Disappointing launch

[Marius Jacobsen Eggerud]

@Lechamoix and still waiting for reviews. Nothing from DCRainmaker and Desfit. Strange!

[Egika]

@Lechamoix the field testers have no insights into Suunto operations.

I have ordered an all black race on th 17th and delivery is scheduled for tomorrow. Now the titanium version is available to be ordered as of today.

[Egika]

@Marius-Jacobsen-Eggerud said in Disappointing launch:

@Lechamoix and still waiting for reviews. Nothing from DCRainmaker and Desfit. Strange!

Maybe you missed this thread:
https://forum.suunto.com/topic/9501/reviews/9

[GiPFELKiND]

@craigeggleton got this Email too ‍ Yesterday

[sir_max]

@Egika you are based in DE? I’m in NL and still no confirmation - is it DHL for you?

[Egika]

@sir_max Yes, am in DE. Carrier is UPS. Delivery scheduled for tomorrow

[ChrisA]

@Marius-Jacobsen-Eggerud They said, that they will need some weeks to fully evaluate all the features, especially HRV tracking, which takes 3 weeks to fully work. So I guess, that’s the reason.

[FoleyRose]

So I just chatted with support and apparently they are having “a technical issue with the shipping labels at the moment”. I asked if this issue was only for the titanium version and they answered “yes, atm its only the titanium and only in north america”. When I asked how long this will take to resolve, they answered “1-2 Days i hope”.
This honestly feels like canned answers bs to me.

[sir_max]

@Egika Awesome, will be nice to hear your first impressions

[ChrisA]

@craigeggleton while I understand, that one beeing dissapointed, that a product, which should be available is not and that waiting for something is never a pleasure, I don’t really understand why people are so emotionally upset about it and seemingly take this as a personal insult.

When I go to a local Porsche, BMW, Mercedes or VW store here in Germany, I am lucky if I get the modell I want, within a few days. Normaly you wait for months! And those are German cars I want to buy in a German official supplier. Nobody would say that those companies are “jokes”, Suunto can deliver a Race Steel version within days, the Titanium version seems to be delayed, but well, it’s a special modell and even then - it is like it is. One can only speculate why the Titanium modells are not available. Maybe it’s completly not Suuntos fault, but somewhere in the shipping, delivery, customs etc. process something went wrong. Being angry and in a bad mood won’t change anything besides detoriating your health an wellness

[logger]

@ChrisA Thanks for bringing a bit of sanity to this thread—“omg I have to wait a few days for a new GPS watch that didn’t even exist until a few days ago” is a really puzzling response!

[Egika]

@sir_max said in Disappointing launch:

@Egika Awesome, will be nice to hear your first impressions

I have been testing the Race for some months now - so no first impressions…
I just ordered regular production watches for my family members

[sir_max]

@Egika Sorry, I am new to the forum - did you write somewhere what you think?

[Egika]

@sir_max said in Disappointing launch:

@Egika Sorry, I am new to the forum - did you write somewhere what you think?

Welcome!

I have not written a review or similar. Am ready to answer questions though and have already done that in other threads

Short in short: After wearing Race on one arm and Vertical on the other for some weeks now, Vertical will soon become the watch left on the drawer at home. The screen of Race is so vivid, it is just fun to use.
Only for ski touring in the coming winter I will most likely take the Vertical, as I think that under those bright conditions the display is at least on par and the less protruding buttons are better suited for those layers of clothes, wearing it on top of the sleeve and/or glove operation.

[sir_max]

@Egika That’s great to hear - I have a few questions if you don’t mind. I briefly used the Garmin 255 and it is nice but the MIPS display wasn’t bright enough for me. I am excited to finally get a worthy successor of my trusty ambit 2.

• I read about speed of the device, did you notice much? It looks ok in some of the videos online.
• How is the weight and size of the watch? My wrists aren’t the largest so I was curious if it was comfortable to wear all the time esp. sleeping
• I don’t care too much for music or NFC, anything else of note that you missed about the watch?

[gizmo]

After an unsuccessful attempt to buy the titanium version, I have had the steel version for two days, but I am still curious whether the two versions differ only in weight and color or whether there are also differences in GPS and OHR accuracy.

[Egika]

@gizmo said in Disappointing launch:

After an unsuccessful attempt to buy the titanium version, I have had the steel version for two days, but I am still curious whether the two versions differ only in weight and color or whether there are also differences in GPS and OHR accuracy.

It is only weight, eMMC memory and color.
GPS is the same. OHR could be different to the titanium version being lighter and thus having less inertia…

[gizmo]

@Egika Are you sure that the housing material (titanium vs. steel) will not affect GPS accuracy? And the difference in weight may affect the HR reading.

[Egika]

@gizmo said in Disappointing launch:

@Egika are you sure that the housing material (titanium vs. steel) will not affect GPS accuracy?

yes

And the difference in weight may affect the HR reading.

that’s what I wrote

[babychai]

@Egika i think Vertical’s GPS accuracy is slightly better than the Race? because “Simultaneous satellite systems” for Vertical is 5 and Race is 4. In challenging environment Vertical should be better than the Race