Hello All,
I am without a doubt a fan of cool handy gear and I wanted to share with you guys one of my more recent additions.
I have had this now for maybe three months or so, I bought it direct from Suunto and no I don't work for them or get any kickbacks or anything like that. I just love the watch and the two other suunto watches I have had. But the Traverse has been through the Rockies and across the east cost as well as Asia now. I honestly cant believe how fast the GPS and GLONASS conect compared to my last two Garmin Fenix watches. I usually love Garmin and have two or three hand helds and a truck mounted version we take on EVERY TRIP. The Fenix though is junk, had so many issues with both of mine it's not even worth talking about.
Anyway the Traverse batery life is good, like I said the fix is under 20 seconds and it has a lots of datums to choose from. Not sure how accurate the compass is but I guess since I have a military lenstatic close by I should compare right? I have mine set for MRGS right now but was previosuly running Lat Long, the vibrating alarm is great and everything just works on the watch really well.
If any of you are looking for a cool watch that can be charged while out on the trail via your battery pack or solar panels you might give the traverse a real look. My only complaint was the little watch keepers, they were over sized. So what I did was kinda cross them together making and X and that snugs them down on the band planty good.
Oh accuracy of the GPS is as good as my full size Garmin unit and conection speed is actually faster if you can believe that. So this for me is a handy backup or when trying to keep a low profile out in rough areas as I don't have my high dollar GPS mounted in the windshield tempting the dishonest.
If anyone is interested I will post up some of my own photos, but there not likely to be as good as the professional stuff you can see below
http://www.suunto.com/en-US/Sports-Watch-Collections/Suunto-Traverse-Collection/
I am without a doubt a fan of cool handy gear and I wanted to share with you guys one of my more recent additions.
I have had this now for maybe three months or so, I bought it direct from Suunto and no I don't work for them or get any kickbacks or anything like that. I just love the watch and the two other suunto watches I have had. But the Traverse has been through the Rockies and across the east cost as well as Asia now. I honestly cant believe how fast the GPS and GLONASS conect compared to my last two Garmin Fenix watches. I usually love Garmin and have two or three hand helds and a truck mounted version we take on EVERY TRIP. The Fenix though is junk, had so many issues with both of mine it's not even worth talking about.
Anyway the Traverse batery life is good, like I said the fix is under 20 seconds and it has a lots of datums to choose from. Not sure how accurate the compass is but I guess since I have a military lenstatic close by I should compare right? I have mine set for MRGS right now but was previosuly running Lat Long, the vibrating alarm is great and everything just works on the watch really well.
If any of you are looking for a cool watch that can be charged while out on the trail via your battery pack or solar panels you might give the traverse a real look. My only complaint was the little watch keepers, they were over sized. So what I did was kinda cross them together making and X and that snugs them down on the band planty good.
Oh accuracy of the GPS is as good as my full size Garmin unit and conection speed is actually faster if you can believe that. So this for me is a handy backup or when trying to keep a low profile out in rough areas as I don't have my high dollar GPS mounted in the windshield tempting the dishonest.
If anyone is interested I will post up some of my own photos, but there not likely to be as good as the professional stuff you can see below
http://www.suunto.com/en-US/Sports-Watch-Collections/Suunto-Traverse-Collection/
