Before stepping into the world of Suunto, I checkt lots of reviews. I knew about the reviews that the display would be hard to read. Still aften comparing with others I bougth the Suunto 5. And it is just a great watch. GPS signal is found in just les then 2 seconds before starting an activity. The navigation is spot on and helps just not getting lost anymore. And I was afraid about the display.... but it's really not that hard to read. It's really the perfect watch for me. Hiking and trailrunning...it's just all ok for me. So I trust this Suunto 5 to help me trailrunning through the mountains during summers and winters.

Having used the Suunto 9 for a number of months to race and train long distance, I find the Suunto 5 a great watch for everyday training and wear. It's great that it is waterproof and fairly sturdy, so I can take it ocean swimming and trail running without any worry. I also love the sleep monitor feature to help me achieve my target of 7-9 hours each night. I like the new improved strap from the Spartan Trainer, it fits around smaller wrists better. Only thing would be that it doesn't maintain lap splits for easy viewing on the watch if doing track reps or intervals. Other than that, a great all round watch!

This watch isn’t as what I’ve expected; i thought I can buy it to track my sleep but unfortunately it is very very very behind it’s development; I would say it’s a regret buying it. The watch doesn’t have a good sense of logic doing sleep tracking; How can you start tracking a sleep when there isn’t any heart rate? When you woke up during midnight for a toilet break or take a sip of water, the watch detected much of your movement and will stop tracking your sleep and some how declared that you are awake and you get a bad sleep recorded for that night. It’s purely an expensive inaccurate watch.

I like the new build quality, its subtly different and the watch face is like no other when looking at other similar competitive sports watches. I am enjoying the new functionality available. like being able to modify ea sports modes according to your personal requirements, on the fly on your watch, The autopause is a much needed function from previous models where you stop your activity in the middle and then forget to restart it. The video series which comes with the watch via the support page is a huge help for those who are visual and cannot be bothered going through the complete user guide. If you are considering buying the watch, dont think too much about it, just go ahead and buy it!

I bought this product before a month..very beatiful, very simple at training mode and accurate in HR and GPS measurements. The only problem for me is the life of battery at days without training programs. The company says that battery life without sports activities lasts 14 days. How its possible when without training, battery goes down 12% - 14% per day? Now is the end of the second day and the battery is 62% with 1 hour and 40 minutes of exercise. I propose suunto company to be more accurate with some details of their products. Yours sincerely

The watch is small and slim compared to most of the sport watches, allowing it to be worn either casually or with a suit (the copper color is really giving a luxury touch). My few complaints are on the non intuitive way to start intervals, not being able to go back to the normal running dial after them, the need to have the strap very tight to have the pulse, the accuracy of the pulse rate that is erratic. Last thing that would be a killer feature, I would enjoy a vibrating alarm to be able to wake up for an early run without waking up everyone around.

The screen is simply terrible the backlight is weak and you cant adjust it and its very difficult to read the display. Suunto would have made things a little better if they introduced a white theme not just for activities but also on the clock face but since software development in suunto is famous for how slow they introduce new ideas and fixes i wouldn’t count on seeing it happen in the near future. I would recommend avoiding this model also the marketing images are misleading.