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Re: Casio F-B100W-1A

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Post by jq-r »

dingaling wrote: post #32

Like their G-Shock watches, the actual area dedicated to showing the time is overwhelmed by superfluous elements. Must be barely 20% of the top surface that actually performs its primary function. When I look at my watch I want to see the time, not wasted space announcing "Casio Step Tracker" or "Water Resist" ( which isn't even proper English). I moved to Timex a few years ago as their basic digital watches have nic…

There are some editions of their models which don't have any of those labels and they look much better. But I think they never went far enough, and design a good looking digital g-shock with big time and date, nothing else. When I was younger, small time display was fine, but now as someone with presbyopia (like any 40+ adult) those digits are just too small.

Re: Casio F-B100W-1A

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Post by raffael_de »

matheusmoreira wrote: post #319
raffael_de wrote: post #141

I really like my F91W case with a Sensor Watch Pro board and accelerometer sensor. My favorite features: - Piezo alarm is much louder. - Countdown time can be incremented by tapping the watch. - LED color can be changed by adjusting RGB values. - It features sunrise/-set and moon phase info/calendar. - I changed the week day names to German abbreviations. - There are lots of intriguing watch faces that you can compil…

> Sadly, the project is in some disarray as the originator apparently lost interest and the community isn't moving uniformly. What's going on? Can you give me more details?

only outsider info based on GitHub stats and Discord.

Re: Casio F-B100W-1A

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Post by stkdump »

TonyStr wrote: post #315
stkdump wrote: post #299

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I recently thought I could probably go back to a not-smart watch to not have to charge the watch all the time, but I don't want to deal with setting the time regularly either due to quartz drift and dst. So a bluetooth watch with two years of battery life doesn't sound like a bad idea really.

Even cheap quartz movements tend to drift by ±10 seconds per year , so you'd only really set it at dst. Maybe you're thinking about automatic watches which can drift by several seconds per day, and stop if you don't use it for 24/48/X amount hours. I have to set my automatic quite frequently

It is usually 10-15s per month. And the annoying thing is you have to notice it and I prefer a watch that I don't have to double check.

Re: Casio F-B100W-1A

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Post by johnke »

SwellJoe wrote: post #161

Casio has been leaving a lot of money on the table in terms of nostalgia products. There's been a low rumble of demand for the Casio CZ series of synthesizers for a decade or more, and a bunch of non-Casio companies have cashed in on it (Behringer makes CZ-1 Mini, Arturia has CZ V, several other phase distortion synths exist). It's incredibly cheap to replicate, a simple early digital synthesis algorithm that'll run…

> basically a Raspberry Pi-like SoC

Not just Pi-like - the Wavestate is using an actual Raspberry Pi CM3 module! https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/electronic-music-icon-korg-...

Re: Casio F-B100W-1A

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Post by whizzter »

tass wrote: post #104
RoadieRoller wrote: post #52

Earlier quoted context omitted.

In my country, 30-40 years back, people who needed a watch were those ones who travel regularly. And travel was mostly using public transport, trains and planes. Most or all of it operated using a 24h time. That button was very useful. Compare that to the mute/silence/DND physical button in iPhones today. Also people who worked in confined spaces who wouldn’t know if it was day or night outside after a days job. My f…

Yes but why not just always use 24h time (or 12h if that’s what you like). It’s a little strange that a dedicated button would be needed to switch between them, especially when the math to convert between them is so simple.

Exactly, my kids knew how to convert between the formats at a fairly young age.

Re: Casio F-B100W-1A

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Post by Beretta_Vexee »

jorvi wrote: post #17

One thing I've never understood (and hopefully some Casio geek can shine a light on): why do almost all old Casio models have a 24/12h time switch taking the premium spot as one of the main 4 buttons, instead of having it buried deep in the (awkward) menus. Seems to me that something like alarm or stopwatch setting or a second menu action button would have been far more useful.

For a very long time, China and India used a mixture of the 12-hour and 24-hour formats, which meant they had to convert the time or switch between time formats multiple times par day. That was the intended use of this button.

Both countries have now officially switched to the 24-hour format.

Re: Casio F-B100W-1A

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Post by TheOtherHobbes »

SwellJoe wrote: post #271
TylerE wrote: post #261

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not really. XZ1000 $300-600. DX7 $700-1000.

According to what I can dig up, the original MSRP of the DX7 was $1995. The original MSRP of the Casio CZ 101 was $395. So, by my reckoning, the CZ has a higher collector value than the DX7 based on relative price change over the years. Edit: But also, the CZ was generally more comparable to lower-end DX synths, like the DX27 or DX9. It was a budget synth in its day, while the DX7 was the pinnacle of digital synthesi…

The core of the vintage remake market is "Always wanted this, still can only afford a clone" which is where Behringer lives.

There's also a "Always wanted this, can finally afford it now that I'm rich" niche for the high-end remakes from Korg and occasionally Moog etc.

There isn't a huge "Bought this forty years ago because I couldn't afford anything better and would quite like a modern remake" segment.

Casio do still make pianos and Casiotone keys which include samples and some CZ and VZ series sounds. (I don't know if they're sampled or DSP.)

Re: Casio F-B100W-1A

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Post by bux93 »

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.

I complained to the relevant GDPR authority (German) and never heard back. It's blatantly illegal - overprocessing of PII - to require registration for connecting two devices owned by the same person, in the same room. There's no fathomable necessary or legitimate use.

Re: Casio F-B100W-1A

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Post by williamdclt »

Beretta_Vexee wrote: post #326
jorvi wrote: post #17

One thing I've never understood (and hopefully some Casio geek can shine a light on): why do almost all old Casio models have a 24/12h time switch taking the premium spot as one of the main 4 buttons, instead of having it buried deep in the (awkward) menus. Seems to me that something like alarm or stopwatch setting or a second menu action button would have been far more useful.

For a very long time, China and India used a mixture of the 12-hour and 24-hour formats, which meant they had to convert the time or switch between time formats multiple times par day. That was the intended use of this button. Both countries have now officially switched to the 24-hour format.

I'm skeptical. Switching between time formats when you're used to it requires 0 cognitive effort, and certainly doesn't warrant a button. Eg in France, people use 24h time for display but talk in either 12h or 24h time depending on personal preference, so you might look at "17:00" and say "5" without even thinking about it, it's just a different name for 17.
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