Suunto's newest watch is the 5 Peak

[Dimitrios Kanellopoulos]

@dmytro compass + materials

[Łukasz Szmigiel]

@dimitrios-kanellopoulos is compass really that expensive?

[DMytro]

@dimitrios-kanellopoulos oh, so no compass either?

[inkognito]

Couple of thoughts/questions:

• On the back of the watch, one can read 30M water resistance only… Wasn’t S5 50M?
• One can also read OW175 there, which is the Suunto 3 label, right? Perhaps graphic designers weren’t careful enough?
• Is it the same Valencell OHR sensor again that many people were complaining about? Or did it get any better?

[isazi]

@inkognito said in Suunto's newest watch is the 5 Peak:

• One can also read OW175 there, which is the Suunto 3 label, right? Perhaps graphic designers weren’t careful enough?

The real watch has OW202 on the back.

• Is it the same Valencell OHR sensor again that many people were complaining about? Or did it get any better?

The HR is pretty good, not as good as the S9P, but pretty good. Usually few bpm difference from a chest strap. I only had issues in very cold weather where all OHR sensors tend to struggle.

[Bulkan]

@inkognito is the version 2.0 of the sensor.

Is pretty good reading.

[cosme.costa]

I think it is a nice watch and as Joaquin says in his video a good choice for the targeted market.

What I think is a bad strategy from Suunto is present it just 2/3 days after Garmin presented the F7. I think Suunto should have presented it some days before the F7 or wait some weeks. Lots of reviewers have their bellies full with Garmin and they are not talking about the S5P.

[DMytro]

@bulkan you’re a tester too?

[Bulkan]

I found some photos:

[freeheeler]

@inkognito
I thought it looks like an S5 squeezed into an updated S3 body

@cosme-costa
garmin released another flagship, but Suunto is targeting a wider group of people… maybe this release date was clever, because people see a new watch that costs a fortune and only few days later they see a nice new watch that is affordable

[Mff73]

i never get any S5, but i am wondering which functions are managed through the two additional buttons on S5P vs Spartan (SSU)/S9(B)/S9P, etc…

@freeheeler, a comment ?

[inkognito]

@mff73 https://www.suunto.com/Support/Product-support/suunto_5/suunto_5/getting-started/buttons/

[DMytro]

@mff73 there’s a dedicated back button and a function button.

[isazi]

First review?

https://the5krunner.com/2022/01/20/suunto-5-peak-review-specifications/

[Łukasz Szmigiel]

@dmytro and the back button allows to cycle left during the workout. It’s impossible (without touch enabled) on S9, as I’ve been told.

[Stefan Kersting]

@wmichi there is no light sports use, just real shit and I do not like playing grocery store. So the S9B is the real stuff anyway

[surfboomerang]

@łukasz-szmigiel Correct, to go back a screen or get a route overview in the S9 you have to enable touch.

[freeheeler]

@mff73
I have no idea whatsoever what you are talking about

[Dušan Ković]

I whish they made the case thinner, it is just S5 packed into the S3 case with some incremental updates…

[Prenj]

As many have pointed out already, it’s kind of wierd to add “peak” in the watch name when it doesn’t have barometer. All other suunto peak watches up until now had barometer. I will not call it cheating but some buyers might feel so after they buy it. Maybe it’s time for suunto to invent better naming scheme for watches?

Otherwise, watch looks nice, has good set of features and is super light. To me this watch looks like Suunto 9 (no baro) without touch screen and with full set of buttons (non baro 9 has been discontinued right?). Market will tell if that is enough to be a success story.

I’d say the price is too high for basically a facelift of a watch introduced 5 years ago, but it seems lately people are willing to hand out crazy amounts of money for sport watches and mobile phones, so taking that in consideration, it’s probably just right. Suunto 9 price has dropped to just about this price in the end if I’m not mistaken.