Suunto Race 3S General Discussion

Stavrogin

@elbee Thank you for that breakdown. That is super useful. Estimates are that and it seems that a lot of them rely on people not using the watch when they calculate the days numbers.

VoiGAS

@strain No idea, maybe they do. First time for me . But I guess its random, I heard from other people in the forum about similar offers they received

VoiGAS

@elbee I also think the RaceS battery lifetime is quite good. Thats why I am shocked by the results this reviewer got. The Race3S should be better than the RaceS - not worse. Maybe a defective unit or something…

elbee

@VoiGAS

I don’t see anything out of the ordinary in the results…

isazi

@VoiGAS I tested the Race 3S and without AoD I can get to 38 hours or more of estimated battery life, tested in real long activities

elbee

@isazi said:

@VoiGAS I tested the Race 3S and without AoD I can get to 38 hours or more of estimated battery life, tested in real long activities

What do you mean with estimated battery life?

Is that the number that is shown when you start an activity or did you do an activity until your watch died and that was 38 hours later?

(the first one is a guess by the watch, the second one is a real measurement)

isazi

@elbee I used math and the battery data that is saved in the activity itself to estimate the battery life of the watch from 100 to 0

elbee

@isazi Thanks for clarifying.

Kowalski

@isazi

The R3S have the tide application, do you this the Race S will have it ?

Elipsus

@VoiGAS Oh, not nobody said “lower quality glass”, I remember on the forum a few people (including myself) said that , and a lot of reviewers mentionned it.
For exeample here :

(in "sport-passion.fr)
Or the 5KR :

And I’m not that surprised by Egika watch, a friend of mine has it in the same situation

isazi

@Kowalski as of today, the tide widget is not present in the Race S, not even in the testing firmware for next release

Tieutieu

My SRs3 has landed at home today !
No surprises about the size in comparison with my SRs. But really love the titanium bezel and back.
Biggest change => OHR. Back of the watch is far less bulky.
Crow is a bit bigger and smoother ; let’s see if I get used to it.
Settings on there way !
I’ve set backlight to low, the same than on my SRs ; no big difference of 2000nits but not used outside yet.
Will test AI coach but seems well integrated ; creation of structured workout seems to work well, I’ll probably use it.
Downloading maps seems way more faster than with SRs and SV (and works even if the watch is not on charge).
UI noticeably faster, maps very fluid
Charger introduced with SR2/SV2 is more than welcomed

snow*

@Tieutieu let us know how it goes

2b2bff

@Tieutieu if it wasn’t 500€, I would probably give it a try. I mean my “like new” Fenix 8 I got a couple of weeks ago has been 420€…
The 349€ has been a perfect pricing.

strain

I’ve been using the Race 3s for the past week. I was hopeful for the AI coach especially since it was marketed as being able to create workouts for you but from my testing, it fails to replicate instructions to create a power based workout. My instructions were also very detailed. I’ve reported this to Suunto.

For some reason, it builds the workout/guide as a heart rate workout and when questioned, it says that it made a mistake. After telling it to rebuild the guide, it tells me that it can’t faithfully reproduce it because it keeps making the same mistake again lol. It is either this response, or it says that the guide making feature is not available currently.

Hopefully they make this work fully by the time it launches with an actual price tag because I would be pretty disappointed if I paid money for this.

strain

@2b2bff Yeah the price is quite prohibitive and apart from the price, I really like the look and feel of the watch.

The Suunto Run 2 felt like a toy and it was quite laggy overall. The OS was weird too and the lack of suunto guides really made me quite annoyed. I also felt like at the price of the Run 2, I would have preferred to just buy a coros pace 4.

My Race 2 Ti is nice but it is quite a big watch and you can definitely feel the weight in day to day use.

The 3s fits the middle ground well with better materials but it is also quite expensive comparatively speaking to other suunto watches and also the broader competition.

I’m fortunate enough to be able to afford trying and keeping the watches I like but the price is still quite jarring in my opinion.

Damien 0

Hi,
I bought my first sports watch 2 weeks ago and chose Suunto for its versatility and measurement quality, atonomy (également 5 days trek) even though I mainly use it for swimming, where the performance seems quite acceptable so far.

Overall, I am happy with the size, although I would have preferred a slightly smaller format for outdoor activities, such as 44 mm. However, since it is not my daily watch, I can accept 46 mm.

I am quite satisfied with the overall quality and the simplicity of the menus, which works well for me as someone discovering the sports watch world.

Regarding the price, which many people said was expensive, my very personal view—though I can understand others having different opinions—is that paying €400 or €500 for a sports watch does not make much of a difference when yours wages allows you to spend more than €300 for a watch.
I believe Suunto positions itself on high-quality hardware and that comes at a price; a 10% or 20% difference is not a deciding factor for me.

My main slight disappointment is that the watch is primarily focused on running—with the name Race S, that makes sense—but I would have preferred or liked to have more plans and training options, especially Coach AI for swimming (and cycling).

Regards
Damien

2b2bff

I wonder how Resources and Sleep Tracking is with the Race 3S, at it seemed to be worse with the Race 2 than it has been with the Race S…

aiv4r

@2b2bff it should not be different from watch to watch there is no hardware element in that algo.

2b2bff

@aiv4r sure, there are different HR sensors and different algos around them…