Casio Smart Outdoor Watch
This is the Casio Smart Outdoor Watch,
model WSD-F10. It is big, it is tough, it is smart, and it is appealing with its rugged, manly design. It is also a pricey piece of tech
goodness when compared to its Android Wear counterparts.
The Casio Smart Outdoor Watch is built
for adventurers – the kind of people who love spending time in harmony with the
great outdoors. The wearable is
water-resistant at depths up to 50 meters and compliant with MIL-STD-810G
military standard endurance tests. At the same time, a microphone is built in
alongside a pressure sensor, an accelerometer, and a compass.
The 1.32-inch display has a resolution
of 320 x 300 pixels with a noticeable "flat tire" design at the
bottom. Over the primary, color display is layered a secondary,
monochrome LCD one, which is there to extend the wearable's battery life.
Theoretically, the Casio Smart Outdoor Watch can last a month on one charge if
only the monochrome LCD is used.
If used as a standard Android Wear smartwatch, the wearable should last you at
least a day per charge.
The Casio Smart Outdoor Watch is
meant to be paired with an Android device. Sure, you may use it with an iPhone
running iOS 8.2 or higher, but you won't be getting the full package. At its
core, the user experience should come close to that of using any other Android
Wear device – you have access to apps, notifications, and Google Now straight
from your wrist. But Casio has built in its own goodies as well. Additional
watch faces provide at-a-glance data collected by the wearable's sensors, such
as altitude, air pressure, compass directions, your own activity, and much
more.
It is expected to cost around $500 when it is
out, which makes it pricier than most other Android Wear smartwatches. But
then again, few other smartwatches can withstand the kind of abuse the WSD-F10
is designed to endure.
