Casio smart watches, GPS positioning, life or bad

In addition to the new Balance RunIQ smart sports watch, Casio's WSD-F20 is one of the most watched Android Wear systems on CES 2017. The watch maker from Japan introduced the WSD-F10 last year, and the WSD-F20 became the immediate successor to the WSD-F10. And from the improvement of WSD-F20 we also see that indeed Casio listened to a lot of outside views, and take people's needs into account.

First, there is no change in the WSD-F20's beautiful three-defense design. It's still a "big guy," and even the Cynix Fenix ​​5 is not that bad at all, so it seems that female users and the wrong-handed men seem not to fit well. Although the WSD-F20 has been somewhat thinner than the WSD-F10, it is undeniable that the WSD-F20 remains a Beast-level product.

Basically, the WSD-F20 has many improvements over the previous generation, including the Android Wear 2.0 system that adds GPS, improved appearance, and customization, but life is still the biggest short board.

In the design style, the two generations of products are not particularly different, all black or orange and black with, but obviously the latter's Yan value higher. We can see the exposed screws on the upper and lower sides of the screen, along with three physical keys, and a large number of sensors inside the fuselage. A new generation of WSD-F20 still uses the military standards, and in order to touch the screen to provide a better design of the border protection.

The display, WSD-F20 has not changed, including the size and outdoor brightness are the same with the WSD-F10. Just in the screen color coverage has been improved, which for viewing GPS offline map, definitely played a very good effect, is a more obvious improvement.

Let's talk about the WSD-F20 GPS function. When Casio and Nixon launched their own outdoor smartwatches last year, we were amazed at why we did not include the basic features of GPS positioning. The explanation given by Casio is out of consideration for life, because the burden of GPS on electricity is too high. And now, thanks to the low-power GPS chips (from Glonass and Michibiki), we're finally getting more GPS features for outdoor enthusiasts on the WSD-F20.

In addition to adding GPS positioning capabilities, Casio also offers route tracking features that dramatically improve the user's ability to remember the routes and new locations already visited, making outdoor enthusiasts even more comfortable.

In addition to the hardware enhancements, Casio is also very cautious about customizing the Android Wear interface. Although still using Google's Android Wear system, but this time to upgrade to the latest version 2.0. However, if you simply use the native Android Wear 2.0 system to use, naturally no special features, and Casio apparently in the system on a large number of third-party custom features, WSD-F20 looks more unique. Whether it's a time stand-by interface or a third-party App, the WSD-F20 looks like a real outdoor watch.

Basically compared with the previous generation, WSD-F20 has many improvements. The first is the most pleasant to join the GPS, followed by the volume has increased, but the overall appearance is still maintained a rough style. And customize the Android Wear system so that people see Casio's intentions.

Perhaps the $ 500 price is actually at the same level as the high-end outdoor watches of Jia Ming, Songtao or Polar, but the obvious short board of the WSD-F20 is still in the air compared with these competitors aspect. After all, for outdoor enthusiasts, who are reluctant to carry an extra mobile power for a watch, so still need a day or two charged WSD-F20 also face most of the Android Wear smart watch problem. If you do not mind the battery life, then the WSD-F20 is otherwise competitive enough.

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