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    • ? Offline
      A Former User @DMytro
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      @dmytro Honestly, I’m no expert on watch glass, but my Fenix 6X sapphire screen looks every bit as great as S9P. in fact, I’d wish Suunto used a similar oleophobic coating Fenix is using. You can fault Garmin for many things, but build quality of their high end watches isn’t one of them. Then again, COROS Apex is sapphire too, and it’s only $299.

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      Regardless of how it’s sourced or assembled, it’s just not a major cost contributor, marketing aside. Honestly, I wonder if sapphire is that much more complicated to produce than Corning Gorilla Glass or Garmin’s PowerGlass.

      I’m saying this only to underscore my basic point: S9P with its size straddles the difference between S5 and S9, and that makes S5 a somewhat tricky proposition going forward. If you want to retain the same $300 price point, you can’t really hope for S9P design, thinness, battery life, or any new features, which makes me wonder what’s going to be there that deserves a jump to OW2xx range?

      I’m happy to be mistaken.

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        DMytro @Guest
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        @nickk I’m just talking about saphire glass manufacturing process, not arguing with your conclusions:)
        You can’t tell whether saphire is quality by eyeballing it, you need precise tools. What exactly determines the quality? Amount of impurities I would think. How is this achieved? You take a big chunk of saphire crystall, which you grow in-house, it needs to be a cylinder form. Then you attach a high temperature ring around its region. You melt a portion of the crystall with this, so that other materials in the crystall will either float up or sink down. As this happened only in a single region, you slowly move your heat ring up and down, till most of “other stuff” floated to the top or sank to the bottom. Now you cut top and bottom off and you’ve got yourself a nice peace of saphire. Depending on amount of trips of the ring, you can vary the purity of saphire, procedure is rather expensive and delicate. And didn’t even mention the grown of the crystall itself, which is also not an easy task.
        It’s way easier with regular glass. And gorilla glass is just regular tempered glass with some extra stuff added into the mix. Sure, it’s not easy to cook the reciepe, but once you have it - it’s no longer that complicated.
        Btw fun fact: corning became popular due to its fiber glass manufacturing and original gorilla glass formula was long known but never used, until the iphone came along.
        I’m no expert of course and someone more knoledgeble may correct me.

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        • zhang965Z Offline
          zhang965
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          are we still talking about OW202, aren’t we?

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          • zhang965Z Offline
            zhang965
            last edited by

            S9P is still out of stock on the suunto site,

            could it be…placed directly by OW202?

            The biggest mystery for me is, will there be a S9(B) GEN2?

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              Dimitrios Kanellopoulos Community Manager @zhang965
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              @zhang965 no it won’t be replaced by open water 202 😅

              It’s out of stock both due to demand and supplier issues.

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                Dimitrios Kanellopoulos Community Manager @zhang965
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                @zhang965 actually if you subscribe to get notified when back on stock you can order from a special link that the email has.

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                  Nigel Taylor 0 Bronze Member @Dimitrios Kanellopoulos
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                  This post is deleted!
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                    zhang965 @Nigel Taylor 0
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                      A Former User @zhang965
                      last edited by

                      I’ve just ordered a S9P from the IN STOCK URL.

                      Hoping it would ship from an in stock warehouse?

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                        zhang965 @Guest
                        last edited by zhang965

                        @nickk said in Suunto OW202?:

                        I’ve just ordered a S9P from the IN STOCK URL.

                        Hoping it would ship from an in stock warehouse?

                        Well, I think maybe suunto E-shop team has made some mistakes,

                        If I understand, they use Magento as the e-shop? and they might set wrong product stock number for different root e-shop, /ecom/ and /sports-watches/ , @Dimitrios-Kanellopoulos

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                          Dimitrios Kanellopoulos Community Manager @zhang965
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                          @zhang965 no but please keep this to you.

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                            Dimitrios Kanellopoulos Community Manager
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                            Just a little say: I deleted your 2 posts just for the urls. Ping me back if you think that’s not ok.

                            My intention is that customers that have subscribed and wait get it first. As they should.

                            So lets not leak it 🥳

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                              Nigel Taylor 0 Bronze Member @Dimitrios Kanellopoulos
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                              @dimitrios-kanellopoulos fair enough - 😉

                              Although the website really needs fixing…seems a bit odd to get different availability based on which of two equally obvious clicks you take from the front page.

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                                Dimitrios Kanellopoulos Community Manager @Nigel Taylor 0
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                                @nigel-taylor-0 but that’s how it works. What fixing should it have ?

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                                  zhang965 @Dimitrios Kanellopoulos
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                                  @dimitrios-kanellopoulos said in Suunto OW202?:

                                  @zhang965 no but please keep this to you.

                                  I understand now,

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                                    Nigel Taylor 0 Bronze Member @Dimitrios Kanellopoulos
                                    last edited by Nigel Taylor 0

                                    @dimitrios-kanellopoulos said in Suunto OW202?:

                                    @nigel-taylor-0 but that’s how it works. What fixing should it have ?

                                    Hmm…

                                    Surely, if I…

                                    Go to the website of a local event organiser, click to view all their races, and then click on a specific race from that list, and it says “yup - places are available - please buy one”.

                                    vs

                                    Go to the website of a local event organiser, click directly on a specific race (the same one) they’re advertising on their front page, and it says, “sorry, that race is full”

                                    …then there is a problem to solve!?

                                    This is an exact copy of the Suunto 9 Peak situation. It lists as available and not-available, depending on what you clicked before - that’s wrong surely?

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                                      Dimitrios Kanellopoulos Community Manager @Nigel Taylor 0
                                      last edited by Dimitrios Kanellopoulos

                                      @nigel-taylor-0 the reason is the email special link and the same reason I deleted your post. One link has limited availability for the email subscribers and customers of Suunto who subscribed , while the other is for the general public that lists not available. 😅

                                      You can subscribe to availability of the product and we reserve for you one space for a limited amount of time.

                                      I don’t see anything bad about that or that needs fixing.

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                                        freeheeler @Dimitrios Kanellopoulos
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                                        @dimitrios-kanellopoulos
                                        loyal Suunto customers get a tiny bit prioritized… I think it’s fair 👍

                                        living sideways

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                                          Dimitrios Kanellopoulos Community Manager @freeheeler
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                                          @freeheeler well. The link is for both customerz or not. I think that is fair.

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                                            freeheeler @Dimitrios Kanellopoulos
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                                            @dimitrios-kanellopoulos
                                            the chance favours the prepared 👌

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