Suunto 3 Fitness Thoughts

[Luís Pinto]

@brad_olwin Suunto 3 Fitness will be launch at April 4th and will include NFC payments later: http://www.suunto.com/News/bpay-and-suunto-partner-to-meet-growing-demand-for-contactless-payment-timepieces/

[NicolasP]

@luís-pinto and as usual Suunto partners with a strong actor of the market

[jthomi]

Those pics you can see on the DCRainmaker page from the software, is this a complete new one? Only available right now on the coming S3F? So, when S3F is launched, there may be a firmware update for Spartan similar to this?

[Luís Pinto]

@jthomi I can’t anwser to that, because i simple don’t know.

[jthomi]

I guess nobody knows here, and the ones that know won’t tell us!

[Luís Pinto]

@jthomi yes, i’m more interest to see features. If it will be on 4th April or 17th is less relevant.

[jthomi]

@luís-pinto Thats right, looking forward to the release, and since there are 4 updates in a year, every 3 months, there could be a new firmware just around the corner!

[SlaSh]

@jthomi there should be FW update as April is quarter after last upgrade.

[Luís Pinto]

@slashas And in yours opinion which will be the new features of next FW?

[NicolasP]

@luís-pinto only Suunto knows.
As @slashas said should be this quarter.
Be patient and you will have the pleasure to discover the new features soon

[Luís Pinto]

Strange they remove that Suunto 3 will be launched at 4th April… Now they say “Suunto 3 Fitness will be launched globally later this spring”. So it means that can be launched in June. Personally i don’t care. Delays with Suunto App and NFC pay?

[Brad_Olwin]

My watch is working well for what I need. As I transition into more ultramarathon training for this summer I would like to have structured workouts implemented. That is the sole major upgrade I think a lot of folks are looking for…and my wish is that Suunto sneaks in power functionality that looks just like HR, so we can use our zone screens for either power or HR, depending on the sport. One other minor thing is to get the waypoints implemented with names. With that I would not need any other updates.

[Luís Pinto]

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[Luís Pinto]

@brad_olwin Globally agree! Just adding one more point, support for Galileo. But related with S3 it is very strange this change of plans or maybe an error with first publication…

[aldnet]

Finally Informatin is out, they will start sending in 25th of April

http://www.suunto.com/suunto3fitness/

As a curiosity they are showing Suunto App as the app companion of the watch

[Dimitrios Kanellopoulos]

@aldnet said in Suunto 3 Fitness Thoughts:

Finally Informatin is out, they will start sending in 25th of April

http://www.suunto.com/suunto3fitness/

As a curiosity they are showing Suunto App as the app companion of the watch

Yep. The S3F will only be used with the S3F. Perhaps that will explain now why some features are stalling for the big Spartans.

[Dimitrios Kanellopoulos]

And it has connected GPS

[aldnet]

@dimitrios-kanellopoulos yes I saw, it’s another target of the market

[Dimitrios Kanellopoulos]

@aldnet said in Suunto 3 Fitness Thoughts:

@dimitrios-kanellopoulos yes I saw, it’s another target of the market

I hope suunto can make some nice cash of this and then we can get more features!

[jthomi]

But what does that mean?

@dimitrios-kanellopoulos said in Suunto 3 Fitness Thoughts:

Yep. The S3F will only be used with the S3F. Perhaps that will explain now why some features are stalling for the big Spartans.