Casio's fitness watch that attacks Garmin

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G-Shock has just unveiled its latest GBD-H1000 smart health connected watch which has a myriad of new features, including a heart rate monitoring.

In fact, the Japanese brand Casio is attacking the smartwatches for fitness sector, almost the preserve of the manufacturer Garmin. Presentation of this giant activity tracker.

G-Shock GBD-H1000: no less than 5 sensors

On this smart health connected watch, there is therefore a heart rate monitoring, but also a GPS (GLONASS compatible), a barometric altimeter, a compass and an accelerometer. Enough for satisfy most athletes.

But the GBD-H1000 is not just a sensor box since in the purest G-Shock tradition, it is also very resistant. So you can take the device without problems up to 200 m underwater, where the Garmin stop just over 100m away.

Better, the G-Shock can determine the VO2 Max, the measurement of the maximum amount of oxygen a person inhales during an effort. Finally, all this data will be managed by a virtual coach developed by Firstbeat, already present on Huawei Garmin and Amazfit.

A model that imposes by its size

There is no other word for it, the G-Shock GBD-H1000 is massive. So it weighs no less than 100g against the 83 g of Fenix ​​6. But this overweight is explained by the good autonomy of the beast. The latter can indeed operate 14 hours with the GPS activated. If this figure is not very impressive, know that we can have 1 year of use on a single charge if we do without GPS, according to Casio.

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However, it is not yet known which OS will run all of this, but Casio will surely give more information in the coming weeks. It will also be necessary to Review the mobile application since if it is not intuitive, all these sensors will work for nothing.

What we do know, however, is that the smartwatch will be available from April at a price of 399 euros.

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