Suunto 9 Multisport GPS Watch with BARO and Wrist-Based Heart Rate (White)

The watch is great in most respects. If you are into endurance events, the battery life is fantastic and unmatched, navigation is very accurate, and the Bluetooth connections I've tried have all worked. I believe it's the best available GPS watch on the market. However, it does have a couple of significant drawbacks:1) The wrist-based heart rate monitor is truly useless unless you are holding perfectly still; it does not work *at all* for running. The user manual also says that flexing your muscles at all will cause it to be inaccurate. I've tried wearing it high on my arm, wearing it under a band to keep out ambient light, and so on. Nothing works, honestly. The reviewers who say it "kind of works" probably haven't compared it to a chest strap monitor, which actually does work.2) Suunto's chest strap HR monitor is a bit glitchy. When it works, it's wonderful. I find I can mostly rely on it and it has plenty of battery life even for 100-mile races and longer, but it will occasionally lose connection with the watch, or more commonly it will develop a bad connection either with my skin or perhaps between the monitor unit and the strap, and it will register ridiculously high measurements until I notice it and give it a nudge. Strangely, that happens even when I am sweating and the connection should be excellent. And yes I wash the strap regularly--I've run over 1000 miles with it so I know all of the tricks. That means that many of my runs include short segments where the HR is nonsense. It's just not a perfect system, as is obvious from the multitude of complaints online by owners.3) Who owns your data? Suunto has introduced a new phone-only app called Suunto App, and have announced that they will phase out the older Movescount App (which runs on both phones and computers). With Movescount, you can download your data, but with the new app you can't. Some of the larger manufacturers such as Nike and Apple don't let users export their own fitness data. Is Suunto following their lead? If you care about having access to your own data in the future, it's a question you should ask the company before buying a watch.

The watch is great. Got it with a good discount and didn't find anything wrong, it's not used before.For daily step counts it shows some more than my previous 3 devices, but the point is to use it for training mode, which works awesome. My sports are pool and open water swimming.The screen is not dark, I set the lowest light. I like the vibration calm level - only I can notice it without making the others pay attention to the notifications. Wakes up gently.GPS, all works as described. Made in Finland.

nothing to add, highly recommended.

This Suunto is absolutely amazing! One of the best purchases I’ made. Battery is great, GPS is accurate and it works well when kitesurfing or wakeboarding so definitely worth the money!

5年以上使っていたスントのスポーツウォッチに寿命を感じたため購入しました。機能や使い方などは以前のものと変わっていなかったため、苦なく使用できたのが嬉しかったです。少しアプリとのペアリングに手間取りました。他の通信をすべて止めないといけなかったので、スマホの問題だったのかはわかりませんが、もう少し楽だといいなと思いました。

This item arrived in its Suunto box which was sellotaped and when I opened it, the watch face had no plastic protector covering on. I suspect that this is not a new item, but one which has been returned, which is what I will be doing if I suspect its quality.