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The Suunto Vertical Steel Solar Canyon SS050987000 is a multifunctional sports watch with solar charging function ideal for long off-road expeditions and workouts. Manufactured in Finland, it has a large display to offer, which is sure to come in handy during a variety of training activities. In addition, thanks to its composite envelope, the watch enjoys durability, corrosion resistance and light weight (87 g). Protection of the screen is provided by a hard sapphire glass. The device is equipped with numerous features that will support you in your active lifestyle, including more than 95 sports modes, access to offline outdoor maps, dual GPS/GNSS band, route and POI navigation, weather forecasts, barometer and altimeter, advanced training data or voice information in the Suunto app. Solar charging extends battery life by up to 30%! The product has been tested according to military standards, confirming its above-average durability. Water resistance of 10 atm allows full immersion in water, swimming and scuba diving without an aqualung.
The Suunto Vertical Steel Solar Canyon SS050987000 is a multifunctional sports watch with solar charging function ideal for long off-road expeditions and workouts. Manufactured in Finland, it has a large display to offer, which is sure to come in handy during a variety of training activities. In addition, thanks to its composite envelope, the watch enjoys durability, corrosion resistance and light weight (87 g). Protection of the screen is provided by a hard sapphire glass. The device is equipped with numerous features that will support you in your active lifestyle, including more than 95 sports modes, access to offline outdoor maps, dual GPS/GNSS band, route and POI navigation, weather forecasts, barometer and altimeter, advanced training data or voice information in the Suunto app. Solar charging extends battery life by up to 30%! The product has been tested according to military standards, confirming its above-average durability. Water resistance of 10 atm allows full immersion in water, swimming and scuba diving without an aqualung.
The Suunto Vertical Steel Solar Canyon SS050987000 is a multifunctional sports watch with solar charging function ideal for long off-road expeditions and workouts. Manufactured in Finland, it has a large display to offer, which is sure to come in handy during a variety of training activities. In addition, thanks to its composite envelope, the watch enjoys durability, corrosion resistance and light weight (87 g). Protection of the screen is provided by a hard sapphire glass. The device is equipped with numerous features that will support you in your active lifestyle, including more than 95 sports modes, access to offline outdoor maps, dual GPS/GNSS band, route and POI navigation, weather forecasts, barometer and altimeter, advanced training data or voice information in the Suunto app. Solar charging extends battery life by up to 30%! The product has been tested according to military standards, confirming its above-average durability. Water resistance of 10 atm allows full immersion in water, swimming and scuba diving without an aqualung.
The Suunto Vertical Steel Solar Canyon SS050987000 is a multifunctional sports watch with solar charging function ideal for long off-road expeditions and workouts. Manufactured in Finland, it has a large display to offer, which is sure to come in handy during a variety of training activities. In addition, thanks to its composite envelope, the watch enjoys durability, corrosion resistance and light weight (87 g). Protection of the screen is provided by a hard sapphire glass. The device is equipped with numerous features that will support you in your active lifestyle, including more than 95 sports modes, access to offline outdoor maps, dual GPS/GNSS band, route and POI navigation, weather forecasts, barometer and altimeter, advanced training data or voice information in the Suunto app. Solar charging extends battery life by up to 30%! The product has been tested according to military standards, confirming its above-average durability. Water resistance of 10 atm allows full immersion in water, swimming and scuba diving without an aqualung.
