Hit the bottom physical button you’ll discover a whole host of extras from Casio. There’s heart rate graphs, a compass, the G-Shock Move app to track your fitness, tide graphs, a barometer and options to adjust watch face backgrounds and theme colors. So while it might look and feel like your typical G-Shock, accommodating that touchscreen display and delivering that water resistance rating feels like you have to make some compromises with this smartwatch. The dual-layer monochrome and colour display features an interface with a three-tier layout that users can customize to suit their goals, putting multiple data points at their fingertips, easily accessible at a glance. The design of the GSW-H1000 also delivers an uncompromising commitment to wearability, with a soft urethane band that provides flexibility and durability, ensuring a comfortable fit. Despite using Bluetooth to connect to a smartphone, Casio says the G-Shock GB-6900 boasts up to two years of battery life from its standard CR2032 watch battery.
On the left of the case, you’ll find the outdoor sensors that are onboard and the charging port, which mirrors the setup of how you charge Casio’s ProTrek smartwatches. These models are identical to the surfing editions, and also released in 1996. They were designed for snowboarding and skateboarding competitors and competitions.
It comes with a premium price that makes it clear Casio wants to compete with the smartwatch big names such as Garmin and Apple. Casio often comes in with a product that is attractively competitive in a crowded marketplace, but more and more, the brand is asserting itself as a maker of premium products. In a lot of ways, Casio is absolutely correct to position itself that way. The Japanese company has played with the merging of its traditional G-Shock product line and contemporary connected watches in the past, but never before was there a full-on G-Shock smartwatch — until the reference GSWH1000-1, that is. This is a Casio G-Shock case, with all its durability and style, mixed with a fully functional Google Wear OS smartwatch software platform.
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In 2013 in order to celebrate 30 years of the G-Shock, Casio arranged a party in New York and showcased new models as well as various prototypes of upcoming models. A team of three g shock protection individuals was selected by Ibe which was known as “team tough”. The team had assembled and tested nearly 200 prototypes but were still not able to achieve the conception criteria.
Google’s Wear OS platform could certainly use some more actual smartwatches to run on, and Casio has obliged with the GSW-H1000 – the first G-Shock smartwatch from the brand to come with Wear OS on board. During activity, we noticed a 90 min outdoor session with heart rate and GPS that it lost something like 18 per cent battery. Roughly estimating with rounding up, that suggests around 450mins, or seven hours total for live tracking. Rather than have a plastic-like, hard feeling material, this strap is far more supple. It’s flexible, yet strong, and the double hole-punches spread across most of the length of it give versatility in ensuring it’ll fit most wrists.