SUUNTO Vertical Solar GPS Watch, Premium Multisport Watch w/60-Day Battery Life, 1.4 inch Large Touchscreen, Heart Rate & Sleep Tracking, Dual-GNSS Navigation, Free Global Offline Map, Ti Canyon

I just sold my Garmin Delta Solar with Ballistics, so my compair will be against that. The good bad and ugly, I've owned about 5 different Suunto's in the past and for me I like the simplicity of them. The Vertical is a step above those now. A touch screen and for me it's not a big seller, more of a oh I forgot it has that. It take a bit to understand the menu's and how to navigate them. A bit of grrrr with trying how to back out of a few of the interfaces, but thats about it. Some people have complained about being laggy, I haven't notice any of that quite yet, but I did also get a update when first configured. It's very very light, almost don't know I'm wearing it, and being such a large face thats a plus. Battery lifes seems pretty good, I wore it two days and used about 5% a day, I turned off Notifcations, but when enabled worked just prefect. On thing I did notice is the weather alert, that was always something I liked about the Suunto. I enabled storm warning, but yesterday we had a storm roll in the late afternoon and I did not get a storm warning, so that has my attention to see if it happens again. I haven't used much of the other apps yet but will test the gps in the next few days to make sure that's working correctly. I do like they include actual maps that you can download to your watch now and in color. I wish they allowed users to modify the watch faces, there are things that I want and others I don't. They have a bunch to choose from but just not what I wanted.For context I just sold a Garmin Tactix Delta with Ballistics. I really liked that one, but battery didn't quite meetup to what was promised, even with the solar and I didn't really have alot of battery draining process running. It lasted maybe a week or 5 days. Really good watch but the face was a bit to crowded and I'm older and eyes just can't see that small anymore.I still think these are way over prices for a basiclly a smart watch, but will probably come down at some point in the future. Bottem line, I think it's worth the purchase and if you are out and about there are tons of apps for those hobbies.Biggest disappointment beside not being able to configure the watch face is the wonky charger, it's about 1ft and wire thin, one tug and it's probably going to break.

I own have owned multiple Suunto smart watches. The Vertical is the latest. The watch faces and operating system is easier to use than my former daily use Suunto watches. The Vertical was a valuable update to the Suunto 9. Battery life is extended too.

I am Suunto loyal customer using their products since 2015 even recommended to so many friends in the past.Recently I bought Suunto Vertical and faced so many issues:1. Rashes on my wrist (Pic attached)2. HR readings are way off during exercise- comapred with Garmin and Apple I can easily see 40-70BPM gap between Suunto vertical vs other watches whether it's during Hike, Bike, walk or run. Uphill based on my other watch reading is ~160 however vertical is giving me reading of 95-120 (I can easily feel it's not accurate).3. Blood Oxygen measurement-Most of the time watch just stays in the measuring mode and never end up giving the data.Tried different methods to resolve these issues through online forums etc. but NO SUCCESS.Got it into contact with customer care, they also couldn't resolve the issue and took my details that they will send the query to technical team and send me response through e-mail. It's more than one week I didn't hear back from them.Based on bad experience both with product quality (Imagine I spent more than $700) and bad experince through customer support I am not going to recommend to use this product anymore.

This is my third watch from this manufacturer. The battery life on this new device is amazing. The operation of the watch is much easier than my past models. I haven't noticed a great amount of change for the solar function. However, I can get almost 2 weeks of battery life in between charges. Big fan!!!!

Great quality!

This would be a really nice watch for anyone that uses route guidance extensively, but doesn't care about wrist based heart rate or maybe 24/7 wear. First the pros:* Truly awesome implementation of route guidance that is very visible. Route management and creation through the app is also implemented very well. This is the best implementation I've seen across Garmin, Polar and Coros. It captures essential information, doesn't try to put too much on the screen and has a very responsive compass. Note however that these maps are not routable - they mostly provide context when navigating.* Great design - this is a nice looking watch that isn't as big as some, but has a nice presence on the wrist.* Battery life - I found the battery life to be comparable to, if not better than the Garmin Gen 1 Enduro. Solar also seems to make a difference in battery life as well.* Features tend to be pared down relative to Garmin, but I felt they had a good grasp of what was essential on the watch, so they didn't overcomplicate things.Cons:* There are some strange inconsistencies in the UI - for instance the placement of interval settings. I had trouble finding this reliably for some reason.* There are sharp angles where the watch meets the wrist, and it isn't always comfortable -- especially at night, or when the band was tightened down. People with more flesh on their arms probably won't have an issue.* The heart rate readings (for me) were way off. There was a very specific placement on my wrist that would help, but it is not where I'd normally wear it. The watch needed to be quite snug - to the point of discomfort, which was exacerbated by the hard angular nature of the watch (see previous point).* Related to the above - Suunto only allows pairing one bluetooth heart rate sensor (I have three). It would be one thing if the OHR on the wrist worked well, but for me it did not. I typically use at least two external HR sensors - my chest strap causes bad chaffing in the very warm weather, and so I will wear a polar OH1 on my arm instead.* Sleep tracking didn't work for me, but then again I've never found a watch that was able to measure this for me.So for some people (ultrarunners come to mind), this is a watch worthy of consideration. Suunto really has produced a nice product. I think where they need to work is on the optical heart rate sensor, which is a generation or two behind both Polar and Garmin. If they fixed that, they would have a real winner, IMO.Edit: Suunto updated the firmware for the heart rate sensor in the latest quarterly update for the watch (7/2024), and now the sensor works much better.