Finnish brand Suunto released the Suunto 7, its first Wear OS-powered smartwatch, early this year with fitness-focused features and a relatively high price tag. The watch is now receiving an update with several new features, including route navigation and an always-on sport display.

The Suunto 7 is a relatively new watch. Announced in January 2020, it offers high-end specs and full-color offline outdoor maps for the fitness buffs out there. It is pretty pricey at $499, but at least we know now that price comes with good update support. Here's the changelog of Suunto's additions:

  • Route navigation: Create your own route, use tracks from other services, or select a popular trail in the Suunto app. Sync the route to your watch and start navigating.
  • Low power always-on sport display: Your display stays awake all the time while you exercise, using only a minimal amount of battery. See all your training data without having to raise your wrist to activate the display.
  • Battery-saving GPS mode: By selecting “Good” location accuracy, your Suunto 7 consumes less power by acquiring location only every 10 seconds. When running or cycling, FusedTrack™ is used to improve tracking quality. FusedTrack™ is a technology that combines movement data with GPS data to deliver more accurate tracking in lower GPS recording intervals.
  • Popular starting points: Check out popular starting points in the Suunto app to find new starting points for your exercises. When synced from Suunto app to your watch, the popular starting points are visible on the heatmap on your watch as small dots.
  • Various other bug fixes, language translation improvements, and performance optimizations

The update is rolling out now. If you haven't yet received it on your Suunto 7, it's worth checking manually. As for when the major performance-improving Wear OS update is coming, we'll be sure to keep you guys posted.

This article previously stated that the update was a more major update announced by Google last month. We now believe that this assumption was erroneous and have updated the post to reflect that.