Suunto Vertical 1 – A Few Questions About the Future + Questions About the Vertical 2 and a Comparison with the Coros Nomad / the New Vertix 2026
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- Vertical 2 supports up to 3 apps
- The response is fast, but if that is not enough, you can enable “always on display” when you’re doing an activity
- After the change, you won’t come back. AMOLED is far more clear IMO. Maps, e.g., definitely looks better
Not able to answer to 4-5-6
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@SergioB Thanks for the opinion
Do you see any flaws, despite everything?
Oh, right! Can you attach here a few screenshots of the map? What do the trail names, street names, etc., look like now?
Suunto Vertical + Polar H10
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Good morning everyone. Hi Adrian, I have a V2 and since the last update (in my case) and using Custom Modes and 3 Suunto Guides, the watch has been freezing…in my last run (50km) it stopped measuring my heart rate (new Polar H10) after the first 5km and after freezing completely
️…and I’m wondering… Why am I not using the watch’s optical heart rate sensor if it’s activated???
In my opinion, since Suunto doesn’t have or use ANT+ technology to connect various sensors (including heart rate monitors), it will continue to experience temporary disconnections. The same thing happens when using live tracking; the Suunto app prioritizes its own connection and disconnects live tracking. Anyway…
Otherwise, it’s the typical AMOLED technology upgrade (you won’t go back): good battery life, good build quality, and an elegant look (in my opinion). The app provides enough functionality… I’ve answered based on my experience this past weekend after a test run and the lack of a heart rate monitor on a top-of-the-line watch, which I hope they’ll fix in the next… next… or who knows. This is just my opinion as a user of several brands, but with the bare minimum requirements—no distracting metrics. Sorry about that the extended explanation.
Health for all and kilometers in the mountains
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@Adrian.S Some previous pictures are here: https://forum.suunto.com/post/188739
I hate only one thing. Sometimes, only with specific positions, the watch doesn´t lights up with gesture. For me, this was only advance of MIP, that you can see the time without moving your wrist. During day. -
Yes, amoled is slow to turn on. There is definitely a delay between raising your wrist and the screen turning on. On my race s, it’s better than on my previous garmin forerunner 965. That watch failed to recognize the wrist gesture quite often. Doing fast intervals on a track was so much better with a mips watch. I find mips so much better than amoled. I have all sorts of inconveniences with amoled that I never had with mips. Also, in direct sunlight with sunglasses on, mips was better to read for me.
And yes, mips will be faced out. Shiny gadgets sell better than old fashioned looking gadgets. Mips fans may have an opinion about that, but that’s reality.
Lack of software updates? I had a garmin forerunner 935 for 6 years. Garmin isn’t very good at updating older models. You might get some bugfixes (but they always come with more new bugs) but no feature updates. But the watch was fine for 6 years, until the battery was down to less than 8 hours of gps usage (party caused by age, party by a bug in the firmware)
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@Adrian.S said in Suunto Vertical 1 – A Few Questions About the Future + Questions About the Vertical 2 and a Comparison with the Coros Nomad / the New Vertix 2026:
What do the trail names, street names, etc., look like now
There are no street names or trail names. z
If you search this forum or online you’ll likely see many examples of Suunto maps on the watch. It is the same across all Suunto models.
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@elbee said in Suunto Vertical 1 – A Few Questions About the Future + Questions About the Vertical 2 and a Comparison with the Coros Nomad / the New Vertix 2026:
And yes, mips will be faced out. Shiny gadgets sell better than old fashioned looking gadgets. Mips fans may have an opinion about that, but that’s reality.
I mean it is not that there is just one supplier of MIPS that is not developing the technology any further as it seems. And it is not that basically all MIPS watches share the same screen. It is just shiny gadgets…
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@Adrian.S I moved from the Vertical 1 to the 2. I was really unsure about AMOLED, but now, for me, MIP is history – I’d never go back.
The only thing I miss is a slightly dimmer mode. ‘Low’ is still a bit too bright, but it’s a small thing they could tweak later.
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Moved from Race S to Coros Apex 2 Pro because of MIP Display
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Today I was able to compare the MIP displays on the Coros Nomad and the Suunto V1.
Because of the sapphire crystal, the Suunto has more glare, which makes it a little bit harder to see in the woods. This isn’t necessarily a bad thing, but rather a characteristic of sapphire glass—and of course, it’s better to have sapphire than standard glass.
I find the maps on the Suunto easier to navigate, although the crown for zooming in and out makes using the map more user-friendly. Coros contain to much data on maps on the small screen 1.3.
The watch faces are a plus for the Coros—I use faces with minimal information anyway, such as time, steps, battery, and heart rate, but the Suunto lacks good watch faces to personalize requirements.
For now, I’ll stay with Suunto until the next major update. If the V1 still doesn’t get an update for maps and those other additional features that are already in the R2/V2, I don’t know if I’ll switch to Coros—maybe they’ll announce the new Coros Vertix 2026.
I’m also wondering if TSS/TSB still holds up after so many years of experience with these metrics. Personally, I still believe these stats don’t fully reflect my training status due to the weekly reset of TSS.
