It's interesting the love these watches get. I personally have the GBX 100 and find it to be a great square alternative too. An old pic but hey, you can get the jist.

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It's interesting the love these watches get. I personally have the GBX 100 and find it to be a great square alternative too. An old pic but hey, you can get the jist.
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I actually find them very under-discussed both here and on Reddit.

If you're not a fan of the smart watch and fitness features, just enable Airplane Mode and use it like any G-Square with the exception that you've now got a great negative MIP display that's readable in basically any lighting condition (as long as you're not in full darkness where you'll need to activate the back light).

I think it's a great evolution to the G-Square range personally.

 

Has anyone used this watch to track cycling activity with any success? I'm hoping there's a workaround, but it seems like the accelerometer is the only way it's tracking movement? Gonna try to turn off the "auto pause" function and see what happens.

Otherwise, yeah disabling all the fitness stuff, it could just be a fancy square with a superior display.

 

I doubt you'd get anything useful out of that unless you put the watch in your pocket (where you would at least get steps as some indication of activity). A GPS/speed sensor and/or a heart rate monitor would likely be required to get any meaningful activity data for cycling.

This is not a watch I'd purchase if I was only interested in the very limited activity tracking features.

 

Quick Update: my girlfriend (I got the watch for her, she's into her Strava and swimming etc) was NOT expecting the notifications feature to be so useful! She absolutely loves that feature, whenever she's got a text or email or whatever and it vibrates to let her know.

The display itself is so good I'm now considering one for myself. For the price, this is a fantastic watch.

 

its all a good package but one thing thats missing is Tough Solar. Since this is going to be an outdoor watch Solar powered is just completing the package.

 

How good is this watch's step count feature? Thinking about getting the black one.
Thanks.

 

I am enjoying the 2nd day of my Casio GDB-200 which has 4 main screens. The above is the Weekly, with a daily step counter. The accelerometer sensor acts like the old mechanical pedometers. I only received the watch yesterday, so the Thursday and Friday reflect a rough shipping journey with stops and starts in the Amazon truck I guess. You can set your daily goal and it tracks. It does not activate until you take 25 steps, so as not to measure going from your desk to the office door or other not so meaningful walks. It is cumulative for the day and the next screen looks much the same, but rather than by day, it is the prior to current 7 months. An impressive step counter and while my smart phone has an app, I much prefer I need not carry a phone with me. Currently my goal is 4000 steps a day which for me is progress, I will soon increase the daily goal and then maybe some light jogging as the weather cools. So, I never owned a fit bit, but this seems to do a great job and is a complication that I have never seen on a mechanical watch. As I used to own a mechanical pedometer long long ago, I could see this being a complication that could be added to a watch movement should anyone want the challenge. I needed more exercise. Cheers!

 

Using the interval timer for Pomodoro-timing, cycling through work, and breaks I which there was a simple countdown timer for ad-hoc activities in addition to the interval timer.

The watch is very stable on the wrist. The display is stellar for a negative, but having worn it I would consider a regular non-negative Casio just as usable. I´m happy with the esthetic of the blue variant.

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I find that the watch is very usable overall. Since everything can be configured from the Move app, there is not much to figure out to use this watch.

I did find that if you press A + C + D on the main time display, you enter a diagnostics mode to play around with. I accidentally messed up the time in this mode, but it was fixed by syncing with the app.

I really appreciate the buttons on this watch compared to my two previous G-Shocks (the GW-056-1V and GWD-5610-1ER), especially the light-button.

 

I'm interested in the customization ability of the watch face, how much can you change out/in?

 

How strong is the backlight? I'd prefer something that doesn't blind everyone in the bedroom at night xD
How strong is the vibration?

 

The backlight is perfectly fine. Not blinding, but you can see it even in daytime.

I've disabled vibration and put the watch in airplane mode to preserve battery since I don't use the connected Bluetooth features anyway. It's rated for 2 years of battery life with 12 hours of Bluetooth use per day plus a certain amount of light button presses, and considering how extremely conservative Casio are with their battery lifetime estimates you'll more than likely get quite a bit more than that if you never use Bluetooth or the backlight.

 

Gshock is tough. Beat it up daily and still works like new

 

Looks great! Does anyone know if there's a solar version with this display type? (I'm suspecting the bluetooth and display use too much battery for solar to fully keep up so they just didn't bother adding it?)

 

GBD-H1000 has the same MIP display and is solar powered. You'd probably need to deactivate heart rate and avoid using GPS to power it fully by solar.

MIP displays and Bluetooth combine just fine with solar. Garmin Instinct Solar can run fully on solar power in watch mode as well and has the same display type, so if there's a market for it there's no reason for Casio not to put solar in more (and cheaper) MIP models. The wide frame around the dial suggests that GBD-200 was designed with extra space for solar panels in mind.

 

 

disregard this post!!! i just saw a video on this watch!! thx anyway


hi. i'm new to gshock ,,,and casio in general actually.

i've seen two different watch faces for this model. one is the simple inerface in your post and another is one that looks like it has some kind of tracker bar at the top. are there two different faces that can be switched in and out?t

thx,,,,miltk

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hello, sorry to resurrect this thread. I am thinking of getting this watch for walking, and I have a question.

If i want to see the current time, and see how long I have been walking. Would switching between those two displays require many button pushes?
Also are there any weird loading times switching between them? Ive seen a video of the watch having some hour glass icon on screen.

Thank you

 

Na tela do exercício você pode visualizar as horas sem a necessidade de mudar de modo. Logo, mudar de tela talvez não seja necessário, a menos que os números pequenos sejam um problema pra você. Marcelo

hello, sorry to resurrect this thread. I am thinking of getting this watch for walking, and I have a question. If i want to see the current time, and see how long I have been walking. Would switching between those two displays require many button pushes? Also are there any weird loading times switching between them? Ive seen a video of the watch having some hour glass icon on screen. Thank you

 

Does anyone know? Will this watch, if you have it connected to your phone, automatically change to local time if you fly of somewhere? So in essence, if you have it connected you never have to set the time, change to daylight saving time etc? Does anyone know?
I like the looks!
Cheers

// M

 

I just bought this watch and as soon as I connected it to my phone it seemed to correct itself to the correct time.

 

I love my new GBD-200. The new MIP screen is fantastic. I would prefer if it was solar but ok...
I don't use the Bluetooth and the other fitness functions so I hope the battery would last more than 2 years.
Greetings from Greece!

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I love the legibility of this model. The display isn't cluttered up with needless subdials, an altimeter, a tide graph, etc.

 

The MIP display is definitely amazing. Without all these "smart" features but a solar panel instead the GBD-200 would be the best Casio i ever owned.

 

Really hoping Casio makes a solar version soon enough. I have a feeling they will.

Also, anyone here seen the Grey/black color variant?