Features:

• Equipped with GPS capabilities, a compass, chronograph, altimeter, and barometer
• "Track back" and "find home" functions help you find your way back home
• Windows-based software helps you analyze your performance
• Features advanced timing functions that record lap and split times of your runs and other activities
• Water resistant to 10 bars, and designed with a user-friendly menu-based user interface

Editor Reviews:

Product Description:
Suunto X9i - One of the World's Smallest Outdoor Wristop Computers with GPS Navigation. Suunto X9i is the ultimate tool for any cross sports enthusiast who wants to plan their journey carefully, wish to know exactly where they are at all times and have a high regard for safety. Suunto X9i gives you all the information on your performance you need to improve your training. It also records and stores data for later analysis. You can view, compare, and analyze your performance with specially designed PC software. The sophisticated features of the wristop computer, combined with the PC software developed to give more graphical representation of your performance, and our Internet community, where you can share information with other like-minded people from around the world, make Suunto X9i the device of choice for every serious adventurer and athlete. Suunto X9i is not only an essential tool for sports that may require venturing into unknown areas, such as mountaineering or hiking, but it also helps you monitor and analyze your progress. When traveling in the wilderness, safety comes first. Suunto X9i comes packed with solutions enabling safe and responsible hiking. You can use the alarm functions to alert you at certain altitudes, or warn you about upcoming storms. You will be much better off using the compass and altimeter if caught in bad weather. When hiking in an unknown forests or just strolling around a foreign city, the route functions ensure that you know where you are at all times and the Find Home and Track Back functions guide you back. For those who take their training seriously, Suunto X9i gives direct feedback that can be analyzed to further improve the training program. The route functions of Suunto X9i together with the advanced GPS system allow you to create accurate routes, and ensure that you always know where you are and how to continue from there. Accurate altimeter enables you to measure your vertical performance when jogging, hiking, cycling or c

Amazon.com Product Description:
Equipped with GPS capabilities, a compass, chronograph, altimeter, and barometer, the Suunto X9i Wrist-top GPS has everything you need for a successful journey and serious work-out. Regardless of whether you're hiking, climbing, skiing or heading off for a fishing trip, the Suunto X9i will not only take you through even the toughest situations, but it will also help to analyze your performance along the way. The route functions of Suunto X9i, together with its advanced GPS system, allow you to create accurate routes, and they ensure that you always know where you are and how to continue from there.

When you travel in unknown terrain, it is extremely important to be able to return home safely. The compass, "track back" and "find home" functions help you find your way back home after an exciting but tiresome adventure. And while you're in the back country, you'll find the safety features of the Suunto X9i invaluable. You can use the alarm functions to alert you at certain altitudes, or warn you about upcoming storms. And if you find yourself suddenly stuck in bad weather, you can turn to the 3D compass and altimeter to help steer your way clear.

If you're in training, the Suunto X9i will give you the vital information you need to improve your training. Not only can it record and store the data of your performance, it can also analyze that data with the help of specially designed Windows-based software. An accurate altimeter enables you to measure your vertical performance when jogging, hiking, cycling or climbing. Ideally suited for fast sports, the Suunto X9i also features advanced timing functions that enable you to record lap and split times of your runs and other similar activities.

Water resistant to 10 bars, the Suunto X9i features a menu-based user interface that is familiar to most mobile phone users. For those who take their back-country activity and training seriously, the Suunto X9i will prove to be an indispensable companion to any journey.

Rating : - Poor GPS reception hampers functionality
Received this watch last week. Thought it would be nice to have all this functionality in a watch.

I have over 14 years experience with GPS systems. This one is perhaps the least stable I have ever used including the older sequencing receivers. Since it will not hold lock even in an open flat area unless held level and away from your body, you can't very well move about with it strapped to your wrist and get any usable data. In a car - forget it. I let it acquire and load the satellite emepheris data for 15 minutes, after which it still could not hold position fixes with any normal movement, even it open terrain with good satellite geometry.

The other functions work well enough, stopwatch, dual time, compass, barometer, etc. The temp function is worthless, however this cannot be accomplished with any watch since your wrist warms it.

In conclusion it is not as good as the Casio triple sensor pathfinder you can get for about 160 dollars, which has a compass, baro temp function and a battery that lasts years rather than days like this one does (between recharges).