Suunto Gps Pod: Hi, I am Bill from Suunto. One of the peripheral observation devices you can use with your Suunto T3, T4, and T6C is the GPS pod. This GPS pod is mainly for speed and difference and it allows you, inparticularly for sports like paddling, sailing, rowing, to get your satellite aquisition to get your speed and distance for those activities. It is also a universal pod where if you do a lot of everything and you only want one pod, this is the one to go with.
Suunto Training Pods
Suunto Training Pods: Hi, I’m Bill. I’m the sales manager with Suunto. One of the great advantages of our TC series, particularly the 3, 4, and 6, is the advantage to add PODs, or Peripheral Observation Devices. These devices allow you to not only see your heart rate, but to get things like speed and distance, download wirelessly, the cadence that you’re pedaling at. One of the key products for us is the bike skewer. This is made by a sister company of ours, Mavi, which is well-known for its bicycle racing components. If you take most road bike, you just take this out, clip it in, pair it with your T3, 4 and 6, and you have your speed and distance as you pedal along. For those of you who may have a street bike that doesn’t have a skewer, you’re able to add the Universal Bike POD which will give you the same measurement ability. For runners we offer our foot pod. Suunto has very strong feelings that the foot pod is the best way for runners to get their speed and distance. A lot of people use GPS, which is a great technology to use, but we think we have over come a lot of the limitations. You have over 99 hours of battery life in here, water resistance to 10 feet; if it’s bad weather and you want to run in the gym you want to run in the city and you’re not going to have satellite acquisitions when you do it. One of my favorites is I just push a button and go when I start my workout. I don’t have to wait for satellite acquisition. I don’t have to worry about anything obstructing my view of the sky. And finally, it clips on real easy. You just slide it onto your shoe, clip it on, clip it go. It’s motion activated so as soon as you start your heart rate session it starts to run.
