Suunto Ambit Review: "Trekking" Mode In Action

[@LutzBrux1]

Klasse Kommentar, danke dafür. Es hilft doch immer, die Uhr in aktion zu sehen. So viel besser als die anderen Reviews, di nur den Produktkatalog vorlesen.

[@ChristopherSLucas]

Mr. Zhang-Schmidt, Thank you for making these videos. You have helped me to understand the functions of the Suunto Ambit much better.

[@ThePrincess1179]

This was such an amazing review & the view was amazing. Thanks so much for taking time to do this. I just bought a M5 for my fitness workout and bought myself & my husband an Ambit2. This info was all very helpful.

[@davidpinter-piano]

Thank you Gerald for this very informative instructional video. You've given me a very good understanding of how the watch works. My Ambit 2 Sapphire should be arriving in a couple of days. I hike in the Arizona high desert quite often and go off trail most of the time. Again thank you!

[@jjustforlulzz]

You can see the the exact location on the watch right after it had found the GPS satellite. It's Austria. By the way, it's an amazing review, I enjoyed it a lot.

[@randyblasik3246]

I have this watch. I am a serious athlete/outdoorsman. Firstly, storm alarm does not work as expected on the ambit2, it does work as expected in the Suunto Core watch. The TrackBack function is a dead reckon to your starting point and NOT the trail you took. TrackBack is useless in the real world, unless you got lost on a soccer field. In order to get an accurate temp you can't wear it on your wrist. Everything else works as advertised.

[@tinosalinas]

This was a great review. I enjoyed seeing the watch in action and the surrounding are was beautiful. Very entertaining and informative. Thank you.

[@atkamano]

Great review! thanks for taking the time to making the video, it has really helped a lot!

[@ZhangSchmidt]

Distance covered: of course. Compass use: same thing, just needs to be activated via the (navigation) options menu.

[@jameswgs6444]

Really good review much more in depth than others. What camera did you use to record this? Looks quite smart

[@Bushchannel]

Hey Gerald, great vid. Also my question is how long will the battery last if u never use the GPS. Someone told me that the battery will last only a max of about 2 weeks until it needs charging again. This makes me hesitate in buying it since the watch would not even tell the time if you lost your charger or for example in a long term survival situation. Take the movie Cast Away with Tom Hanks, he's stuck on a desert island for 1 year, in this scenario the the Ambit would be useless

[@Bushchannel]

Anyway, I bought one!!! Very happy with it.

[@ZhangSchmidt]

Not that I can't understand, but I'd concur with tdegler. If you think you need more waypoints than 20 or so for a 100k, you're doing it wrong. You *can* have more points in the track/route you get displayed on the appropriate screen for that, but you really should mark only e.g. aid stations as waypoints. That way, e.g. if a wp is not quite where it should be, you can skip more easily to the next. Or turn off/on navigation as needed (on changes GPS fix to 1 sec, battery runtime to 15 hours)

[@ZhangSchmidt]

Sony SLT-A55. Though mind the comment about the video stabilization that I let KZbin apply to the vid ;)

[@ZhangSchmidt]

Good to hear! It is a nifty device :)

[@ELX222]

Nice reviews mate. How have you found the Ambit battery life? I'm quite keen to buy one, but a little worried it might be a bit too short....

[@ZhangSchmidt]

I dunno. Look at the runs I typically do (check on Movescount or my blog), you'll find that they are typically loops. Meaning, a proper trackback is less useful for my use case than one back to start along line-of-sight. For other outdoors activities where I need a track, I'd probably have a route set up and stored in-watch for navigation.

[@RuneSmedstuen]

Nice review. Thank you.

[@ctwilson59]

Great video ! Just wondered if you know how to change the activity during an exercise. For example running to cycling?

[@ZhangSchmidt]

IIRC: Hold upper left button (it will display "Hold to switch sports mode"), then you get into the menu to select a (different) sports mode, and you've made a multisports 'move' of it. (Dedicated multisports modes work basically the same way, except the button hold leads directly into the next pre-set-up sports mode.) Something of that can be seen here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/o53QZoadq86dg7s

[@ZhangSchmidt]

Typical answer is 30 days. So yes, it wouldn't do you much good in a survival situation on a lonely island. Then again, I think such a situation would give you other things to think about than your HR or GPS position. Or even the time, for that matter.

[@LutzBrux1]

It is a major issue for me. I'll do the Oxfam TrailWalker, 100km in 30 hours with no possibility to quickly pluggin and download more waypoints. and there 99 is not enough. I'll probably nevertheless buy the Ambit, but more Waypoints would be better.

[@amar5125]

awesome...

[@alexmons]

Hi gerald Congratulations, really nice work! I have an ambit3 peak. I use it in mountainering. Is it possible to start a navigation of a track exported to ambit3, and record your move at same time??? A few days ago i went to climb Midi mountain, and I had to choose between use ambit3 to follow the track and avoid to lose myself , or record my move. Thanks gerald

[@ZhangSchmidt]

Shouldn't be an issue. Either you set up a custom (sports) mode with "Follow a route" (so you pretty much have to pick the route to follow before you even start recording) or you go into the options menu (long press middle button on the right), to Navigation, and pick a route to follow there. Route/navigation display(s) get added to the sports mode's displays, then. Also works with activating trackback, if that's needed. Look at entries #10 and #11 here: www.zhangschmidt.com/2015/01/the-suunto-ambit3-manual-part-2-navigation-functions/

[@bonesix]

is there any difference between "Mountaineering" and "Trekking" mode? so far i havent seen one, except of the lable

[@Otosah]

Gerald Zhang-Schmidt where do you live? Nice landscape :)

[@kakopsyxos]

y can use all abilities only on this backlight color or your choise backlight color?sry for me bad english but i love my Greece :)

[@ZhangSchmidt]

No vibration alarm, no. Focus on your running and surroundings, not music ;)

[@Rowboats_Adventure]

Can you see how many meters you have hiked and use the compass at the same time without a route put in

[@renekolarik]

that 'video stabilization' makes it looks like a horror film or like a view of a drunken person :-)

[@PRHiram]

Hey where is that place?

[@ZhangSchmidt]

Altmünster, Traunsee, Salzkammergut. Upper Austria.

[@tdegler]

hey, there is no need. You can have thousands of your waypoints stored online (yes, online), and change which u use watch and which u don't. Hoping that you are not just theory troll, and use them in practice - can u imagine scrolling through 1000 wp's in watch, to choose your desired destination? I am using ambit seriously for a while, and never was in need to use more than 25 wp's at time.

[@felixshan01]

What is your background. Why you use a Chinese surname? I watched some of your videos, some of them were captured in China right?

[@ZhangSchmidt]

Xingming SHAN Because it is my surname? I have a China background - not by birth, obviously.

[@felixshan01]

LOL, if u interest in China I can recommend you some cool cities. Go to Xi'an for delicious foods (foods with thousand years of history). Go to xiamen where is my hometown, very beautiful costal city. and many places etc... It seems China only give people impression of Beijing and Shanghai. :)

[@ZhangSchmidt]

Lived in Xiangtan, Hunan, for 3 years... ;)

[@shady1080]

Good review but the voice....

[@ZhangSchmidt]

Keine derartigen Probleme mehr; leuchtet wie ein 1er.