![]() Not much has changed: it is still a fairly big and heavy dive computer, and you probably still need to use the Suunto DM5 program to edit the screen layout to your taste, but it remains a very solid dive computer.Īnd in the roughly 200 dives I now have on it, I have yet to see a tank pressure sensor failure, so the new pressure monitoring model really does seem to work well - the older Suunto wireless pressure tracking was not nearly as realiable. Having used the EON Steel for about two and a half years now, it remains my favorite computer to dive. It’s also slow, but it does have the advantage that it works with your cellphone and you don’t need to have a wet connection. BLE is not well standardized, and everybody seems to use some hacked-up GATT psueod-serial protocol. Even the technical community seems to have gotten the message about air integration.īluetooth LE also seems to have become the almost standard interface, which has upsides and downsides. ![]() mid-2017 updatesĢ017 has been a good year for dive computers finally seeming to standardize on the features I like: good color screen and air integration. I’m going to completely ignore the low end that doesn’t even allow downloading of dive data, and quite frankly, I personally have used only a few so the list starts out smallish. I decided I should put together a list of computers I’ve used, with commentary about them.
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