Suunto 9 Baro GPS Sports Watch with Long Battery Life and Wrist-Based Heart Rate

Love this sports watch. Excellent data layout and statistics in app. The watch itself displays fitness, health, exercise and heart data very well. After coming from polar I was a little reluctant but I much prefer the suunto app and watch. The only negative I found is that the optical heart rate monitor not as accurate when in exercise mode but it's fine in resting and normal condition. I tend to use an external heart rate monitor for exercising so not too fussed about this. Overall very pleased with this watch and would highly recommend.

Coming from a Garmin for many years I was a bit nervous moving to Suunto. The 9 Bari has been excellent, battery life is superb and easy to use. It has good rugged looks. Only slight downside is the hr during excruciating is a bit hit and miss but most wrist hr watches are inaccurate and I have a chest strap so all good. It works perfectly for all day hr tracking however. The Suunto app is actually very reliable but lacks a lot of the lifestyle stuff from Garmin. Don’t really miss all that. All in all very happy with it and got me through a 50 miler recently with loads of battery remaining.

The watch itself is amazing having had it for 6 months now. Battery life is good and the responsive touch screen is very good. The major bug bear is the lack of response from suunto itself, I have changed my phone and would like to reset my password. But no response from suunto, a tad disappointed in them. (Massive amounts of sarcasm). Kept the watch ditched the app.

I really like this watch. It replaced a Garmin Fenix 5. The Garmin can do more stuff and is much more customisation but for some reason the Suunto is easily my favourite. Suunto wins hands down on battery and athletic performance. I'd say the Garmin wins in nearly every other area particular smartwatch things. The watch actually doesn't feel big on the wrist, it is comfortable all day. And the screen is clear an easy to read in bright sunlight. All in all a brilliant sports watch if you want to record your activities via GPS, the softwear is continually being developed and syncs seemlessly with Strava, I'm glad I made the switch from Garmin. But it isn't black and white choice and others may prefer a Garmin.

I received the Sunto watch today and was very disappointed with the packaging. The Sunto 9 box is battered and looks like it has been used before. This is a present and it actually looks second hand. The watch itself looks fine but I am very disappointed with it. For the money paid, I don't expect to receive an item which looks like the packaging has been used before. Very bad presentation.

Screen not good enough for this price bracket of HR monitor

This is a fantastic sports watch. A huge number of sports activities are pre-programmed into it. The Interface is extremely intuitive and simple to use. The battery life is exactly as Suunto say and copes well with long trail runs/hikes. The App is good, but as some other users have found it may take several goes to make it pair (makes sure its not in battery saving mode).

After four years of use, I have had only disappointments with this watch. The GPS is much less accurate than other much cheaper watches, and it doesn't help much when it connects to the phone and says "optimizing GPS performance". I have a Polar H9 heart rate sensor that connects just fine to any other device and is rated for 400 hours of use with a single battery. However, it only connects to the Suunto 9 with full battery in the sensor. This means, basically, that I have to change the batteries about every 20 hours, which is crazy for a button battery. They keep adding apps, some of which you have to pay for. That's pretty much what they add in their firmware updates. The connectivity and GPS weakness issues, still there after four years. The interface, the sports mode customisations and the phone app are nice. But I don't need a £400 watch for that. My next mountain watch will be a Garmin.