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It's simply what the market wants. People are accustomed to AMOLED displays - they're coming from Apple/Google watches and they appreciate the visual quality, even if it means sacrificing battery life during sports activities. Most users aren't familiar with MIP technology, and when they encounter s

You're crazy, doing a review after running 80 miles! 😱🤪 Anyway Suunto has a confusing line of watches with a lot of overlap: Run, Race S, Race 2 and Vertical 2. If they had made the Vertical 2 with an improved MIPS display instead, things would be so much simpler and you'd get a watch with 90 hours

Suunto Vertical 2 can do 65 hours with max GPS accuracy (dual-band) and AMOLED display, while using maps and navigation. So that can be done. But that is a bit larger watch. Personally, I wouldn't buy a watch if it had specs you mentioned. I need longer battery runtime in more accurate GPS modes.

I understand your point and you are right but I am not pointing here to the regular Suunto watch lineup. This is an anniversary watch which will be bought by the Suunto fans, not by the transitory Apple Watch owners. The special edition Vertical 2 will be useless in 10 years when the firmware is not

The gap is incredibly close though and with the Vertical 2 data above over 2 days gps time. I am not an AMOLED diehard, I use a Nomad myself but having owned a 51mm Garmin Epix since 2023 no one is really needing to worry about battery life with Vertix size watches, regardless of display type from e

I had a vertical 1 solar to try for a bit but ended up selling it for no loss. Back then (about 1.5 years ago) the software was slow and quite annoying to use. Battery life was still abysmal compared to my enduro. I heard a lot of suunto models got a new firmware update about a month ago. Maybe it’s