How's the battery life on these Casios with fancy features?<p>My ideal smart (dumb) watch has step/heart/sleep tracking synced to my phone, <i>no other connected features</i> (especially no notifications), and a ~month of battery life. Currently that only satisfied by a Withings Scan Watch or a few Garmin models with the notifications disabled...
Garmin Instinct 3 Solar, very close to 30 days for me. YMMV depending on how much sun you get
It seems that the battery lasts 35 hours with heart rate tracking, 1 month with no HR, and 11 months with power saving.<p><pre><code> Run Time
Using activity functions (heart rate): Approx. 35 hours max.
Using in watch mode with heart rate measurement OFF: Approx. 1 month
Using with power-saving function ON: Approx. 11 months
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I'm not sure how well the "solar charging" feature works, though. It's surprising that it does not last longer than Fitbit or Garmin.
My ideal watch also has: mobile voice & data connection (via eSim), speaker and microphone, camera.<p>Those in addition to what it already has: 1 month battery life, HR and SpO2 tracking, flashlight.<p>Also, blood glocose and BHB monitoring would be nice.<p>And I didn't mention the software..
36ish hours a charge w/ HR stuff enabled.
Take a look at the Amazfit NEO. I use it with all the notifications off.
I want this in the classic F-77W or F-91W shell. Has this been already done neatly?
> smartphone pairing enables automatic time correction<p>I like how they're advertising this shitty feature that's much more cumbersome than what their watches have now, namely <a href="https://gshock.casio.com/europe/technology/radio/" rel="nofollow">https://gshock.casio.com/europe/technology/radio/</a><p>More like, automatic time correction is the best reason we found for mandating smartphone pairing and we hope you won't remember there's a better solution.<p>Also, 35 days that the battery lasts is 1/10 of a year, compared to 10 years that radio-synced watches have, so two orders of magnitude less. Fuck off with smartphone pairing, Casio.<p>edit: 35 hours, lol, so more like three orders of magnitude less.
Nah, this is not the first G-Shock with an HRM. This is only the first in the "G-LIDE" series designed for surfers which usually has a tide graph. But there have been Wear OS G-Shocks and G-Move watches with HRM in the past.
It's a cool novelty but as a sports+tech+watch enthusiast (I guess which makes me the ideal target market for it), it doesn't speak to me. It's far too chunky at 17mm (that's 0.66 inches) and the fact I would need to charge a "legacy" watch has no appeal to me.
It's super cool and I love G Shock in general but the Casio app is straight up awful.
looks neat, but this would stop my buy:<p>"""
Use USB charging for the heart rate monitor, step tracker and notifications. Time display is powered by solar charging alone when the battery runs low.
"""<p>I have a gshock already (GM-B2100D-1A) and I love it - I especially love that it should never be opened, always just works, and it looks ok too (:
Uhm the caption isn't remotely correct? Casio has had a G-Shock with heart rate monitor and smartphone link for years now. This is the first G-Lide series watch with these features however.