New Suunto watch coming

mikekoski490

Ill admit I have mixed feeling about this announcement. Not from the perspective of Suunto launching a new watch - I hope it helps Suunto be more successful in this competitive market. But more from the perspective of the issues people have been having with the Vertical (me included - sporadic no map issues and weird resets) without clear communication from Suunto on when the issues will be fixed (but a shout out to the forum moderators here to fill in where they can).

I did reach out to official Suunto chat support to ask, based on the issues above, if there is any roadmap or date to the next firmware update, and they said no idea, so Im wondering if there is a disconnect on how to address these issues between Finland Suunto staff and the new owners (?).

Lets hope there is positive communication and updates to the Vertical soon, and hopefully aligns with the launch of a new device. Other companies (Garmin/Coros etc) have a fairly good record of porting new device updates to previous models, and the Vertical was promoted as a future proof watch given the processors and memory, so really hoping that change is good.

Piotr Grygiel

@Mff73 24h time and AM?

6294946

@Piotr-Grygiel yeah and digital plus analog watch faces combined in one

pavel.samokha

Disclaimer: that not official, not a promise, and no one empowered me to write this (and we’ll see if someone says I cannot ), but my own view:

Following comments of @tomasbartko @mikekoski490 and to reassure a bit:

Upcoming new watch is not a replacement for Suunto Vertical, but a device with somewhat different positioning and some different hardware choices
Suunto Vertical will obviously receive an FW update with many nice additions (I assume soon after new watch release). Both Vertical and upcoming watch has the same FW version in testing

Ivan Vasilev

@pavel-samokha I really hope this is the case. Suunto Vertical ticks all the boxes for me and I don’t care about payments, autonomous music or other lifestyle features which might come with the new watch. So, hopefully the Vertical will be supported for some time to come.

Jeffrey Tillack

@Dušan-Ković I can’t see a picture. Is one still available?

Dušan Ković

@Jeffrey-Tillack Probably on the FCC website, admins removed the link from forum

Tieutieu

@Jeffrey-Tillack said in New Suunto watch coming:

@Dušan-Ković I can’t see a picture. Is one still available?

Not that much to see. Just imagine a vertical with a rolling button in place of the middle one

Lechamoix

@Tieutieu right-click to download PDF hahah

A Former User

@pavel-samokha appreciate your view, thanks

MiniForklift

Just thinking about the letters and numbers that accompany the name of this new watch, OW224. That wouldn’t be indicating February 2024?

inkognito

@MiniForklift
S9B: OW183, launched 06/2018
S9P: OW194, launched 06/2021
S9PP: OW211, launched 11/2022

Probably not then…

EzioAuditore

With everything going on with my old SV (and apparently with the new replacement) I have to ask: will the ‘crashing’ feature be included in the new watch?

Egika

@Hristijan-Petreski yes! Everone is working hard to introduce as many crashing scenarios as possible…

Seriously: what kind of value does your post add to the topic?

GiPFELKiND

GiPFELKiND

@Egika said in New Suunto watch coming:

@Hristijan-Petreski yes! Everone is working hard to introduce as many crashing scenarios as possible…

Seriously: what kind of value does your post add to the topic?

🤭🤭🤭

EzioAuditore

@Egika Better question would be: What value does new watch bring when the old one is not working as it should!

Likarnik

@Egika If we add value to this topic it will be deleted links, pictures etc. Our chit chat has no value…

Lechamoix

@Likarnik It keeps me busy between two meetings.

Egika

@Hristijan-Petreski to stay on the level you have just introduced here:
the value it brings is that it will finally be the one device working in the way all previous models should have…

Seriously: I understand that you obviously have experienced some issues with your Vertical. Sarcasm is understood but it is not a general issue as hundreds of users are happy with the current models. Including me