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    AdamMada Bronze Member @chrish
    last edited by 3 Sept 2020, 10:16

    @chrish I join the topic

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      Theo Lakerveld Bronze Member @Dimitrios Kanellopoulos
      last edited by 3 Sept 2020, 10:19

      @Dimitrios-Kanellopoulos you’re right about the power ouput being a calculated metric, and not a measured value. Neither is a Stryd metric. Though, such innovation is what’s getting the crowd interested and drives sales and turnover. Especially when it’s introduced in a nearly identical device, with a fresh look and a slightly revised name such as Suunto 9.1. We don’t need a new device, but the larger crowd wants it.

      I suspect that you’re indirectly indicating that a new product has been developed but that, due to these practical production limitations, Suunto isn’t able to release it yet. Instead, we get a teaser in the shape of a (minor) FW update. You don’t need to answer that, being restricted by a nice NDA. Either way, pro-active management should be able to accomodate for such challenges to protect the cash flow in the end.

      Please don’t read my comments as negative, but rather as constructive. I’m aware that I’m not discussing with Suunto managment and ownership here. I like the Suunto brand, I would love to see it surviving, even though competition is tough (ref. Apple, Coros, Garmin, etc.) and that they are still leaping ahead of Suunto.

      Previously used: Cyclosport HAC4, Polar S710, Ambit 2S, Ambit 3S, SSU, S5P, S9P Ti. Currently using: Race Ti.

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        Dimitrios Kanellopoulos Community Manager @Theo Lakerveld
        last edited by 3 Sept 2020, 10:22

        @Theo-Lakerveld I dont see it as negative. Dont worry I just try to explain that sometimes things like this are not easy to manage.

        Re: power

        There are already many algos out there able to give you power. Typically those can be used even in realtime for bikes , since long now.

        The thing that COROS did well for example is that they matched stryd 1:1 for non trails. That benefits the user.

        Polar did a good job as well, perhaps better than COROS on the trails but it doesn’t match stryd. So You will have problems if you use stryd once and another time polar power. Just an example.

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          Theo Lakerveld Bronze Member @Dimitrios Kanellopoulos
          last edited by 3 Sept 2020, 10:27

          @Dimitrios-Kanellopoulos Yes, Coros was smart, complying their algorythms with the gold standard (Stryd). Most cycling power meters were doing the same in the beginning with SRM.
          Either way, that’s focussing on details that could make a functionality a success or a failure. I hope that Suunto actively uses this forum to get feedback about feature suggestions and drive innovation.

          Previously used: Cyclosport HAC4, Polar S710, Ambit 2S, Ambit 3S, SSU, S5P, S9P Ti. Currently using: Race Ti.

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            Dimitrios Kanellopoulos Community Manager
            last edited by Dimitrios Kanellopoulos 9 Mar 2020, 10:31 3 Sept 2020, 10:31

            @Theo-Lakerveld said in Something new is coming:

            I hope that Suunto actively uses this forum to get feedback about feature suggestions and drive innovation.

            They do, but “typically” you do not you see a lot of innovative suggestions here. Not wanting to offend anyone, but typically we all speak about what we have seen from other brands etc.

            But there are many people here that have given good suggestions and indeed innovative things. IF such a star happens believe me I personally try todo my best to reach more than one time the ears it should reach.

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              Fenr1r
              last edited by 3 Sept 2020, 15:29

              If that first Time/Baro face is closed, locked down, sent off to college and wedded to the designers, disregard the following:

              Pretty much everyone here seems to agree that a baro trend is of more use than a point value in determining imminent weather. (Hence the 2nd face [“ETA” - possibly limited to sports modes?]) And what else is a single raw baro value for? Needs conversion to give alt, for instance, and that’s already available in what I’m assuming is the central tap-to-change field.

              But perhaps the lower/inner dial could do more with that baro scale to provide useful at-a-glance info? (Perhaps it does already.)

              1. Change color according to recently rising, falling or static pressure. OR

              2. Alter the bright sector to cover the past rather than evenly bracket the present. And/OR

              3. Put a Pot of Trend (the simple 2-stage icon dating back at least to the Vector) at one end of the rainbow. Maybe instead of, or to balance the sunset icon*.

              *Seriously, what IS that doing there? Does it represent a set sunset alarm? Is it to remind the user that the outer dial is turning anticlockwise?

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                Dimitrios Kanellopoulos Community Manager @Fenr1r
                last edited by 3 Sept 2020, 15:33

                @Fenr1r said in Something new is coming:

                If that first Time/Baro face is closed, locked down, sent off to college and wedded to the designers, disregard the following:

                Pretty much everyone here seems to agree that a baro trend is of more use than a point value in determining imminent weather. (Hence the 2nd face [“ETA” - possibly limited to sports modes?]) And what else is a single raw baro value for? Needs conversion to give alt, for instance, and that’s already available in what I’m assuming is the central tap-to-change field.

                But perhaps the lower/inner dial could do more with that baro scale to provide useful at-a-glance info? (Perhaps it does already.)

                1. Change color according to recently rising, falling or static pressure. OR

                2. Alter the bright sector to cover the past rather than evenly bracket the present. And/OR

                3. Put a Pot of Trend (the simple 2-stage icon dating back at least to the Vector) at one end of the rainbow. Maybe instead of, or to balance the sunset icon*.

                *Seriously, what IS that doing there? Does it represent a set sunset alarm? Is it to remind the user that the outer dial is turning anticlockwise?

