Suunto Race Hands-On: Woah, 26 New Features Explained!

Suunto has just announced their newest watch, the Suunto Race. This watch essentially takes the existing Suunto Vertical endurance-sports focused watch that was released this past spring, and gives it an AMOLED display. Alongside that, it gets an updated user interface and a number of new software features (which will also be ported back to a number of other existing Suunto watches). Oh – and for arguably the first time in recent memory, Suunto has absolutely slaughtered the competition on price here. The base unit is priced at just $449, including a sapphire crystal display and stainless steel case.

So, here’s what’s on the Suunto Race:

- New 1.43” AMOLED touch screen, 466x466px at 1,000 nits
- GPS battery life time starting at 40hrs in multiband/dual-frequency (and up to 120 hours in ‘Tour’ mode).
- Standby/smartwatch battery life of 12 days in gesture-based display mode, or 7 days in always-on display mode
- Adds digital crown
- Adds new nightly HRV tracking, as well as HRV trending features
- Adds Suunto Coach integration with aforementioned HRV tracking (will give guidance inclusive of HRV changes)
- Adds workout planner to the watch itself (plus mobile app and TrainingPeaks)
- Adds Training widget/watch face with TSB/CTLHRV
- Adds new daily companion, new daily widgets, new mini widgets
- Adds sleep stages shown on-watch
- Adds ability to do multiple alarms (e.g. wake-up alarms)
- Adds ‘Find my Phone’ functionality
- Adds ‘Stand-up’ reminder
- Adds ‘Progress’ running race estimates & HR run threshold
- Adds new sport mode…umm…Rope Skipping
- Adds customization of the widgets
- Adds do-not-disturb mode
- Improved music control touch controls (for controlling phone music
- First Suunto watch using fully in-house algorithms, transitioned away from FirstBeat algorithms
- Retains existing snorkeling depth gauge features, with existing 100m
- 22mm industry standard strap (silicon strap included in the box)
- Retains/has military durability specifications
- Two model options: Titanium ($449/EUR) or Stainless steel ($549/EUR)
- Sapphire crystal display on both models
- Weight comes in at a claimed 69g for titanium, and 84g for stainless steel

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