My Honest Review of the Casio G-Shock GBD-200
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- Опубликовано: 26 авг 2024
- After owning the Casio G-Shock GBD-200 during the last month, here is what I liked and what I disliked about this ''smart'' watch.
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This particular model is an excellent watch. It's NOT supposed to be a smart watch. It was built by Casio to be used as a REGULAR G-SHOCK watch. The extra smart features that are in this model are there for convenience purposes only to give you notifications from your phone that you would otherwise have to look at your phone to see if you were wearing something else other than this model. Get over it if you want this model to be a smart watch. It isn't.
It's neither a good watch.
I bought as an upgrade to 5610u and it fails at that.
Screen, yes its 11/10 it's super fantastic. But anything else?
Hugely disappointed.
@@VishnuZutatenIn what way?
@@danielthegeek4582 I think it’s a bit of an exaggeration but it’s definitely flawed. The interface is surprisingly slow. It feels like there’s a lot of lag when changing modes - whatever you do don’t press the Run button from the Home Screen. It’ll take 10 seconds to get back to timekeeping mode. Changing settings on the watch from 6:00 to 6:30 will require 30 button presses and you can’t hold the button. Everything on this watch feels sluggish.
But the interval timers are great, it has vibration alarms and alerts, a super common CR2032 battery and an excellent display. It’s a good watch but could be even better in a future revision.
Thats the idea. Its a watch which is durable and that tells you notifications@@VishnuZutaten
I've the blue version, and it is terrific. I mostly bought it to track my runs and it's been great, I get a difference of usually 100-200meters over a distance of 5km, tracks pace quite good. I dislike smart watches I just needed this for running and it does that pretty well and has an awesome display. It uploads my runs to strava after it connects to phone via bluetooth. I love this watch :)
Buy a used Garmin watch with all the features you want.
Casio just needs to add tough solar to make this watch perfect.
The GBDH1000, GBDH2000, and GPRH1000 all have MIP, solar, Bluetooth and use USB cable to charge.
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I just got it, I was debating about returning for other one but after using the right move app, I think I’ll keep it. Nice watch for the price
I have this watch, I bought it for the display. I've never connected it to my phone, I'm not interested in having a smart phone to count steps blah blah blah... It's a cool watch that takes a beating on a construction site daily. Plus it has the countdown features for the gym.
does this watch have a tracker heart rate in own screen ?
Speaking about incoming calls: it actually beeps and vibrates when call started ringing and beeps and vibrates when stop ringing (in case you dont pick-up).
The negative display looks great indeed, I just wish Casio made this watch, with this display size and contrast, without any useless fitness features or "smart" features, and just made it more robust so it can actually be used outdoors. In owner's manual Casio lists
- "Do not operate the crown or buttons while your watch is submersed in water or wet"
- "Avoid wearing your watch while in the bath"
- "Do not wear your watch while in heated swimming pool, sauna or any other high temperature/high humidity environment"
- "Do not wear your watch while washing your hands or face, while doing house work or while performing any other task that involves soaps or detergents"
- "Do not leave in direct sunlight for long periods of time.."
It looks robust but seems like it's more like porcelain to me.
Is this true? I mean, it's a deal breaker..
Thanks for this review!
when will Casio Gshock make a Tough Solar/Multiband/Bluetooth with MIP 😩
I would buy one without hesitation if they do that, I think they will avoid making one to not jeopardize the sales of their other models with LCD.
@@TricksTipsFix I hope they make one 🥲
HC is Hidden Coast
Anyone knows what "SM" for?
In GBD series
ya man, i was hoping this has a solar version.
@@TricksTipsFix I want a positive MIP display.
This watch gets the most wrist time. My daily walk (5km twice) the gym 4 days a week. Cooking times every day etc…great watch
My ocd can't stand when there's no 1/100th of a sec in the stop watch. It's only counting full seconds.
Is it tough are hard like other g shock?
The GBDH1000, GBDH2000, and GPRH1000 all have MIP, solar, Bluetooth and use USB cable to charge.
