New to S9Peak from S9B

Efejota

I had a special gift this week!!!

I have been with the S9B for a year and, although it is a great watch, I found several negative points. The most relevant were size (I have small body and wrists) and screen (I found it more difficult to read coming from A3P). Well… I am absolutely amazed with the S9Peak!! It is the perfect replacement for the A3P.

Size is great

Perfect, for me. Of course, bigger people or people who prefer big watches may think different. But I could not wear the watch in ordinary days and this is perfect for that.

Great readability

This was my main concern with S9B. Big screen, but hard to see. Was not very confident on how S9P would perform on that, considering its smaller size. But, believe it or not, I feel it better than S9B. Contrast is much better and I only notice different resolution when using my reading glasses (something I do not use when exercising )
There is a particular addition: a new screen (in this watch only?) which is simply a perfect solution for 50+ like me: Carrousel screen. If you need bigger fonts, there you have it: 5 different data rolling in the 3 data screen. A terrific idea!

OHR

Now you can go out without chest HR. I am not 100% sure on how exactly it performs, just tried a couple of times and always without HR to check the difference. But now I can go running or mountaineering without HR chest strap and have good HR readings.

Battery

I have been using it for three days, a couple of bike rides, and the usual extensive testing, screen configuration and so on. It came with around 40%. Died today around noon with 24/7 OHR, sleep tracking and everything. When charging, in 41 minutes (real) it went from 0% (scree off asking for recharge) to 92%! Fully charged in a bit more than 1 hour. Amazing.

Efejota

Update. Battery life

Just a small and very relevant update for battery life. Simply unbelievable.

Real world data: 100% charged on Saturday night. Two cycling activities 4 hours each (one with a long rest of about 4 more hours, so the whole day with a 4 hours stop-resume break). Another one of 3 hours. Running for around one hour on Saturday. 24/7 HR and sleep measuring. Every activity involved navigation, hence best possible GPS, 1 sec recording and permanent screen.

Next charge: Saturday afternoon after running when the watch reached 3%!!! Could not believe it.

Brad_Olwin

@efejota We (testers) told you battery life on the Peak with OHR was as good or better than baro with a belt.

Efejota

@brad_olwin good point. I forgot to say that for bike rides I used HR belt. Important point. Nevertheless, the battery life is really impressive.

TheGuyFromTheSummit

The peak looks so elegant and sleek. Awesome

Just one question regarding the display-readability:

Are the data fields when using a 7-field screen easy to read compared to the S9baro?

99% of the time I use this display type during tracking.

Thanks!

Dimitrios Kanellopoulos

@theguyfromthesummit for me there is looses a bit readability.

Efejota

@theguyfromthesummit Cannot say. I hardly read 5 in both 9B and 9P

surfboomerang

@theguyfromthesummit depends on the sport type.
For hiking I do use 7 field screens, but running (or other sports which involves arm movement) I don’t.

TheGuyFromTheSummit

thanks for the replies!

It looks like, I stick to my S9Baro

isazi

@theguyfromthesummit similar to @surfboomerang I only use the 7 data fields in mountaineering cause I am not going to fiddle with my watch, and want everything at once. I find the readability good, but my speed is low.

MiniForklift

@isazi Same, I only really use 7 data fields for when I am climbing or if I am doing an activity where the speed is going to be slow. Most of my main screen have 3 fields or 4 at the maximum, easy to read when you’re flying down the side of a mountain

I just find the thought of dropping from 50mm to 43mm a bit too much of a jump. One of my friends is waiting for their S9P to arrive so I’ll check theirs out once they have it

TheGuyFromTheSummit

How can you have enough with only 4 fields

I always use 7, no matter if biking, trailrunning or hiking, I just don’t like to switch between screens.

Brad_Olwin

@theguyfromthesummit said in New to S9Peak from S9B:

How can you have enough with only 4 fields

I always use 7, no matter if biking, trailrunning or hiking, I just don’t like to switch between screens.

How can you need 7 fields??? Mostly I need ascent and distance, I don’t understand how the data are of any use when running/MTB. When road cycling I would use cadence, speed, distance and power, not much else. I have 4 fields and one screen for everything but races where I use 2 screens with 3 fields each on both S9P and S9b.

Łukasz Szmigiel

@brad_olwin etas perhaps. I use ETA / ETE for end and POI, sunrise, sunset and it’s 6 fields already. But that’s for hiking or a second screen for long trail runs in case I get lost or something unforeseen happens.

Efejota

@brad_olwin In my case, in addition to what you use, I also put sunset, temperature, average pace or speed, vertical speed and things like that depending on the sport. In most of the cases (unless sunset, TBH) I must confess that I could live without those data . But, what the heck, I have a S9P, I must have tons of information at any moment!!!

Efejota

@theguyfromthesummit I rather switch screens than having my watch constantly reminding my age when trying to read those tiny numbers

Brad_Olwin

@łukasz-szmigiel So if you engage SuuntoPlus Weather and have a route loaded, an ETE/ETA field and Sunset is already there. Why I try to keep the data in the watch simple.

Łukasz Szmigiel

@brad_olwin valid point. But it’s unavailable in S5 and besides - one might want to limit screen switching and S+ requires to shuffle the screens.

Btw. is it possible to switch screens to the left in S9 series as there’s no dedicated back button?

DMytro

@łukasz-szmigiel only via touch

Łukasz Szmigiel

@dmytro well, I would have to change my habits and redesign the screens if I had S9 then. I often jump between navigation and the screen before it. I’d have to cycle all the way forward if on 9?

DMytro

@łukasz-szmigiel sadly so. It’s fine with me as I rarely look at the data other than hr and duration, map - so only two screens basically.

Brad_Olwin

@łukasz-szmigiel No, it is easy to customize a battery mode with touch so you can scroll back and forth on screens.

Łukasz Szmigiel

@brad_olwin but you have to enable the touch in custom battery mode, right?

TheGuyFromTheSummit

@brad_olwin Usually I have:

ascent
altitude
distance
pace
heartrate
vertical speed, barometer, ETA, sunrise or sunset.
duration

Field No 6 is more or less just to fill the field. But sometimes sunrise and sunset for multi day tours

But playing around with the peak might get me switching to 2 displays with 5 fields. this watch is so light and small, it is amazing

surfboomerang

@łukasz-szmigiel Correct.
I use it for a couple of sport modes, but I would rather see that Suunto implement this for buttons too.
The big problem is probably the number of buttons available All the buttons already have dual actions assigned to them for press and press-and-hold.