The flap door never stays on because of the current design of the 2 little plastic numbs. The door should be redesigned with stainless steel pin like what is used on watches. If Spot is using satellite to communicate then it should put a weather app in as well. Good to now what the weather is when out in the middle of nowhere.

Add signal strength indicator to top bar of screen or something, anything, that indicates the signal strength so we can optimally aim the device.

to show if your check in notification, text, tracking , messages have been successfully sent. right now it does not show if they have worked or not. we have no way to see if our messages are being delivered.

Having built-in only rechargeable is not sufficient for and emergency device targeted for outdoors-men and gals crowd.

Do you ever plan on including topo maps for better navigation on the SPOT X? I received my SPOT X last week and have been testing it out. I like it a lot, especially the built-in keyboard but the topo maps would help a lot with navigating.

Rick

Since my Spotx malfunctioned a while ago and message notifications were not coming in then notifications all came in at once, I have not been able to zero message notification. Need a way to mark all as read just to get rid of the notification

The timestamp on an incoming message should be the time it was sent, like with e-mail. Currently the timestamp is the time received, which is useless information. A message like "see you in 2 hours" is meaningless on a device that fetches messages at long intervals, unless we know what time it was sent. You have the information in the header of the original text or email. Use that instead of replacing it on the Spot.

I just paid for a SPOT X, then paid for activation , and for a service plan, and for GEOS … and cannot use my device because my computer’s OS is too old to manage the firmware updatefile. So I need to buy a new computer, or find a friend.
Surely any device that can communicate by satellite can be tweaked to support wireless firmware update?

Increase power for tracking signal. The tracking capability is too weak relative to other trackers.

Have an icon on screen that shows if fetch is off. Thought fetch was on but it had shut off after a reset because of freezing so I did not receive a message until next day

Make it possible to go to bottom of 14 messages by pressing up when on the first message and back by pressing down

I just want to put in an idea for a small product upgrade. Put a flat bottom on the SpotX since the antenna needs to be straight up, so you can set it on something. With the Bluetooth version, it would be even more useful because you are texting with your phone and don't want to find a place to lean it against. A little clip-on flat bottom for existing ones would be nice as well.

When SOS is activated SpotX could make sound. Then if you could not see the device at least you could hear it

have the spotx device be able to track after pushing the button whether it feels movement or not.

different on and off button, so the spots x is not turning on while in a back pack

So having a Mac/pc app and an iOS app. Why not include a contacts sync within the apps for faster/smoother contacts setup?

Please bring back the ability to create and store multiple check-in profiles. This was available on my first generation Spot device. I could have various check-in choices depending on what I was doing that day, ie horseback riding, motorcycle, fishing. That way only people who were associated with that type of activity would receive notification, plus I didn't have to update my list each time I returned to an activity.