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Submitted by
Bill Lionheart
a
from UK
Date Reviewed: January 2, 2006 | | Duration Product Used: | More than 3 years | | Price Paid: |
$190.00 | | Purchased At: | online | | Strengths: | Excellent altimeter, rate of climb, memory. | | Weaknesses: | Nice big display but poor viewing angle. Compass needs regular claibration | | Similar Products Used: | None | | Bike Setup: | Can be mounted on handlebars with assesory | | Bottom Line: | Great altimeter watch. Better than made easier to use than casio equivalent. Useless as a compass. More details on my blog:
http://billlions.blogspot.com/2006/01/suunto-vector-watchaltimetercompass.html | Value Rating: Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Jay
a Cross Country Rider
from Providence, RI
Date Reviewed: September 8, 2003 | | Duration Product Used: | Less than 1 month | | Price Paid: |
$101.00 | | Purchased At: | Amazon.com | | Strengths: | durable, large watch face. easy to read. good back light. easy to setup for novice. | | Weaknesses: | none, so far. | | Similar Products Used: | none | | Bike Setup: | does it really matter when I'm reviewing an altimeter? | | Bottom Line: | I haven't had this Suunto ALTIMAX altimeter for more than a few weeks but I already feel very comfortable with it's basic features. This is a very serious altimeter. I know enough now to calibrate, set the logbook, check logbook history, check descent rates, ascent rates, etc. As times goes by, I will pick up new things here and there. The learning curve wasn't as steep as I had expected. I use my Suunto for mountain biking and road riding. The other day, I was out riding off-road for 2 hours and climbed a total of 1400ft.
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Submitted by
Michael Nerdbucket
a Downhiller
from Exmouth
Date Reviewed: September 14, 2001 | | Favorite Trail: | The long and winding one | | Duration Product Used: | Less than 1 month | | Price Paid: |
$125.00 | | Purchased At: | A shop | | Strengths: | It tells the time man, cool!
When I fell out of a plane the numbers went down real fast. I mean REAL FAST man! And it beeped a lot! | | Weaknesses: | It needs batteries to work, bummer! | | Similar Products Used: | A sun dial. Too big for wrist but doesnt need batteries, environmentally friendly man! | | Bike Setup: | Two wheels, handle bars and a bell. | | Bottom Line: | I like it.
But the sundial you can like get loads of birds eating seed off it in the summer in your back garden. The watch they just kind of pecked it then s**t all over it! | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Myron Schaffer
a Weekend Warrior
from Boulder, CO
Date Reviewed: August 20, 2001 | | Duration Product Used: | Less than 1 month | | Price Paid: |
$200.00 | | Purchased At: | McGuckin Hardware, Inc. | | Strengths: | Light weight, large display, altimeter is linked to barometer (unlike the twin sensor Casio). | | Weaknesses: | Somewhat prone to scratches (should have had a titanium ring bezel instead of plastic), complicated way of displaying sea-level barometric pressure (too menu hidden). Small 'baro' trend as compared to Casio twin sensor. What time is 0:00 am? The electroluminescent diplay is not very bright (probably due to battery saving). Only time will tell if the stock band will not crack and break due to my oils from my skin like the Casios. I hope that the time keeping will not be as inaccurate as the 15+ seconds a month leap as the Casios. (see The Bottom Line) The display is hard to read at a low viewing angle (But now that I think about it, my Casio twin sensor had a 'high twist' to the pixels when a new battery was installed and made it equally hard to view at low angles) | | Similar Products Used: | Casio twin sensor | | Bottom Line: | Good overall value, and once the operation without the manual is mastered, it should be a good wrist computer. I say computer because it does a lot more than the average Casio or altimeter combo. It should have a software timebase adjustment for aging of the crystal or precise alignment to WWV. I got my Casio twin sensor to hold time to within 3 seconds a month! (because of its internal variable capacitor adjustment) Anybody serious about quality should invest in this watch, it will amaze you. The only thing it lacks is a way to measure humidity and wind speed. (It'll have the Kestrel 3000 beat if it did!) | Value Rating: Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
la tzeca
a
from ticino, switzerland
Date Reviewed: August 17, 2000 | | Duration Product Used: | 6 months | | Price Paid: |
$200.00 | | Strengths: | Very accurate heigh measurement, lots of "additional informations" (actual climb rate m/min, logbook that trace the climb, etc) | | Weaknesses: | The one and only: the size | | Similar Products Used: | Avocet vertech | | Bottom Line: | If you are ready to give an answer to all people that continuosly ask "what the hell are you wearing at your wrist ?", and you need a good altimeter, the suunto is a very good choice. | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Rado
a Cross Country Rider
from Bratislava, Slovakia
Date Reviewed: June 25, 2000 | | Duration Product Used: | 3 months | | Strengths: | weight, big display, VERY easy to use - manual once readed, forever remembered :-), accuracy, precision, air-bubble in plexi-glass :-) (when you really use compass, it's a neccesary!), vertical alarm, one-button access to compass mode, | | Weaknesses: | light, big on my hand, only 30 m waterproof (it's guaranted only 500 mm of water-bar), problemous buttons, a little bit higher price | | Similar Products Used: | Casio Pathfinder, CicloMaster Alti, | | Bike Setup: | scott boulder | | Bottom Line: | Simply - it's a Suunto. It have a bigger range (-500 to +9 000 m) as Casio; higher precision: (f.e.) 5-10 m difference versus Casio's 40 m in 1500 m vertical ascenting. Better trip-logging (customize interval 20s, 1, 10 min, 1 hour), Casio's graphic display looks good, but you don't know altitude exactly. Suunto is lighter (you can feel it on bike). | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Ronald Tanikawa
a Weekend Warrior
from San Jose, CA
Date Reviewed: April 25, 2000 | | Duration Product Used: | Tested or demo'ed only | | Strengths: | Pros: big display, light (I think the Vertex Alpine doesn't have this), accuracy down to 10 feet,
3 alarms, timer, maximum altitude of about 29,999 feet.
| | Weaknesses: | Cons: watch face is rather big, buttons hard to press, doesn't automatically record altitude progress as datapoints,
bland display (on the Altimax), in 12 hour time mode (am/pm), 12 o'clock appears as 0:00.
| | Similar Products Used: | I have a Casio Twin sensor watch (also no compass, has only 1 alarm and no timer), which is smaller, and graphs
the altitude progress as you go. Although the precision is down to only 20 feet
(and maximum altitude of about 20,000 feet), it is more fun to use (and I have used it for the last 3 years).
| | Bottom Line: | The Suunto is nice if you like James Bond gadgetry (and looks better than the Casio model with compass),
but I'll stick to using my wear-anywhere fun-to-use Casio.
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