Casio Launches Its First G-Shock Smartwatch With Wear OS by Google

Casio G-Shock GSW-H1000 powered by Google’s Wear OS was launched on Thursday. The rugged smartwatch affords 200-metre water resistance and options a variety of exercise choices together with operating, indoor exercises, street biking, swimming, in addition to browsing and snowboarding. The G-Shock smartwatch additionally comes with an optical sensor to measure coronary heart charge. It encompasses a dual-layer show — an always-on LCD for time show and a color LCD for high-definition show of maps, sensor information, and extra.

Casio G-Shock GSW-H1000 worth, availability

The Casio G-Shock GSW-H1000 is priced at GBP 599 (roughly Rs. 60,600) within the UK. As per a report by Engadget, the smartwatch is priced at $700 (roughly Rs. 51,300) within the US. The watch has not been listed on the official web site within the US but. The smartwatch from Casio will reportedly develop into accessible for buy in May. Details about its availability in different markets together with India haven’t been introduced but.

Casio G-Shock GSW-H1000 specs

Casio G-Shock GSW-H1000 is the corporate’s first G-Shock watch — a part of its G-Squad lineup — to be powered by Wear OS by Google. It comes geared up with a 1.2-inch capacitive touchscreen dual-layer show — a color TFT LCD (360×360 pixels) and a monochrome LCD. The monochrome show include always-on perform to point out time, whereas the color LCD exhibits maps, notifications, sensor information, and different data. The Wear OS watch works with each Android and iOS gadgets.

As per a Casio blog post saying the launch, the Casio G-Shock GSW-H1000 smartwatch comes with air strain/ altitude sensors, accelerometer, gyrometer, compass (magnetic) sensor, and an optical sensor (PPG Heart Rate). The Casio unique app constructed into the watch supplies help for 15 out of doors actions together with operating, biking, and 24 indoor exercise choices. It additionally permits the wearer so as to add as much as 8 unique indoor exercises to complement the 24 preloaded choices.

The Casio G-Shock GSW-H1000 smartwatch comes with 200-metre water resistance, and the corporate is touting the corrosion-resistant titanium case again and titanium carbide end that present enhanced abrasion resistance. It encompasses a urethane band for flexibility and sturdiness, in addition to “special components between the band and case to ensure a very comfortable fit”. The watch additionally comes with GPS (together with GLONASS and QZSS).

The information recorded by the Casio G-Shock GSW-H1000 smartwatch might be tracked through the G-Shock Move app, accessible on the Google Play store and Apple’s App Store. It comes with a Sensor Overlay perform that enables customers to mix video and nonetheless photographs of their actions with information captured by the watch with a view to create layered visible media, which might be shared on social media.

As per Casio, the G-Shock GSW-H1000 smartwatch might be totally charged in about three hours and is claimed to ship as much as 1.5 days of energy below regular use (color show). In the Multi Timepiece Mode (which is basically timekeeping and sensors solely), the smartwatch is claimed to supply a few month’s run time. The watch additionally options Bluetooth v4.2 and Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n connectivity. It measures 65.6×56.3×19.5mm and weighs 103 grams (together with wristband).


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