                I think you will be more than pleased. 😄 Technically I am happy to inform you so.

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                F 1 Reply Last reply 3 Sept 2020, 15:36 Reply Quote 5
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                  Fenr1r @Dimitrios Kanellopoulos
                  last edited by 3 Sept 2020, 15:36

                  @Dimitrios-Kanellopoulos Since I have a Spartan, I reckon I’ll just be extra bitter. Consider my baro currently falling. But thank you for the thought!

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                    Efejota Bronze Member @Dimitrios Kanellopoulos
                    last edited by 3 Sept 2020, 15:51

                    @Dimitrios-Kanellopoulos I guess that most of us use previous experiences to find out what is lacking. For instance, something that I always miss in the POI screen in the Ambit is the absence of a relative altitude reference (not only distance). I always thought that that data could easily be offered by the watch, but I might be wrong.

                    Being imaginative in abstract terms is another story. It would be good to know what kind of “stars” you have found (let’s say, really imaginative inputs).

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                      Brad_Olwin Moderator @Guest
                      last edited by 3 Sept 2020, 15:53

                      @moe67er said in Something new is coming:

                      @Brad_Olwin and those warnings are already implmented as I stated above in storm warnings, isn‘t it? This feature is nice. It raises an alarm and you can react. But on a trailrun or skimountaineering day I never check barometric values while I am out. I do it before… also for 3 day trips. And when I know there could be a bad weather it is ok.
                      And as said: storm warnings for e.g. fast incoming summer thunder storms are great and this feature should be implemented by all watches having a barometer. but I do not need the values of the barometric pressure itself.

                      The storm warning requires a rapid pressure drop. In my experience for weather where I am, it is often insufficient for fast thunderstorms. I am not checking the values but having the graph has allowed me to make decisions about whether to summit a peak or not out on a trail run. I have been testing this feature for awhile.

                      Vector/T6c/Ambit 3 Peak/S5 Copper/S3/S7 Ti/S9 baro Ti/S9P Ti/S9PP Ti/Vertical Ti/Race Ti/RaceS/Ocean/Wing

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                        Dimitrios Kanellopoulos Community Manager @Efejota
                        last edited by 3 Sept 2020, 16:41

                        @Efejota yes as well. Lacking I forgot to mention but I think that is implied.

                        POI Screen or waypoint ?

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                          grantdoug @Brad_Olwin
                          last edited by 3 Sept 2020, 16:43

                          @Brad_Olwin I agree that it doesn’t warn very well. I was caught in a heck of a storm last weekend in the mountains at 12,500 feet, and nary a peep from the Baro warning.

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                            freeheeler @sartoric
                            last edited by 3 Sept 2020, 17:47

                            @sartoric said in Something new is coming:

                            I’m not chasing tech anymore since a while now, and I live better

                            so true 😁

                            living sideways

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                              bbx100 Bronze Member @Fenr1r
                              last edited by 3 Sept 2020, 19:14

                              @Fenr1r Since @Dimitrios-Kanellopoulos didn’t reply anything to your post in a style like dont worry, you’ll be pleasantly surprised I presume you are right, No luck for spartans 😞

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                                Fenr1r @bbx100
                                last edited by 3 Sept 2020, 20:26

                                @bbx100 Nope, shouldn’t think there’ll be any further development for the Spartan. Poor red-headed mule of a rented stepchild. Never to get the named Waypoints of the preceding flagship. Nor those of its successor.

                                Perhaps the clue was there all along. Was “Spartan”, in the sense of “austere”, always intended to apply to the feature set and development? Did the watch then fail the wine test and tradition demand its subordination?

                                Or was it personal?

                                Did an early production device elope with a Suunto director’s offspring or beep in a hushed theater?

                                We’ll never know.

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                                  Efejota Bronze Member @Dimitrios Kanellopoulos
                                  last edited by 3 Sept 2020, 21:48

                                  @Dimitrios-Kanellopoulos POI. My personal obsession 😆

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                                    Andrzej Dabrowa
                                    last edited by 4 Sept 2020, 11:05

                                    I’m counting on Waypoint names being displayed as well as waypoint list on a track available during workout. Comparing to Ambit3 Peak where this works quite well on S9 this is still missing - this is just downgrade.

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                                      Dimitrios Kanellopoulos Community Manager @Andrzej Dabrowa
                                      last edited by 4 Sept 2020, 11:20

                                      @Andrzej-Dabrowa said in Something new is coming:

                                      Comparing to Ambit3 Peak where this works quite well on S9 this is still missing - this is just downgrade.

                                      What do yo mean ?

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                                        suzzlo Moderator @Dimitrios Kanellopoulos
                                        last edited by 4 Sept 2020, 11:31

                                        @Dimitrios-Kanellopoulos no more teasers? just one it’s not enough…

                                        As Spartan user I’m quite jealous about features coming to Suunto SX series, but anyway, it’s also good to see updates on SA

                                        BR

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                                          Andrzej Dabrowa @Dimitrios Kanellopoulos
                                          last edited by Andrzej Dabrowa 9 Apr 2020, 12:42 4 Sept 2020, 12:39

                                          @Dimitrios-Kanellopoulos First of all on Ambit 3 (2 as well) when navigating with a route during workout you have two screens available: one with a route line and second with next waypoint distance, name and direction. The second screen is missing in S9. Secondly, when S9 displays notification when you about to approach the waypoint there is no waypoint name displayed anywhere just waypoint type. Finally you cannot choose a waypoint the navigation should direct you form all defined for the route.

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