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originally posted on REI
In 2023 my wife and I hiked the Pacific Crest Trail. I started off recording our daily grinds with an ancient Fenix 5 that I had purchased for her a long time ago. I burned that out about 2 weeks in, mostly due, I think, to the age of the watch. After the Garmin, I transitioned back to FitBit which I had typically used for lifestyle monitoring over the past 10 years. The FitBit failed miserably trying to keep up with the 10-13 hour workouts in an environment where it was offline most of the time. So, about the time we bailed on the Sierra due to the historic snowpack and made our way up to Cascade Locks to head back south, I paid a visit to the Portland REI and picked up Suunto’s newest activity watch - the Vertical. I have never looked back.I chose the Vertical ... MoreIn 2023 my wife and I hiked the Pacific Crest Trail. I started off recording our daily grinds with an ancient Fenix 5 that I had purchased for her a long time ago. I burned that out about 2 weeks in, mostly due, I think, to the age of the watch. After the Garmin, I transitioned back to FitBit which I had typically used for lifestyle monitoring over the past 10 years. The FitBit failed miserably trying to keep up with the 10-13 hour workouts in an environment where it was offline most of the time. So, about the time we bailed on the Sierra due to the historic snowpack and made our way up to Cascade Locks to head back south, I paid a visit to the Portland REI and picked up Suunto’s newest activity watch - the Vertical. I have never looked back.I chose the Vertical over its Garmin competitor mostly because I use a Suunto D4 for diving and I love it. I have nothing against Garmin and use many of their products - including a Varia for biking which is bulletproof, but the D series watches are the gold standard for diving so when it came time to choose a watch for another 4 months of hiking, I went with Suunto. This is what I love about it.Monster Battery Life: If there were no other pro’s about this watch, the battery life alone would still outweigh the cons - it’s insane. On the Pacific Crest Trail, it was not unusual for us to hike up to 13 hours a day and we were almost always in the double digits for duration. Despite this, the Vertical had no problem stringing 6-7 of these marathon days together on a single charge. Coming from FitBit, which struggled to support a single day, this was impressive. The Vertical supports a number of recording modes, the highest of which is “Performance” which allows navigation and mapping features while recording, not to mention operation of all the biometrics the watch has. The next step down is “Endurance” which supports everything Performance does except for mapping and navigation. I usually operated in Endurance mode. There are 2-3 options below Endurance which could stretch the battery life even further. Note that the watch I purchased was not even the Titanium model which is outfitted with a solar array in the watchface that is supposed to stretch the battery capability even further.Oversized Watch Face: Both Garmin and Suunto have finally realized the futility of including mapping and navigational capabilities on a watch with a standard sized face. What’s the point of all that mapping capability if you constantly have to squint to see it? The Suunto Vertical offers a massive watch face which allows someone to clearly see the route and contours in front of them.App Interface: One of the reasons I really liked Suunto was the work they have done on the App. It’s a nice interface that allows a quick summary of your biomarkers as well as a complete review of your workout history. The mapping/planning side of the app is intuitive and I was able to quickly take routes that I built in Gaia GPS and transfer them in the IOS operating system directly to Suunto for quick upload to the watch which I then used for guidance on the trail. The app also allows route planning on the Suunto interface but I didn’t really play with that because the transfer from Gaia GPS was so seamless.Navigation: The navigational capabilities of the watch are beautiful. I have to say, I didn't use them very often for hiking the PCT as the trail was always clearly marked and burning the extra battery wasn’t worth the small benefit. I have used it several times for mountain biking in new areas with many junctions where I don't want to constantly dip into my pocket for my phone and the navigation in this situation was superb. I look forward to backcountry skiing/mountaineering with it where lots of off trail navigation is demanded - I think it will be fantastic.Off-line Syncing: This is one area where Suunto has a direct benefit over its competitor, Garmin. Garmin, to my knowledge, does not allow for syncing the watch “off-line.” That is, without cellular service on your phone, I don't think the watch can transfer new workouts to the memory on the phone for later upload. I experienced this with my old Fenix in the first weeks of the trail. I had to go up somewhere high to find service to upload new workouts before the watch cleared its memory and I lost them. The Vertical and Suunto App allow for transfer of the workouts from the watch memory to my phone's much larger memory for later upload - in fact, that seems to be how Suunto intends it to work, so for expeditions or thru-hikes, where