Got the watch 2 weeks ago. Before you lynch me, let me say that I am happy with it because of its fabulous design, construction, big size, syncing etc. In other words I would buy it again. However, there are things on the 'software' side that are bugging me quite a bit. I am posting this to know how do you cope with these… flaws (or maybe I am missing something….).
1. Maybe it's the Murphy's law but every time I want to do something that needs the digital display, the hands are on it. So I diligently press L+B (which is awkward btw, what about A+D for example?) to move them out, then try to set an alarm for example, but immediately the hands return on the display. Hands-off should be a toggle switch, not, as it is now, 'if you press any button the hands return to their normal positions', because that defeats the purpose.
2. Illumination. Press L to get the light, then after 3 seconds it goes off, not giving me the time to do pretty much anything other than checking the time. What's worse is that any button you push, the light goes immediately off! For example last night I was trying to set an alarm, which was 100% impossible because whatever button I push the light goes off. With my Suunto Core, for example, there is an option to make any button activate the backlight, so that it stays on as long as you push whatever. I know this is 'solar' and they are trying to make the charge last, but I think Casio should fix this.
3. Sound. This has also been said by others, the sound volume is ridiculously low so now I have to keep my phone on to wake up in the morning. From a watch this big it's frankly surprising and disappointing.
4. Display. Very hard to read so there should be an option to make it positive, if not possible Casio should offer some models in positive.
Other minor things don't bother me so much. Such as the tiny baro graph, the baro alarm which would be nice but beeps at any time so it wakes me up if the weather changes when I sleep, the power-saving time interval fixed to 22-6 (I happen to 'power-save' i.e. sleep from 4 to 11), the backwards month-day date (in Europe we use DD-MM), the lack of sunrise/sunset etc.
I am not trying to make a negative post here, as said I am happy because the watch is beautiful and does its basic job. However, since all these annoyances are ALL firmware related, and the watch is a two years old design, I think it would have taken little effort from Casio to fix them. I would be happy to ship the watch to Japan or wherever for a software update....
1. Maybe it's the Murphy's law but every time I want to do something that needs the digital display, the hands are on it. So I diligently press L+B (which is awkward btw, what about A+D for example?) to move them out, then try to set an alarm for example, but immediately the hands return on the display. Hands-off should be a toggle switch, not, as it is now, 'if you press any button the hands return to their normal positions', because that defeats the purpose.
2. Illumination. Press L to get the light, then after 3 seconds it goes off, not giving me the time to do pretty much anything other than checking the time. What's worse is that any button you push, the light goes immediately off! For example last night I was trying to set an alarm, which was 100% impossible because whatever button I push the light goes off. With my Suunto Core, for example, there is an option to make any button activate the backlight, so that it stays on as long as you push whatever. I know this is 'solar' and they are trying to make the charge last, but I think Casio should fix this.
3. Sound. This has also been said by others, the sound volume is ridiculously low so now I have to keep my phone on to wake up in the morning. From a watch this big it's frankly surprising and disappointing.
4. Display. Very hard to read so there should be an option to make it positive, if not possible Casio should offer some models in positive.
Other minor things don't bother me so much. Such as the tiny baro graph, the baro alarm which would be nice but beeps at any time so it wakes me up if the weather changes when I sleep, the power-saving time interval fixed to 22-6 (I happen to 'power-save' i.e. sleep from 4 to 11), the backwards month-day date (in Europe we use DD-MM), the lack of sunrise/sunset etc.
I am not trying to make a negative post here, as said I am happy because the watch is beautiful and does its basic job. However, since all these annoyances are ALL firmware related, and the watch is a two years old design, I think it would have taken little effort from Casio to fix them. I would be happy to ship the watch to Japan or wherever for a software update....
