AMBIT Release notes
Stand 2013-06-27
Suunto Ambit 2.5.6 27 Juni 2013
Ambit 2.5.6 SW-version is today made available in Movescount.com, bringing the following most frequently asked for new features to the original Ambit:
- Further enriched Suunto Apps (with rich math functions, new variables, sound and backlight.
Note: only one App can be used in each sport mode)
- Storm Alarm App
- Sunrise/Sunset App
- Countdown timer
- Autopause
- Maximum speed of an exercise on watch
- Battery charge level (%)
- Improved connection stability to pods and belts
- Faster move sync to Movescount
- Improved scaling of barometer graph
- Backlight is turned on for autolap only in night mode
Suunto Ambit 2.0 29 November 2012
Ambit 2.0 related features and improvements:
- ANT+ support
- Foot POD support
- Interval timer
- Suunto Apps support
- Tighter speed fusion filter giving more stable running pace
- Exercise summary to show the number of manual laps (in previous version the number of laps included manual, auto and pause laps combined)
- Pausing no longer interferes with lap count in the Ambit
- Improvement of log memory capacity when using GPS
Ambit 2.0 related Movescount improvements & bug fixes:
- Faster updating of satellite orbit data during Moveslink synchronization
- Individual selection of all PODs in custom exercise modes in Movescount
- Fixed minimum/maximum value bug in Movescount
- Lap notes to differentiate autolaps and pause laps in Movescount
- Ambit release notes available from GEAR page in Movescount
- Sorting option added for POIs & routes in Movescount
- Fixed a bug of Movescount not using avg cadence calculated by the Ambit
Suunto Ambit 1.8 September 2012
Additions and new features:
- Route navigation visualisation on screen: Full view of the whole route and zoom view for closer details
- Support for 5 new languages: Finnish, Swedish, Italian, Dutch and Portuguese
- Chrono, that can be used without accessing exercise modes, has been added
- New backlight mode in which backlight goes on/off by press of the backligh button has been added
- New GPS coordinate systems added as follows:
* British (BNG)
* Finnish (ETRS-TM35FIN)
* Finnish (KKJ)
* Irish (IG)
* Swedish (RT90)
* Swiss (CH1903)
* UTM NAD27 Alaska
* UTM NAD27 Conus
* UTM NAD83
- GPS time keeping feature added: This feature keeps the minutes of the Ambit in correct time
Improvements:
- Changing the backlight mode in the settings window doesn’t change the setting anymore before that setting window is exited
- When searching for the POD(s) and/or HR belt there’s now a “later” option available: You can start the exercise without waiting for the POD(s) and/or the belt to be found first.
- Improvements in how GPS fix readiness percentages are shown
- Distance calculation improvements
Suunto Ambit 1.5 21 Juli 2012
Suunto Ambit owners will find a wealth of new enhanced navigation features and friendly improvements in the software update 1.5. It will
further strengthen especially the navigation and GPS functionalities. The new update includes: Route creation and navigation based on waypoints,
Logbook, Find Back, enhanced Views and GPS chip software improvements.
Additions and new features:
- Possibility to add navigation to the exercise screens during training
- Possibility to add compass to the exercise screens during training
- Possibility to add navigation as one of the main screens in the ABC mode
- Possibility to add Points of Interest of any location directly on Ambit
- Find back: You can navigate back to the starting point of your log with Find back assuming the GPS has been on during your exercise
- Logbook: You can now store more than one exercise summary in Ambit’s logbook
- Route navigation: You can now create a route in Movescount.com from waypoints, download that to your Ambit and navigate through this route of waypoints with Ambit
- Recovery time: Recovery time is now also visible in the start menu in addition to the recovery times in logbook summaries.
- GPS fix times are improved from the previous release
- When going to exercise mode you can now select option “later” in GPS search which means that you can start your exercise immediately and only the GPS recording starts later when the device has got the GPS fix
Improvements:
- Waypoints are changed to Points of interest and organized by POI type, not date
- Settings menu is changed into Options. Navigation submenu is included in the Options menu.
- Gps heading is used in navigation already in 4 km/h speed
- Different types of navigation arrows are shown in navigation view depending on whether compass or gps is used
- Navigation view now shows also the name of the waypoint to which you are navigating
- Turn around indicator is added to navigation screen
- Navigation uses meters instead of kilometers when distance is less than 1 km
- Display wake-up happens now also from button press
- Alarm icon is improved
- Max speed in Ambit is now 999km/h
- Tilt calibration of the compass has been improved
- "GPS found" message has been changed. 100% "Found"
- "Arriving to" distance while navigating is now 100 m
- Temperature range increased from 50C to 60C
- FusedSpeed : Speed fusion is switched to gps only mode during running if you stop your hand movement (the algorithm for Fused Speed assumes you are moving your hand)
- FusedSpeed : Gps distance calculation bug corrected
Suunto Ambit 1.0.7
- GPS bug fixes
Suunto Ambit 1.0.0 20. Januar 2012
- Initial release
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