many days of workouts are accrued without service to upload them, this watch would be an excellent choice.Massive Memory: The Vertical comes with something like 24 gigs of memory which is plenty to hold a number of downloaded map packs for reference on the trail. I currently have all of Washington, Oregon, California and British Columbia downloaded on the watch which hardly touches its memory bank. I haven’t played with the Suunto Marketplace but my guess is there are lots of fun features and tools that can make good use of all that memory.There aren’t many downsides to this watch, but if i had to name them they would be as follows.Ergonomics: The watch is oversized, which I mentioned as a benefit above. One thing I noticed on the trail is that it impinges pretty hard on the end of my Ulna bone (bone on the outside of the wrist). It’s not something that really bothered me and I've gotten used to but even now, when I take it off, there is definitely an impression of the watch bracket in that area.TCX File Corruption: I have noticed that, on exceptionally long exercises (10+ hours) while operating in performance mode and navigating, the watch will suddenly return to the point of origin and stop recording new gps coordinates on the TCX file. This has the effect of making it look like I suddenly flew back to the point of origin 10 hours into the hike and stayed there for the remainder of my time. I expect this is just a firmware issue that Suunto will work out and, since I usually record in Endurance mode, rarely saw it happen but when it did, I was always recording in performance mode while navigating. Most workouts are far less than 10 hours so I am guessing very few users of this watch will ever have it happen to them. I have had no issue recording a workout in performance mode while navigating on 3-4 hour bike rides so this really isn’t an issue that bothered me.Charging Cable: I hate when companies build their products with proprietary charging cables. It’s just a sham to make more money but almost everyone does it. I had hoped that, because Suunto builds their watches in Finland and because the EU is getting sticky about companies making proprietary cables, the Vertical would have a standard USB port for charging but, alas, they do not. The magnetic, circular charging station is prone to shifting if bumped and I have, more than once, come back expecting my watch to be charged only to find the contact had been broken and it hadn’t charged.All in all - I love this watch. Above all else, Suunto set out to make a robust watch that could handle any activity you wanted to use it for and the result is a bomber, built-for-purpose timepiece that can stand up to anything for long periods of time. So excited that Suunto has an adventure watch that can compete with the best the market has to offer.
originally posted on REI
I am long time Suunto user (10+ years) and have used different watch models for my outdoor activities (trail running, marathons, mountaineering 20k+ peaks and general hiking the 14ers).I upgraded briefly to 9 Peak Pro, which had great features, but found the display a bit small. I ended up returning it and purchased the Vertical all black. I did not really care for the solar charging nor the titanium versions. The weight difference was 12 g between the models and I do not find it too heavy.Pros: The Vertical is a great watch for an outdoor enthusiast with excellent battery life (almost 2 weeks with 24/7 HR monitoring + activities). All the complaints about the UI lag is no more. The new firmware fixes most of the issues. Sure, they had issues when the watch was ... MoreI am long time Suunto user (10+ years) and have used different watch models for my outdoor activities (trail running, marathons, mountaineering 20k+ peaks and general hiking the 14ers).I upgraded briefly to 9 Peak Pro, which had great features, but found the display a bit small. I ended up returning it and purchased the Vertical all black. I did not really care for the solar charging nor the titanium versions. The weight difference was 12 g between the models and I do not find it too heavy.Pros: The Vertical is a great watch for an outdoor enthusiast with excellent battery life (almost 2 weeks with 24/7 HR monitoring + activities). All the complaints about the UI lag is no more. The new firmware fixes most of the issues. Sure, they had issues when the watch was first released, but I have not had any problems. I especially love the map feature (takes a while to download) and it has come handy in my recent hikes. HRM is very good and I compared it to a pulse oximeter and they both show exactly the same. Alti-baro is great as well, and I always make sure I auto adjust before I start my outdoor activities. The Suunto app is also very good and has a lot of useful metrics. I do not use the notification feature. The GPS is very accurate outdoors, but I have not tested around tall buildings like city downtown for example. Also, you can't compare this to other smart watches as this is not in the same category. Compare this to Garmin/Coros if you have to.Cons: The pedometer is not accurate (expected) and I never expected it to be accurate so not really a con for me.Note: Another reviewer posted a pic with pairing issue. I had this problem once and I unpaired the watch on my phone (Android), restarted it and paired it again. No problems since then.