But too expensive
@@saikemm The GVDH2000 and the Garman Instinct 2 are probably are $300, but there are cheaper smartwatches with GPS. Eventually they might go for less.
This is a nice-looking watch.
Awesome looking watch with a fantastic MIP display and vibration alarm. Those are the good points. The UI however is so piss-poor that Casio should be ashamed for eternity. The buttons response time is a joke and if you ever try to set a countdown beyond 60 minutes, you are in a world of shit. The GBD-200 can only be recommend for people who want a stylish sci-fi/retro looking square other than that it's garbage.
I like the look, but it is useless. Even simple functions like the timer is very slow, it takes seconds to reset the timer and it doesn’t display the time and timer together neither. So I can’t even use this in the gym to time my rests between sets.
I am first time buyer for g shock is this a good model? I want to buy the square ones Which should i buy?
@@ayushtank_2307 This is an excellent model. You can use the stopwatch feature and the stopwatch also displays th time on the same screen on the bottom part of the screen. I recommend this model. Don't be afraid to buy it. It will serve you well for many years.
I couldn't agree more.
does it have a step counter ? and if so does it also works without taking your phone with you
Yes it does
Yes it does, I didn't copared it with any other ones but some people found it to be unreliable.
Yes it does, and it’s very accurate.
Do you have any alternative recommendations from this one? Same size would be nice. By the way i already own a dw5600
But Garmin.
Don't invest in Casio.
They slept the smart revolution, but they don't even listen to customers and put out this ridiculous noon working products.
"It's not supposed to be smart" then why put those features? Watch is too big, to slow even in stopwatch mode (JFC, unusable 😂...)
Only function is watch with great screen then again, it's way too big for that.
I think the square shape makes it harder to get a solar with Bluetooth unless you use a USB charger.
That's the daftest thing I've read for a while. 😂
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I bought it but don’t like it looks like a runners watch someone who’s into hiking or something like that
This must go solar.
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I have the slightly better spec gbx100, and while i love the clarity of the display, the UI and features are HORENDOUSLY poor - a useless stopwatch (doesn't count fractions of a second, only whole seconds?? The whole way functions are selected is also bizarre, I really don't know WHAT Casio were thinking when they designed these.
If they just made a solar, multiband 6 model 5600, with the ONLY added extra feature being a step counter and with a MIP display, it would be perfection, but no......they gave us the DW-H5600MB (That NOBODY wanted).......WHAT A JOKE!.
The GBX-100 is actually better
I find it useless as a smart watch. It's a good dumb watch.
It surprises me that Casio is not trying to improve their software, This could be an ''ok'' smartwatch with some small changes.
@@TricksTipsFixsolar charger & heart rate would make this watch even better 😊
Bro it is never meant to be a smart watch!
They should have made 5610u with MIP display, better strap.
Smart features aren't working here and even stopwatch is SUPER SLOW to a point is not usable.
Also it's bigger than 5610u. It's bigger than a watch should be. I mean it's neither a smartwatch, nor tactical/gps utility like garmin, so why is it that big? IMHO=FAKE LOOKS, FAKE FEATURES. Like this ridiculous app.
It's a fantastic digital watch, work 11/10 display, but because of above its very mediocre.
And why the strap is so stiff?
Basically from the get go you need to buy AFTERMARKET parts to fit aftermarket strap.
RIDICULOUS from such big company as CASIO...
They're not listening to customers.
Are you usually not honest? Wtf?
I find that many reviews on RUclips are just trying to sell you a product.
Thats a stupid watch with very tiny font that u cant read easy .. difficult to operate compared to other digital watch .. the smart part of it is very stupid . simple stopwatch or timer functions need going into complicated menus . Only advantage is size and shape and screen
Quick Question.
Can you like turn off all those "smartwatch capabilities" such as notifications, walk counts and etc and then just fully use it manually like a normal gshock (to further save the battery". Man I an loving the display of this gshock and I am eager to buy it once I have the budget for it.
Nice review BTW! 🫡👍
Yes, I have all those features turned off and I love how it looks great on my hand. I have the blue one.
Yep you can and I bet most people will do just that.