With the Suunto X9i GPS watch, you can plan routes at home with a map and save them into your watch. When you're out in the field, your watch will advise you regarding which way to go -- as well as tell you how fast you're moving, how far you've traveled, how far you still have to go, and when you'll be arriving at your destination. Mark a "home" position, and you'll be able to hit "find home" from anywhere and get the route and distance back.

Pretty cool, huh?

Or, you can go adventuring without a route in mind, and use the X9i to keep track of your position, speed and distance. It will record your tracks (which you can save for later analysis), or use immediately to find your way back. Whenever you locate a place of interest -- such as a great fishing spot, a camp site, or a stunning view -- it's easy to save the coordinates into your watch, naming the location whatever you'd like.

As you can tell by now, the X9i is pretty much the pinnacle of wrist-top navigational computers. It was made with hikers, mountaineers, trekkers, hunters, fishermen, and other outdoors-lovers in mind, and it shows.

Altimeter Specs

• Current altitude
• Resolution 1 m / 3 ft
• Vertical speed
• Display range -500 m to 9000 m / -1500 ft to 29500 ft
• Total ascent /descent and higest/lowest altitude, in recorded logs
• Altitude alarm function

Barometer

• Display range 300 to 1100 hPa / 8.90 to 32.40 inHg
• Graphical display of pressure trends for last 6 hours
• Stores barometric pressure data for last 7 days / 168 hours
• Absolute barometric pressure at the current location
• Barometric pressure at sea level
• Resolution 1hPa / 0.05 inHg

Thermometer

• Display range -20¬∞C to +60¬∞C/-5¬∞F to +140¬∞F
• Stores temp data for last 7 days / 168 hours
• Resolution 1¬∞C / 1¬∞F

Compass

• Bearing lock mode (toward a set bearing or a GPS waypoint)
• Tilt Compensated
• Simultaneous bearing tracking, altitude or time display with bearing / compass rose
• Bearing display in degrees and cardinal points
• Resolution 1¬∞

GPS / Navigation Mode

• Resolution 1 m / 3 ft
• 12 channels
• Integrated loop antenna
• Programable alarm points
• Distance from current location to final waypoint
• Estimated travel time to next waypoint based on current speed
• Estimated travel time to destination based on current speed
• Estimated arrival time at final waypoint in route based on current speed
• Altitude difference between current location and next waypoint
• Total amount of ascent from the current location to the final waypoint
• Current speed
• Heading in degrees
• Deviation from course (left/right)
• Track Back function activates navigation along recorded track back to starting location

Memory

• 50 routes (each route can include up to 50 points)
• 500 waypoints
• 25 log files
• 25 tracks (8000 track points)