Suunto 5 Peak In-Depth Review

Suunto’s just revamped their existing Suunto 5 multisport GPS watch with the new slimmer and more stylish Suunto 5 Peak. This follows in the footsteps of the Suunto 9 Peak last summer, in terms of cleaning up the external design of the watch while offering a smattering of new software and hardware features. The main appeal of the Suunto 5 series is that it’s essentially a gateway drug to a higher-end multisport watch without the price tag. Meaning it has virtually all the same software features as Suunto’s top-end Suunto 9 series, but skips on a barometric altimeter, touchscreen and has lesser but still plenty of battery life – clocking in at up to 100 hours of GPS recording time (in a reduced recording rate).Get more news about Super fine peek Sensor Cable,you can vist our website!

The Suunto 5 Peak adds the new wireless firmware updater option as well as the aforementioned Tour mode with 100-hour battery life. It also carries with it the slate of new features that came to the existing Suunto 5 last summer when they were added to the Suunto 9 Peak, these included music controls, additional SuuntoPlus apps such as Ghost Runner & Burner, Snap to Route, and Android phone pre-defined replies. Said differently, this is mostly a cosmetic hardware change – but one that’s welcomed by myself and probably many others. Plus, the price is the same, making it an ideal budget triathlon watch.

With that – I’ve been testing it for about a month now, putting it through its paces in hikes, swims, 7-hour rides, runs, and plenty more. So we’ll dig into all that data as well as my daily usage thoughts down below.

As usual, this watch is a media loaner, and it’ll go back to Suunto. This review is not sponsored (nor does any company get to preview anything I review), and I don’t take any advertiser money from any companies I review. And as regular readers know, if something is crap, I’m gonna tell it brutally like it is – no matter the brand. Once this unit goes back, I’ll go out and get my own for any future testing needs. If you found this review useful, you can use the links at the bottom, or consider becoming a DCR Supporter which makes the site ad-free, while also getting access to a mostly weekly video series behind the scenes of the DCR Cave. And of course, it makes you awesome.