Training: This shows you recent training volume, by sport activity type Settings: For tweaking on-device settings Logbook: This is your history, your training log Navigation: You can load pre-configured routes Watch Face: You can tap to display different time zones, altitude, or stepsĮxercise: This is where you’ll start a workout and choose a sport mode Here’s a quick shot of all of these core menu areas:Įach of these sections has to varying degrees further menus within them. The Spartan works by you swiping (or pressing buttons) up/down through the core menu options: Watch Face, Exercise, Navigation, Logbook, Stopwatch, Settings, Training, Recovery, Activity. At this time you cannot upload and/or create your own watch faces. Meanwhile, you can also change the default watch face to a few preselected options. For example, long-pressing the middle button is the equivalent of having a back button. These three buttons actually act as more than just three buttons though, because in certain scenarios there are long and short presses. But it also has three buttons on the right side to iterate through menus too. As you know, the watch includes a touch screen, which can be used to navigate through the menus. The Basics:įirst up, let’s talk about some of the user interface basics on the watch, before getting into sports modes. This isn’t a complaint per se, just an observation. I’d say in many ways it’s pretty similar to the Fenix3 in terms of size, though due to the styling, it looks slightly more ‘plump’, like it’s eaten too many croissants. Here’s a gallery of all those, just for fun: Next if we look at the weights of the units, you’ll see we’re not terribly far off either: However keep in mind that in this case, the Fenix3 HR does have that optical HR sensor within it (or rather, extending out of it). (Left to right: Suunto Ambit3 Peak, Garmin Fenix3 HR, Suunto Spartan Ultra, Suunto Traverse, Polar V800)Īnd if you compare depth, it’s also in the same ballpark. For that we’d need to break out the rolling pin, which has been on the DL lately, after sustaining two shattered legs in a fall:ĭon’t worry, legs weren’t important for today’s work efforts: You can see for example that in terms of width, it’s about the same. So how does it compare to other GPS watches in the same field (hiking/multisport units)? It’s actually pretty similar in a lot of ways. In fact, the cable is much better and as seen in the video around the 3:20 marker, you can even swing it around in circles and it won’t fall off. Probably the most notable takeaway is that the charging cable is different from past Suunto products. Sorry!įear not, the video covers more than my text section normally would. I’ve got them somewhere, and once I do figure out which hard drive (my categorization system is occasionally awesome, today, not so much), I’ll stick them up here. I normally have unboxing photos, but I’m having a minor issue trying to figure out where on earth they went to. What’s that? Word and pictures aren’t your thing? No worries, we can start off with an unboxing video instead: The good, the bad, and the ugly… Unboxing: Without further ado, let’s dive into things. If you find the post useful, whack the support links at the bottom. Suunto sent over a production unit for me to try out, after which I’ll send it back like normal (and go out and procure my own through regular retail channels). A bit of an unusually long review cycle for me, but sometimes that’s just the way the cookie crumbles. While the unit was announced four months ago, it’s been almost exactly three months that I’ve been using and testing the Spartan Ultra. Down the road, Suunto has planned an optical HR version of the Sport edition as well. These two watches are set to be the successor models to the rather successful Ambit series, which was a combined multisport and hiking watch. It’s been a bit over four months since Suunto started to announce the Spartan series, which contains two watches at present: the Ultra and the Sport.
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