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The Suunto Ambit Vertical Watch tracks the altitude profile of your route as you climb up hills and mountains. You can see daily, monthly, and yearly logs of your elevation gain and create routes using topographic maps and altitude information through Suunto’s Movescount.com Read More
What in the hell is going on with this drop? I keep getting emails saying it's active, but then it's inactive as soon as I go to check it out. This is something that I've requested several times now too, twice in the past month. Will this be a drop? Or should I just head over to Amazon and stop giving the little guy a chance?
TodzkiA pretty good chance yep! That's a different drop and it's based on availability, but keep an eye out over the next couple months and we'll do our best.
I think watches from Suunto look great and have many great features but I hate the idea of having to charge my watch. For this reason, I don't think I would ever buy one of these or any other watch that requires charging.
JTownPhillyAs someone who owns one, you do need to keep in mind that you do NOT have to recharge these nightly unless you are using the GPS feature throughout the day. In my personal experience, using it in conjunction with bluetooth (both paired to an iPhone and used multiple times weekly with a HR monitor) it lasts easily more that a week (unlike, say... an iWatch). Charging can happen overnight once every couple weeks and is in no way onerous.
Despite the occasional issue I am actually quite happy with this watch, it definitely beats other the sub 300usd watches though I think there are probably better options if you are comparing it to watches closer to 500usd.
Some issues me and a mate have had:
-the phone app is really not great, if you want a watch which connects reliably to your phone, look elsewhere.
-after about a years use there has been 3 or 4 times where the watch has hung on trying to find satellites in otherwise seemingly perfect conditions. I think there was a firmware update not to long ago which may have patched this out but who knows. Even though this only happened extremely rarely I found it insanely frustrating when it did happen, so I thought it was worth mentioning.
The suunto website ('movescount') where you upload activities ('Moves'), before sending them to strava or whatever, is pretty great imhno.
It neatly displays a fair amount information, and provides a bunch more options for the moves you upload than strava.
There is also a fairly limited watch app builder and community app sharing thing. Which is nice.
Would buy again, esp at this price point.
A bit of an "off the track" question, not sure if someone can answer me: as a humanitarian working in war affected places, I regularly have to go on the field in remote places where local rebellions are active, with a risk of attacks on vehicles and abductions. Is there a way to have someone at my HQ in London track me on a map from a distance using the GPS function of the watch? Would be very handy in case of kidnapping or more serious incident, for the security teams to understand exactly where the incident happened and how to react.
So yeah, off the track, but does someone know if this is possible? Thanks!
Does this one have an option to automatically switch sports within a workout or race (for a triathlon, for example)? I don't want to be fiddling with a lot of buttons during my tri transitions.
Scouter124As far as I can tell, while there is a multi-sport mode, you have to hold the lap button for around 2 or 3sec to change sports within the multi-sport mode, there is no way to get it to change automatically after a set time or distance or change in some other variable.
Multi-sport mode seems to be quite versatile and you can set up just about any combination of sports including transition periods (which can do whatever you want, its just another sport mode which you happen to call 'transition' so recording things like gps and heart rate while transitioning isn't a problem).
The max sport modes you can include in a multi-sport mode is 6.
There is a default tri-multi-sport (which you can modify on the website) and the ability to create and store up to 2 other multi-sport modes on the watch.
Disclamer: I'm not into tri, so my experience with actually using the multi-sport mode is fairly limited... I've played around with it but not done a race or anything using it.