Suunto Vertical 1 – A Few Questions About the Future + Questions About the Vertical 2 and a Comparison with the Coros Nomad / the New Vertix 2026
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Good morning everyone. Hi Adrian, I have a V2 and since the last update (in my case) and using Custom Modes and 3 Suunto Guides, the watch has been freezing…in my last run (50km) it stopped measuring my heart rate (new Polar H10) after the first 5km and after freezing completely
️…and I’m wondering… Why am I not using the watch’s optical heart rate sensor if it’s activated???
In my opinion, since Suunto doesn’t have or use ANT+ technology to connect various sensors (including heart rate monitors), it will continue to experience temporary disconnections. The same thing happens when using live tracking; the Suunto app prioritizes its own connection and disconnects live tracking. Anyway…
Otherwise, it’s the typical AMOLED technology upgrade (you won’t go back): good battery life, good build quality, and an elegant look (in my opinion). The app provides enough functionality… I’ve answered based on my experience this past weekend after a test run and the lack of a heart rate monitor on a top-of-the-line watch, which I hope they’ll fix in the next… next… or who knows. This is just my opinion as a user of several brands, but with the bare minimum requirements—no distracting metrics. Sorry about that the extended explanation.
Health for all and kilometers in the mountains
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@Adrian.S Some previous pictures are here: https://forum.suunto.com/post/188739
I hate only one thing. Sometimes, only with specific positions, the watch doesn´t lights up with gesture. For me, this was only advance of MIP, that you can see the time without moving your wrist. During day. -
Yes, amoled is slow to turn on. There is definitely a delay between raising your wrist and the screen turning on. On my race s, it’s better than on my previous garmin forerunner 965. That watch failed to recognize the wrist gesture quite often. Doing fast intervals on a track was so much better with a mips watch. I find mips so much better than amoled. I have all sorts of inconveniences with amoled that I never had with mips. Also, in direct sunlight with sunglasses on, mips was better to read for me.
And yes, mips will be faced out. Shiny gadgets sell better than old fashioned looking gadgets. Mips fans may have an opinion about that, but that’s reality.
Lack of software updates? I had a garmin forerunner 935 for 6 years. Garmin isn’t very good at updating older models. You might get some bugfixes (but they always come with more new bugs) but no feature updates. But the watch was fine for 6 years, until the battery was down to less than 8 hours of gps usage (party caused by age, party by a bug in the firmware)
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@Adrian.S said in Suunto Vertical 1 – A Few Questions About the Future + Questions About the Vertical 2 and a Comparison with the Coros Nomad / the New Vertix 2026:
What do the trail names, street names, etc., look like now
There are no street names or trail names. z
If you search this forum or online you’ll likely see many examples of Suunto maps on the watch. It is the same across all Suunto models.
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@elbee said in Suunto Vertical 1 – A Few Questions About the Future + Questions About the Vertical 2 and a Comparison with the Coros Nomad / the New Vertix 2026:
And yes, mips will be faced out. Shiny gadgets sell better than old fashioned looking gadgets. Mips fans may have an opinion about that, but that’s reality.
I mean it is not that there is just one supplier of MIPS that is not developing the technology any further as it seems. And it is not that basically all MIPS watches share the same screen. It is just shiny gadgets…
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@Adrian.S I moved from the Vertical 1 to the 2. I was really unsure about AMOLED, but now, for me, MIP is history – I’d never go back.
The only thing I miss is a slightly dimmer mode. ‘Low’ is still a bit too bright, but it’s a small thing they could tweak later.
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Moved from Race S to Coros Apex 2 Pro because of MIP Display
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Today I was able to compare the MIP displays on the Coros Nomad and the Suunto V1.
Because of the sapphire crystal, the Suunto has more glare, which makes it a little bit harder to see in the woods. This isn’t necessarily a bad thing, but rather a characteristic of sapphire glass—and of course, it’s better to have sapphire than standard glass.
I find the maps on the Suunto easier to navigate, although the crown for zooming in and out makes using the map more user-friendly. Coros contain to much data on maps on the small screen 1.3.
The watch faces are a plus for the Coros—I use faces with minimal information anyway, such as time, steps, battery, and heart rate, but the Suunto lacks good watch faces to personalize requirements.
