@yoan2web said in Suunto it's time to wake up !!!:
When I see so much effort being put into designing pretty watch faces, I find it quite unbelievable that no updates have been made yet to improve the training experience with this watch! Let me explain:
As a Suunto user since 2014, I’m very frustrated today. I currently own a Suunto Race for trail running, which is an amazing watch in many ways but has some unthinkable flaws that seriously disrupt daily training sessions :
• How is it possible during Guide session with reps that there’s no display of the current repetition number? When there are 40 reps, and you need to know which one you’re on, you have to write everything down manually… That’s just absurd!
This is often requested and I hope can be implemented.
• Also, if you accidentally press “lap” during a guide, it jumps to the next step! And there’s no way to go back to the previous step or restart the guide… If you’re following a nutrition or training plan through the guide, it’s all ruined 🤬
This is by design. I use this as my warm up and cool down are not set but variable depending on the intervals I need to do. The interval workout is automatic so no need to press the lab button. And, you can configure this.
• It’s also impossible to pause a guide without pausing the entire activity. It feels like the people designing these features don’t actually use the watch themselves.
I assure you they do.
• Lastly, it’s really unfortunate that you can’t display anything other than the remaining distance on the map screen. It would often be much more useful to have data like heart rate or other relevant information for athletes (specially during interval session in unknow aera) , while still being able to navigate, without having to constantly fiddle with the watch.
Would be nice to have this for some, me I don’t want my HR displayed on the map but you can search and see if similar requests have been made.
• The map downloading system is totally outdated and archaic 😳. If you happen to be in an area without Wi-Fi, you can’t download a map background to your watch, EVEN IF your phone has a connection. There’s phone tethering, but it’s way too buggy, and the map loading is extremely slow. How is it not possible to download the map on the phone and send it to the watch?
Apparently you have an archaic phone! I am able to tether the watch to my phone and as long as the watch is on the charger it works perfectly. I have an iPhone 16 Pro. Maps are large, mine require 30 min or so to download and unpack. It isn’t all just downloading.
• It’s also impossible to program an interval session during a workout. If I remember well this was perfectly possible with my Baro 9!
It is if you allow intervals to be an activated in the sport mode. You can then set the interval session as you wish. Alternatively you can pre-program different workouts as Suunto Guides and select whichever you want on the fly. So this is certainly possible.
These issues were obvious to me from the first days of use (I bought this watch as soon as it came out), so I waited for updates… The updates don’t bring anything significant, just minor or useless improvements like watch faces. Suunto, please, time to wake up 😉.
An opinion and others may differ. I like the festive watch faces.
