The Polar shared the Suunto’s optical HR unpredictability, however. We found the Polar Vantage M screen at 46mm was bigger and brighter too – and it weighs 45g. This space might be put to better use by enlarging the screen.
There’s a large stainless steel bezel around it that looks classy but serves no actual purpose – and then a black inner ring. The lighter Wahoo Elemnt Rival – which also has a more flexible strap for better wrist contact – for me has the most accurate wrist-based HRM, but even that’s not 100 per cent immune to spikes and dropouts.įor the watch’s size, the screen is on the small side at 30mm. Optical heart rate monitors are not as accurate as chest straps, but I found the Suunto 5 particularly prone to dropping out and spiking due to moving around on my wrist. It’s when it’s being used for running that weight becomes an issue, especially if the strap isn’t snug-fitting enough, because heart rate tracking via the optical HRM is more easily lost. Obviously the extra grams don’t make much difference when you’re cycling. The Coros Pace 2, claimed to be the world’s lightest smartwatch, weighs just under half that while the Wahoo Elemnt Rival weighs 53g – but the Suunto 5 is not the heaviest: the Garmin Fenix 6 Solar weighs 84g and the Suunto 9 just a little less at 81g. The main difference between it and its bigger sibling is that the 9 has weather tracking functions (via the barometric altimeter), a compass, a slightly higher screen resolution (plus it’s a touchscreen), it’s waterproof to 100 metres instead of 50 and it’s a bit bigger and heavier – which may not be ideal for cycling and running anyway.Īt 66g the Suunto 5 is quite chunky already.
If it’s mainly used for sports such as cycling and running, the Suunto 5 has everything you need. > The best smartwatches for cycling: buyer’s guide Wearables, and that includes GPS watches like the Suunto 5, are becoming increasingly sophisticated, offering a whole raft of additional performance metrics using heart rate variability, sleep, stress and other data to track your condition – things that a computer, bolted to your bars rather than busily gathering data 24/7 via your wrist – is powerless to do.
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