For now, I’ll stay with Suunto until the next major update. If the V1 still doesn’t get an update for maps and those other additional features that are already in the R2/V2, I don’t know if I’ll switch to Coros—maybe they’ll announce the new Coros Vertix 2026.
I’m also wondering if TSS/TSB still holds up after so many years of experience with these metrics. Personally, I still believe these stats don’t fully reflect my training status due to the weekly reset of TSS.
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@Adrian.S said in Suunto Vertical 1 – A Few Questions About the Future + Questions About the Vertical 2 and a Comparison with the Coros Nomad / the New Vertix 2026:
I’m also wondering if TSS/TSB still holds up after so many years of experience with these metrics. Personally, I still believe these stats don’t fully reflect my training status due to the weekly reset of TSS.
But it doesn’t matter. CTL/ATL and TSB are more important.
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@Adrian.S Feel similar sometimes, I started to use my Apex 4 more often than Race 2, mostly because of MIP screen and because these days I only do running so it works great.
And also if Suunto keeps adding horoscope adj pace and other hallucinations like that it will be quite difficult to come back eventough I like a lot of things in Suunto world, but I could really live without a lot of it.But TSS reseting weekly does not really have anything to do with training status, it is the same as saying that weekly milage resets every week
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So far, I haven’t seen/read any news/rumors about Vertix 2026.
S9PP / SV1 / SV2
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@Highlands There was something on Coros’ Instagram, but they haven’t explicitly mentioned a release date or what the new watch will be yet, however, everyone on the Coros Reddit community suspects it will be a new Vertix.
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@Highlands said in Suunto Vertical 1 – A Few Questions About the Future + Questions About the Vertical 2 and a Comparison with the Coros Nomad / the New Vertix 2026:
So far, I haven’t seen/read any news/rumors about Vertix 2026.
Its very likely going to be released soon.
Personally, I had the Nomad and it lasted 5 days on my hands (It has the record of the worst experience I have ever had):
- The black interface with those super tiny fonts is really bad for MIP. I couldn’t see anything with swimming googles there.
- There’s a black datafield at bottom while on workout that nobody understands why considering they have a MIP screen.
- But worst thing is navigation. With every turn, the watch goes to the map and you can’t skip that switch (only disabling TBT notifications). When there are many TBT indications, the watch is forcing you to see the map screen all time. It was a very disgusting experience for me.
For the rest, is pretty solid and the screen of the Nomad is very good, more readable than the shapphire + MIP of the Apex 4.
I’m findind Suunto’s LTPO Amoled screens very readable but it’s true that Amoled has a delay between 1-2 seconds with the wrist gesture. You get used to that, though.
The other release that is expected soon is the Race 2 S. In reddit someone said that between Apr-Jun, but there’s nothing. It will be smaller but perhaps they use a new LTPO screen without shapphire.Suunto Vertical 2 Titanium Sage, Suunto Spark, Suunto Run
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@dreamer_ Race 2S will be very good news for the users who prefer smaller watches. I wonder whether it’ll add anything new to R2/V2 or just a smaller size.
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@dreamer_ Thank you. Very kind of you to share your experience with Nomad. I guess Coros makes good watches that have their fan base. I’m not one of them though. Been willing to test a Coros for a while now but personally, I don’t enjoy the design. I feel much better in Suunto camp. Suunto design and accuracy are in their own league.
And right after I wrote my previous reply to you I saw this on X:
https://x.com/COROSJapan/status/2057389272303644893/video/1?s=46
Guess, the Vertix 4 is coming.
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@Highlands they are also releasing several Pace 4 versions with different bezels or materials.
I think Race 2S will be just an smaller Race 2. I’m really interested because is very likely the screen will be improved, the new HR sensor and perhaps battery life.
It’d be fantastic if it had the flashlight of the V2, since Suunto does not have that yet in an smaller form factor for women/small wrists.Thanks!!
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@dreamer_ Another version of Pace 4 as you wrote or perhaps another version of Apex 4.
The post says: “Retaining top-level performance as is,
to a new look and feel.”I hope they put a sapphire crystal on R2S.
