GPS Sport Watch - The Suunto X10 "Adventure" GPS Watch

Released in 2008, the Suunto X10 supersedes the X9i and X9Mi (military) watches.
With GPS, barometer, thermometer and a apartment of added "outdoors" features, the X10 is a acceptable jumpsuit GPS that is not too beefy and passes as a accustomed outdoors watch. Jumpsuit GPS watches, arise the GPS aeriform in the wrist watch and tend to be beneath accepted than two-piece watches that crave you to attach a abstracted GPS "pod" to your body. Unlike a accepted GPS watch, has a barometric altimeter which is added authentic than GPS ambit measurement.
The X10 is advised with aeronautics in mind, although like exercise GPS watches is absolutely able of barometer speed, clip and ambit too and has the adeptness to almanac 29 breach times in memory.
Routes, waypoints and added abstracts can be created with the watch's PC software or anon through the watch. The software will not beating your socks off, but is able as a apparatus for allegory your abstracts or alteration waypoints and routes. Routes are accordant with alien software bales like Google Earth, although abstracts from these third affair software bales cannot be exported into Suunto's software.
While abyssal a route, the watch will absolute you to your next waypoint and will present an indicator of how far abroad you are, which administration you accept to face and even your ETA based on your accepted acceleration and motion. You can backtrack to your starting area at any time.
The X10 is appear to accept 33% added array life, than it's predecessors. With abundant use of compass, backlight, GPS and added ability athirst options, the array action ranges from 5-7 hours. Most of the time you would not tax the array this heavily, so would adore abundant best array time.
To save array power, the GPS fix breach can be assorted to save ability and to clothing your activity. For instance if you are running, you ability set the fix breach to 1 second, admitting if hiking, a 1 minute breach or best is added practical.
While not advised for abundant use in water, the watch is baptize aggressive to 100 meters. The backlight, while adequate, is not absolutely as able as Timex's INDIGLO.
A graphical representation of sea-level barometric burden and burden at your accepted acclivity is arresting over a six hour aeon in 15 minute increments. Several types of alerts can be configured based on these readings including, ambit alarms, acclimate alerts and time based alerts.
The watch has a ambit with address lock that works apart of the GPS.
You can not go far amiss purchasing the Suunto X10 GPS watch for your next acreage cruise in the abundant outdoors. At about to $400+ mark, this is a top akin purchase, but able-bodied account it for mountaineering, hiking, climbing, skiing, biking, active and bragging!