According to Suunto Vertical specs, you get 30 days with a 100% charge battery, 3.33% per day.
You get 65 hours of GPS activity with a 100% charge battery, 1.54% per hour of activity.
For 7 days as smartwatch (23.3% battery consumption) and 14 hours of GPS activity (21.5% battery consumption), you should drain approximately 45%.
56% should correspond to battery consumption for 7 days as smartwatch and 21 hours of GPS activity (50% more than 14 hours)
So I don’t think @VoiGAS is so wrong by saying it doesn’t match the advertised battery life.
I don’t want to polemic and I think we should not focus on the advertised battery life (which is usually obtained under best favorable conditions), but the fact is we have lost battery life since 2.35.34 firmware update.
I agree with @Egika, we cannot draw conclusions for everybody as there are so many use cases, but for the ones concerned by the battery drain issue, it is disappointing.
We should stay positive as Suunto proved us through latest firmware update they are working on the battery “issue”.
May we suggest dev team to check again all changes done with firmware 2.35.34 and find what causes much battery drain than before (maybe the battery improvements done is OK for specific usage but worse in other cases).
I would be glad to remove the battery improvement of the changelog and get back to a real 60 hours battery life instead of a 65 hours battery life difficult to reach.
Once again, I really enjoy my activities with my Suunto Vertical. I know I will never have the perfect watch, but Suunto watches are the ones which match my need the best (event with some little bugs 😉 ).
As a reminder :
Staged update starting on July 3rd 2024
This update brings new features, improvements and bug fixes.
New really cool features 👍 :
Climb guidance feature during navigation for routes with elevation data
Possibility to select watch face complications
Three new watch faces
Cumulative data fields as watch face complications
Second configurable short cut
Screen lock in watch mode
Map zooming now possible up to 20km
Data field on navigation screen
Automatic and customizable map re-center
Sport mode specific display settings
Browse back one screen in sport mode using long press middle button
New pause and exercise end user interface with possibility to browse screens
Vietnamese language support
Improvements and bug fixes:
Improvements in the battery life with GPS: Vertical 65h - Vertical Solar 90h - Race 50h
Improved Emoji support with more characters
Improved step counter to avoid misdetection from general hand movements
Faster UI browsing
New GNSS and OHR software
