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this is the Suunto spartan and to be more exact it's the pseudo spartan ultra stealth titanium HR yeah that naming is quite a mess so let me break it down for you Suunto is the brand name they are a company based in finland and are very well known for making premium sports watches and diving equipment barton is the washes name and ultra means that it's the highest end model in the line there's also the sport model which has a smaller battery and a mineral glass display instead of a sapphire one which you can find on the ultra model stealth is the color of the watch it's also available in white black copper and all black and titanium means that the watch sports a few small pieces of titanium around the watch it's the bezel buttons and strap clasp and lastly HR means that you get a chest bass heart rate strap in the box so with the obscure naming out of the way let's take a look at the watch itself the build quality is pretty good as expected for the price but not top-notch it's made out of a plastic like material which saves on weight but it doesn't feel as premium on the wrist as the garmin phoenix lead us wearing the watch everyday is a charm even with its big and chunky size you forget that you are wearing it after a while this silicon watch band feels fantastic on the wrist and it's of high quality if you do break it however you cannot just replace it with any band on the market you will have to purchase one of Suunto which cost fifty US dollars the wash is using a trans reflective screen technology which is fantastic and i think that every sports watch just has to have this it saves a lot on battery consumption and makes the watch easily readable even in direct sunlight so how does it do this well it's quite complicated but I'll try to explain it on a basic level so that everyone gets it traditional screens have their own backlight which is turned on at all times this screen technology absorbs the light around it and uses that as a backlight the downside to this is that if you happen to be in a dark room or place the watch still has to use its own backlight to light up the pixels so if you haven't noticed it's actually a touchscreen to which I find completely useless on these types of watches this is a watch that will get very sweaty and be used under water so a touch screen is not a good idea in my opinion there are buttons on the watch that can be used for navigating the software though so you should be fine either way the display itself has a pretty crisp resolution of 320 by 300 it's not a huawei watch like quality display but for a sports watch it does the job very well and in terms of battery life you can expect around 4 to 5 days which is definitely fantastic now this software is a mixed bag it looks good and it's very easy to use but it's locking some features and it's just overall laggy and glitchy for example if I want to go here and then go back quickly I cannot do that it stutters and makes me wait until it renders the picture and as for features missing take a look at daily activity tracking it literally just gives you your daily steps and that's that I mean I'm expecting distance sleep steps calories and all that kind of stuff out of a $700 watch it's not like the watch is missing the necessary hardware to do this except maybe a risk based heart rate monitor soon so just haven't implemented it into their software yes the absence of the risk based heart rate monitor means that if you happen to forget your chest strap you have no idea whatsoever of how many calories you have burned throughout your workout and day this software it just feels like it's on a pre-release stage and I gotta say so far this has been the overall experience of the Suunto Spartan it feels through the least now this feeling spaced over to the mobile application as well it is very simple in a way that it doesn't show you much detail for example you cannot see your history of daily activity which is weird it also does not give UN information on things like sleep calories and all that kind of stuff the only thing this app shows you is your previous activities and on that aspect it's actually pretty good it gives you all the information you would ever want off your previous activity so the conclusion for the app is much alike the one for the watch the experience is incomplete and one thing I like however is that when you are connected to your phone it will send you all your notifications over to your watch as well which gives you a decent SmartWatch feel alright so that is the app now there's only one thing left to take a look at and that is of course fitness tracking this is where the studio Spartan shines it can track every single activity that we can think of and that is everything from running to freaking cross-country skiing its accuracy is fantastic and the information you get is also unlike everything else in very high detail and logging on to GPS and pairing the watch with a chest based heart rate strap is extremely quick so fitness tracking on a watch 10 out of frickin 10 but there is one major flaw in my opinion and that is that the moves count platform is not that fun to use and there's not many people using it so you will probably have to export your workouts and upload them to something like Strava you now of course if you're not that much into this social aspect of Strava the moves count platform will work perfectly fine as a place to take a look at your previous workout so as a conclusion overall the Sutro Spartan feels to me as a beta product it has all the hardware it needs to be almost these perfect sports watch the only thing it needs is better software across the board including the phone application also its pricing is a little bit on the high side for me so there you have it that has been my review of the studio sport and ultra stealth titanium HR I hope you enjoyed this video please do consider leaving a like as that asked me out there Lots also if you're interested in more content 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