Reviews

isazi

Time to share reviews

Tieutieu

French review from Jerôme blog cardio gps

Hari Seldon

Another point of view by TQS

duffman19

Chase the Summit. Apparently he’s confused as well. Although he doesn’t actually have the watch yet, so not a real review I guess.

runomatic

DailyNerdAlert:
https://youtu.be/s56pv30aajA?si=LrrpOlNUFG8UC1IV

(German)

maszop

@duffman19 A pointless effort to boost reach and viewership.
A review without any equipment.
YouTube is full of this kind of useless spam

duffman19

@maszop I don’t disagree, but Dave usually has reliable reviews on par with DesFit and the like. Looks like he planned to have a more “first look” review available for the release, but didn’t get the watch due to shipping issues.

However, I think his insights reflect what most of us, as potential buyers, are thinking at the moment.

maszop

@duffman19 The title of the video is “Suunto Vertical 2 is HERE!”
It’s absurdly pathetic.

duffman19

@maszop I feel silly defending a YouTuber on an Internet forum, but are you familiar with Chase the Summit? The guy has been doing in-depth reviews of sports watches for quite a few years now. I’m pretty sure it’s his full-time gig. While he might not be my first source for such content, I think his insights deserve at least a little respect.

And if we’re going off of video titles and thumbnails, then I think we can probably call most tech reviews “useless spam.”

runomatic

Bautsch Sportstec
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zdm4HMtdK_Y

(German. Well, more like Austrian )

gerasimos

@maszop something in V2 which is not pathetic or bad or bug-less or problematic or ready for war ?

duffman19

@dcrainmaker written review - https://www.dcrainmaker.com/2025/09/suunto-vertical-2-in-depth-review-flashlight.html

(I like how “flashlight” made the URL.)

maszop

@gerasimos Why do mentions of bugs or not-so-good (in my subjective opinion) solutions hurts you so much?

It’s just a watch, not a religion.
It’s worth mentioning bugs because Suunto is very slow to fix them.

pavel.samokha

Please let’s have only reviews here, not discussion about the watch itself. There is a separate topic for the latter.

Squirrel

DCR: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TxS5lD2lnWk

Stavrogin

@duffman19 I know these guys rely on the money they get from reviews, but who in the world needs a review where they are just looking at images from the internet. Pure garbage. He might as well do one of those Ai generated YouTube videos. At least it will be accurate and without Garmin compares.

If I have to hear “it does not have garmin pay and Spotify one more time…”

He is one of the biggest Garmin fanboys on Youtube. I trust his Garmin content, but everything else is iffy.

When he did his lab VO2 test I think Suunto was #1 or #2, but because that did not meet the narrative he wanted he glossed over it and barely mentioned it. Instead he focused on Coros and Garmin.

If you want honest unbiased reviews in the US on sports watches DC and Desfit are the ones to see. Beyond that…

Stavrogin

@Squirrel Gold Standard!

sorinus

From Active Ideas https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0qs3-xxSk5s

P.S. I think his reviews are as honest as it can get.

Tieutieu

@sorinus at last a review that shows flashlight use => seems quite powerful !