Suunto Race 2 General Discussion
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Today i sold my AppleWatch 10 LTE and bought Suunto Race 2.
So, im back to the Suunto community after short advanture with Suunto Race S one yera ago.
I’m full of hope that Race 2 will be much better than Race S. New Suunto App, New HR. Two apple watches in my hand in last yeras, firs Series 7, and now series 10 and i can tell. HR is the best and healt stats. And that it. No deep sports metrics by apple, App are not so good as it should. And battery life. One day bike trip with out charger and phone is hard to make. Hike are limited to outside apps if you want a map with directions.
Now with Suunto Race 2 all will be better. And if suunto add payment NFC method in the future this will be superb watch with all i need. Im happy after all and Hello again. -
@krzyśMac said in Suunto Race 2 General Discussion:
No deep sports metrics by apple, App are not so good as it should.
For Apple, serious people need to move beyond the default Fitness and Health apps. I recommend the HealthFit app, which is a small one time cost (there’s an option for a supporter subscription that unlocks a few minor things) and gives a lot more info on your sessions. I’m using Suunto and Apple concurrently and most things in Suunto I can replicate somehow in the Apple ecosystem. There’s exceptions like ZoneSense where there is no equivalent though. There’s also many things Apple does Suunto does not, though these tend to be more on the “smartwatch” side — e.g. LTE for playing music when I am out without my phone, Apple Pay, etc.
As for battery life, I certainly agree Suunto is better there. However, depending on one’s needs this may not be too important. I tend to do some kind of workout every day, but my overall time is about 60-120m which the Apple Watch can easily handle. I do my workouts in the morning and then shower, and I dislike wearing watches during shower time. So I end up taking off both the Apple Watch and the Suunto Race S, and for Apple I put it on its charger automatically, and for Suunto, I need to check what the battery level is, and if 30% of less put it on the charger, but if higher put it right next to the charger, so in an odd way, it’s actually a little more work to ensure I optimize battery charging.
I don’t do multi-day hikes in the wilderness, etc. where Suunto’s battery life might be more a factor. For my personal day to day usage, both Suunto and Apple are good. The only time I think I’d need to worry about Apple is if I was planning an international trip, spending a lot of time in airports, etc. such that I might go closer to two days total without a shower.
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@krzyśMac said in Suunto Race 2 General Discussion:
And if suunto add payment NFC method in the future
I hope it doesn’t. I like that Suunto watch are primarily sports watch and not smart watch. It already has some basic notification integration (which on iOS is not so well implemented). But that’s it. My personal opinion is that they should focus first on fine tuning all sports sensors that they have. Improve quality of OHR, Sleep tracking, Recovery times, Blood Oxygen and other health/sports metrics rather than adding new hardware for NFC or other functionality which will increase cost of hardware and software. We already have NFC paymants on Phone, is it really needed in watch ?
Suunto Ambit 2, Suunto 5
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@Tomas5 I’m with you on this. Well said.
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@Tomas5 Race 2 already has NFC hardware from what I understand. So support for NFC could be added in the future via a software update.
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@sky-runner didn’t know that. Thanks for info.
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@Tomas5 Agreed - I find the current smartphone features just about right for me.
One thing to note about the Apple Watch, repeated charge cycles deplete batteries sooner so that’s another reason to like longer lasting watches like Suunto!
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@FCDsh Yes Coming from the 9 Peak, this is a great upgrade for me! Wife got it for me for my birthday… if only she would let me open it early!
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@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.
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@Steven-Hambleton I had battery capacity after 4 months 97%. With this speed in one year that will be circa 90%
