NEW SUUNTO 7 [Suunto Combines Sports and Life] - Advanced Sports Smartwatch Review By Mike O'Brien

The all-new Stunt 7 is a Smartwatch that lies at the intersection of one for life and sports. This watch has all the tools you need to stay on top of your busy lifestyle and all the features you want for tracking sports both indoors outdoors and off the grid with downloadable maps, Google's, Wear OS and Stunt signature software. This watch promises to be one of the best of 20/20, but does it actually live up to these claims in this video I? Will dive in and evaluate this watch to show you everything you need to know about this advanced sports Smartwatch, welcome back to the channel I'm Michael Bryan, and this video is all about the Stunt 7, which is a very interesting watch, which kind of mixes a traditional Smartwatch with where OS, with one of the more off the grid kind of watches that we typically see from Stunt or other competitors like Garmin. Now this one right here could be one of the best fitness tracking smartwatches for everyday use, and we'll dive into that later on in this video, but I want to start off with just a physical tour to show you guys what we're really talking about and what we're working with here. So this is definitely a larger watch. This one is probably on the order of 47 or 48 millimeters.

You have 24 millimeter silicone straps right there. You have a 1.4-inch screen and this touchscreen display is vibrant and very bright, getting up to about a thousand nits, and it has, as you can see here, four buttons, which is really nice. None of these buttons actually rotate, though, which is interesting here, they're thinking more about when you're you know swimming in a lake or if you're running a triathlon or if you're, going on a long trail run a lot of times. You just want quick buttons to see things and just kind of manage everything. So a lot of the workouts and a lot of the watch in general can obviously be controlled by touch screen, but a lot of the lot of the apps can actually be controlled as well.

Using the buttons you'll see that the button on the left is your home button also opens the app drawer. If you tap and hold it, you get Google Assistant. The top right opens the Stunt app, which is an app that you're only going to be getting on. This watch and I'll talk more about the Zoom to app later on in the video, but it definitely is pretty much the bread-and-butter of this watch. It's really the reason you'd be buying this watch now on the right.

We do have the middle button, which currently I have set to open and play music, and then the bottom I have for a timer right now and that's essentially the buttons that we have there. This watch, if you look on the right side and the left side for that matter, you'll notice that it does not have a speaker anywhere, but it does have a little like tweeter thing inside. So it does give you some little beep notifications, and can make a few different tones. So if you're running it'll give you tones when you hit like the one-mile mark the two-mile mark it'll, let you know when it started a workout and if you start running, and you have it ready, but you didn't start the workout it'll notify you that you didn't actually start it yet, and on top of that it also has some haptic feedback. So it will vibrate on your wrist so between the two I find that it can, it's well enough for my needs, but you cannot make phone calls on this, and you cannot have Google Assistant talking back to you, because you don't have that speaker.

This watch is definitely very, very durable, its water resistant up to 50 meters. So it's really meant to be going out there and doing some very active stuff. It's a very rugged watch, as you can see here, the front screen is Gorilla Glass, I kind of knew where she was sapphire. So there was a little more scratch resistant, but I haven't seen any issues with that. Yet maybe you'll get a screen protector, maybe not, then we do also have some stainless steel framing around there.

As you can see, we have the silicone straps which, as I mentioned earlier, are 24 millimeters and then. Lastly, we do also have around the edge you'll see it's a glass fiber, reinforced polyamide like I've mentioned. This is shock resistant, water resistant and dirt proof, so definitely good in every situation that I have used it. So far. So a quick aside, if you're new here and have not yet subscribed, please consider going down and clicking the subscribe button and the Bela icon.

