Suunto X10 Wrist-Top GPS Computer Watch with Altimeter, Barometer, Compass, and GPS Review
Suunto X10 Wrist-Top GPS Computer Watch with Altimeter, Barometer, Compass, and GPS Feature
- Wrist-top computer watch with altimeter, barometer, compass, and GPS navigator
- Offer improved, faster GPS fixes for navigating to a spot or hiking a specific path
- Altimeter displays current elevation and vertical ascent and descent rate
- Barometer helps you predict changing conditions; built-in digital compass
- Water-resistant to 330 feet; 3 daily alarms; 2-year warranty
The Suunto X10 also includes a built-in altimeter, which displays your current altitude and your vertical ascent and descent rate. Accurate to within 30,000 feet, the altimeter is an extremely valuable tool for mountaineering, backcountry skiing, and wilderness travel. The altimeter contributes to your excursion in several ways. If you're standing on or near an obvious geographic feature, such as a ridge, trail, or creek, the altimeter can alert you to your current elevation and help you find your position on a topographic map. Similarly, if you plan on climbing a slope to a certain elevation and then traversing, the X10 can help you stay on course. And, of course, the X10 captures all your altitude information in its integrated logbook, making it easy to analyze your performance when creating a training routine.
 The Suunto X10 watch includes an altimeter, barometer, compass, and GPS navigator. |
And no outdoor watch is worth its salt without a digital compass, a great tool for keeping track of your direction while skiing, hiking, or exploring a new city. Simply point the top of the watch toward your intended destination and lock it in. Other features include an Activity Mode that records your speed, distance, and altitude information, along with any memory points you define along the way; a Track Back mode that guides you back the same way you came; a long-lasting battery; up to 50 routes, 25 tracks, and 500 waypoints; water-resistance up to 330 feet; and all the standard watch functions, including a 12/24-hour display, a stopwatch, a calendar clock, and three daily alarms. As with all Suunto wrist-top computers, the X10 carries a two-year warranty.
Specifications:
- Altitude alarm: Yes
- Vertical speed: Yes
- Temperature compensation: Yes
- User-removable logbook files: Yes
- Resolution: 1 meter
- Altitude range: 1,600 to 29,500 feet
- Logbook function: Yes
- Stopwatch: Yes
- Max number of split times in memory: 29
- Automatic magnetic declination adjustment: Yes
- Guided calibration: Yes
- Heading in degrees: Yes
- Declination setting: Yes
- Cardinal directions: Yes
- Bearing tracking: Yes
- North-South indicator: North indicator
- Distance measurement: Yes, via GPS
- GPS resolution: 3 feet
- Routes: 50
- Speed: Yes
- Tracks: 25
- Waypoints: 500
- Water resistance: 330 feet
- Menu-based user interface: Yes
- Display: Dot matrix
- Backlight type: LED
- Software: Suunto Trek Manager
- Time: 12/24 hours
- GPS time synchronization: Yes
- Calendar clock: Yes
- Dual time: Yes
- Daily alarms: 3
- Absolute barometric pressure: Yes
- Weather memory: 7 days
- Weather alarm: Yes
- Trend graph: Yes
- Temperature range: -5 to 140 degrees F
- Sea level pressure: Yes
- Battery power indicator: Yes
- Rechargeable battery: Yes
- Warranty: 2 years
About Suunto
Suunto was founded in 1936 by outdoors man and a keen orienteering enthusiast, Tuomas Vohlonen, who had long been bothered by a problem: the inaccuracy of traditional dry compasses and their lack of steady needle operation. Being an engineer with an inventive turn of mind, he discovered and patented the production method for a much steadier needle, better readings, and a new level of accuracy.
By 1950 the company was exporting compasses to over 50 countries around the world, including Canada and the United States. In 1952, Helsinki was hosting the Olympic Games, and the torches carried to light the Olympic flame were Suunto products. The next step was improving the stability and accuracy of marine compasses. The first marine compass, the Suunto K-12, was launched onto the market in 1953. In 1957, Suunto started manufacturing hypsometers, which measure the height of trees.
In the 1960s, the compass range grew further and Suunto introduced its first diving compass--initiated by the divers themselves. A British sports diver attached a Suunto compass to his wrist and found that the device also worked underwater. Thanks to his feedback and initiatives, the new business category was found. Suunto's exports and business grew steadily and Suunto then focused on combining its strength in precision mechanics with new skills in electronics. Accuracy, reliability, and ruggedness have been Suunto's key values from the very beginning of the company history.
Today, Suunto is a leading designer and manufacturer of sports instruments for training, diving, mountaineering, hiking, skiing, sailing, and golf. True to its roots, Suunto is today the world's biggest compass manufacturer. Prized for their design, accuracy and dependability, Suunto sports instruments combine the aesthetics and functionality of watches with sport-specific computers that help athletes at all levels analyze and improve performance. Headquartered in Vantaa, Finland, Suunto employs more than 500 people worldwide and distributes its products to nearly 60 countries. The company is a subsidiary of Helsinki-based Amer Sports Corporation with the sister brands Wilson, Salomon, Atomic, Precor, and Mavic.
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 : Includes altimeter, barometer, and compass : Up to100 m water resistant : Complete watch functions - calendar, alarm, dual time, and stopwatch : Compatible - PC only
