Race 3S & Race 3 rumours
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Just not that important to me. I can create guides as needed and import them to my watch for a structured interval session etc without someone or something dictating what they think I should be doing. Please don’t read it as a criticism, just my opinion on this particular issue.
I am of course delighted with Suunto for continuing to provide meaningful and useful software updates for the V2. The user experience is vastly improved compared to at its launch.
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https://the5krunner.com/2026/07/28/suunto-race-3-race-3-s-leak/
Interesting to read there that the Race 3 will have mineral glass and the Race 3S would have sapphire—making it the more premium option. If this is to be true.
Sapphire might make a stronger watch but also harder to read. I’m happy with the clear glass on my watch, but I also know someone with a scattered forerunner 965 who wished in had a sapphire lens like the fenix 3 he had before.
Suunto t3c | Suunto Ambit 3 sport | Tomtom runner 2 | Garmin forerunner 935 | Garmin forerunner 965 | Suunto race s
Stryd | Bryton Gardia R300L | Polar H9 | Polar oh1+ | Wahoo bolt v2 | 4iiii precision 3 -
@GratefulDeadpan Does that make any sense? They can’t resolve issues with older watches. And now they’re putting new ones on the market. I don’t see any reason to upgrade, and I have no intention of doing so.
In the name of new technology, they make us fools so easily.
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@withManish maybe you can wait for the official news before making any judgement? Who knows, the new watches may bring software updates for all watches and not just the new ones?
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@elbee said:
Sapphire might make a stronger watch but also harder to read. I’m happy with the clear glass on my watch, but I also know someone with a scattered forerunner 965 who wished in had a sapphire lens like the fenix 3 he had before.There’s more to it than that. The person you know would’ve been better off with mineral glass as it is more impact resistant. Sapphire is only more scratch resistant. It is however the gold standard when it comes to watches—used in basically any watch at higher tiers. But yes, it does reflect more light than plastic lenses—so does mineral.
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@withManish if you’re referring to the R3 already being around the corner—no I absolutely do not think that makes sense. Suunto will lose my trust if they start with yearly releases.
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https://the5krunner.com/2026/07/28/suunto-race-3-race-3-s-leak/
Interesting to read there that the Race 3 will have mineral glass and the Race 3S would have sapphire—making it the more premium option. If this is to be true.
Sapphire might make a stronger watch but also harder to read. I’m happy with the clear glass on my watch, but I also know someone with a scattered forerunner 965 who wished in had a sapphire lens like the fenix 3 he had before.
I hope Race 3 will have minreal glass. Sapphire is MUST HAVE for me. This would stop me from change Race 2 to Race 3 (tech geek here :D)
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I hope Race 3 will have minreal glass. Sapphire is MUST HAVE for me. This would stop me from change Race 2 to Race 3 (tech geek here :D)
You post is slightly confusing. Do you want sapphire or are your hopes on mineral glass?
(And why you want a race 3 when you now have a race 2 also puzzles me. You’re probably more interested in the watch part than in the sport part?)
Suunto t3c | Suunto Ambit 3 sport | Tomtom runner 2 | Garmin forerunner 935 | Garmin forerunner 965 | Suunto race s
Stryd | Bryton Gardia R300L | Polar H9 | Polar oh1+ | Wahoo bolt v2 | 4iiii precision 3 -
@GratefulDeadpan Maybe I read it wrong but he also quoted the current model as not having multi band GNSS.
5krunner seems to be more AI using writer looking to launch an online presence fast vs a real person who puts out well thought out content. The site and his content are a bit like a tech tabloid written by AI.
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Subscription would kill it for me & would class it as a slippery slope towards the end for me
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I hope Race 3 will have minreal glass. Sapphire is MUST HAVE for me. This would stop me from change Race 2 to Race 3 (tech geek here :D)
You post is slightly confusing. Do you want sapphire or are your hopes on mineral glass?
(And why you want a race 3 when you now have a race 2 also puzzles me. You’re probably more interested in the watch part than in the sport part?)
Nope. Iam a lot into sport, but also my second hobby is technology. If something cool bring to Race 3, I gonna sell my Race 2 and buy Race 3, but also Sapphire glass is must-have for me, both for sport and daily wearing, which for me its easy to get scratches on bezel, and I dont trust mineral glass. Yes, its cheaper, but I never scratched sapphire in my life. I can have scratched bezel, its ok, but not a screen after 1 week.
5krunner seems to be more AI using writer looking to launch an online presence fast vs a real person who puts out well thought out content. The site and his content are a bit like a tech tabloid written by AI.
The whole rumors seems for me a lot what “AI” threw away via google after typing ,Race 3" by people.
From what I’ve read this AI said Race 3 and Race 3S comming this year and compared to Race 2 with "single-band GPS" Race 3 gonna have dual-band. So we can see how we can trust these rumors… Race 2 got dual-band, like every Race/Vertical released if im not wrong. -
kinda interesting to see the comments here. People don’t want yearly releases but also don’t want paywall, well money needs to come from somewhere…
On my side I would prefer to pay a fee and have the same watch with updates than having to ditch a watch and buy another, but that is me, not the mass, and not the business model that companies operate today.If the features are nice, and useful for the client even if AI based, why not?
We don’t know how it is implemented.
If the features are bad, well guess they will not sell and quickly either they improve or they will see people go where the grass is greener.I think suunto earned some costumers when garmin decided to not release new features to “previous gen” watches such as the 965, fenix 7 etc and also paid features that were not as good as the client using claude or chatgpt.
Guess they can learn from that, and still profit.
Let’s see what the future support for Race, Race S, Vertical 1 gives and this new race 3 brings. -
I don’t mind a yearly hardware cycle as long as there is a trade off of faster processing or more storage.
But as this is a sports watch and not a smart watch, I don’t think it’s necessary to improve specs year on year.
The Apple Watch benefits from faster internals and more storage because the operating system demands it. Not so with Suunto watches.
What I would like to see is a more features for things like MP3 storage, uploads, guide creation, backups etc off the watch. So basically a back-end to manage everything on the watch in a web app as well as the mobile app.
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