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My wife purchased this watch for me as a gift knowing I had several suunto’s in the past. The first watch I had to return due to the battery life only being about 24 hrs and also had connection issues getting iphone notifications. I took it back and returned it for another (same version, vertical titanium solar). This watch has the battery life but I only get notified of incoming calls, no text or emails, which I really just need the calls and text. I tried working with Suunto support to no avail. They give me suggestions and instructions but nothing has worked. I also don’t feel the heart rate monitor is very accurate nor the sleep data and it’s a little glitchy moving from one screen to the next. I do really like some of the other features and designs of the ... MoreMy wife purchased this watch for me as a gift knowing I had several suunto’s in the past. The first watch I had to return due to the battery life only being about 24 hrs and also had connection issues getting iphone notifications. I took it back and returned it for another (same version, vertical titanium solar). This watch has the battery life but I only get notified of incoming calls, no text or emails, which I really just need the calls and text. I tried working with Suunto support to no avail. They give me suggestions and instructions but nothing has worked. I also don’t feel the heart rate monitor is very accurate nor the sleep data and it’s a little glitchy moving from one screen to the next. I do really like some of the other features and designs of the watch, it’s too bad it has these issues. I’m thinking about returning it for A Garmin fenix 7 sapphire solar, I have a fenix 6 sapphire and haven’t had any issues. I wish I had been able to fix the connection issues with this Suunto as I think It had good potential.
| Bezel material | Stainless steel |
| Glass material | Sapphire crystal |
| Case material | Glass fibre reinforced polyamide |
| Strap material | Silicone |
| Country of manufacture | CN |
SUUNTO Vertical Solar Canyon
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Suunto Vertical Solar Smart Watch - Canyon
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Suunto Vertical Solar Smart Watch - Canyon
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Suunto Vertical Solar Canyon
Free delivery between 3–9 July
Suunto Vertical Solar Adventure Watch - Orange
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In 2023 my wife and I hiked the Pacific Crest Trail. I started off recording our daily grinds with an ancient Fenix 5 that I had purchased for her a long time ago. I burned that out about 2 weeks in, mostly due, I think, to the age of the watch. After the Garmin, I transitioned back to FitBit which I had typically used for lifestyle monitoring over the past 10 years. The FitBit failed miserably trying to keep up with the 10-13 hour workouts in an environment where it was offline most of the time. So, about the time we bailed on the Sierra due to the historic snowpack and made our way up to Cascade Locks to head back south, I paid a visit to the Portland REI and picked up Suunto’s newest activity watch - the Vertical. I have never looked back.I chose the Vertical ... MoreIn 2023 my wife and I hiked the Pacific Crest Trail. I started off recording our daily grinds with an ancient Fenix 5 that I had purchased for her a long time ago. I burned that out about 2 weeks in, mostly due, I think, to the age of the watch. After the Garmin, I transitioned back to FitBit which I had typically used for lifestyle monitoring over the past 10 years. The FitBit failed miserably trying to keep up with the 10-13 hour workouts in an environment where it was offline most of the time. So, about the time we bailed on the Sierra due to the historic snowpack and made our way up to Cascade Locks to head back south, I paid a visit to the Portland REI and picked up Suunto’s newest activity watch - the Vertical. I have never looked back.I chose the Vertical over its Garmin competitor mostly because I use a Suunto D4 for diving and I love it. I have nothing against Garmin and use many of their products - including a Varia for biking which is bulletproof, but the D series watches are the gold standard for diving so when it came time to choose a watch for another 4 months of hiking, I went with Suunto. This is what I love about it.Monster Battery Life: If there were no other pro’s about this watch, the battery life alone would still outweigh the cons - it’s insane. On the Pacific Crest Trail, it was not unusual for us to hike up to 13 hours a day and we were almost always in the double digits for duration. Despite this, the Vertical had no problem stringing 6-7 of these marathon days together on a single charge. Coming from FitBit, which struggled to support a single day, this was impressive. The Vertical supports a number of recording modes, the highest of which is “Performance” which allows navigation and mapping features while recording, not to mention operation of all the biometrics the watch has. The next step down is “Endurance” which supports everything Performance does except for mapping and navigation. I usually operated in Endurance mode. There are 2-3 options below Endurance which could stretch the battery life even