This digital Casio G-Shock incorporates Polar smart tech, and I can’t wait to try it.
The Casio G-Shock G-SQUAD line of watches are sports watches at their heart, equipped with simple, effective training tools. Last year’s revamp of the line offered step counts and running pace tracking, calories burned, and a dedicated stopwatch for interval workouts. Sometimes it’s more useful to pare things down, so you can focus on your watch.
Connecting to your phone to share some of these metrics via Bluetooth, it was a good activity tracker without all the noise associated with a smartwatch — plus it lasts for seven years and is cheaper than most of the best smartwatches.
However, G-Shock just got a whole lot smarter. After the release of the GBD-H1000 series, which used Google’s Wear OS as a basis, the new G-SQUAD GBD-H2000 (opens in new tab) line uses Polar’s advanced suite of tracking technology, as the Finnish sports hardware company shares its fitness tracking algorithms with Casio for the first time.
The GBD-H2000 offers an optical heart rate sensor, built-in GPS functionality (incredible for a digital watch!), and a built-in compass, gyroscope, altimeter, temperature sensor, and accelerometer. In short, it’s can offer many of the workout and GPS tracking services of a traditional smartwatch, but without the constant noise of apps and notifications.
