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Forget Shokz: I tried the Suunto Spark earbuds for a month, and they’ve sold me on air conduction

Forget Shokz: I tried the Suunto Spark earbuds for a month, and they’ve sold me on air conduction

pros and cons Pros Outstanding audio quality. Reliable touch buttons and head movement control. The headset offers seven-hour battery life. IP55 dust and water resistance. Open-ear design. Cons Full support requires a Suunto watch. No wireless support for the charging case. Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. If you have read my headset reviews over the past couple of years, you’ve seen me move to using bone conduction headsets for safety reasons, and many of those headsets have been from Suunto. For the past month, I have been running with another option from Suunto that uses air conduction technology, and that is the Suunto Spark headset, available now for $179. Also: I found a smartwatch that’s just as reliable as my Garmin (but much cheaper) I continue to prefer bone conduction headsets that wrap around my head, but the Suunto Spark is a great option for those who want a higher-quality audio experience than what can be provided with bone conduction technology, while still providing a mostly open-ear experience for safety …

Suunto Vertical 2 Review: Catching Up to the Pack

Suunto Vertical 2 Review: Catching Up to the Pack

It’s always pleasing to see an array of physical buttons, and you get sizable ones too. You’re not going to miss these wide flat ones even when picking the pace up. The silicone strap has a nice stretch to it and while the button clasp is a bit awkward to get into place, this watch does not budge. Suunto has jumped on the flashlight trend, with an LED light strip sat on the front of the case. You can adjust brightness levels and there’s SOS and alert modes to emit a very noticeable pulsating light pattern. This is a light I found useful rooting around indoors as well as on nighttime outings. The biggest change is the introduction of a 1.5-inch, 466 x 466 AMOLED display. This replaces the dull, albeit very visible, memory-in-pixel (MIP) display. Suunto also ditched the solar charging that did require spending a significant amount of time outside to reap its battery benefits. Adding AMOLED screens to outdoor watches has been contentious. The older MIP displays are just more power-efficient. The …

Best Bone Conduction Headphones (2026): Shokz, Suunto, Mojawa

Best Bone Conduction Headphones (2026): Shokz, Suunto, Mojawa

Suunto recently made the surprise move into launching headphones and decided that bone conduction would help it stick to its more outdoor-centric roots. While the Sonic wasn’t its first pair or its most feature-rich model, it hit the sweet spot for price, performance, and providing another option outside of the more established names. The Sonic’s design is an unoriginal neckband one, which at just over 1 ounce is nice and light. They’re ideal for running for a few hours without suffering from wear fatigue. The built-in physical controls make it a breeze to adjust volume or intercept a call from your phone. Speaking of calls, Suunto includes two microphones, accompanied by an algorithm designed to cancel wind up to 15 kilometers per hour. It’s surprisingly effective how well this feature works to make handling calls in more challenging environments worthwhile. The bone conduction sound can be tweaked by using one of the two available sound modes in the Suunto app. The normal mode provides a pleasant, balanced profile, with just enough in the bass department …