Best Suunto GPS POD – Sale
- easy to use one button- one mode function
- Clip or strap to secure
- digital transmission
- user changeable battery
The Suunto GPS POD (peripheral observation device) is the winner of the 2006 ispo Outdoor Award. It uses a Global Positioning System to track your speed, distance and progress across a wide variety of outdoor activities. It is perfect for using during running, hiking, cycling, skiing, skating, or kayaking. The device is water resistant to 1m (3.3 feet) and takes just 2 LR03 batteries that last a minimum of 10 hours. The Suunto GPS POD clips quickly and easily to your arm or any size of belt (cli
List Price: £100.00
DO NOT BUY!!,
Consistently fails to pick up any signal, compared to a handheld Magellan it takes much longer on the few occasions when it succeeds. Also, occasionally picks up the satellite but the watch/wrist top fails to pair with the pod.
When successful, it has a 10% margin of error at best, and is hopeless for splits or laps, as it seems to stick at a distance for minutes at a time then move forward a mile or more.
Eats battery life like nothing else, with rechargables you’ll be lucky to get 2 and a half hours, even using long life batteries only stretches this to about 4.
Not much more to say – it’s inconsistent, irritating, and expensive.
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|Poor GPS reception,
Bought this product with the Suunto T6C. Whilst the watch is extremely good in terms of functions and monitoring performance, the GPS pod finds it very difficult to pick up signal. It really does require very wide open ground to pick up GPS, in which case it functions fine (i.e. only if you’re in wide open country-side). However if you’re anywhere near / amongst even small buildings or tree cover, the signal disappears.
This is made all the more frustrating when you start off a long run with GPS signal, only to find at the end that your watch has only recorded the distance of a mile or so, because signal was lost as soon as you passed between trees or buildings. Alternatively the signal may come on/off in which case your total distance and the associated performance metrics become wholly inaccurate.
Overall for the price this is a very useless piece of kit which has made my watch redundant due to a lack of distance records. I will be looking for a new device; however it must be noted that even my iPhone functioned extremely well in comparison to this pod, which says a lot!
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|Save your money,
Suunto watches are superb; I have had a first generation Suunto Vector for over a decade and a T6c for 18 months. Both are reliable, accurate, easy to use and I wouldn’t swap either of them.
Unfortunately the same cannot be said of the Suunto GPS POD. I gave it half a dozen outtings, but had to conclude that it simply cannot hold a signal once you’re on the move. In town or out on the South Downs, under tree cover or wide open horizons, it’s made no difference; can’t get the thing to work properly for more than about half a mile. That renders it worthless as a training device. It also munches batteries like nothing else. Could just be bad luck, of course, but it seems others have had similar experiences with this product.
For running, get a Suunto Foot POD instead: accurate, current speed in real-time, batteries last for dozens of training sessions. Personally, I much prefer them over GPS devices – even the ones that actually work!
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