like your Daihatsu with automatic…