So you don't miss future videos as far as the battery goes, it's pretty standard for where OS- and this is one of the compromises that we see between the real off-the-grid watches, which can last some of them like 10 or more days and this one, which is really not lasting quite as long so, this watch is really meant for the kind of people that have a day job and maybe on the weekends they like to run and do some crazy stuff where after work, they want to do crazy. Stuff, so the battery easily lasts about one and a half to they say two days what I've been getting was on the order of about 31 hours before it goes into power, saving mode and then about 51 hours before it actually dies. So just a quick tour for those. You don't know much about where OS you'll see that it's pretty straightforward, it's a really easy interface to use on the front. You can tap and hold your watch face, and you have several watch faces that come with this one, and so I have the heat map right here, which you can set to show you a heat map of pretty much one of I.

Think 15 different exercises. I have running, so it shows you where people run in the area. You can also see this in the app and in the map on the watch. So it's definitely very nice if you're trying to find places to run near you and if we swipe to the left it gives you that my day thing tells you like what the weather is and what time it is. Some notifications about you know Google what they can do if you swipe up from the bottom.

That is your actual notifications, so I've been down from the top. Is your quick and then swiping from the right side gives you some different little widgets that they have there, the tiles the widgets whatever you want to call them, and they do have some Stunt ones right here. So you have one that tells you about your week. They have another one that tells you an overview kind of your month and if you just tap the home button on the top left, it brings you into the app drawer, and you can get lots of different apps from the Play Store, including like Spotify and Google Translate contacts you'll find my phone there's a lot of apps on here. I've talked about this in the past.

Now, of course, this also integrates with a lot of other apps like Strata and pretty much any other athletic app you're, looking for from what I've seen at least from the ones that I know, but one thing this watch does not do is actually connect to other third-party sensors or any external sensors. Now, looking at the back of the watch, you'll see that you do have right there, your heart rate sensor with two heart rate, LEDs right there, so pretty accurate from what I've seen right here in the charger. As you see it comes in the box, it just snaps on there. It covers the heart rate sensor, which is nice, it's magnetically held on, and it lines up very easily with those four nodes. The next I actually want to go into the Stunt, app I.

Think that's something that is very important with this watch, and it's a huge one. So when we open the app you'll see that it tells you the battery in the top left and if we swipe down it brings us into the map shows us where we are, and we can use the buttons here or, of course, the touch screen to zoom in and out, and it does really a good job of this. You can also download maps offline. You do also have all of your workouts below that. So, if you, if start right, there is going to start your most recent one which is running for me.

So if you tap on that and swipe it to the left, it'll start, it will show you that in a second there are tons of there's about 70, different workouts, probably more by the time you're watching this and that you can see there- definitely some pretty advanced ones. So they have the category of running, and you'll, see, there's not just regular running, but it's like treadmill there's an over interval running trail running race, running, like lots of different options, regardless, whatever you're doing you can record that in the app and on your watch here, and I'll show you the app in just one minute, but let's go up and check out just one simple workout: actually, let's go down and check out a fun one, so how about paragliding? If we go to start you can hear it beeps right there, and then it shows you what the buttons do. So top right is pause. The middle button on the right is going to switch the screen, so you have several displays. They can show you, you can show you the map, it can show you just like your elevation and stuff like that.

Then it can also show you a map of your elevation, so it does make sense for paragliding. This makes a lot of sense, so the top right is going to pause, and then we can go and stop it by hitting the bottom. So again, really nice, you can control all the workouts just with the buttons on the watch. Then, when you're done it shows you, you know quite a bit about it. Obviously we didn't change altitude or go anywhere, not paragliding.

Okay, so now I want to go into the Stunt app and show you guys what it looks like. So, as you can see here on the top. Obviously, this week, I haven't worked out, yet it's beginning of the week, but we have the sunrise and the sunset right there. So it tells you that it tells you when you worked out last week. It tells you how many minutes you worked out and as you go down just gives you some other things about some recent workouts you did, so I went for a run.

If you go down, you see a different one, and so, if you go and check out any one of these, so we can see like my workouts, we go and tap on it and I can go in and check out. This run right here, so you can see on a map exactly where you ran right outside Philly. At a park and as you go down, they give you tons of analytics. They tell you essentially what they are. It tells you how long like you can see all the analytics here as you swipe across just tons and tons of information.

