[DONE] Selling S9 bought Garmin Fenix 5x

Hello everyone

IMHO, I bought the S9 Baro Black with all the illusion to have an amazing smartwatch fitness tracking device, after I did my homework researching all the high-end devices, I decided to go to Suunto.

I gave it a try for 60 days, and I finally disappointed with it so I also decided to sell it and go for Garmin Fenix 5X+
S9 is an amazing piece of hardware but it is not what I am looking for or what I need.
I don’t do an ultra marathon or even a quarter marathon. I am a user that want my sleep track with insight about my recovery, my calorie count, my heart rate 24x7, floor climb, treadmill, elliptical, aerobics, cycling and walking.
I don’t need to have my tracks to the 0.1 m GPS precision.

So, the S9 is just 2 months old, bought is directly from Suunto Finland and I paid $815, if anyone interested I am selling for $600. We can use PayPal for security for both parties.

Thanks everyone

Saketo Nemo

Fair enough. Every use has a proper watch. Your use is very similar to what is offered by a fitness tracker. Thake a look to the precision of features like floor climb, I think you will be surprised. let us know how you will find yourself with the fenix

SlaSh

@Saketo-Nemo AW4 gives for me very accurate floors none of Garmin watches were so accurate same with ohrm it is incredible accurate.

Here are the comparison between S9 and F5X+
One in each hand…

What do you think?

jw cou

@Marcel-Baliño thanks for sharing, it’s interesting!
So it looks like the moving time (and pace) and the weather condition are the additional data you can see in Garmin app and not available in Sunnto app. And the PTE/Epoc have different but somehow equivalent (?) measures in the Garmin world.

I don’t know how it works but I like the ‘badges’ thing (first 5k, best 10k, most km in a week etc…), something in the list of the requested features in SA so hopefully should be available soon.

About the UI, I do prefer the SA one (especially IOS, your screen captures are Android), it looks to me “leaner” and less a catalogue of data. But that’s personal taste and may be simply because I am now used to SA UI.

Finally, data (gps and hr) looks globally more accurate with the Garmin watch, but one test on one walk is not a good and fair comparison. I’ve seen in this forum several examples of OHR not being accurate the first 5 min, I don’t know what I do differently but never experienced it so far (and I don’t do a 10min warm-up…), could be as simple as the shape of my wrist I guess.

That’s what I think

Saketo Nemo

Seems good & good for you !
Indeed, i was talking abount floor climbing. I know that is not a feature very reliable (for what it can count…)

marvelmike

@mbergi
Same here, although moving to S9 only a year ago.
No compatibility with ANT+ anymore, having to buy all new sensors.
Not able to pair two bike pods (speed and Cadence)
Not able to add Cadence Pod as foot pot to Bike workout profile for Cadence
Poor backlight in display
…
Suunto watches (I am a formerly proud user since t6d) used to be prefect and flawless. Taking luck out of the equation. You could rely on them and not fear that you would discover a software bug, once out in the wilderness.

S9 is a complicated sports watch and a poor smart watch.

Looking forward to fenix7

sartoric

@marvelmike
Out of curiosity, isn’t fenix6 good enough ?

@sartoric said in [DONE] Selling S9 bought Garmin Fenix 5x:

@marvelmike
Out of curiosity, isn’t fenix6 good enough ?

I guess it may be a question of price also. During black friday 2020 the Fenix 6 was in Portugal at 300eur, never seen it so cheap, but with the release of fenix 7 I guess the prices will lower also.
On my side I am curious both about fenix 7 and Suunto “10”

marvelmike

@andré-faria
I exchanges emails with Suunto customer support about a Suunto 10.
Release date, if it would have Oxygen measurement, etc.
Supposedly nothing is planned.

marvelmike

@sartoric
Well, sure Fenix 6 seems to be great, but with Garmin releasing a new product once a year I will wait for the latest and greatest to see.
For example the Fenix 6 Pro Solar was the first with solar. It is a good idea, but not perfectly implemented yet. I expect that to be perfect with F7.

If F7 is too expensive, I will go for F6 then.

Until then I will use my old Ambit 2!

@marvelmike said in [DONE] Selling S9 bought Garmin Fenix 5x:

@andré-faria
I exchanges emails with Suunto customer support about a Suunto 10.
Release date, if it would have Oxygen measurement, etc.
Supposedly nothing is planned.

If they told you something about it I would be amazed!
“Secret is the soul of the business”
Looking at past dates for Garmin models maybe a 955 in April a Fenix 7 later.
About Suunto, we only know that the loyalty offer ends on 31 March, so after that maybe something happens (speculating only).
But we can’t forget the impact of corona on dvp teams and maybe components availability.

ldxmsg

@marvelmike said in [DONE] Selling S9 bought Garmin Fenix 5x:

S9 is a complicated sports watch and a poor smart watch.

I agree and disagree. As a sports watch it’s far less complicated than a Fenix as it does so much less (which is obviously both a good and bad thing and all depends on the user’s desires). I use mine for running and walking and it does everything I need without being overly complex or data heavy. There are some things that are standard on a Fenix that I wish it had, such as a gesture-based setting to turn the light on when you raise your wrist - the number of times I’ve tried to check my watch whilst running at night and pausing it or doing other things is a pain.

On the other hand (and I know a number of users on here would disagree), I use my Suunto as my daily watch and I wish the smart features were cleverer. I would love more customisation on the watchfaces and complications; I would love to be able to see notifications but without having a preview of messages; I would love step tracking to be cleverer as it is on other watches etc etc. I would hope that whenever the Suunto 9 Gen 2 or Suunto 10 comes out it will fix many of these things - after all, despite the updates, the Suunto 9 is a few years old now.