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- Compatible with digital maps, it is the perfect tool for planning routes in advance and storing the best ones for re-use
- Navigational functions calculate your present heading, remaining distance and time to finish, distance to the next waypoint and your drift from the planned route
- Mark home/find home function allows you to mark your home position easily and click "find home" when you decide to head back
- Compatible with National Geographic's TOPO! State Series digital maps for route planning before the activity
- PC software gives you a graphical representation of your performance
- Altimeter/barometer functions include current altitude, vertical speed, weather alarm, 6-hour barometric trend graph, and 7-day weather memory so you stay in tune to incoming weather
- Time features include 12/24 clock, dual time display, calendar, 3 daily alarms, GPS time synchronization and a stopwatch with 29 split times
- USB recharger and PC connector included
- Weight: 2.7 ounces
- Increments: +/- 2-3 degrees
- Declination adjustment / Clinometer / Altimeter: Yes / Yes / Yes
- Battery type: Rechargeable Li-ion battery
- Battery life: 4.5 hr (1 sec. GPS fixrate) / 12 hr (1 min. GPS fix rate) / 2 weeks (manual GPS fix, >500 locations) / 2 months (in time and alti/baro modes)
- Channels / Waypoints / Routes: 12 / 500 / 50
from Redding, CA on 10/2/2008
I have had and used the X9I over the last 2 years.
If used inside the context of some limitations it can be an excellent tool.
A full blown GPS it is not.
It is great for storing way points to be accessed when needed as in navigating in storms where compass navigation is diffcult.
I store trailhead points and other points for recall in case of white outs etc. and to navigate to a new point if needed.
I have downloaded routes to it and followed those routes. Satelite fix is slow, but for a tool that I can be conveniently accessed without adding the weight and bulk of a full Gps,and,I am willing to carry on every trip, it provides the info I need in pinch without adding any real weight and bulk over a regular ABC watch.
I look forward to newer models that are quicker and have a better battery life, but this one has proven to be very useful tool in the context I use it.
from CO on 7/13/2008
gps lock can only be achieved with perfect view of the sky and then takes 15-20 minutes. Go near a tree and reception is gone. Suunto contacted to no avail.
[1 of 1 customers found this review helpful]
i was mountain biking downhill, and the constant shaking broke the cover i sent it to the manufacturer, and they sent it back put the cover back and one outing broke it again. I wasted my money on this, they should take it out of the market, it gadgetry is fine but the material is poor, the plastic cover will surely break, and for the price o [$] its not worth buying.
[4 of 4 customers found this review helpful]
from Tikrit, Iraq on 5/5/2006
This is a very poor piece of equipment, and if you rely upon it without a backup, it may get you into trouble. There are really only two deficiencies, but they are both big ones. The battery life is extremely short. I found that even when sampling every sixty seconds, the batteries did not last a full day. The only thing that I would recommend this product for is very short day trips. If you are conservative, plan on using it for four hours, with some minimal margin of safety, and that is assuming that you take it off the charger and immediately put it into use.
Also, the X9i charged up from my computer extremely slowly (i.e. several days). Wall-charging was much faster. The reception was very poor inside of a vehicle, and though I never tried it, probably marginal under trees and clouds. Outside, under clear skies, reception was very good.
Until Suunto comes up with a solution for the battery life, and a better antenna, both of which may be impossible in such a compact unit, this product is enthusiastically not recommended.