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Suunto X9i GPS Watch

Suunto X9i GPS Watch description

The Suunto X9i GPS Watch tracks waypoints along your route, interfaces with digital mapping software, and even tracks speed, distance, altitude, and weather as you hike, climb, or ski. Pre-plan your routes by uploading data from digital maps or Google Earth, so you never lose your trail. Suunto made the GPS with an incredibly accurate 3-foot resolution and gave it the ability to show your current speed, distance traveled, distance to you next waypoint. It also has enough memory to store a ridiculous amount of information for future reference. Find your way through a whiteout, battle through brush to a remote peak, and know exactly how many vertical feet you ski in a season with this amazing GPS watch.

The Suunto watch entirely lives up to what advertising and reviews say it will do, and I am well satisfied with it. It is more useful and accurate than a somewhat similar device from Garmin which I got a couple of years ago. That said, the operations, or better, the instructions for them, could be simplified and improved.

I purchased this watch for two reasons: to keep track of my running and to start geotagging my pictures. It works on both accounts, amazingly well. I don't have trouble getting a signal, and have quickly learned how to use the basic functions. I do find that the distance does get a little weird at times, but there's a lot of signal interference where I run. Well worth the cost.

I've bought this watch and am VERY HAPPY with it. It has worked flawlessly and has been exceptionally accurate. I have used it while operating my car and it was perfect in distance over 103 miles. It can gauge speed and was dead on with the speedometer of my auto. I tracked back from 140 miles out and it was within .01 dead on accurate. You MUST read the manual from the CD. The watch is complicated and you must understand the functions to succeed with it. If you don't, you'll end up unhappy. Spend time reading and you'll find a new best friend.