SUUNTOSUUNTO Race GPS Sports Watch, 1.43" AMOLED Touchscreen w/ Crown Button, 26 Days Battery Life, Training & Sleep Health Tracking, Dual-GNSS, 16GB Global Offline Maps, Lightweight for Running, MidnightClimatePartner certified

This is such a great watch. Had it on for 3 days and battery life has only dipped 9%. It’s super lightweight but still looks and feels like a premium product. Very simple functionality and layout which is great and looks very modern and updated inside of interface. I’ve had Apple Watch Ultra and garmin epix 2 and I would wear this one in a heart beat. Apple is nice if you want to connect cellular and leave your phone, garmin is very ruggid, but this watch hits all desires in between. Highly recommend especially for the price

Excellent GPS watch, light weight, great battery life. Flashlight, and find my phone features are handy additions. Suunto app is decent.

There are so many in-depth reviews of this watch, buyers know what they are getting. I will only add a few observations since upgrading from the Ambit 3 Peak that I used for 6 years.The screen is excellent: easy to read, crisp, best of the best.Battery life is best in class, nothing better.The GPS accuracy is excellent.Maps & routing work great.Underwater depth gauge is unique and cool.The heart rate accuracy is mediocre. It's not terrible, but it is not as good as competitors. It sometimes gives very incorrect readings for several minutes at a time. Like climbing up a steep hill with your heart rate in the 160-180 range yet it reads 85 which is about half the true heart rate.Buyers should know that Suunto just released a new version of this watch called the "Race S" that does everything the "Race" does, but is smaller, cheaper, with an improved heart rate sensor. Even so, I'm keeping my Race.

Switched Garmin fenix 8 on Suunto raceBest for price everything you need for monitoring your health and sports

I’ve logged about 16 days using this watch and I feel like I have gotten a good feel for the watch.The battery life to start is fantastic 10/10 there. The screen quality and bright colors make it look extremely easy to read and has a fair number of watch faces to choose from.The sleep function doesn’t always function as much as I wear the watch it hardly captures my sleep.The watch doesn’t function well with apps like my fitness pal or sync my steps accurately to my iPhone.I find if I’m a couple of rooms away from my phone I don’t get message updates. Another HUGE down side is the heart rate monitor when I start a workout I find myself having to take the phone watch off and then put it back on for it to finally read my heart rate.For these reasons I unfortunately cannot recommend this watch.

The heart rate monitor is nowhere near accurate.I came from the Apple Watch ecosystem and was looking for something with simplicity and enhanced fitness tracking. I really wanted to like this watch; the AMOLED screen, interface, and design are all top-of-the-line, but as a sports watch, the HRM is a total failure.My sedentary HR should be around 60, but this watch, Racer S, can give you anywhere from 120+ to 80+; it jumped around so much that you thought of visiting the ER.During exercise, the starting HR should be 60 to 70, but it started out giving you 120+ again and stopped working a few min into the exercise.I did contact Suunto technical support and tried toggling on/off the 24/7 HR tracking, soft reset, and hard reset. They all appeared to work for a brief period (like in a couple of hours) and then got back to "normal"Yes, if I am seriously into tracking my heart rate, I need a chest strap, but again, that will defeat the purpose of my mantra to keep things simple and common; this is a sports watch, and my Gen 4 Apple watch that I have been using several years does better than that.

I’ve owned this watch for 11 months and have ran over 500 miles wearing this watch. I’ve owned 5 digital Suunto watches since 2006. The watch works great tracking my runs without my phone. The battery last prolly a good two weeks and only gets down to about 30% and that’s a daily use with prolly 5-8 runs.I have set to find someone else with this watch but I can’t complain. It’s a great watch and best part it kit what everyone else has but does the same if not more than your typical smart watch.Messages portion is very basic. They are all (text, email, door bell alerts) on the same icon. I don’t get the alerts in my watch but that a personal choice.Great watch. I would buy again.