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The Suunto Spartan Ultra Multisports Watch Will Track Everything You Do

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Among the watches I’ve seen on airsoft players, Suunto is one with more wearers on the field and is sought after by those who can afford a feature-packed watch if they find their Casio G-Shocks as meh or their Luminox watches as too basic. Suunto has many users in both the sports, outdoors, and tactical communities for the features of its watches that they find indispensable.

With the Suunto Spartan Ultra, the Finnish company wants to introduce a watch that will track much everything with its GPS, barometric altitude readings and digital compass FusedAlti, FusedSpeed, and accelerometer. And as option, you can have a heart monitor with it if you’re used to having the HR monitors seen in activity trackers such as the FitBit or smartwatches such as the Moto 360, but it will cost you extra.

The watch is tough with its glass fibre reinforced polymide casing, and a sapphire glass colour display seen in tough watches, and grade 5 titanium or stainless steel bezel options. The Suunta Spartan Ultra does mean business and it can go down with you underwater up to 100 metres.

With all these features the watch can track any activity that you do whether you are doing trail running, cycling, swimming, racing, or even be on a tactical mission. The sensors will record the activity giving feedback to the user like training load, recovery status and even daily step and calorie counting. Apart from the wearer, records can be studied by medical professionals or fitness trainers to determine progress and tailor fit training and diet plans. All these data is recorded on the MovesCount app that is available for iOS and Android devices.

The company also says they are updating their Movescount website adding sports-specific heatmaps which is accessible to Suunto users.

Suffice to say, it’s the watch that is meant to be with you 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Too bad it can’t be that way since you will need to recharge the batteries which the company says has a “competitive battery life.”

The Suunto Spartan Ultra are to be released in August 2016 and will be have three styles available: Suunto Spartan Ultra All Black Titanium, Suunto Spartan Ultra Stealth Titanium, Suunto Spartan Ultra White and Suunto Spartan Ultra Black.

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