@Tomas5 said in Suunto Race 2 General Discussion:
We already have NFC paymants on Phone, is it really needed in watch ?
My preference when I go out running is to leave my phone at home. I also often go for walks in the neighborhood leaving my phone at home. Therefore, there’s many times I have only my watch and there’s features I like to have, including NFC payments (which it seems the hardware is present), the ability to play local music from the watch (which the Suunto Run has, but not the Race series), and LTE connectivity (for streaming music, and ability to send an emergency text/call if needed). Why should I carry a heavy phone? If I’m lighter, I run faster.
Also, if I’m carrying my phone, I could just record my session using Strava or some other app. I wouldn’t need a watch at all for basic data like overall distance.
I just end up running with two watches to get the things I want (Apple and Suunto; for Suunto, I wanted ZoneSense, and I wanted to compare how the experience was with Apple), but it would be nice if this was on at least one Suunto watch. Garmin recently released Fenix 8 Pro with LTE that does much of this.
Now I get that many of these features are secondary to other things. The fact Suunto has made two new charging docks this year (the Run differs from the Race / Race S, the Race 2 differs from all of them) means there’s basic functionality they haven’t nailed yet. There’s also training features I want like connecting to a rowing machine to get my power data in I’d like to see (Garmin and Coros can do this, Apple and Suunto cannot) that I’d also consider more important. That doesn’t mean the non-training features aren’t also nice to have.