further. Note that the watch I purchased was not even the Titanium model which is outfitted with a solar array in the watchface that is supposed to stretch the battery capability even further.Oversized Watch Face: Both Garmin and Suunto have finally realized the futility of including mapping and navigational capabilities on a watch with a standard sized face. What’s the point of all that mapping capability if you constantly have to squint to see it? The Suunto Vertical offers a massive watch face which allows someone to clearly see the route and contours in front of them.App Interface: One of the reasons I really liked Suunto was the work they have done on the App. It’s a nice interface that allows a quick summary of your biomarkers as well as a complete review of your workout history. The mapping/planning side of the app is intuitive and I was able to quickly take routes that I built in Gaia GPS and transfer them in the IOS operating system directly to Suunto for quick upload to the watch which I then used for guidance on the trail. The app also allows route planning on the Suunto interface but I didn’t really play with that because the transfer from Gaia GPS was so seamless.Navigation: The navigational capabilities of the watch are beautiful. I have to say, I didn't use them very often for hiking the PCT as the trail was always clearly marked and burning the extra battery wasn’t worth the small benefit. I have used it several times for mountain biking in new areas with many junctions where I don't want to constantly dip into my pocket for my phone and the navigation in this situation was superb. I look forward to backcountry skiing/mountaineering with it where lots of off trail navigation is demanded - I think it will be fantastic.Off-line Syncing: This is one area where Suunto has a direct benefit over its competitor, Garmin. Garmin, to my knowledge, does not allow for syncing the watch “off-line.” That is, without cellular service on your phone, I don't think the watch can transfer new workouts to the memory on the phone for later upload. I experienced this with my old Fenix in the first weeks of the trail. I had to go up somewhere high to find service to upload new workouts before the watch cleared its memory and I lost them. The Vertical and Suunto App allow for transfer of the workouts from the watch memory to my phone's much larger memory for later upload - in fact, that seems to be how Suunto intends it to work, so for expeditions or thru-hikes, where many days of workouts are accrued without service to upload them, this watch would be an excellent choice.Massive Memory: The Vertical comes with something like 24 gigs of memory which is plenty to hold a number of downloaded map packs for reference on the trail. I currently have all of Washington, Oregon, California and British Columbia downloaded on the watch which hardly touches its memory bank. I haven’t played with the Suunto Marketplace but my guess is there are lots of fun features and tools that can make good use of all that memory.There aren’t many downsides to this watch, but if i had to name them they would be as follows.Ergonomics: The watch is oversized, which I mentioned as a benefit above. One thing I noticed on the trail is that it impinges pretty hard on the end of my Ulna bone (bone on the outside of the wrist). It’s not something that really bothered me and I've gotten used to but even now, when I take it off, there is definitely an impression of the watch bracket in that area.TCX File Corruption: I have noticed that, on exceptionally long exercises (10+ hours) while operating in performance mode and navigating, the watch will suddenly return to the point of origin and stop recording new gps coordinates on the TCX file. This has the effect of making it look like I suddenly flew back to the point of origin 10 hours into the hike and stayed there for the remainder of my time. I expect this is just a firmware issue that Suunto will work out and, since I usually record in Endurance mode, rarely saw it happen but when it did, I was always recording in performance mode while navigating. Most workouts are far less than 10 hours so I am guessing very few users of this watch will ever have it happen to them. I have had no issue recording a workout in performance mode while navigating on 3-4 hour bike rides so this really isn’t an issue that bothered me.Charging Cable: I hate when companies build their products with proprietary charging cables. It’s just a sham to make more money but almost everyone does it. I had hoped that, because Suunto builds their watches in Finland and because the EU is getting sticky about companies making proprietary cables, the Vertical would have a standard USB port for charging but, alas, they do not. The magnetic, circular charging station is prone to shifting if bumped and I have, more than once, come back expecting my watch to be charged only to find the contact had been broken and it hadn’t charged.All in all - I love this watch. Above all else, Suunto set out to make a robust watch that could handle any activity you wanted to use it for and the result is a bomber, built-for-purpose timepiece that can stand up to anything for long periods of time. So excited that Suunto has an adventure watch that can compete with the best the market has to offer.
