Two months review S9 Peak
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After using the S9P for a little more than two months now, my thoughts and experiences for the interested ones
What I like
The S9P is a beautiful watch and I really like the size. It’s ideal for wearing it all day, no matter if outdoors or in the office. It’s very light, the buttons are really „clicky“ and I have no problems with the Glass not being properly aligned or having any scratches in the paint. Actually it looks brand new after two months.
The most impressive for me is the great OHR sensor which works for me extremely well. Even with poles (Nordic Walking) it gives decent HR readings and I consolidated them by using a Polar H10 heartratestrap, an Apple Watch 6 and a Polar Vantage, all giving similar readings. I hardly ever use my H10 strap anymore and it’s so much easier to just start running or hiking without a strap.
Batterylife is really good too, and even if the battery is low, the Peak charges very fast! I really enjoyed that, when I had to charge the AW 6 and the Peak side by side and the Peak charged faster and of course its charge lasted for much longer (normally I get a week out of one charge) than the AW6 which had to be recharged 24h later…
The display of the Peak is the best IMO on any actual Suunto, but still could be a brighter for my aging eyes. It’s great in direkt sunlight and with the adaptive backlight it’s also readable in dark environments but here I would wish the backlight would be much more sensible to your wrist movements. I have to really forcefully lift my wrist to make it turn on.
The S9 Peak worked really great concerning all sports and activities I have done with it and I had no issues. For me all metrics it delivers (pace, cadence, elevation, GPS etc.) seem to be correct. That’s also true for steps and calories burned. I can really trust the data here.
What I dislike…
Actually it’s mainly the „health“ aspects I don’t have the same trust in, as I have in the workout data
. Especially „resources“ and „sleep“ are not always matching reality, especially resources for me often drop to „zero“ during late afternoon - when I feel just normal and not very exhausted. The S9 Peak also suffers from the bug, that Resources drop rapidly after an easy workout like walking
That’s really bad, since those metrics are the ones you want to have tracked on a daily basis for evaluating changes you only see over longer periods of time (like if practicing Yoga changes your resources level or your sleep quality) and therefore the easy to wear and stylish S9P which you could wear 24/7 would really be a great tool.
The next thing I dislike is, that the S9 Peak seems to have a much lower audio volume. At least I can barley hear it when being outdoors, where wind and trees are generating background noise. I liked to train with HR alarms and on the S9B or the S5 I could just run by listening to the sound without looking on the watch. Now I just feel the vibration but this is not telling my if I am too fast or too slow - so I have to look on it.
O2 saturation for me seems to be too low compared with the AW6 readings and my feelings. A doctor told me, that you would have severe breathing problems when your saturation drops into the 90-80% range and that’s what the Peak sometimes does for me. Besides high altitude acclimating It’s a feature that may be valuable for detecting sleeping problems, what would be useful especially for us “older” people
I also find the VO2max calculation a bit too strict - Garmin, Polar or Apple give me values about 5 to 10 percent higher. But that’s not really bad for me since this is a subjective value e.g. when Suunto tells me I started with around 35 and now I reached 40 after a year - it’s a value telling me my fitness has improved. That’s also true for the training load metric in the app, which I really appreciate.
And a last thing is, that I have trouble to close the band when it’s dark since I just don’t find the wholes for the pin
In a nutshell: The S9P for me is a great sportswatch. It is great for all sports and outdoor activities- especially finding and creating new routes in the app and then on the watch is the best in class and neither a Fenix 6 pro or any Coros watch I used can do this that easily and fast.
I would love to see improvements and updates on the resources and sleep (and adding and expanding the health metrics), making the speaker twice as loud an the O2 saturation more reliable. But since it is just 2 months since it was released- I am excited what new features and updates are yet to come
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@chrisa said in Two months review S9 Peak:
The S9 Peak worked really great concerning all sports and activities I have done with it and I had no issues. For me all metrics it delivers (pace, cadence, elevation, GPS etc.) seem to be correct. That’s also true for steps and calories burned. I can really trust the data here.
What I dislike…
Actually it’s mainly the „health“ aspects I don’t have the same trust in, as I have in the workout data
. Especially „resources“ and „sleep“ are not always matching reality, especially resources for me often drop to „zero“ during late afternoon - when I feel just normal and not very exhausted. The S9 Peak also suffers from the bug, that Resources drop rapidly after an easy workout like walkingThat’s really bad, since those metrics are the ones you want to have tracked on a daily basis for evaluating changes you only see over longer periods of time (like if practicing Yoga changes your resources level or your sleep quality) and therefore the easy to wear and stylish S9P which you could wear 24/7 would really be a great tool.
Hope Suunto can fix these ones soon. The watch is a pleasure to use regarding confort. Even compared with the 945 LTE which is lighter, the S9P Ti is more confortable.
It is a pitty that on a watch so confortable, this data is not reliable yet. -
@andré-faria I hope as well. I am plagued from this issue
