Smaller and lighter: the Suunto 5 Peak is a successor to the entry-level sports watch Suunto 5. The excellent news: its features sustain with the producer’s dearer fashions. Nonetheless, the check reveals that it makes compromises when it comes to tools, design and operation. The impressions from the check make clear what athletes can anticipate with the Suunto 5 Peak.
The show is barely simpler to learn in brilliant mild.
Suunto 5 Peak: Mild however not very scratch-resistant
The Suunto 5 Peak is fabricated from plastic. The fabric is pleasantly mild to put on – with out the strap, the case weighs simply 21 grams. In comparison with the Suunto 5, the “Peak” shrinks by 3 millimeters (mm) to a diameter of 43 mm. Nonetheless, the show solely makes use of half of the entrance and has a meager 20.5 mm diameter. Not solely the case, but additionally the display screen is surrounded by plastic. The fabric turned out to be much less scratch-resistant within the laboratory (hardness degree 2 of 9). Much less high-quality supplies are additionally a principal differentiator to dearer watches from the producer akin to Suunto 7 and Suunto 9. The display screen consists of an LED matrix show that seems darkish and lacks distinction, however in brilliant ambient mild – for instance within the watch’s pure habitat Out of doors sports – is a bit more readable.
Operation in a roundabout means
The Suunto 5 Peak might be managed by way of 5 buttons, there isn’t a touchscreen. The system is sluggish, the menus are a bit convoluted, so it takes some time to seek out your means round. In comparison with many opponents, the convenience of use of the 5 Peak is much from updated. Elsewhere, Suunto has finished a very good job: the related app on the smartphone runs easily, and the Bluetooth reference to the watch is secure. The watch remotely controls the telephone’s music and shows incoming messages. When you pair it with an Android mobile phone, you’ll reply to incoming messages. Switching off the annoying beep for the notifications requires an expedition deep into the menus: a protracted press on the center button results in the connections. Below Basic on the backside of the menu press Tones, Basic, Tones (no joke). There the choice ends all off the annoying beep that normally pronounces each incoming message.
The route from the mobile phone might be despatched to the watch, which then takes over the navigation.
Coaching options: What the Suunto 5 Peak can do
- Dependable for sports, however not for sleep: Within the check, the Suunto 5 Peak recorded sleep solely superficially and imprecisely. It solely reveals common values with out displaying curves and diagrams, and was all the time fallacious when it got here to sleep length. You’re higher capable of report the center charge throughout sports and the recording of routes. Anybody who beforehand transmits routes to the watch by way of the app additionally makes use of them for navigation. This additionally ran flawlessly within the sensible check.
- Navigation: The producer depends on Mapbox as a companion for map features, however routes created with Komoot, for instance, can be transferred. The latter might be finished by calling up a deliberate route within the Komoot app, urgent the three dots and Export GPX file, Suunto Choose. You verify by way of full and swap Use with watch a. The precise route steering might be began within the coaching menu on the watch (by way of the choicespositioned beneath the startbutton discover under navigation, routes). The watch reveals the route as a line and vibrates should you deviate from it.
Suunto 5 Peak reveals the path.
- Coaching Plans: Suunto suggests an adaptive coaching plan that describes how intense and the way lengthy the coaching ought to be every day. Customers select one in all three coaching targets (Keep, enhance, improve). Within the app, there’s a considerably hidden integration of coaching plans on the beginning web page (tab with the home image). Press the clock icon within the high left and name SuuntoPlus guides on.
- Teaching: Coaching directions are additionally on board. It may be present in the identical menu (residence web page, clock icon) beneath SuuntoPlus options. Right here is about that Ghost runner, which reveals the space (in meters) to an imaginary competitor. The mode might be discovered on the watch earlier than beginning a run by urgent the decrease proper button to enter the menu. The restoration values calculated by the watch assist in on a regular basis life and when planning coaching periods.
The watch doesn’t have a barometer, which is barely discovered within the producer’s dearer watches. The 5 Peak due to this fact solely calculates the meters in altitude lined on the premise of GPS. Good: Sensors might be coupled to measure efficiency when biking, for instance.
The again seems to be a bit low cost. The guts sensor supplied actual measurements.
Suunto 5 Peak: endurance check
value and availability
The Suunto 5 Peak has been available on the market since January 2022. It formally prices 299 euros, however is typically offered for round 250 euros at sellers and within the producer’s store (as of Could 16, 2022). The case colours are black (black and silver), cave inexperienced (blue and black), darkish heather (grayish, like our check pattern) and ridge sand (white and silver) with completely different straps made of various supplies, whereby normal watch straps match the case.
Utilizing the buttons is cumbersome.
Conclusion and options
In case you are in search of a less expensive sports watch, the Suunto 5 Peak is a coaching companion that shines with some finesse: Exterior sensors might be coupled, routes might be transferred to the watch, and lots of providers might be related. A digital companion is on board and the 5 Peak reliably measures coronary heart charge and GPS knowledge. Nonetheless, the operation is simpler with the competitors. As a helpful sports watch various, we suggest the Polar Ignite 2which, nonetheless, gives fewer particular features for coaching.