You can share it with different people. So, if you're working out with like a group, or you're in a run, Club maybe be fun to share this with other people. You can see your heart rate, and you can actually go into this. It turns sideways, and you can actually go through and see your heart rate at almost every single minute, and you can see your pace. Your speed, your altitude, your cadence, your vertical speed- and this is just for a run.

It changes for every workout. You do. You can go on the map right here, and this will show you like where you are, and you can see a heat map here, and this is I, think really cool. So it shows you like in Philly, there's obviously like a lot of people running. But if you say you know what like I want to see this in a different view, I want to see this as like a satellite view with the heat map on it and I want to see maybe just regular running.

So you shows you heat maps of where people run, and I've actually already used this to make different routes, which I think is really nice, because you can see like more people, it's more likely that people run in good places to run. So you don't have to worry about like running through a bad part of a neighborhood or running through like running across up that doesn't have a sidewalk like planning it out, like this I think was really nice. So if we want to start in like Logan Square, for example, or Logan Circle, we can go and create a route, and so it'll zoom in on, like Logan Circle, we'll tap that that's point a right there, and then you can start tapping where you want to go. So if we want to go here, it'll list point B right there. Then you can just say like I: don't care how I get back just give me back to point a right there.

So we tap on point a, and it makes your route for you tells you the elevation, the distance, the like overall, how long it would if you would expect to take to run that, and then you can say done, and you can actually save that route. So in conclusion, this watch is five hundred dollars and at first I was very skeptical. I, said $500 for a where OS watch seemed pretty ridiculous, but once I started using it I realized that this watch actually does a lot more than your average, where LS watch when you're trying to do some advanced fitness tracking, so I think that it's very well-thought-out. You can tell that the people that designed it specifically the Stunt app in here really thought a lot about the user and really thought a lot about what they were doing when they were using the app and I love to see when watch brands like Stunt or fossil. Did the same thing where they kind of modify where OS and add their own touch to it? So here adding the Stunt app I think was a great touch there, where this app all the workout moans you're using, are just perfect for what you're doing, so I found that swimming was great because the screen was not really a problem.

I didn't have any accidental touches. I found that the buttons worked out perfectly. It showed me exactly what I wanted to see in every workout I did I found that it was very accurate with what he was doing, and I found that the analytics were very easy to digest and were also very in-depth when you're looking at them in the app so overall guys. Who is this watch for? That it is a very specific group of people, so this would it be for your everyday watch user. Possibly yes, if you're looking for a larger watch, that is a pretty cool looking watch, then it definitely is pretty much as good as like the fossil Gen 5 or the Ska gen foster 3, except it doesn't have battery controls.

So, if you're, okay with getting one and a half days per charge, it's a great watch for that, but I. Think more specifically. The group that this is really meant for is the people that go to work. You know have a day job in five days a week, 40 hours whatever, and then after at work, they want to go trail running with their dog, or they want to go kayaking or they a mountaineering on the weekends they go camping like people that do some very in-depth fitness stuff, just off-the-grid kind of things. This is a great watch to track your fitness really well to really make sure you're getting in the best shape possible to see where you ran what you did and just track everything and have a really smart, essentially, a computer on your wrist, so I'm very impressed with this I like doing all that stuff myself I obviously haven't gone paragliding an admittedly, but I've done like a lot of these other workouts and I, really like this watch, I think it's an excellent watch and I recommend it to that group of people I explained but whew.

This is not, for this is not for your everyday user. That's looking to get a long battery life out of this. It's not really for people that have a smaller wrist, because it is definitely a larger watch. I think it looks fine on my wrist, I've I guess a pretty average sized wrist, but guys that's what I have to say about this watch. If you enjoyed this video, please remember to like and subscribe as always thank you all for watching.

I'll see you next time.

Source : Mike O'Brien