I am long time Suunto user (10+ years) and have used different watch models for my outdoor activities (trail running, marathons, mountaineering 20k+ peaks and general hiking the 14ers).I upgraded briefly to 9 Peak Pro, which had great features, but found the display a bit small. I ended up returning it and purchased the Vertical all black. I did not really care for the solar charging nor the titanium versions. The weight difference was 12 g between the models and I do not find it too heavy.Pros: The Vertical is a great watch for an outdoor enthusiast with excellent battery life (almost 2 weeks with 24/7 HR monitoring + activities). All the complaints about the UI lag is no more. The new firmware fixes most of the issues. Sure, they had issues when the watch was ... MoreI am long time Suunto user (10+ years) and have used different watch models for my outdoor activities (trail running, marathons, mountaineering 20k+ peaks and general hiking the 14ers).I upgraded briefly to 9 Peak Pro, which had great features, but found the display a bit small. I ended up returning it and purchased the Vertical all black. I did not really care for the solar charging nor the titanium versions. The weight difference was 12 g between the models and I do not find it too heavy.Pros: The Vertical is a great watch for an outdoor enthusiast with excellent battery life (almost 2 weeks with 24/7 HR monitoring + activities). All the complaints about the UI lag is no more. The new firmware fixes most of the issues. Sure, they had issues when the watch was first released, but I have not had any problems. I especially love the map feature (takes a while to download) and it has come handy in my recent hikes. HRM is very good and I compared it to a pulse oximeter and they both show exactly the same. Alti-baro is great as well, and I always make sure I auto adjust before I start my outdoor activities. The Suunto app is also very good and has a lot of useful metrics. I do not use the notification feature. The GPS is very accurate outdoors, but I have not tested around tall buildings like city downtown for example. Also, you can't compare this to other smart watches as this is not in the same category. Compare this to Garmin/Coros if you have to.Cons: The pedometer is not accurate (expected) and I never expected it to be accurate so not really a con for me.Note: Another reviewer posted a pic with pairing issue. I had this problem once and I unpaired the watch on my phone (Android), restarted it and paired it again. No problems since then.
My wife purchased this watch for me as a gift knowing I had several suunto’s in the past. The first watch I had to return due to the battery life only being about 24 hrs and also had connection issues getting iphone notifications. I took it back and returned it for another (same version, vertical titanium solar). This watch has the battery life but I only get notified of incoming calls, no text or emails, which I really just need the calls and text. I tried working with Suunto support to no avail. They give me suggestions and instructions but nothing has worked. I also don’t feel the heart rate monitor is very accurate nor the sleep data and it’s a little glitchy moving from one screen to the next. I do really like some of the other features and designs of the ... MoreMy wife purchased this watch for me as a gift knowing I had several suunto’s in the past. The first watch I had to return due to the battery life only being about 24 hrs and also had connection issues getting iphone notifications. I took it back and returned it for another (same version, vertical titanium solar). This watch has the battery life but I only get notified of incoming calls, no text or emails, which I really just need the calls and text. I tried working with Suunto support to no avail. They give me suggestions and instructions but nothing has worked. I also don’t feel the heart rate monitor is very accurate nor the sleep data and it’s a little glitchy moving from one screen to the next. I do really like some of the other features and designs of the watch, it’s too bad it has these issues. I’m thinking about returning it for A Garmin fenix 7 sapphire solar, I have a fenix 6 sapphire and haven’t had any issues. I wish I had been able to fix the connection issues with this Suunto as I think It had good potential.
