First week of use.... and first OS crash - List of feelings (ugly / bad / awesome)

sigmart

Sharing my feedback after one week of use of Suunto Race as runner (120km), wore it all day/night long and first OS crash this morning.

Starting with the ugly:

Watch crash this morning after 2km of run. I don’t have anything special in mind that could have make the OS crash. The screen went black with no reaction on any button. After some time I saw an error code displayed and then a green bar - something like restoring to a previous working state. After the restore, it seemed to me that some parameters were the one I configured but most of them were back to default. However I did not have to reconfigure the phone association (Android). In the phone app, the history is preserved for Sleep, HR, HRV, etc. but in the watch it’s lost. Expectations/Area of improvement: After sync with the app, I would expect the watch to be able to restore all parameters and history, even after a hard reset (which I am not even sure was the case).

And now the bad/ok (could be improved / feature request):

Synchro with the Android app - would expect to be able to edit the settings available in the phone app (incl. notifications, sport profiles, widgets) immediately (instead of waiting 10’s of seconds) and why not automatically sync with the phone (e.g. the itineraries) every hour or so instead of manual sync (not sure if it is done or not)
Map & Navigation - I’d like to have a view with the map + a few informations (e.g. when doing interval training while following an itinerary) - could be the map + 1-2 metrics in HR/pace/time-in-interval/distance-in-interval - I was not able to find this possibility in the custom sport profiles
Map & Navigation - when importing a GPX (e.g. from Komoot) in the Suunto phone app (Android), I am able to sync with the watch but without the navigation instructions ; I am only able to get the navigation instructions for itineraries created directly in the Suunto app
Map - the limit of 500m max - I’d appreciate being able to zoom out much more with much lower details in order to check a direction or the overall track (w/ cities names or important summits/POIs)
Media Control - when listening to podcasts, most applications allow for previous / next / -x seconds / + x seconds - I think that any Bluetooth remote controllers are always mapped to 2 of those only (previous/next for music vs -/+ x seconds for podcasts) - wondering if this is a Bluetooth limit or if the media controller from Suunto could include the 4 controls

I am skipping the good/great - please consider anything not listed as working very well for me

And the awesome:

Battery - After a week of day/night use + 12+ hours of sport with always on screen and map navigation, I still have 37% of battery - this is completely awesome to me!
Display - no bright sun light trainings yet but until now, I found the display super great - beautiful colors, quite bright and pretty easy to follow an itinerary