Buying a Vertical
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@shampoo amazing piece of hardware. If you do not care that it is MIP (since most of the people have strong feelings on this).
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From my experience with over 15 years of sportwatches.
The last revolutionary change was with my ambit 3, way way back. That had gps and made it possible to follow a gpx trail. Great for doing long runs, runs in unfamiliar surroundings and enter trail runs where only a gpx is provided for the route.
Gps accuracy has been fine on all my watches. Good enough, unless you freak out if your gps trail shows you running on the other side of the street on strava.
Other than that? Meh. Decent battery is nice (there mips is way better than amoled). Maps for a bit of context is slightly more convenient than only a breadcrumb to follow a route.
Other than that, there is nothing on newer watches that changed the way I train, run and bike
A 3 year old model for a nice price is just fine.
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@shampoo yes it’s old model, but is still great watch!
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@shampoo My favorite watch as well. I still use mine and if I was not a Suunto tester this would be the watch I would use. I prefer the screen to the AMOLED. The battery life is amazing and the features plenty for me. I hope Suunto will have one final update for this watch.
Vector/T6c/Vertical 2 Ti
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Question for those who own a relatively new vertical 1 (or race 1). What is your typical battery life? I have a race 1 and really miss the battery life before the updates over the last couple years. I used to get 12-14 days between charges and now only get five. It makes me really wish Suunto made a mips solar charge watch again. However, this post got me wondering, are my battery life issues a result of the updates and subpar processing power on my watch (which would be the case for vertical 1 watches as well) or are the battery issues because my watch is old and a brand new race 1 or vertical 1 would bring me back to normal battery life?
I may be tempted to get a vertical 1 during a sale if people say they have nameplate battery life with a new watch.
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@KSGravelJunkie i have race 1 . Before actualization i had normally 11-12 days with gps acitvities. Now i have max 6-7 days
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@Brad_Olwin what’s on your wish list for it?
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My favorite hardware since 2023. I can’t stand wearing anything else on my wrist. A piece of art. I can’t recall any major issues. They just do what they’re supposed to, but don’t expect any smart lifestyle features. Love it.
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my favorite watch overall. It’s a pity that some relatively basic things are not fixed but I also hope it gets an update with some things (new climb thing, the alarms…) and a fix for some issues (battery instability for instance which is causing some drainage)
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The original Vertical is an awesome watch. Just used mine to track my route through Indonesia’s Mt Rinjani and the Torean Valley over 4 days and 3 nights. Never missed a beat on continuous tracking the whole time. Friends with Forerunners had to recharge their watches on the second day…
GPS and elevation was spot on (3726m) on the volcano and the tracks through the valley were excellent. Plus I prefer a MIPS screen to amoled.
It got bashed on volcanic scree and against rocks etc without a scratch.
Can’t go wrong really.
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