What do you expect from the next update?

Moreno 1

@moreno said in What do you expect from the next update?:

Hi everyone ,
here’s my whishlist for coming upgrades :

Map :

When ruler is on, it would be nice to also have an option for :
a) azimouth (degrees from the ruler line tonorth);
b) coordinates (in current format) of the actual point marked from cursor;
c) Optionally save theese coordinates in a waypoint;

Add more zoom out (possibly to 10 km and more) ;

Backlight and flashlight :

Option to a “Military mode” with red backlight that don’t degrade the night vision .

Notifications :

Double the available answers;

Allow to combine/concatenate multiple answers before sending (intronucing a “commit” on the answers list) .

Watch faces :

As someone said, not more but just better;

General use :

A fast key (a shortcut) to rapidely mark a waypoint (MOB-key) .

Timer/stop watch :

A graphic circle that fill or emty as time go .

Hi, i’ve just discovered, almost after a year, that all features i asked for at point 1) of my wish list are been sostantially implemented :
I don’t know in what updated they were introducted 'cause i can’t find any mention in change log or even user manual (both italian and english) .
Anyway, if you, like me dind’nt notice , it is now possible mark a waypoint directly from map when the ruler is shown . Scrolling the menu it shows some new (at least for me) option :

marking / deleting a ruler-point. On my watch seems there are up to 10 ruler-point marcable.
reading on screen the total distance of the ruler-point’s route .
saving as a poi the last end of ruler (and then , indirectly, getting bearing of it using bearing navigation).

I’m really sorry if all you yet were aware of this. Hope not been boring (i just found a post on race’s section of this forum whitout any reply, so certanly i’m not really the only user that noted that…)

GiPFELKiND

@cosme-costa yes suunto know about the Problem. Thats right… But suunto also know about the missing contour lines in the bavarian alps. Over 500m zoomlevel. More than 16 month. Until today No solution. How long we have to wait?! How long YOU will wait? Let it be to make new Firmware --> correct the old one first and all known bugs… But if the 3.xxxxxx Firmware from the Suunto ow234 RUN will come we will have more bugs again

Iggge

@rooldaa No, because in my work I can’t use it since the new policy.

And no, am I not a Garmin fanboy
Would change back to Suunto in a heartbeat if it was like before.

Todd Danielczyk

@Iggge said in What do you expect from the next update?:

@rooldaa No, because in my work I can’t use it since the new policy.

And no, am I not a Garmin fanboy
Would change back to Suunto in a heartbeat if it was like before.

Same, same and same here.

2b2bff

@Iggge New policy? What did I miss?

Todd Danielczyk

@2b2bff said in What do you expect from the next update?:

@Iggge New policy? What did I miss?

https://www.suunto.com/en-ph/Privacy-Policy/

Audaxjoe

@maszop I totally disagree as well. I came from Garmin, I used them since the first Forerunner probably 20 years ago.

I have had far less trouble with the two Suunto GPD models I have owned where it counts (for me anyway) recording activities.

I had countless issues with a variety of Garmin products. Fenix Watches, Edge bike Computer and handheld GPS units.

I have stuck with Suunto as they just work for me. I’m not bother about steps, if the watch tells me to train, sleep, all day heart rate etc. I just want the watch to record my activity and help me navigate when needed.

I can’t fault the Vertical and the maps are light years ahead of the laggy maps on my last Fenix.

cosme.costa

@GiPFELKiND maps are not related to watch firmware. I would like to see some improvements in maps too, like, besides contour lines, some names of the sumits and cities/towns

GiPFELKiND

@cosme-costa ah okay, thanks for this Info. Didnt know this

2b2bff

@Todd-Danielczyk So, essentially is Suunto a Chinese company now?

Ghost

@2b2bff off topic but yes, since 2019.

Elipsus

@Mountain Yes, but the previous owner let all R&D and all manufacturing happen in Finland, which was very very cool (and one of the main reason I bought a Suunto watch), but Suunto was bleeding money every year.

Nowadays, you have almost none of the Manufacturing (well, there is a few model, but pretty low volume), and less and less R&D.

rooldaa

@GiPFELKiND said in What do you expect from the next update?:

@cosme-costa yes suunto know about the Problem. Thats right… But suunto also know about the missing contour lines in the bavarian alps. Over 500m zoomlevel. More than 16 month. Until today No solution. How long we have to wait?! How long YOU will wait? Let it be to make new Firmware --> correct the old one first and all known bugs… But if the 3.xxxxxx Firmware from the Suunto ow234 RUN will come we will have more bugs again

I am pretty sure you are checking the maps update for your region frequently but around one month ago, I think it was in December, there was maps update (at least for Sweden) where I got much more detailed contour lines. Have you checked it since? There were no publications/dedicated threads about that on this forum if I recall correctly.

GiPFELKiND

@rooldaa yes i checked it. There is no Maps update for Germany 🥴

Fenr1r

@rooldaa There’s this post and thread: https://forum.suunto.com/post/159216, wherein Sweden was the latest.