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I test the best smartwatches – so why am I wearing a $15 Casio?

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Re: I test the best smartwatches – so why am I wearing a $15 Casio?

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Post by 6510 »

jononomo wrote: post #16
wkat4242 wrote: post #2

Ehh the F91W is not very accurate at all as the article claims. It's not temperature compensated. If you leave it lying on a desk at room temperature yes. Wear it outside in all weather it'll be pretty inaccurate. I prefer the F-105W myself. It's basically the same watch but with a great blue EL backlight.

How many seconds of time accuracy have you found that this watch loses over the course of its 7-year-long battery life? I think I can handle it losing 30 seconds of accuracy per year.

I read Casio promises 30 sec/month but (lucky?) customers report losing 2 seconds per month.

I know its a cheap watch but would it be that hard to have a settings for it? I hear people tuned antique pendulum clocks to seconds per year. I suppose it helps that they are inaccurate enough to have tuning?

Re: I test the best smartwatches – so why am I wearing a $15 Casio?

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Post by rcarr »

I’ve got a Garmin 7x. Sometimes I think about switching to something like this as I’m going through an unhealthy phase and not utilising the smart watch capability very much. However, I can’t give up the torch. I cannot believe how handy it is having a torch two button clicks away on my wrist, wherever I am, as opposed to fumbling in my pocket or searching around for my phone or a torch. Use it every day, absolute game changer.

Re: I test the best smartwatches – so why am I wearing a $15 Casio?

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Post by justsomehnguy »

wkat4242 wrote: post #2

Ehh the F91W is not very accurate at all as the article claims. It's not temperature compensated. If you leave it lying on a desk at room temperature yes. Wear it outside in all weather it'll be pretty inaccurate. I prefer the F-105W myself. It's basically the same watch but with a great blue EL backlight.

>> The movement is also notoriously accurate. So accurate, in fact, that it’s been infamously used in bomb making, to the point where US intelligence agents declared it to be ‘the sign of al-Qaeda (opens in new tab)’ in training material issued to staff at the Guantanamo Bay detention facility in 2011

Or maybe because it is (and it's clones) are available everywhere for $1?

Re: I test the best smartwatches – so why am I wearing a $15 Casio?

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Post by bestnameever »

graypegg wrote: post #19

I have an Apple Watch S5 lying around on my desk but I still pretty much exclusively wear one of a few cheap Casios I have. I found more and more that the features I use on a watch (current time, 3 min timer for tea, 25 min pomodoro timer, wake up alarm) are basically universally covered by every digital watch ever manufactured, and are normally MUCH easier to access on those watches than an Apple Watch, and I assume…

> normally MUCH easier to access on those watches than an Apple Watch

You should try placing them as widgets on a compatible watch face, or set them be sticky in your recents app's list, if you haven't already.

Re: I test the best smartwatches – so why am I wearing a $15 Casio?

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Post by graypegg »

bestnameever wrote: post #24
graypegg wrote: post #19

I have an Apple Watch S5 lying around on my desk but I still pretty much exclusively wear one of a few cheap Casios I have. I found more and more that the features I use on a watch (current time, 3 min timer for tea, 25 min pomodoro timer, wake up alarm) are basically universally covered by every digital watch ever manufactured, and are normally MUCH easier to access on those watches than an Apple Watch, and I assume…

> normally MUCH easier to access on those watches than an Apple Watch You should try placing them as widgets on a compatible watch face, or set them be sticky in your recents app's list, if you haven't already.

Hard to beat two clicks on the mode button, then one click on start button to start the last timer I used. Just an uncustomizable appliance, which is nice when I don’t want to fiddle with something much.

Re: I test the best smartwatches – so why am I wearing a $15 Casio?

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Post by jbaber »

trees101 wrote: post #25

Battery may be long lasting but the straps seem to last about 12 months before breaking. And cost of repairs is about the same as purchase price of the watch.

I now have a preferred strap that I attach to whatever watch I get, expecting built-in strap to fail long before the watch.

Re: I test the best smartwatches – so why am I wearing a $15 Casio?

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Post by fomine3 »

ricktdotorg wrote: post #3

what i would like is a fitness/health-tracking wearable that does not have a screen. i want a faceless waves hands bracelet something on my wrist that will track all of my health & bio stats and sends it to/syncs it with my phone.

I feel uncomfortable with any band on my wrist. What I want is health tracker anklet that lasts over a month.

Re: I test the best smartwatches – so why am I wearing a $15 Casio?

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Post by canadianfella »

salutis wrote: post #8

Importantly, F91W can run FOSS software with a custom board [1], which also makes it easily programmable in C with no "app store" shit. I have two boards sitting next to me and two Casio watches waiting for a transplant. [1] https://www.sensorwatch.net/

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Re: I test the best smartwatches – so why am I wearing a $15 Casio?

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Post by netsharc »

salutis wrote: post #8

Importantly, F91W can run FOSS software with a custom board [1], which also makes it easily programmable in C with no "app store" shit. I have two boards sitting next to me and two Casio watches waiting for a transplant. [1] https://www.sensorwatch.net/

Hmm, this is like saying "The '69 Mustang can run on electric power, if you replace the engine."..
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