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Re: Casio F-B100W-1A

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Post by 00deadbeef »

compounding_it wrote: post #236
00deadbeef wrote: post #229

Earlier quoted context omitted.

ffs all it needed to do was talk to Apple Health and I’d have bought it.

from a financial perspective they would assume one persons data is worth maybe 50$ a year (a random number) on top of maybe another 50$ in subscriptions they can sell. Assuming most such products service the business for up to 3 years, you are looking at an additional 300$ upfront that the business loses giving the data away to someone like Apple. Also the value gain from purely having such a business of subscription…

They could just sell it at an honest price with an honest profit. It’s an upsell from cheap F91Ws so they could have made more money just by selling me a thing that reads from Apple Health. It doesn’t even need to track steps itself.

I also disagree my email address and step data is worth $450 to them.

Let’s be honest. This thing is not innovative. It’s going to be using cheap commodity chips. Its selling point is nostalgia. I find it hard to believe it’s not already profitable at $55.

Re: Casio F-B100W-1A

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Post by gregsadetsky »

Ductapemaster wrote: post #235
wpm wrote: post #199

BIG Warning to anyone thinking about purchasing one of these You cannot connect the watch to Bluetooth without a proprietary app, and that proprietary app will not let you use the Bluetooth feature without some bullshit called a "CASIO Account". Their privacy policy is a bit of an eyebrow-raiser too. The absolute state of things.

While I empathize with your feelings about lock-in, I encourage you to see that we live in an amazingly empowering era. I would wager that with $20 in credits for the LLM flavor of the week and and an equally expensive BLE-to-USB dongle (try the nRF52840 dongle), you will have the protocol reverse-engineered overnight. BLE protocols are often very low-hanging fruit for this type of effort. Yes, it's annoying this stu…

+1000.

There should be bounties for open sourcing drivers/apps like these and generally making 'clean'/better interfaces to hardware devices, now that it's so much easier.

Claude Code reverse engineered cheap (Android only) usb and wifi endoscopes here, wrote/flashed/hardware-in-the-loop developed python+arduino libraries, etc.

It's a completely new world.

@wpm, happy to fund the nRF52840 dongle if you want to try this + release code!

Re: Casio F-B100W-1A

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Post by gonzalohm »

Sidnicious wrote: post #82
__fst__ wrote: post #45

For anyone interested in modding the F-91W there's also The Ollee Watch, a replacement PCB which adds even more "smart" features. https://www.olleewatch.com/

Sensor Watch is the non-phone-connected OG: https://www.sensorwatch.net

Does it offer anything out of the box or do you have to program everything? It doesn't even seem to track steps

Re: Casio F-B100W-1A

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Post by ValentineC »

erickhill wrote: post #207

Only available via that link in the UK or Ireland for £55.00. Quick jump over to Ebay US? $189.62 (And FedEx will have a word after they deliver it.) US, for now, can keep getting the unconnected F91W $25 lookalike. IIRC, the F-91W has a really small strap. Almost a "ladies watch" size.

> And FedEx will have a word after they deliver it.

I don't understand this statement. Is there some reference I'm missing?

Re: Casio F-B100W-1A

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Post by solarized »

My favourite ’90s wristwatch. battery lifetime just amazing.

I haven’t worn wristwatch anymore, since the dawn of smart phones. All my time information has moved into that, in my pocket. That’s my only dependency.

Re: Casio F-B100W-1A

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Post by logicalappeals »

I love the F91-W. I’ve owned a few of them. Each one had the same problem; the band would crack and break before the battery died. I foresee the same issue with the non-metal banded versions of this watch. Also the stated 2yr battery life is kind of meh in comparison to the F-91W. I’ve got an F91W that’s been running on the same battery for nearly a decade.

Re: Casio F-B100W-1A

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Post by nshshbr »

rglover wrote: post #210

Kind of hope this is a signal the culture is moving towards an analog 2.0 movement (a merging of old school interfaces with modern tech components thoughtfully incorporated).

Yes, so exciting to "thoughtfully" disguise modern spyware tech as boutique retro accessories.

Re: Casio F-B100W-1A

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Post by MicrosoftShill »

Ductapemaster wrote: post #235
wpm wrote: post #199

BIG Warning to anyone thinking about purchasing one of these You cannot connect the watch to Bluetooth without a proprietary app, and that proprietary app will not let you use the Bluetooth feature without some bullshit called a "CASIO Account". Their privacy policy is a bit of an eyebrow-raiser too. The absolute state of things.

While I empathize with your feelings about lock-in, I encourage you to see that we live in an amazingly empowering era. I would wager that with $20 in credits for the LLM flavor of the week and and an equally expensive BLE-to-USB dongle (try the nRF52840 dongle), you will have the protocol reverse-engineered overnight. BLE protocols are often very low-hanging fruit for this type of effort. Yes, it's annoying this stu…

Is it really as easy as you say? I have one of these Casio watches and plenty of spare Claude credits. Wouldn’t mind doing this but no idea where to begin.

Re: Casio F-B100W-1A

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Post by [deleted] »

Jskewel wrote: post #208
yegle wrote: post #90

Upon seeing "Bluetooth" and "Daily steps" I'd assume this is another watch that requires daily charging, but wow 2y battery w/ CR2016!

It's almost unbelievable that a step-tracker can have 2 years battery.

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