Suunto X3-HR

[Macson]

Suunto x3-hr. The good, the bad….the critique. I just bought one of these last night.

 

First the good. It’s cheap. The price just went down to $149 at REI, so you can get a Suunto for less than a Highgear. It has the things I want and skips the things I don’t. Like a battery hogging crappy compass. Can those wrist compasses really be used for anything? Anything? It also doesn’t have the computer download and analyze stuff. God help me if I ever go that far down the path to geekdom. I’m bad enough as it is. Anyway, it has the altimeter, the heart rate monitor and a relatively small profile all of which I like.

 

Now the bad. It has 3 modes; time, memory and training. The two real time modes are time and training. In the time mode there’s no way to see the time and altitude at the same time, as far as I can see. In the training mode you can see the altitude but that’s pretty much it unless you’re using the heart rate monitor. I’m still learning to use it so I’ve left a lot of what it does out, but seeing the time and altitude at the same time seemed like such a basic feature I never bothered to look for it before I bought it. Still a good deal at $149 though and you only have to press one button to switch modes. I wonder how hard that will be with a gloved hand that’s holding back a storm shell at the same time.

[Jedi]

I agree. I wish you could see the time and altitide at the same time. wtf were they thinking?

Yeah, I looked on ebay for a while before getting mine a backcountry.com for the $150.

I still think it is a large profile watch. But I have wrists like a 12 year old girl.

Already scuffed the face on a couple endo's on downhills. Need to get the bar mount.