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?
#2Ehh 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.
Re: I test the best smartwatches – so why am I wearing a $15 Casio?
#3what 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.
Re: I test the best smartwatches – so why am I wearing a $15 Casio?
#4what 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.
Whoop and Oura are two prominent ones. There are a bunch others.
Re: I test the best smartwatches – so why am I wearing a $15 Casio?
#5what 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.
It’s called a Whoop, check it out.
Re: I test the best smartwatches – so why am I wearing a $15 Casio?
#6RIP Pebble. Still the best smart watch
Re: I test the best smartwatches – so why am I wearing a $15 Casio?
#7Ehh 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.
W-800H is my daily-wear cheap watch here
I had a Pebble and then an Apple Watch. I came to the conclusion I prefer my watches to be tools and not devices. Watches that are tools are cool. Aviation watches, dive watches, etc etc. So much cooler than a smartwatch.
Re: I test the best smartwatches – so why am I wearing a $15 Casio?
#8Importantly, 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.
Re: I test the best smartwatches – so why am I wearing a $15 Casio?
#9I have a Sensor Watch, which is an ARM cortex processor and SDK which retrofits into an F91W. It’s really nicely put together and offers a lot of flexibility. https://www.sensorwatch.net/
Re: I test the best smartwatches – so why am I wearing a $15 Casio?
#10what 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.
This is what I’m looking for, but I also need the device to only store the collected metrics on my phone, and not send it to some company’s servers. So far I think it’s just the Apple watches that meet that criteria.