Casio G-Shock Digital GBD-H1000-1ER

Product Information

Putting the watch through its paces, with several GPS workouts and notifications switched on, I was able to get roughly seven days of use on a single charge – far better than what you’d expect from a Wear OS smartwatch or even an Apple Watch.

The touchscreen is a 1.2-inch dual-layer display Color TFT LCD and monochrome LCD Color: with a resolution of 360×360 pixels. I guess the heart rate sensor is okay, but I wouldn't trade a COROS Pace 2 or Garmin Forerunner 245 for the G-SQUAD PRO GSW-H1000 for running training. Most of the readings from the watch were way off, telling me my heart rate was in the 'light' zone when in fact, I was almost out of breath.

Specifications

Auto/manual lap; auto pause; auto run timing start; target alarm setting (time, altitude, calories burned); training display customization There is an always-on display mode, which will impact on battery life, though with the dual display in place you can still view time and some additional metrics on the monochrome screen without having to enable it. While the battery life is quoted as 12 months of simple timekeeping, or 66 hours with continuous heart rate monitoring enabled, the truth is that if you’re an outdoorsy type who wears the watch everywhere you’ll get a whole lot more than that.

In theory, the GBD-H1000 can determine VO2 max, training status, training load, recovery time, training effect and calories burned during training using an algorithm from Firstbeat Technologies, the same tech used in the Garmin Quantix 6, Montblanc Summit 2, Huawei Watch GT 2e and more. In reality, since the heart rate sensor is a bit off, the suggestions about most of those stats are rough estimates at best.Equipped with Bluetooth connectivity, the watch can sync with smartphones, allowing users to receive notifications and control various functions remotely. Additionally, the GBD-H1000-1ER has a built-in compass, altimeter, and barometer to provide users with comprehensive data during outdoor adventures. It's not the first Casio smartwatch – the Pro Trek watch range has used Wear OS to power outdoors features, with mapping and atmospheric sensors for life out in the wilderness. In the screen department, you're getting a 1.2-inch dual layer display similar to the one Casio employs on its ProTrek Wear OS watches. So you're getting a 360 x 360 resolution LCD color TFT screen and a monochrome LCD one that's used to preserve battery life. The watch’s training facilities are at best a mixed bag. While the app lets you create a training plan (based on improving your overall fitness or building to a specific distance or race), the only part of the workouts that are sent to the watch itself are the target heart rate for each session; you have to memorise any intervals, target distances or times. It is equipped with functions that are useful for working out, including an optical heart rate sensor, a step-count accelerometer, and sensors that detect orientation, altitude/atmospheric pressure, and temperature. The GPS function can also measure running distance, speed, pace, etc. It also supports the measurement of VO2 max, which measures cardiorespiratory fitness, and can be used as an index for improving endurance when running, etc.

The design is also waterproof to a very impressive 200m. Whilst 50m or 100m is ‘normal’, this kind of waterproofing really means that the watch will likely maintain water resistance at a high-level of impact eg when crashing at wakeboarding. I would have thought WR100 is enough but…WR200 certainly can’t hurt. Optički senzor na poleđini sata meri otkucaje srca sa članka koristeći LED diode. Izmerene vrednosti se prikazuju na satu. There are 15 activities and 24 indoor workout options on the watch, including essentials such as running and cycling but also swimming and elliptical training. I only tried the watch for running, walking, swimming and strength training. The heart rate monitor experience is a lot like what we've experienced on other Casio smartwatches. As in, it's not great.

These are similar to the kind of insights you can attain from a Garmin watch, though the sheer size of this watch and the unreliable heart rate monitoring just doesn't make it the ideal watch to trust those insights and want to exercise with this watch on a regular basis.

cities (38 time zones*auto summer time (DST) switching) and Coordinated Universal Time*May be updated when connected to a smartphone.Full auto-calendar; 12/24-hour format; button operation tone on/off; vibration function; airplane mode