S9 v. 2.4.14 GPS performance and practical questions it raises

@Dimitrios-Kanellopoulos said in S9 v. 2.4.14 GPS performance and practical questions it raises:

I have a main device, my S9, that I love

There! Can I second this opinion?

and the rest sit most day on a desk on a wooden branch like here

Man, and I was thinking something was wrong with me and was going to sell my collection. Now let me proudly grab a similar wooden branch my wife will probably kill me with, once she realizes just how many Suunto, Polar, and Garmin units have been conveniently stuffed in various drawers.

Regarding the main device:

Is on the non GPS optimal hand (right)

Can you elaborate on that? Why it’s not GPS optimal? Because right is dominant? (I happen to wear my Suunto 9 on the right hand too but mostly because I’m ambidextrous and tend to prefer right for watches)

Dimitrios Kanellopoulos

@NickK said in S9 v. 2.4.14 GPS performance and practical questions it raises:

Can you elaborate on that? Why it’s not GPS optimal? Because right is dominant? (I happen to wear my Suunto 9 on the right hand too but mostly because I’m ambidextrous and tend to prefer right for watches)

Exactly the same reason I wear it on right. My problem is also that my right-hand does have a black tattoo and I get the tatoogate thingy and even Vantage cannot get the OHR. They just don’t report any values.

Back to the question about why I can list a few reasons such indeed the dominant hand that moves a lot more but most importantly it’s the side of your body that you tend to have cover at roads and trails.

As used in our society we walk to the right side of the payment for example. In this case, our hand is covered more bu obstacles such as building etc. Same happens when on the trail and you have the trees on one side.

Of course, you could change the way you walk or run and then it wont be at the “bad” arm but then again, now you know why I call the right “bad”.

@Dimitrios-Kanellopoulos You are blowing my mind today! My only concern is while Stryd pace is pretty good, it is less accurate for me for walking, jogs, and low paced, easy runs. So, ideally I’d prefer a manual calibration over a known distance, combined with ability to drive by Stryd once it has been calibrated.

Still worth a try… Thanks a lot!

Luís Pinto

@NickK In past already made a suggestion to Suunto support to put footpod manual calibration for Spartan. I think Ambit 3 have that.

Brad_Olwin

@Dimitrios-Kanellopoulos said in S9 v. 2.4.14 GPS performance and practical questions it raises:

@Frédéric-Fiandino @Brad_Olwin should describe the collection hehe. Small Suunto museum almost.

It is true…A Suunto museum. If @Dimitrios-Kanellopoulos wore them all he would be up to his armpits in watchbands

Brad_Olwin

@NickK said in S9 v. 2.4.14 GPS performance and practical questions it raises:

@Dimitrios-Kanellopoulos You are blowing my mind today! My only concern is while Stryd pace is pretty good, it is less accurate for me for walking, jogs, and low paced, easy runs. So, ideally I’d prefer a manual calibration over a known distance, combined with ability to drive by Stryd once it has been calibrated.

Still worse a try… Thanks a lot!

I think the Stryd is very accurate in all of those scenarios. They have worked very hard on incorporating power hiking into the Stryd. I helped beta test some of that as they are only 5k down the road from where I work. Autocalibrate off is better than calibrating over a known distance as your foot movement will change depending on walking, running etc.

@Dimitrios-Kanellopoulos said in S9 v. 2.4.14 GPS performance and practical questions it raises:

…and even Vantage cannot get the OHR.

seriously, U got one?

Dimitrios Kanellopoulos

@paradize No I do not own one but I have putted on my wrist. OHR looked accurate and fast (some watches change slow) but still it did not work over tattoo. I did not test it.

azeanic

The GPS accuracy seems to be hit or miss. I had a run done yesterday under dense tree cover and it seemed to work great yesterday, but other times, it usually misses the turns. May have to bring out the ol-Ambit3 Peak for a comparison.

SlaSh

@NickK with his swimming style none of device is going to show good data

@SlaSh Apple Watch did. Wait! You don’t consider it a sports device Riiiiiiiight!

@NickK said in S9 v. 2.4.14 GPS performance and practical questions it raises:

@SlaSh Apple Watch did. Wait! You don’t consider it a sports device Riiiiiiiight!

Hm. Apple pays more than Garmin now.

I am quite sure, if Sony fixes the thing with the GPS turning off, Suunto will perform very good in water! At least as good as the Apple Watch or the 935 (which was in the buoy!).

I did not watch every second of the clip, but does he say at which firmware which watch is running?

@paradize said in S9 v. 2.4.14 GPS performance and practical questions it raises:

Hm. Apple pays more than Garmin now.

But strangely, only for open water I don’t know how, but it has to do something with reptiloid conspiracy!

@paradize said in S9 v. 2.4.14 GPS performance and practical questions it raises:

I did not watch every second of the clip, but does he say at which firmware which watch is running?

Nope. No firmware/software versions, though he’s fairly careful to use latest official ones or whatever firmware he’s given by manufacturers to use in his tests. Give a man credit where a credit is due!

@NickK said in S9 v. 2.4.14 GPS performance and practical questions it raises:

@paradize said in S9 v. 2.4.14 GPS performance and practical questions it raises:

Hm. Apple pays more than Garmin now.

But strangely, only for open water I don’t know how, but it has to do something with reptiloid conspiracy!

They just getting a foot in the door, there was no unboxing or hands-on of the 4 on his page so far.

@paradize He promised an in-depth review of the Apple Watch 4.

He did all of the previous versions without much fanfare because to this date, Apple Watch remains kind of a marginal player as far as athletic endeavors are concerned. It’s the big boys like Garmin, Suunto, and Polar who get special attention. First look, unboxing, hand on, in-depth…

Also, I suppose the fact that Apple doesn’t send him a device a month or two before the release has something to do with the lack of early articles too

@NickK said in S9 v. 2.4.14 GPS performance and practical questions it raises:

@paradize said in S9 v. 2.4.14 GPS performance and practical questions it raises:

I did not watch every second of the clip, but does he say at which firmware which watch is running?

Nope. No firmware/software versions, though he’s fairly careful to use latest official ones or whatever firmware he’s given by manufacturers to use in his tests. Give a man credit where a credit is due!

I am not sure if he can provide this ‘always at the latest firmware’ for all of his things in his many reviews.

@NickK said in S9 v. 2.4.14 GPS performance and practical questions it raises:

@paradize He promised an in-depth review of the Apple Watch 4.

He did all of the previous versions without much fanfare because to this date, Apple Watch remains kind of a marginal player as far as athletic endeavors are concerned. It’s the big boys like Garmin, Suunto, and Polar who get special attention. First look, unboxing, hand on, in-depth…

Also, I suppose the fact that Apple doesn’t send him a device a month or two before the release has something to do with the lack of early articles too

Let’s wait and see what happens…