SUUNTO7 GPS Sports Smart Watch

So I wanted a great looking smartwatch but didn't want to spend $2,000 on a Tag Heuer. Does the battery life sort of stink? Yes. Is the Google OS worse than Apple? Yes. Is it a great looking smartwatch with some nice features that warrants a $500 price tag? Absolutely. The sports stuff is great. The large screen is great. The way it looks is great. Style is great. Battery will get you through a day. Not quite 16 hours if you use the sports function. I have read all of the negative critiques on this watch and they don't hold much water. If you want sports and battery life only - get the other model. If you want a watch that has flawless functionally but doesn't look good - get the Apple.

I believe this is the first Android watch to PROPERLY use the 2100 and it has a massive battery - result is that if I don't use it for sports I can easily get 2 "rest" days out of it. Unlike so many of my other Wear watches I'm no longer embarrassed after a full day where the battery would run out in the bar at 11pm! By the way, this is with ALL features on, including the display. If you want to extend further, turn off WiFi. If I add in to my day an hours exercise connected to my Polar H10 chest strap using Google Fit then I will go to bed with about 30% left in the first day.Like all optical HRM, it's crap and will often just think I'm dead mid-exercise.. It's way to slow to catch up with the initial start however, this isn't specific to Suunto, none of my watches Optical HRM have worked for me. I'm not just talking about Wear watches, even my Garmin Fenix 5 Sapphire would do the same.Suunto, for whatever reason, i suspect a commercial one, refuse to allow you to use external Bluetooth sensors with their app but, as I've already said, you can still use them with at least Google Fit and Endomondo and probably others.The screen at times can be slow to respond but, this is pretty much par for the course with Android Wear watches in my extensive experience. Sometimes just pressing the app button wakes it up and you're good to go. But the screen is AMAZING.I think Suunto KNOW they have the battery king and, the price is disproportionally high because of it. Value for money it is not but, if can afford it, then it's a beast of a watch because of the battery and screen.Edit: screen print attached. No sports today and WiFi off. Screen ALWAYS on.

This Suunto 7, at a glance is a great watch, greet screen, great user interface, great materials. All thrown in the trash along with my money by an awful battery life. It is advertised to have a battery that lasts 40 hours, we can't even get a days worth, after waking up at 8 am with 100% we drove to a trail near by, before even starting a hike, the battery was already at 85%, without having done anything. After an hour hike, the watch was at 39%, and obviously the watch did not even make to 6 pm.This story has repeated itself for the following days without even recording any sport activity.Simply sucks, and makes a great watch worth absolutely nothing.

I love this watch, and the battery life is exactly what I was looking for. I had the Fossil Gen 5 for my Pixel 4XL, which I loved, but the battery life was terrible to say the least, so I exchanged it, and I'm glad I did. The battery on smartwatch mode will last you your whole day and into the next day. I am not sure how long the battery lasts if you use GPS or any of the sports modes/extra features, but the website says about 12 hours. I've seen some reviews saying the battery life is poor, but I've not ran into any issues with that, you just need to make sure you don't have everything turned on, or that you're not being notified of every little thing your phone is doing.One of my issues with this watch is the HR sensor. I have a sleeve tattoo on my left arm, and the sensors won't register my HR through my tattoos. This is an issue I have faced with every smart watch I've owned, even the Apple Watch Series 5 had this issue when I tested it.The watch band is a super soft and flexible silicone that is both stylish, and comfortable. I ended up switching it out for the Suunto 7 lime green silicone athletic band, just because I like my skin to breathe a little better than the solid silicone allows.There are not many stock watch faces for the Suunto 7 (I think 5), but you have the option to download non-Suunto watch faces from the Google Play Store. Suunto warns these will work, but only Suunto watch faces have been optimized for the Suunto 7. I will say, though, the Heat Map watch face on the Suunto 7 is my favorite watch face of any smart watch I've tried.This watch is pricey, and on par with the Gen 5, but with added sports features, better water protection, and a way better battery life. I don't regret my purchase at all, and I highly recommend the Suunto 7 if your budget allows.