Suunto Race S AMOLED Ultimate Performance Watch GPS Map Racing Multisport Smartwatch

🔥SUUNTO RACE S 🔥

The ultimate performance watch for racing and training. Just smaller.

Suunto has just announced the Suunto Race S, a smaller and lighter version of the Suunto Race they announced last fall. Except, it’s got more features, better accuracy, is substantially cheaper, and is even manufactured in Finland. Unlike some of their competitors, it appears Suunto is actually listening to what their customers want. Well, mostly anyway.

The new Suunto Race S includes some big ticket features people have been asking for, such as a Suunto Climb Guidance (a ClimbPro-like feature), better heart rate sensor accuracy, more watch face customization, and better UI responsiveness. Plus, a boatload of other items. In many ways, we start to see Suunto being able to focus on some of the smaller tweaks that people want, as opposed to being stuck on playing catch-up on big ticket items. Not to say there still isn’t some much-needed omissions, but Suunto is clearly starting to find their groove here.

The Suunto Race S is obviously new hardware, namely in that it’s smaller hardware. But, it’s also got some updated internals too – such as the new optical heart rate sensor. And then on the software side, there’s a slate of updated features. All of these features are going to the existing Suunto Race (as well as Suunto Vertical and Suunto 9 Peak Pro). Thus, all those continue to get updated from a software standpoint.

Here’s what’s new (as compared to the existing/larger Suunto Race):

– Suunto Race S is a 45mm case size with a 1.32” AMOLED touchscreen

– New optical HR sensor design

– Manufactured in Finland (see notes below)

– Added Suunto Climb Guidance (a ClimbPro-like feature)

– Added three new watch faces

– Added ability to customize watch faces, coloring, and complications (from the watch)

– Added colorful emojis (as opposed to black/white stenciled emojis)

– Increased from 300 emojis to ~1,000 emojis

– Increased performance/responsiveness of the user interface (doesn’t suck anymore)

– Added sport-mode specific display settings (e.g. brightness/etc…)

– Added new paused screen (lets you see workout data screens when paused)

– Increased map zoom level up to 20km (from 2KM)

– Reduced turn-by-turn notifications to just the bottom of the screen (versus full screen takeover)

– Added more than half a dozen Suunto Apps as part of the June 2024 update (including Moxy sensor support)

– Adding menstrual cycling tracking in the Suunto App (manual logging/tracking at this point)

– Improved step counter to reduce misdetection (e.g. reducing teeth brushing steps)

– Added Vietnamese language support

– Increased map storage to 32GB (from 16GB for the stainless steel Race)

– 28% lighter weight than the Suunto Race (60g vs 83g))

– 14% thinner than the Suunto Race (11.4mm for S vs 13.3mm)

– Has 50m waterproofing, instead of 100m on Suunto Race

– Maintains 100% carbon offset inclusion

– Maintains dual-frequency/multiband GNSS

– Maintains same 22mm band/strap design