So Difference between Race 2 and Vertical 2 = Flashlight and Digital Crown
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@isazi Just seems a small amount of differences to warrant a different name. If MIP is truly dead, then this is really only a Race 2 without a crown and a flashlight really. If larger battery is a thing, it just sits above the Race 2 like the Race S sits below the Race.
Just seems a little odd there’s little product differentiation here.
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@Desdinova said in So Difference between Race 2 and Vertical 2 = Flashlight and Digital Crown:
Just seems a little odd there’s little product differentiation here.
Because it is cheapest for the manufacturer.
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I like Race 2 design more. I was thinking the crown doesn’t make sense, but I like it. I don’t like to use a touch screen on a watch; basically, I prefer not to use it at all, and scrolling with the crown is convenient.
Suunto Ambit 2 > Suunto 5 > Suunto Race 2
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@Desdinova Race Pro
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@Badmo than we need Race Pro Max and Race Air too
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I am really happy that it is (for me) disappointing and expensive. So I don’t need to buy a new watch.
If the Vertical 2 would have been a Vertical1 + Suunto Run features + better OHR + dive functions (like fenix) I could not resist… -
@VoiGAS haha, I thought the same but have just ordered the V2… I will have a good look at it against the V1. Like you say the difference doesn’t look great!
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@Audaxjoe Normally I react the same way - the GAS in my username stands for Gear Aquisition Syndrome
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I was with a RACE and I decided to shift to a VERTICAL 2 . Honestly I was a concerned by my choice because I liked a lot the crown … btu still I took the risk because I liked the idea of the red light also better lighting when white and also the batery and the bigger buttons when you do some winer sports …
Finally I DO NOT REGRET AT ALL my choice
The crowns is for sure a very good things but the way they designes the 3 buttons of the VERTICAL 2 … even I’m not using so much the touch screen
I’m not sayign that if the crowne was on the VERTICAL 2 I will nto have appreciated it … but it is not so mising me at the end -
@Mister-PYC One negative thing about Vertical compared to Race is that upper button is more likely to press accidentally and pause the ongoing activity.
In a short time of owning Vertical 2 I have already done that once.
Suunto: Ambit, Ambit 3 Peak, 9 Baro, Race S, Race Ti, Vertical 2 Ti
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@sky-runner you can lock buttons during an activity to avoid that.
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@sky-runner said in So Difference between Race 2 and Vertical 2 = Flashlight and Digital Crown:
@Mister-PYC One negative thing about Vertical compared to Race is that upper button is more likely to press accidentally and pause the ongoing activity.
In a short time of owning Vertical 2 I have already done that once.
Hello sky-runner, sthis what happening to me a lot of time with my 9 BARO, so I was used to lock the buttons during an exercise,
BUT there is a bad side effect when you lock the buttons, this lock also apply to the NAVIGATION map where it should not because these buttons are not risky (in the sense that it cannot pause or stop accidentally an exercice) instead it allow to zoom
I already suggested at the time of my RACE2 to let the zoom and scroll and eventually add a POI on teh NAVIGATION SCREEN even when teh buttons were locked -
@sky-runner I use the map screen to avoid accidental pauses or ending the activity.
