Vertical

I switched from the Fenix 8 to the Suunto Vertical 2. I'm not a competitive athlete, but I do run and use an exercise bike a few times a week. Ultimately, I'm not really the target audience for either watch, and both offer far more features for sports than I'll ever need. After three months, I went

My feelings with the Race 2 and Suunto in general (I own a Solar Vertical also) I sent back the Race 2 for pretty much the same reasons as you stated but I’ll also list a couple of issues I can’t stand anymore. Sleep tracking is garbage on the Race 2 the watch picked up multiple 7 hour sleeps and re

How long have you spent with the Garmin? The more used to Garmin you are, the more frustrating you'll find the Suunto software. Garmin may not look the prettiest but the functionality and completeness of the software is far ahead of Suunto. For running it might not matter as much since you're not lo

I really liked the Suunto Race 2 but the data discrepancies between the watch and the app were glaring and frustrating. Suunto seems to spend all their time making gorgeous watches with no time invested in the software or data integrity. They also never engage the community or seem to have any beta

Thanks for this! I have had the exact same experience, but instead of help, most on this forum will defend Suunto and tell you “this has never happened to me in ‘X’ years.” People in my running group have purchased Suunto watches because of my recommendations. I feel terrible when they complain to m

For sure -- Not arguing that the Race 2 isn't a better watch. It's also almost 2x the price of the direct competition from Amazfit (Balance 2). It'll be interesting to see if Suunto can continue to flush out some of the missing features like lacking music on everything but their base model Run. I kn

My biggest issue with the Run is it runs on a completely different operating system to every other Suunto watch which means it doesn’t get the same updates the other watches do and I believe this has a detrimental effect on the watch. It was supposed to be the new OS for both Race 2 and Vertical 2 b

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

Bought the Suunto Vertical when it was released and it had many updates but still a not finished watch it seems. Problem are resolved but causing another one it seems.

I think the issue is less with the Ocean itself and more with a lack of meaningful firmware updates. Since its release nearly 2 years, it received exactly three, one of which was more of a hot fix. The last update it got was in September 2025 to bring it to feature parity with Vertical/Race at aroun