It was this of a garmin 965 forerunner. The garmin maps are better, and there is the possibilty of loading custom maos in garmin format. But my main reasons for selecting suunto vertical were 1) sapphire face (i travel in rough areas); 2) simple os; 3) readability of map when not wearing readers. I don't need all the type A exercise stuff, but i do want to be able to upload tracks for guidance. Main dusappointments are sluggishness in map oage, and inabilith to zoom out more than a mile (face diameter) to see context. The contours are similar to usgs 100k maps, not great; with some garmins you can load 24k maps.
This watch is super comfortable, and the battery last forever. I pair it with a Polar H10 chest strap for my daily workouts. The GPS is super accurate, and the data collected and displayed in the app is detailed and insightful. Suunto definitely listened to people who bought this watch after it first came out because all the firmware updates along the way have significantly improved the interface and ease of navigating through the watch’s menus.It’s great for every day day us as well. I use it to track my daily calories, steps, heart rate, blood, oxygen level, and. HRV. 
I have owned the watch for 3 weeks now, I have used it just about every day to log activities.It has outstanding battery life, I still haven’t charged it up.Comparable to Garmin Fenix 7x, (was using that previously) but not as rugged in design or use intention. GPS tracking is slightly better with Garmin but the Vertical is still very accurate.Suitable for someone who wants a blend of fitness tracking and outdoor applications.Lightweight, comfortable and looks sleek.Pro’s - Insane Battery Life (best among any GPS/Functional watch out there), Offline Maps, Fitness tracking and synchronizing with Suunto App, Ease of Use and FunctionalityCon’s - Heart Rate Monitoring is spotty during sweaty workouts. Watch faces are kind of bland
It's been eleven days since I charged this to 100% I have used this to track roughly 5h hiking since. The battery currently shows 54%. Unbelievably good battery life.I've been using the GPS functionality above water, and it's been rock solid. Good statistics, and the heart rate sensing seems quite accurate. HRV, sleep tracking, offline maps; it's all here and it's outstanding. $3 gets a lifetime license for an app that now synchronizes the Suunto app fitness data anywhere else I want it to go.My ONLY ask of Suunto is that they create many more analog watch face options. Two simply isn't even close to enough.
I was trying different sport style watches for running. I gave the vertical a try and initially really liked it. Fits great on my smaller wrist. Battery life was great. Suunto app was clean and simple with the features a runner wants. The watch quality could be top of the class for watches in this price range and others that cost more. The band fits snugly without being tight and I like the little button closure. Easy to read the watch face on sunny days. Connected to my Garmin heart rate strap easily and every time I ran. The wrist heart rate sensor lacks a little compared to other brands, but none of the watches I’ve tired are as accurate as a chest heart rate sensor. The interface on the watch was straightforward and there are many different options of actives to ... MoreI was trying different sport style watches for running. I gave the vertical a try and initially really liked it. Fits great on my smaller wrist. Battery life was great. Suunto app was clean and simple with the features a runner wants. The watch quality could be top of the class for watches in this price range and others that cost more. The band fits snugly without being tight and I like the little button closure. Easy to read the watch face on sunny days. Connected to my Garmin heart rate strap easily and every time I ran. The wrist heart rate sensor lacks a little compared to other brands, but none of the watches I’ve tired are as accurate as a chest heart rate sensor. The interface on the watch was straightforward and there are many different options of actives to choose from.However…I had the watch during the time Suunto did an update that wouldn’t upload activities to the app right after you were done. I would run, watch was tracking as normal. I would stop, save and then it wouldn’t sync on the app. Suunto acknowledged the problem that had been ongoing for a few weeks( I found that out through the Sunnto forums). At that point I only had the watch for a few weeks and that left a bad taste in my mouth and I returned it. The software on the watch is getting better from what I’ve read, but still seems lacking compared to Garmin. If Suunto comes out with a feature packed like Garmin, but in that beautiful Suunto Vertical style..it would be a real winner.
