GPS Running

Suunto X10

Suunto is a top manufacturer of GPS watches, Suunto delivers critical data using twenty-seven satellites and a wide network of powerful computers. It’s easy to keep track of your location and route with a Suunto GPS watch on your wrist. The Suunto X10 allows you to plan your trek at home and upload the route to your watch. Transform your Suunto training watch into a GPS wristop computer with the Suunto GPS POD or Suunto Multisport Pack.

The running gps Watch Suunto X10 and X10 Military watch provides full GPS functionality as well as outdoor essentials like an altimeter, barometer, and compass.

Suunto commemorates 10 years with the Suunto X10. When you’re trekking through a new frontier, adventure racing, biking, fishing, or conducting field operations, the Suunto X10 provides critical decision-making data. With full GPS functionality, including route planning and uploading, as well as outdoor essentials like an altimeter, barometer, and compass, the Suunto X10 wristop computer shows nature who’s boss.

Main Features:

• Faster GPS performance than any other Suunto Watch
• Top notch GPS tracking in difficult conditions, such as when you’re in a storm or thick jungle
• Long battery life and universal USB chargeability
• Plan routes on your PC and upload them to your watch
• Calculate speed, distance, direction, and time to your next waypoint
• Find home
• Includes altimeter, barometer, and compass
• 100 m water resistant
• Complete watch functions: calendar, alarm, dual time, and stop watch

National Geographic TOPO! Maps

Running GPS Watch: Go beyond north and south with a GPS watch that knows where you are going and knows how to get you back to base camp. Plan your trek at home and upload the route to the X10. The X10 GPS watch is compatible with National Geographic TOPO! Maps, Google Earth, and Fugawi.

Also included with the X10 and free for download from Suunto.com is the Suunto Track Exporter PC software, which makes route planning and waypoint programming, fast, accurate and simple.

Going where you’ve never gone before? The X10 records your tracks, which you can save or use to find your way home. Found the perfect swimming whole? Mark the coordinates on your watch.

Altimeter Watch: Measure your altitude from the lowest points of Death Valley to the highest peak of Mount Everest. Suunto altimeters measure elevation using air-pressure. An altimeter is useful for a load of outdoor activities, including running, biking, hiking, skiing, or snowboarding.

Barometer Watch: Know when to take shelter from a storm and when to carry on. A barometer measures atmospheric pressure in order to forecast weather.

Compass Watch: Know your direction at all times. The standard version of the X10 uses degrees while the military version uses Mils. Mils spaces the compass to 6400 units, with the value being that one mil delimits one meter at the distance of one kilometer.

What I Say:

Anyone with an adventurous spirit will love the Running GPS Suunto X10. Professionals such as mountain guides, explorers, outdoor professionals, members of the military, and law enforcement officers make critical decisions based on the X10′s information. Avid trekkers, adventure racers, bikers, hunters, and fishermen will find a lot to love in the X10′s GPS, altimeter, barometer, and compass capabilities.

The Suunto X10 Military Watch adds to the already full-featured X10 a red back light and a compass that measures in mils or degrees.

Personal Review:

1. GPS – after setting it up correctly, it only took about 3 minutes to lock in. (I was also riding in a car)
2. Barometer/Altimeter – tested against what the weather.com had for my location and the X10 was spot on. (haven’t tried the weather alarm yet)
3. Compass – works great. Even has degrees in order to be more precise.
4. Navigation – haven’t used it much, but worked like a charm getting me back to my car.
5. Activity – This gives you a review of how far you have gone, how fast, how long it has been, etc. I mostly use the distance traveled.
6. Thermometer – Hmmm… well this thing works great, BUT only if it is off your wrist. It seems your body temperature affects it. I just take it off for a few minutes then it works fine.
7. This thing has some great little features that I didn’t even think about when I bought it. It has sunrise and sunset time for your last known GPS coordinates. It allows you to track back to the start or end of a route. It records your max altitude. It records your average speed. It has many more features that I haven’t used yet. I am going to buy a solio solar charger to take with me on long trips.
8. The one thing that I have a problem with is that the map software that comes with the watch is not compatible with a Mac.

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