Digital Transition interview with Romain from Suunto

[isazi]

@Brad_Olwin in fact I went back to my S9 for every day wear now. I will certainly switch back to the S7 soon, but I will miss true 24/7 heart rate monitoring and sleep tracking.

[chrish]

@Brad_Olwin definitely. I’ve been lusting for an S9 baro since they came out. Will be my next purchase. The bearing lock feature almost sold me but with the poi rumors, I’m definitely on board in the near future.

[fazel]

@Brad_Olwin Amen.

[Brad_Olwin]

@isazi So, I wear the S7 during the day, workout with typically two or three watches that usually includes the S9 and S7 and sleep with an S3 (small and light). I like having my night HR, more informative than resources or sleep quality but I’ll take those too. The S3 is great for sleeping and I tested the following: Hard workout wearing S9 Resources from 86% to 25%. Strapped on the S3, which started at 50% (since I was not wearing it) but ended after a few hours near where the Resources should be ~30% prior to sleep. So, I just switch watches willy nilly. Would like to have the S7 track Resources, Sleep and HR too. The image below is wearing the S9 and switching to the S3, the jump to 50% is the S3 and the following image is nighttime to this morning with the S3, when I then strapped on the S7 again.

[Bulkan]

@Brad_Olwin I’m using cardiogram in the s7 and export the data to csv and import it in Apple health using a shortcut, it is a bit slow but works. I like to have my heart rate data in Apple health, with the s9 it works, but not with the s7 (google fit instead of suunto app).

About working out with two or three watches, kudos!

[Jamie BG]

@chrish - would be interesting to see if the Casio option wouldn’t work.
Believe it can extend it tracking out to around 2 days and does it by only taking a gps fix every couple of mintues.

Also you could take a battery pack with you - its not a lot of extra weight and as Brad pointed out, it does charge quickly.

But agree its still the biggest issue of smartwatches compared to fitness watches in that in smartwatch mode battery life of fitness watches are superior, but then they don’t have the same level of connectivity.

[Brad_Olwin]

@Jamie-BG said in Digital Transition interview with Romain from Suunto:

@chrish - would be interesting to see if the Casio option wouldn’t work.
Believe it can extend it tracking out to around 2 days and does it by only taking a gps fix every couple of mintues.

Also you could take a battery pack with you - its not a lot of extra weight and as Brad pointed out, it does charge quickly.

But agree its still the biggest issue of smartwatches compared to fitness watches in that in smartwatch mode battery life of fitness watches are superior, but then they don’t have the same level of connectivity.

I would not mind seeing another FusedTrack option “Expedition Mode” where one could get 2-3d of tracking. Not sure running the screen would allow this, but perhaps in this mode the screen could go dark rather than showing exercise details and only wake on button press, similar to the S9 Endurance mode.

[Jamie BG]

@Brad_Olwin and or just push it into the background, can then use suunto button and home button to see and put back into background when required.

[chrish]

@Jamie-BG @Brad_Olwin

I would definitely like to see Suunto add an Expedition Mode like the horribly expensive Garmin Marq model that does that. Great feature. But not paying $1700 for a GPS watch that’s disposable after a few years.

I do carry a small battery pack. But its small to keep weight down (I’m an oz counter) and I pretty much exhaust it keeping my phone charged for photos and video. The watch requires minimal I know. But having to charge it every day over 5 days, I’d probably opt for a second tiny battery pack. The A3P is just hard to beat. Under a trip with heavier expected use use (my definition of heavier use) I’ll definitely have to take a battery along with an S9B I expect.

I’ll have to check out the Casio. But I’m pretty much a “Suunto fanboy”.

[A Former User]

Sorry to bring back this topic.
I was digging on Suunto partners and saw Nolio, which if I remember correctly was referenced in this video.
Just to confirm: It is still no possible to plan moves/strutctured workouts in these partners and follow them on watch right?
Just for me to understand, when you “plan” a moove in Nolio or TP or other, what does happen on the watch? (I believe only available for S series).

[isazi]

@andré-faria I don’t think that’s available at the moment, meaning third-party services cannot (yet?) send data to Suunto/watch.

[A Former User]

Another video with Romain, with some answers regarding 2021
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vnK8GzI_jqs
Cool the focus on “what is essential vs what is marketing”, if that will work for everyone/will sell, I don’t know.
Spoke about interval training for 2021
Power for ski alpinism
New model soon with great
And eco responsability

If some native french speaker wants to clear/correct my observations is ok
Very curious about the new model and for sure interval training

[A Former User]

@isazi said in Digital Transition interview with Romain from Suunto:

@andré-faria I don’t think that’s available at the moment, meaning third-party services cannot (yet?) send data to Suunto/watch.

Apparently 2022 via Nolio at least. We will see