Suunto X6HR Heart Rate Wrist Top Computer Watch with Altimeter Barometer and Compass
Suunto X6HR is not only an essential tool for mountaineering or hiking, but it is also a great analyst and indicator of your progress in your sport. When moving in wilderness, safety comes first - Suunto X6HR comes packed with solutions enabling safe and responsible hiking. You can use the alarm functions to alert you at certain altitudes, warn about too rapid ascent, or indicate an upcoming storm. You will be much better off using the compass and altimeter if caught in bad weather. Trying to reach the peak performance without having your heart in it is a waste of lot of blood, sweat and tears. With Suunto X6HR you can measure and analyze your heart rate level to further improve your training program. SUUNTO SOFTWARE Suunto Activity Manager (SAM) is software that enables deeper understanding and better graphical representation of the data recorded and stored by Suunto X6HR. With SAM you can visualize the altitude and heart rate profiles for your routes, analyze and plan your training, and keep a training diary. You can also create your own activity reports by adding photos and text to the profiles. Features: Altimeter: Altitude, vertical speed, altitude alarm, asc/dsc alarm, logbook with waypoint recording, altitude difference, online cumulative ascent, alti/baro lock Barometer: Sea level pressure, absolute pressure, weather trend graph, temperature, 48-hour memory, weather alarm, alti/baro lock Compass: Bearing, graphic compass rose, bearing tracking, declination setting Heart rate monitor: Heart rate limits, interval timer, average/highest/lowest heart rate, heart rate and altitude profile memory, memory capacity 32kB (4h 20min with 2s, 22h with 10s and 133h with 60s interval, shared with split/lap times memory)
User Ratings and Reviews
5 Stars Excellent Watch, EASY INTERFACE. AWESOME…
I love this thing. It would be hard to live without. All the features work exactly as described. Instructions are simple and clear. Great product.
2 Stars If you think it’s a tough watch, think again
I wear my X6HR in a regular environment (office, home), nothing near extreme condition. However, in less than a year, I foung the rubber band of the heart monitor is broken in many placed and the rubber became brittle with many hairline cracks. This is clearly a quality issue with the material used for the watch. In a trip to the Keys, FL, I found that the little rubber ring that holds the band of the watch in place broke in two piece much like what happed to the heart rate monitor band. The band itself also has many small cracks. I am sure the band will break in half sooner or later. The LCD on the watch also became fuzzy when I wear it around beaches. This is supposed to be a watch that you can bring to an expedition, yet it failed miserably in a everyday environment. If you are looking for a tough watch, look elsewhere. My Casio G-shock never gives me any headache that this watch gives.
5 Stars Everything I wanted and a lot more
The watch delivers everything you want from a HR monitor + outdoor adventures and is very simple to operate.
3 Stars Great features, but needs serious polish.
The X6HR has a great range of functions. However, the user interface and reliability of the product need serious work before its steep pricetag can be justified.
- Bezel buttons give no positive feedback, so you need to look closely at the screen to confirm button presses.
- The HRM function seems both unreliable. Heart rate occasionally drops out or spikes to double for no reason. I’ve parallel tested with a $30 HRM, which seems more reliable.
- The compass function is unbelievably poorly designed. Instead of drawing a compass on the face, or indicating N/S/E/W points around the bezel, the watch tells you the number of degrees you are facing, or prints N, NW, W, SE, etc on the screen. This is a completely counterintuitive way of displaying the information.
- The PC connection software looks like it was written in the 1990s- provides little functionality and poor usability.
This watch had great promise… but it has proven very disappointing in design.
3 Stars nice hiking companion
This is a nice hiking companion but it is not a training tool. You do not have any information regarding calorie or TE after the exercise. For training go to T6, T4 or T3. For hiking with PC cabality this is a good option. The Polar S625 can do a better work for hiking with additional trainign capabilities.
Tags: Absolute Pressure, Alarm Functions, Altitude Difference, Altitude Profile, Bad Weather, Blood Sweat And Tears, Graphical Representation, Heart Rate Monitor, Interval Timer, Lap Times, Memory Capacity, Memory Memory, Profile Memory, Rapid Ascent, Sea Level Pressure, Suunto X6hr, Sweat And Tears, Trend Graph, Vertical Speed, Wilderness Safety