Product Description

GPS based speed and distance sensor for all outdoor sports clips fast and easy to your Arm or any strap and belt

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #6913 in Sports & Outdoors
• Color: Black/ Silver
• Brand: Suunto
• Model: ss012702000
• Released on: 2006-09-15
• Dimensions: 2.00" h x 2.00" w x 2.00" l, 4.00 pounds

Features

• Compact wireless transmitter for calculating speed and distance while training
• Employs GPS technology to help athletes fully analyze training routines
• Compatible with Suunto's T3, T4, and T6 heart rate monitors
• Transmission range of up to 15 feet; includes armband and attachment clip
• Runs for up to 10 hours on 2 AAA batteries; weighs 0.13 pounds; 2-year warranty

Customer Reviews

Perfect
This pod plus a T6 replaced my annoyingly unreliable Garmin Edge 305, and I could not be happier. The GPS has worked flawlessly. I use it for road biking and trail running. It finds satellites fast and holds reception even under fairly heavy tree and cloud cover. I use the arm strap for running and it's very comfortable. On my bike I just throw it in a pocket in my handlebar bag and I'm good to go. The battery life is longer than advertised. I wanted to check the accuracy, so I ran several laps on a quarter mile track and it was never more than 1/100 of a mile off.

Excellent tool with a T6
Have had my T6 for nearly 3 years with bike, shoe and now GPS pods. Have had GPS pod over a year and use it across several sports-- road and MT biking, running, adventure racing, and kayaking. Perfect tool for Ironmans, ARs, ultra-distance events-- Does everything I need it to do very well and unlike the other pods requires no calibration. Exceptional overall accuracy but for slower sports the momentary speed numbers may not always stay stable due to GPS inherent positional errors- not a Suunto problem but a GPS satellite problem. If you watch for a couple seconds you'll have a solid feel for your actual speed-- this is only an issue while running; my shoe pod has been fantastic when I've used it by comparison. Both are more than adequate for distance and average pacing and speed while biking is dead on. Distance is always accurate. Antenna sensitivity has been good for me; challenge has been the link between watch and pod, they need to be within arm's length to keep a good connection. Jersey pocket or same arm as watch is fine. Battery life 18-20 hours on alkalines, 30+ hours on lithium aaa's. I wouldn't trade mine for anything but only wish it added GPS altitude and lat/long/grid readouts to my T6.

Upright
The unit worked very well as long as it was position so that it faced upright to the sky at all times. If I had chosen to mount it on my bike rack, it would have been a good tool. However, I could not get it to stay facing upright enough while walking or running to maintain contact with the satellite, and so I kept losing the signal and needed to stop and reposition the unit.