ZoneSense
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@Knigge
I was in the same feeling with my Spartan Ultra, which replaced my first GPS Watch Ambit1.
As you see, I am (was) quite conservative, and keep watches in service long time despite new models.
I resisted to ambit2, and desesperatly to Ambit3
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And when Spartan came out, I got it. But “soon”, the S9 came out, and I resisted as well long time, and go only to change for the S9P.
ALL that said, that in tech world, there are like some new models that are “more” proof of concepts (technically / marketingly) and those models won’t evolve that much, letting place to more mature ones.
If one want to stay updated (with new feature) the longer, one need to choose the right model
and I personnaly never choose the right one 
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But don’t get me wrong, I ALWAYS have great adventures with all my watches, they never failed (or Suunto fixed what needed to be fixed) just not fancy or useful new stuff, but still working.
After S9, S9P took time to come, and I changed my way of doing : I tested all new models, and decided really whether it needs the change, and finally, I waited for the Vertical, with its map, and it is now my new buddy for adventure outdoor.
I will resist to amoled models for now and wait… But SV is in the situation to have great memory, great processor, and probably it could be updated long time with new features, as long as Suunto decided so. -
Well, i must say “new” features mostly useless for us, they are for marketing and money profit to company. For us is better to take a laboratory vo2 test, it shows you what you need to train and show your correct hr and pace zones. As example of “new” feature which they sell was fused track to 9 peak, if you check right now at manual for 9 peak you cant find it.
I like my 9 peak and i specially buy ti version when they appeared.
After a couple of failures due to the mismatch of the suunto + (zonesense and box breathing) there are problems with the battery, I’m trying to solve it, but in Russia it is impossible to get service center support.
I think that reliability should be at the top of everything, and then all the newfangled things.
