Suunto - Vertical Titanium Solar
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"I took both my Suunto Vertical and Coros Vertix 2 to Chamonix a couple of summers ago. Each run/hike I relied on maps & navigation more than any other feature. I started out with Coros, but after losing the trail a few times at crucial intersections, I swapped out for Suunto. It performed much better in that environment."
"The Suunto Vertical is a masterpiece of precision, unmatched in its accuracy."
"i can compare Vertical vs Fenix 7x pro sapphire on same route we logged 4,45km on Fenix vs 4,6km on my Suunto, I ve started my watch slightly faster soo there might be 50m. we also both logged slightly different alltitude gain, me with around 1065m alttitude gain vs my friend fenix 1059m allitude gain, my highest point on watch was more towards official readings of 1242m (it showed 1243m while my friend logged i think 1236m or similar soo yea, if you are like "well well, garmin for 800€ can't beat vertical from suunto i ve got for half the price" kind of attitude then sure, be my guest but in reality those re soo minor difference that if you re gonna argue on that..... yea. but just to show you what i ve meant"
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"The Suunto Vertical is a masterpiece of precision, unmatched in its accuracy."
"The newer ones seem to have overcome the HR sensor issue too."
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"For intervals, I create them in the app, and that setup works perfectly for me."
"application on phone matters for me alot and there suunto is just better. they have one app for everything which imo is more user friendly."
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"Or if you regularly do more, the Vertix gets double the battery life. ... Hiking and tracking 12 hours a day, a Vertix would almost get you 10 days."
"battery life on the other hand, here suunto wins no question at all! ... on gps mode there is just too much difference IMO, garmin is more than 2x behind in battery. ... are you gonna do some multi day hikes or really some long lasting stuff like running 100km or you just in general wants more battery life?"
"My Suunto vertical titanium solar lasts about three weeks when I train five days a week with tons of GPS tracking."
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"this thing has taken a beating, and still looks great."
"I think they look significantly better than the garmins, that's obviously subjective"
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"If it had just a few more data points, I probably wouldn’t have switched to the Fenix 8"
"suunto is really behind. ... you will get basic notifications with opiton to control music on your phone and call my phone function and function to turn down phone call with a SMS and thats pretty much it."
"suunto have less data"
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"I turned off auto update on my vertical because I get more bugs than useful features from their updates lately. ... Last year the watch got an update that made it not able to sync with the app after an activity. ... I find suuntos updates similar to coros in that they have no issue releasing buggy firmware"
"You can create a route in the Suunto app. The distance seems pretty accurate when you do that but the elevation gain and loss on a route created is wildly inaccurate."
"laps are not exported from app to Strava and fit file correctly - breaks runna ... unfortunately on hill repeats and anything else with an open lap, you have to :( ... Thats a bummer. I hope that gets sorted."
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"I turned off auto update on my vertical because I get more bugs than useful features from their updates lately. ... Last year the watch got an update that made it not able to sync with the app after an activity. ... I find suuntos updates similar to coros in that they have no issue releasing buggy firmware"
"It really bugs me that even my Zwift training rides don’t show up in the Suunto app (I’ve tried some 3rd party apps to sync them and they just don’t work). ... It’s like I’m missing a huge part of my daily health metrics. ... I end up viewing everything in Strava, but then I have to check a separate app for steps, daily hr, and sleep."
"laps are not exported from app to Strava and fit file correctly - breaks runna ... unfortunately on hill repeats and anything else with an open lap, you have to :( ... Thats a bummer. I hope that gets sorted."
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"Suunto maps only do contour lines in meters. ... All of my trips are in the US. All of my physical maps and guides are in feet. Suunto maps only do contour lines in meters. I don’t know why I find this so frustrating, but if I knew that I would not have purchased."
"The watch and app also only display 1 route at a time. ... You can save multiple at once, but if you want to look at a map and see where you are and see multiple bail out or extension options then you need a different tool."
"on suunto you need to do that via your phone which can be annoying in areas where singal is questionable. ... suunto have no names on watch itself on map"
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"they really solved that issues Vertical and Race have. ... but imo me as some1 who do more trail runs / hikes / bike rides i just took my polar h10 with me and this is by far most accurate data imo. still just to point out suunto issues"
fdude999 1.0Solar Suunto and Garmin. Never charging my watch again.
Immediate-Ad-8667 1.0Suunto Vertical (I have the solar one) best gps settings = 60hr battery
Lavanyalea 1.0Agree! I had used Suunto 9 for years and years and only switched to Suunto Vertical with solar panel recently, got it on Black Friday discount £200 off ❤️
lovrencevic 1.0I’m a big fan of my Suunto Verttical solar. Insane battery life and all the bells and whistles for my needs.
spenpee 1.0I initially went from a Series 8 to an AW Ultra and ultimately decided that I wanted to try something that was more of a dedicated sports watch, so I eventually got the Suunto Vertical Titanium Solar. In some ways it’s been a step backwards (it feels “old” compared to an Apple Watch, particularly the MIP screen and general pared-back functionality) but it’s also great for what I need. I mostly trail run, hike and gravel bike with it, so the mapping functionality is helpful. It’s super easy to create a route on the Suunto app (or Strava) and then immediately sync it to the watch. This is something that never really worked on Apple Watches, I know you can use 3rd party apps but it was just not easy or seamless enough for me. I also appreciate the ruggedness of the Suunto, I bang it around all the time and it still looks great, the buttons are nice and I like that it doesn’t look like an Apple Watch. The HR monitor kinda sucks if you are super granular about that data. It syncs to Apple Health but not as seamlessly as AW (some data doesn’t sync fully, like sleep stages). I think the data displays in the Suunto app could be refreshed too, it was a lot easier to digest data in the Apple Health app. Overall I think the Suunto hardware is great, but the software is just OK.
ThrowAway516536 1.0My Suunto vertical titanium solar lasts about three weeks when I train five days a week with tons of GPS tracking.
No, it doesn't play music. But as a serious tool it's pretty good.
Jef2609 0.7As an owner of 9 Peak, Vertical 1 and Race 2, buy Garmin without hesitation.
jinjusounds 0.7I came from Apple Watch, briefly to Garmin, then got a Vertical (1 - steel solar) a year ago. I too thought it was a great looking watch which is why I bought it. I cant speak for everyone here bc the Suunto reddit group seems to be a place where people bitch about Suunto, so ALL YOUARE READING HERE IS COMPLAINTS. I am here to tell you that the experience with the app and the watch is great and it is a better looking watch than anything the competition has and... isn't that part of the point of a watch? Though admittedly I am not an elite athlete or anything but I do bike/hike/run a distance of 50-80 miles per week (according to watch) with the occasional loooong bike ride and it seems just fine for me. Software and sensors seem just as good as the Garmin I had. I way prefer the Suunto APP to the Garmin app and drawing bike routes on it is great and better than strava, which I still use for some reason.
Status_Monitor_4360 0.5I’ve been wearing a Suunto Vertical titanium for about a year. I have very few complaints about it, this thing has taken a beating, and still looks great.
AdFull2353 0.3100%. I took both my Suunto Vertical and Coros Vertix 2 to Chamonix a couple of summers ago. Each run/hike I relied on maps & navigation more than any other feature. I started out with Coros, but after losing the trail a few times at crucial intersections, I swapped out for Suunto. It performed much better in that environment.
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