Sunday, July 25, 2010
Sjoo Sandstrom Swedish Night World Timer
At 52mm by 16mm, all this is packed into a watch only slightly larger than the average Suunto. With integrated band and plastic case, the watch is lightweight and comfortable to wear. It's noticeably smaller than some of its competition, and the addition of GPS has been done tactfully -- if you didn't recognize the watch, you wouldn't know it was a GPS.Suunto describes the X9i as a "wrist top computer", and they're not kidding. Plan on spending some quality time with the manual before hitting the trails.The GPS portion of the X9i is definitely the marquee feature, so let's dive into that first. Modes and features include:Find Home. Mark a position as "home", and this features easily gives you a vector back to it. Useful in a wide variety of settings, from hiking to flying and exploring.Track back. Similar to find home, but in this case, you're trying to follow your same route back.Activity mode. Tracks speed and distance.Time calibration. You can also use the GPS to set the watches' time for super-accurate timekeeping. Atomic watches, take notice!Navigation mode. Use waypoints and routes as downloaded from the computer to follow a route.Each time you use the GPS, you can have it log data into internal memory for later downloading. This is then displayed in either the Suunto Trek Manager software, or on Google Earth.The GPS, interestingly, cannot display raw latitude and longitude. For all its other features and capabilities, for some reason, no raw coordinates. Strange. Update (9/28/07): We've just been informed by Suunto that the X9i can display raw latitude and longitude information. If you go to the Function menu (long press on the middle right-hand enter button), you can select "Position" which enables viewing coordinates.
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