Suunto 7

[Dimitrios Kanellopoulos]

@NickK not something specific but I stopped tracking HR etc. Its no use to me even from the best trackers for this fitness metric. I feel better without it

[pilleus]

Is it possible to switch off OHR during an activity to save battery? Or for usage on the handle bar during cycling? If yes, is there an empty field shown on the activity screen or is there an option to show some other information?

Thanks for an answer!

[Brad_Olwin]

@pilleus AFAIK it is not possible to turn off OHR and the sport modes are not customizable so you will get a blank field if no OHR.

[Luís Pinto]

The major problems for S7 will be price and battery. The questions that many will do at choose moment: pros - screen, music, maps, payments, 4 gnss, hr quality. Cons - battery, small sport features support, Google OS, no SI not even simple, no Suunto support for external sensors, SA in young age. Suunto choose not to do what Polar made with Ignite, or Garmin with Venu. Both don’t depend Google OS to work. They have their property OS. Suunto made a APP for Wear Os. It’s quite different.

[Dimitrios Kanellopoulos]

@Luís-Pinto I think this is far away from reality. Suunto didn’t not only make an app for wear os fyi.

[Maryn]

@Dimitrios-Kanellopoulos does the co-processor which is used during activity support BLE?

[Dimitrios Kanellopoulos]

@Maryn it can do whatever you programm it to afaik

[Maryn]

@Dimitrios-Kanellopoulos ok thx.

[ChubbyCrusher]

@Prenj DC rainmaker is someone I really trust. His reviews are great and not too biased. He’s been talking about the software issues with Suunto for some time now. He’s not trying to shit on Suunto, he’s saying what we all know: Even if Sunnto update the firmware, it’s still Wear OS. This is a one day watch at best. That’s fine though, this watch isn’t for me, it’s for the smart watch crowd, so a one day battery life is not a deal breaker for that crowd.

[jthomi]

Okay, so it would be possible.

@Dimitrios-Kanellopoulos said in Suunto 7:

@jthomi you can I think but many things will be dumbed down. The suunto things work without a google account afail. You could create though a “fake” one

@Dimitrios-Kanellopoulos said in Suunto 7:

@jthomi google fit is not working until you login with your google account (or an email coupled with a google account)

I dont use Google FIT and have deleted my data from there FYI

[jthomi]

Still a difference in giving them all data willingly or not, at least for me. But thats another topic…

@NickK said in Suunto 7:

@Fenr1r Both I’m afraid. Given they track your location even when location services are explicitly disabled, I’d say fighting El Goog (and Apple by the same token) is kind of pointless. This battle has been lost. Besides, here in the US carriers are busy keeping track of your location by triangulating your phone’s signal and selling this data to anybody who asks. I wouldn’t be surprised if one of those is Google. Perhaps they even have a nice and friendly data sharing agreement of you scratch my back, I scratch yours variety.

[Shrek3k]

@ChubbyCrusher said in Suunto 7:

@Prenj DC rainmaker is someone I really trust. His reviews are great and not too biased. He’s been talking about the software issues with Suunto for some time now. He’s not trying to shit on Suunto, he’s saying what we all know: Even if Sunnto update the firmware, it’s still Wear OS. This is a one day watch at best. That’s fine though, this watch isn’t for me, it’s for the smart watch crowd, so a one day battery life is not a deal breaker for that crowd.

I really like Ray’s style, how intense his reviews are, how detailed everything is shown and how the articles is written, not to forget how responsive he is. Nevertheless in the last years my impression about him being biased has changed, as there is a quite fair assessment e.g. about Garmin products (and its software) including issues, but - and I am no longer the Suunto fanboy I have been - other producers (including Suunto) are criticized more intensively. BTW: this is not about declaring that the S7 (or any other watch) is the .best watch ever , which it is most certainly not. Just my two cents and personal opinion - and yes, I am reading his articles every week, and am going to do it for the foreseeable future.

[pilleus]

@Shrek3k said in Suunto 7:

the .best watch ever

is the watch which fits the personal requirements of the user.

And finally all reviews are opinions of the testers. Nothing more and nothing less.

I am sure it will be my best smartwatch for all days usage and for my two or three hours of daily sports.

[cosme.costa]

@pilleus said in Suunto 7:

@Shrek3k said in Suunto 7:

the .best watch ever

is the watch which fits the personal requirements of the user.

@pilleus 100% agree with you!!

This reminds me when you look for a new running shoes and you buy something based on the reviews but doesn’t work for you and then you try other shoes with worse opinions but it suits you better.

[Dimitrios Kanellopoulos]

@cosmecosta thats me and about 1K of e at wrong bought shoes

[andrewjknox]

@Dimitrios-Kanellopoulos @cosmecosta Haha, me too. Another pair turned up a few hours ago in fact Topo Zephyrs… I’ve got high hopes for these bad boys!

[Luís Pinto]

Dear All, S7 manual in .pdf: https://ns.suunto.com/Manuals/Suunto_7/Userguides//Suunto_7_UserGuide_EN.pdf

[A Former User]

I am the only one to think the 7 is now the same as android when everyone used Nokia brick phones? Not perfect, not that good battery life, but after some years the mass device.
As many, it was not the device I wanted , but I think it will sell well and be a victory to suunto

[Luís Pinto]

@André-Faria Probably Suunto have market studies. I hope they sell a lot. But for some markets almost 500€ per unit is heavy. The world is overload of gadgets. And competition is hard. You have to propose a very good package to convince customers.

[A Former User]

@Luís-Pinto I can only add that being Wear OS, the device is implicitly Android bound. Which implies dozens of competing watches, some with very similar specs in terms of screen, memory, storage, and CPU, – all at roughly half the price. This is before we even count other usual suspects such as Fitbit, which is still very much around, and Garmin with its ever smarter ConnectIQ platform.

Hell, maybe even Polar gets in a defensive play and releases an M600 follow up, but now with all the goodies that delivered in the past 12-18 months.