May Transition Update
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@Dimitrios-Kanellopoulos Ambit is a lovely watch. Hoping for the full support of the Suunto app as it provides Spartan and newer models
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@KnutB yes, i think so too.
especially for example with that gps antenna. for me it is an masterpiece of āform follows functionā design. and i really like the minimalistic system on it. i had some of my friends ambit3ās a lot in my hand. i really like the simplicity of it. -
@Dimitrios-Kanellopoulos just an idea. for a sysadmin/company thinking standpoint. i could imagine that it could be possible to make the transition with all community activity syncing functions (lets say as it is right now in the may transition) to the SA and shrink down the MC service (web/app) to the functions needed on old devices. (configuration of sports modes, creating routesā¦) without all of that works in SA. so not much new has to be coded. the system changes could be nearly frozen (because there would not be something new to develop) the system would be resource and economical friendly to hold up a few years.
like a Movescount āminiā
for configuring the ambit family and route creation (as it is right now, with nothing else) and the rest could be deleted. And the SA as an active system for syncing activities, community and all functions for the newer watches that could be developed and updated without the care of brining in to much new code for the āoldā watches. -
@mario_b
To be honest this is one good solution. But in this thread I withdraw of my non-objective opinions as it most matters what others want to give as feedback. Like you Community Manager / Admin @Suunto
Creator of Quantified-Self.io
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@Dimitrios-Kanellopoulos i know what you mean
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so last āof topicā message from me.
i got mail and in there was something amber coloured in there:
and are you serious? took it out for a short trail run 1:31 hours. used navigation, recorded heart rate and clicked a lot around and the battery was 6%??? (1sec. GPS ping, 1 sec recording) that would be around 25 hours total. and the GPS track and elevation =
. i havenāt seen something precise yet on any watch. i think suunto got me 
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@Dimitrios-Kanellopoulos do you know if photos attached to moves in MC will be synchronised to SA?
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@jorgefd78 mine were transferred. Yes on my end.
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@malcyway Great!! Thank you
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@jorgefd78 you will see them in Settings/User Profile
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Ambit 3 Peak owner here. Iāve spent the first six months of 2019 trying the Suunto App, but Iāve finally had to revert to Movescount. Primarily, I needed to be able to program workouts into my watch, as well as sync routes, and create custom sport modes. Iād really like to not lose the ability to program POIs either, but thatās less important to me than the aforementioned.
Iāve also found that the optimize GPS sync never completes. After some back and forth with customer support, I was told to wait and hopefully it would be resolved in a future version of the application. The problem there is that I travel a fair bit for work, and every time Iāve returned from a trip that took me across a continent or an ocean, my watch canāt acquire a GPS signal at home without my first using Moveslink to update sat positioning.
For a tool that I spent nearly $600 dollars on, Iām not exactly pleased with the planned obsolescence. If I wanted that, Iād just buy an Apple product. As it stands, barring a roadmap for a more complete feature set with the Suunto App or a clear plan to continue supporting Moveslink/Movescount over the long term, Iām not going to buy another top-of-the-line Suunto product as I cannot count on continued support over the long term. Iāll spend a third of the price on a competitorās option that at least lets me pull the GPX files off the watch myself and do with them as I please.
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@mountainherder
Iām also not full on SA yet. I only sync to SA for Strava uploads, thatās it. All the rest I use MC for.
Give them some timeā¦ how they did it is not really nice for some users. But the watch is 100% working with MC for the time being.
No one forces us to use SA yet. I think SA will be supporting Ambit before MC is shut down. -
@TELE-HO I think thatās a reasonable compromise for now, but I do feel the need to register my dissatisfaction with Suunto, as thereās been no guarantee or confirmation that theyāll keep the full Ambit3 feature set available.
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@mountainherder
yes, this is why we are here for. Let Suunto know what we need and how we want it. -
@mountainherder said in May Transition Update:
@TELE-HO I think thatās a reasonable compromise for now, but I do feel the need to register my dissatisfaction with Suunto, as thereās been no guarantee or confirmation that theyāll keep the full Ambit3 feature set available.
in other threads there seems to be and I do say seems to be a suggestion that they may dumb down the ambits abilitiesā¦EG no suunto mini apps, basic customisation, possible ability to use custom sports modesā¦ I know thats not what you want to hear but thats where you have joined a huge Ambit user group thats are becoming more and more dissatisfied and angy with suuntoā¦ I for one feel let down and even being pushed to buy a new watch due to the LACK of confirmed information about whats happening and even feels disrespected in some waysā¦ I have already started looking else where and feel sad that at some point my BELOVED Ambit 3 Peak will be placed in a draw in the office as the functions I use almost daily will no longer work due to Suunto and itās in ablity to actually listen and respondā¦
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@lohtse
I agree with you, I would be very upset if I can dump Ambitā¦ not because I only bought it new few weeks back but mainly because I think itās the greatest watch in the world with its durability, precision, battery life and the apps.I donāt give up my believes in Suunto. If they want to keep good old customers, they WILL keep them happy with their watches.
If they dump Ambit support they risk all the adventureous and mountain athletes out there to change the brandā¦
Suunto does not want that, and I donāt want that either.
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@TELE-HO said in May Transition Update:
@lohtse
I agree with you, I would be very upset if I can dump Ambitā¦ not because I only bought it new few weeks back but mainly because I think itās the greatest watch in the world with its durability, precision, battery life and the apps.I donāt give up my believes in Suunto. If they want to keep good old customers, they WILL keep them happy with their watches.
If they dump Ambit support they risk all the adventureous and mountain athletes out there to change the brandā¦
Suunto does not want that, and I donāt want that either.
Would actually be nice of Suunto to give a FULL statement about their intentions and future of Ambit rangeā¦ Am tired of the breadcrumb/ dangle the carrot bit;t of information from themā¦ If they Truly care about their customers they need to be honest and frank with usā¦ It would go along way if they did.
As to your
I think itās the greatest watch in the world with its durability, precision, battery life and the apps.
HELL YES I COMPLETELY AGREE!!!
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@lohtse @TELE-HO i think the same. maybe itās the last āsports watchā made without fittness tracker priority. i think that in earlier days, when the watch came out, with that āslowā processor and limited memory, they really had to care about and make thoughts about what they are coding into the watch.
and as long as they are selling them in their own webshop with all the features in the specifications plus the 2 year warrenty in europe, i donāt have any fear of loosing any feature of which are listed in the selling description. otherwise they would have take them out of description. or even mark the watch as discontinued. -
@Dimitrios-Kanellopoulos Any chance we will get a July Transition Update? āNo news is good newsā does not apply to software updates.
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@Brent-Rodriguez said in May Transition Update:
@Dimitrios-Kanellopoulos Any chance we will get a July Transition Update? āNo news is good newsā does not apply to software updates.
shhhā¦
please donāt push, if suunto feels hammered, they might not give you any transition update like old roadmapā¦
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