speculations and rumours about upcoming Suunto watches

Mi_chael

Yes, it’s look like the bezel will turn but in fact i can’t understand why. There isn’t segment in the bezel.

Mitch9

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isazi

I hope that, if a new watch comes, it will have long battery life and good accuracy for GPS/altimeter. And it needs a screen that I can look at easily. If it has this, I’ll order one on release day. If not, I will keep my S9 Peak for a while longer.

EzioAuditore

@isazi My guess is something similar to polar maybe where the central timekeeping info is static and you can ‘rotate’ screens based on what you want to see?!
Contrary I would love for the bezel to half-rotate as someone said (like zoom on camera). Just imagine scrolling through screens while training with the bezel - cool

Whatever the shape, weight, or material, I hope Suunto keeps maintaining a simple and effective user interface, which is the main reason I love this brand…

stby04

Did I miss anything or why are we talking about rotating bezels? That’s a feature that didn’t even cross my mind when thinking about new Suunto watches.

@Ivan-Vasilev I suspect the bezel is rotating. For me, your arguments against having a rotating bezel are totally valid.

thanasis

@skifun I don’t think it will rotate because I don’t think Suunto will be adding such a complication to a newly designed uX (if think s9pp has this new UX ) plus adding a moving part (rotation) would mean a very difficult hardware implementation to maintain waterresistancy at 100m …
but let’s see

dulko79

So much buzz today, it has not been like that I do not remember

isazi

@dulko79 it’s the spring buzz!

DMytro

@isazi since when 5cm is huge?

surfboomerang

Did I live under a rock lately?
New watches, rumours, rotating bezels…

trailcafe

I think this is the long awaited successor of the Ambit series. IMHO the S9 needed nearly 4 years to come to the same feature level.
I hope we will see maps with routing capabilities and dual frequency GNSS. I would like to see at least 3 S+ apps at once and the possibility to upload a gpx track during an activity. Maybe something like ClimbPro and a PacePro feature which works better for trailrunning with a slower pace on steeper climbs would round up my wishlist.
A nice to have is autodetect uphills and downhills and set laps based on this natively (not as S+ app) and location based laps (e.g. a set waypoint in a tracks triggers a lap). TBT navigation but ETA/ETE/distance/elevation to the next set waypoint (not TBT direction) would also be very nice.

Let‘s see what we will get soon

@thanasis I hope it will not rotate.

DMytro

@trailcafe said in speculations and rumours about upcoming Suunto watches:

the possibility to upload a gpx track during an activity

you can already do that

Mi_chael

I hope Suunto don’t make as Garmin with a lot of models like titanium or stainless steel, solar or not…

Saketo Nemo

@Mi_chael
Don’t you like being able to choose?

Mi_chael

@Saketo-Nemo

I prefer Suunto do what they always done:

Quality
Fiability
Accuracy

what answer to the marketing rules.

Saketo Nemo

@Mi_chael
We agree. I choose Suunto for the same reason. Having more choice doesn’t always mean sacrificing those values

Ivan Vasilev

As far as solar goes - I think it might make sense on something like a bike computer, where you have a larger surface for the solar panel, but also constant exposure to sunlight due to its static position.
With watches you lose both of these advantages - I think any benefit from the solar charging is going to be marginal and it wouldn’t make sense for Suunto to invest resources in something, I would consider mostly gimmick.