On Thu, Oct 2, 2014 at 5:10 AM, Davide DB <[email protected]> wrote: > > In the end "The Brick" is out:
So I checked with my suunto connection, and I can apparently now talk about it. I actually have an Eon Steel on my desk right now, although with preproduction firmware. I've had it for a week, but no dives yet - next week. It's pretty big, but I've seen bigger. It's *heavy* though. You could club a seal with it. It is really really solid. Suunto has their manual up now: http://ns.suunto.com/Manuals/EONSteel/Userguides/Suunto_EONSteel_UserGuide_EN.pdf for people who want to take a look. Quite frankly, from what I can tell without having it on a dive, it's a really nice dive computer. The customization is good, the USB connector is the best I've seen (not like the old Suunto one at all - it's sturdy and clicks into place with no confusion what-so-ever about placement etc, and once connected it's solid). The screen looks good, although I'll have to see how good the contrast is in bright light on a dive. It fixes my complaints with Suunto dive computers, having "negative safety levels" for more aggressive diving, and the wireless air integration is new (which means you also need a new sensor, the old ones won't work with the Eon Steel). The deco and safety stop timers call count down with seconds, the menu system is pretty self-explanatory, and the whole thing just feels very quality. The dive mode setting is *much* harder to put into gauge mode by mistake (yes, you have to go into *settings* now, yay!). It does leave the old bad temperature reading (slow and low resolution), but that's not a huge issue. The main worry I have is the heft of the thing. It's a complete non-issue if you dive in a drysuit, but judging from how it feels on my bare wrist, I think you need to have it really tight if you're diving in warm water without any wetsuit at all. So it's not the *size* per se, it's really the fact that it's so solid and heavy: you can't have it sliding back and forth on your wrist. The other downside is that it's a completely new download protocol, and it looks complicated. We'll see. I only have one fake dive on it (dropping it in a pool with a string), so not enough real data to make any educated guesses about it, but hopefully more after next week. Linus _______________________________________________ subsurface mailing list [email protected] http://lists.subsurface-divelog.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/subsurface
