Suunto, a subsidiary of Amer Sports, has opened a new Mobile Competence Center in Tampere, Finland. The facility, which was inaugurated on Aug. 10, is focused on the development of digital services and native applications for both iOS and Android. Suunto said it decided to start the center because of the rising role of mobile applications in its product and service offering. The company manufactures and markets sports watches, dive computers, compasses and precision instruments. The new Mobile Competence Center is located in the Technopolis center, close to the Tampere University of Technology. The company said it will immediately start recruiting both Android and iOS experts for the new unit, with the aim to increase the size of the unit to about ten people by the autumn.
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