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which “apps” are you all using on the ambit? an for what sport? (sorry of topic again
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@Dimitrios-Kanellopoulos
S9ers are jealous about apps, right?
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@mario_b
I’ve got only few installed… but the first one listed I find priceless:- 5min ascent rate (average of the last 5minutes ascent rate in meters per HOUR (!)…)
- ascent rate (transforms the normal ascent rate from m/min to m/h)
- hill grade live (shows how steep in percent you are climbing, for cycling)
- swissgrid x/y (swiss coordinste system)
- DH counter (for skiing, started using it for trials as we started skiing with the kids on the slopes, I went only backcountry until last year, will use this app more serious next season)
- not inuse at the moment: hours until sunrise/sunset at your last gps signals location
there are many more… like tonns of them
you remind me that I long ago wanted to scroll thru usefull apps again
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@TELE-HO apps can solve a big part of the problem. From race prediction to cooper test etc
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@TELE-HO I can even imagined a load app and adds an extra screen to your watch. Id love that
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I´ve been so close to buy and Ambit 3 because the apps… I’ve reading and playing with the simulator…
Drills when I’m swimming are missed… yes and nobody’s swim here… or what?
This being said, today exploring a new zone, created a route in the suunto app, transferred to my watch (dreaming about the POI but knowing that are coming), the navigation was perfect, ETA… When I’m traveling I don’t carry the laptop… so it is very easy to use.
The UI of the Suunto 9 is very clean, the screen is gorgeous.
I hope one day we could have, even vía partners, synced plans of training and structured workouts.
But I agree with the statement “Ambit is over, Suunto 9 is the present and rocks”
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@TELE-HO
Imagine:
- RSS running.
- Running effectiveness.
- Race calculator
- Stryd app with all the data, even the new one is coming in the new Stryd.
- Gradient left.
- ratio power/heartbeat
- structured workout
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@TELE-HO sounds good. i just read the docu of it. and tryed to write a few. it’s really ease to use. and much they’ve added much functions and variables.
not inuse at the moment: hours until sunrise/sunset at your last gps signals location
can you add them to non sports profiles too?
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@mario_b
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@TELE-HO ah! i understood that wrong. i thought you mean, you can display the hours for example to sunrise on the watch display without being in an activity.
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@TELE-HO I have 0 app on my ambit 3
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@Dimitrios-Kanellopoulos Exactly, a lot of requirements and customization can be solved via apps. I miss the apps…
@mario_b you can found a lot at the Suunto Apps Library and also make your own code: http://www.movescount.com/apps for your A3P.
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@flypg i know, thanks, i allready read the documentary for it and scripted a few. for example, heart rate zones depending on my lactate threshold with alarm. as working as a system admin, its kind of a quick and easy option to script yourself what you want.
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So just an anecdotal backing of the Ambit3 series.
Coming from ABC watches like the Essential, I started in GPS watch land with an Ambit3 Vertical then switched to the Spartan Sport WHR Baro. Vertical was a GPS nightmare. But apps and onboard POI were nice features and I very much missed them moving to the Spartan. With Movescount going away in 12+ months and no guarantee or specifics about what will and won’t be supported, I just bought an Ambit3 Peak today. I can get it configured in the hopes that it’ll be supported. But if it never gets full support in the Suunto App, at a minimum I’ll have it app-ed up in the next 12 months and I can also navigate without a phone app or any syncing by using the POI feature on the watch. IMO, it’s the only Suunto product that truly can meet this particular use-case and it can pretty much do it and never be connected to a phone app or the web by using it stand alone.
Could have bought an S9 at 3 times the price. But given my usage, the Ambit3 is still going to be the superior device until I see more commitment from Suunto for true back-country use rather than sport/training analysis.
The Spartan is going to be relegated to less that Fitbit status as a HR capable fitness tracker. And my Suunto Essential will still be my daily driver.
The market is ripe for some company to take all of Suunto/Garmin’s backpacking, hiking, mountaineering business.
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@zhang965
yes, you’re using your watch as a jewellery to look good, not for sports… you don’t need apps to look good
sarcastic mode off:I was surprised when I listed my apps for Mario how few apps I actually use, but I know that they’re there (still… hope to be continued in SA…???) and if I miss anything I search for it and maybe copy and adapt it… I will never program it myself… I saw the instruction, I tried, I awefully failed… I’m too stupid for that stuff… I’m a mechanical engineer, I’m used to gears and threads…
But to have the possibility to create an app that simply converts a (for me) useless unit of m/min into m/h is really really great!! …when I’m tired of skinning a new track in deep pow, I am not able to calculate m/min -> m/h… -
@chrish
I agree a 1’000+ times with you!
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@TELE-HO when you look for an app that you can’t find but’s possible to make. hit me a message.
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@mario_b
I will, thank you!I was also thinking of asking some IT guys I know if they see a possibility of creating what I want… because what I know from software so far is not much… but what I know: everything is possible… it’s just about the amount of lines and knowing the language/code.
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@TELE-HO said in I'm I the only who believes Suunto 9 is more of a SIDEGRADE than UPGRADE to Ambit 3 peak?:
creating what I want…
I mean in the relation to a MC/SA alternative or self made combination…
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@mario_b said in I'm I the only who believes Suunto 9 is more of a SIDEGRADE than UPGRADE to Ambit 3 peak?:
which “apps” are you all using on the ambit?
Sunrise/Sunset
Vertical Speed in m/h
Average vertical speed (m/h) (30s)
Real-time hill incline %
ClimbRate
GPS quality (signal strength)
GPS State
Time to Waypoint
Heart rate in %
ORTHOSTATIC HR TEST