With great TREPIDATION I announce I am now a Core owner.

[MedicineMan]

I bet many can understand how you want to like something because of its beauty, its design and its function but have a deep fear of when the blank screen will appear, when the baro will misfunction, when you pull the pocket out of a sleeve and the static phenom occurs.
Yet I bought the watch anyway...which in a way is quite funny. I have an
X9i that is a complete failure-- the battery failed just after 1.5 years of use, went through the he** in returning; it was returned and only a week into the new battery it goes dead....so the x9i sits collecting dust with me not wanting to sink another $70 into that dark hole.
So why another Suunto? Well I also have an Advizor which has performed flawlessly for almost 6 years---so many trips, so many hikes and it has never balked. So I try again, praying, hoping that my new Core doesn't suddenly die!

SERIOUS question for core owners-
Did anyone notice what year is displayed when you first boot up the watch out of the box?
Mine said 2007 ????? Is there any significance to this?
Thanks!

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