the5krunner impressions

Brad_Olwin

@NickK Agree with you regarding the target audience. I find the S7 is a great watch, I have an AW4 that has similar battery life and a better smartwatch than S7 as I am on iOS but…it is a PITA to use for intervals and I have been in the Suunto ecosystem for so long that I am more comfortable with Suunto. I use the S7 exclusively when I travel for work to find popular running routes.

isazi

And the final review: https://the5krunner.com/2020/03/02/suunto-7-review/

Bulkan

@isazi said in the5krunner impressions:

And the final review: https://the5krunner.com/2020/03/02/suunto-7-review/

So what does that sound like? Yep. To me, it sounds like an alternative to an Apple Watch. NOT an alternative to a Suunto 9 or Garmin Fenix 6 Pro Solar or even to a top-end Garmin Forerunner running watch. Suunto devotees may scoff, and rightly so, this is not a watch for them. But hey, the Apple Watch is the best selling wearable…EVER. There REALLY is a market for this sort of thing. Honest!!

Finally, someone who gets it. I agree with this review. Honest and objective.

A Former User

@Bulkan Except all people writing here are Suunto 9 or Suunto 5 owners And all of them want Suunto 7 to be Suunto 9 with smarts and better screen at a cost of battery life.

Suunto should really consider making Suunto 9 ¾

isazi

@NickK Suunto 8, the love child of 9 and 7. Or maybe is it Suunto 16?

Brad_Olwin

@NickK said in the5krunner impressions:

@Bulkan Except all people writing here are Suunto 9 or Suunto 5 owners And all of them want Suunto 7 to be Suunto 9 with smarts and better screen at a cost of battery life.

Suunto should really consider making Suunto 9 ¾

I am a Suunto9 and Suunto5 owner. Not in the group you mentioned as the S7 cannot be an S9 and I don’t think we will have the two merged for quite some time. My hope is that in some way the maps implementation can be parsed into the successor of the S9.

A Former User

@isazi @Brad_Olwin :

Suunto 8, the love child of 9 and 7. Or maybe is it Suunto 16?

I see… No Harry Potter fans here
https://makeagif.com/i/reDFWg

vlado

This is definitely more realistic and more honest review than the one from dc rainmaker.
I say more honest because i think that DC went intentionally more harsh in his review just to maybe shake Suunto a little bit in order to Suunto consider all drawbacks of this watch that he is mentioning and i can not say i dont agree with couple of his remarks.
But overall, i like 5krunner’s review more and in my opinion this watch can really have great future.

Fenr1r

@NickK said in the5krunner impressions:

I see… No Harry Potter fans here

That might have got more love in the platform discussion.

kkalsi

@Bulkan I have found I need to look at external sensors for strength and circuit training. OHR seems fine for me for running. This is a huge gap in my opinion as you should not really need to go out of the Suunto ecosystem to support this with other apps - if you do not do that then you do not get a true measure on effort and recovery.

the5krunner

@Bulkan he he he. I like you ! thank you for the kind words

the5krunner

@vlado

thank you.

FWIW, I think I finally largely understand the commercial side of doing reviews.

In a nutshell: it just isn’t possible for anyone except dcr to make a living in this space EXCEPT from Garmin commissions and ad revenue income and maybe paid-sponsorships for the likes of GCN.

If you accept that as ‘probably true’, then you can draw your own implications about the motivations behind what people write.

To be clear: my statement is not aimed at dcr. he is probably the exception to the rule.

Regarding his intentions to shake up Suunto. I would imagine that Suunto is fully aware of what they released with the S7 and why they released it. All the companies understand what they are doing 95% of the time, they are stuffed full of intelligent people. They make compromises, perhaps, for commercial or timing reasons.

Bulkan

@kkalsi for strength I use it as high I can in my wrist. Specially if I do burpees and is pretty accurate. The light weight of the watch helps a lot.

Brad_Olwin

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kkalsi

@Bulkan - thanks will try it and see if things improve.