I got this watch four months ago and it has never lived up to its price point. Recently it stopped connecting to my phone and has been stuck on the “pair” screen after I factory reset it. The customer support is highly unreliable. There is no phone number to call and the only way to directly message Suunto is through social media. Everything else you have to submit a service request form.The menus are slow and clunky. You can’t receive text messages or iMessages if you’re on an iPhone. It really only alerts you when you get a notification from a third party app like gmail or Snapchat. It doesn’t tell you the weather, it just tells you the weather from the last location and time when you synced with your phone. It handles time zones very poorly. For example, have ... MoreI got this watch four months ago and it has never lived up to its price point. Recently it stopped connecting to my phone and has been stuck on the “pair” screen after I factory reset it. The customer support is highly unreliable. There is no phone number to call and the only way to directly message Suunto is through social media. Everything else you have to submit a service request form.The menus are slow and clunky. You can’t receive text messages or iMessages if you’re on an iPhone. It really only alerts you when you get a notification from a third party app like gmail or Snapchat. It doesn’t tell you the weather, it just tells you the weather from the last location and time when you synced with your phone. It handles time zones very poorly. For example, have the sunset notification turned on and when I travel from the east to west coast it will notify me for the sunset in another location. Syncing it to your phone doesn’t fix this, you have to go into the settings and manually turn the sunset feature off and on again. I’ve had to factory reset the watch twice since I’ve purchased it and each time it clears the activities you’ve done and the maps you’ve downloaded. Downloading offline maps is nice but takes a very long time. I had a Suunto 5 for about three years previous to this watch and it worked much better. I don’t think Suunto have managed to create a high performance watch that matches some of the more expensive garmin watches and if you’re gonna get a Suunto just get one of their cheaper options.
After getting my Suunto Vertical two days ago, and transitioning from a Garmin 6X Pro, I can say with all honesty the Suunto Vertical is most likely the best sport watch I have had and used.I knew there would be a learning curve to the new system of the Suunto but what I found was it was easier and much more user intuitive right out of the box versus the Garmin Fēnix 6X Pro (and mind you I LOVED the Garmin Fēnix 6X Pro).The ease of toggling via the three button/one side placement and the touch screen navigation makes it amazing. I have done only one route and work out (mountain biking) and it was flawless and super accurate.The design of the Veritcal is GORGEOUS and while it is big, it just feels right and looks great.Suunto has given the Sport Watch market ... MoreAfter getting my Suunto Vertical two days ago, and transitioning from a Garmin 6X Pro, I can say with all honesty the Suunto Vertical is most likely the best sport watch I have had and used.I knew there would be a learning curve to the new system of the Suunto but what I found was it was easier and much more user intuitive right out of the box versus the Garmin Fēnix 6X Pro (and mind you I LOVED the Garmin Fēnix 6X Pro).The ease of toggling via the three button/one side placement and the touch screen navigation makes it amazing. I have done only one route and work out (mountain biking) and it was flawless and super accurate.The design of the Veritcal is GORGEOUS and while it is big, it just feels right and looks great.Suunto has given the Sport Watch market something to fear with the Vertical.
| Bezel material | Stainless steel |
| Glass material | Sapphire crystal |
| Case material | Glass fibre reinforced polyamide |
| Strap material | Silicone |
| Country of manufacture | CN |
