Suunto Vertical 2 General Discussion

sebchastang

@Egika Thanks for your feedback

VoiGAS

My 2 cents

Too heavy
Too expensive
No MIPS

I see no reason to upgrade from the Race S which is lighter for half the price. The AMOLED Torch works really well, only difference I see is Display size and battery lifetime. For both I don’t care, so not for me

Only possible plus: Maybe the Vertical 1 price gets reduced

Tieutieu

@Egika what means “Auto zoom based on route shape”. Spotted that as a difference already on Race2, now on SV2 ?

My thoughts ; disappointed because not enought to make me upgrade my SV1 and because there are really not big differences with SR2…but afterall it’s a good move :

what bother me the most is that touchscreen still can’t be activited during activities to navigate from a screen to another (but maybe it will change with updates to come) / no personnal battery modes so far. That’s what bother me the most on my SRs.
Solar gone => well, I’m proud to use my SV1 that have it, but battery life is so insane that i have never really paid attention to solar charging
bigger screen and amoled resolution => using amoled on my SV it’s a huge plus and confort, and no issue in sunlight. Bigger and sharper is better.
battery life with amoled => I guess charging “more regularly” could be a bit annoying when you are used to SV1, but If charging goes as fast as it goes for my SRs it shouldn’t be a problem
Always on needed for cycling => even if @isazi mentionned around 50/60% of autonomy loss, my longest bike journey so far was 8 hours, so guess we are maybe putting so much emotion on that point…Still hopping a suunto bike computer to arrive some day
led flashight => well, why not but IMHO more a marketing decision to compet garmin
loved the SV1 design, not disappointed by SV2. And even if SR2 design if far better than SR1, SV2 is much nicer to me.
sensors (OHR) improvements => better but not as good as belt ; I’ll probably stop using Belts when OHR sensors will be perfect or if suunto releases some day a arm strap like coros compatible with zonesens
no more made in Finland => I still hope that customized models will be made in Finland (that would be clever to keep that to answer to those who want a made in finland watch like me ; that’s probably a niche, but still makes sense).

All that said => I will keep my SV1 and SRs for now, waiting to see what next updates will bring us that my SV1 will not support.

Egika

@Tieutieu said in Suunto Vertical 2 General Discussion:

“Auto zoom based on route shape”

As Suunto Race also has it, I don’t think this is something new to Vertical 2…
Not sure what it refers to. Will ask.

runomatic

@GiPFELKiND The truth. Deepl rulez!

Tieutieu

@Egika yep I saw that when SR2 was released, but didn’t saw anything new in navigation (and in reviews) . Maybe linked to futur updates ?

Egika

@Tieutieu said in Suunto Vertical 2 General Discussion:

@Egika what means “Auto zoom based on route shape”. Spotted that as a difference already on Race2, now on SV2 ?

My thoughts ; disappointed because not enought to make me upgrade my SV1 and because there are really not big differences with SR2…but afterall it’s a good move :
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All that said => I will keep my SV1 and SRs for now, waiting to see what next updates will bring us that my SV1 will not support.

I think you got most points right.
And I guess Suunto’s approach was not to make as many existing customers change to new models.
I guess the new models were designed to have an up to date model available for new customers. Like if I am to buy a sports watch, would I look for a model that has been on the market for 3 years, or something more recently introduced?

As far as I have been told, Suunto Vertical will stay in the portfolio as the MIP (and optional Solar) model.

maszop

@Egika The problem is that Vertical 1 requires a newer OHR, the rest may still be enough for a few more years.

Tieutieu

@Egika
Fully agree. When I say « disappointed » it’s because I love the brand ; change would have be more to satisfy my envy more than my needs (and because I’m a very reasonable guy, that’s why I don’t change for now ! I just need to deal with frustrations now !! )

runomatic

@maszop I suspect that I will continue to run with the Coros HFM wristband despite the new OHR. I don’t think the OHR is that accurate.

Egika

@runomatic you’ll be suprised!

maszop

@runomatic OHR is never very precise, but it may be sufficient for less intense activities (like in Garmin, Apple, and possibly the Race2/Vertical 2).
OHR in the Vertical 1 is usually useless.

Jan Suchánek

So according to reviews, there is nothing great instead of battery life and fast map. I like the design, but Garmin seems much better with OHR, sleep tracking, navigaton for the same price… And I have to say that even if I switched from F7 to Race.

runomatic

@Egika In summer, I have few problems with the OHR (whether Garmin or Suunto). In winter, we’ll see whether the Vertical 2 really offers an improvement.

I’ll be getting a SV2 to test soon. I’m really excited about it.

Tieutieu

About the strap : this new athletic 9 model looks very close to athletic 2 that equiped the SV1. Does materials have changed ?

isazi

@Tieutieu more stretchy and less stiff than V1

Jan Suchánek

Also in Czech review they said, that the flashlight is much weaker than on T-Rex 3 Pro and much more weaker than in Garmin F8.

Tieutieu

@isazi arggglll bad news I already have too much different straps…

Kurt68

I’m getting the titanium version for the price of the steel version, so I’ll take the risk. The package should arrive tomorrow

maszop

@Kurt68 This seems like a good price