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| Casio GB-6900AA |
One of the things I left
with from our ASHIBINAA Outlet Mall shopping trip was the Casio GB-6900AA that
cost me around $126 at the current exchange rate. I was looking for a new watch
to wear in uniform, since the Casio I have now is over 5 years old, so it is
time for some change. I got the watch at the G-Shock store (obviously!) and
there was plenty choices in there, definitely a benefit of being in Japan. The
staff was very helpful, however their English was sparse, but they had English product
sheets I could read for the watches I was interested in though. Well, this
watch caught my eye since it can link up to your iPhone 5/Galaxy 4 and vibrate/beep
when you get a call or email; you can even use the watch to find your phone! If
you noticed that I left out SMS notifications, you would sadly be correct in
your observation. I didn’t catch that when I bought the watch, and that feature
would make this watch perfect for my use, instead of almost perfect. I do want
to clarify that that the SMS notification feature doesn’t work with the iPhone
5 only, it will work with the Samsung Galaxy 4 though. And those are the only
two phones this watch works with at the moment, and I think it has to do with
the low power Bluetooth radios these phones have. I am sure more phones will be
compatible as that feature gets integrated into more phones in the future.
Well besides not have
the SMS notification option, this phone has proven still useful for me. The
main reason I got this watch is that I don’t notice sometimes when I get a
phone call when I am out and about. Most of my work days include being meetings
and I have my iPhone on vibrate basically all day. I also keep my phone in my
ABU pant’s thigh inner pocket, which makes it hard to feel if the phone is
vibrating. So I thought having this watch would help me not miss calls, and it
does that pretty good so far. I think this watch would also be good for people that
keep their phone packed away in a merurse or backpack and still want to know if
they get a phone call, without having to have the ringer volume on full blast on
the phone. Overall I am happy with this watch, and if your application is similar
to mine, be sure to give this watch a chance! Now, on to some details on the
watch…
1. You have to use a separate
G-Shock app for your phone for the feature to work on your watch. It is free
and I have had no problem on the iPhone 5 using it. It is primarily used to
link the phone to the watch, and to set up your alerts.
2. Incoming calls do
not have caller ID when sent to your watch, it just flashes you have a call on
the watch.
3. Like I mentioned
before it doesn't send notifications to the watch when your get SMS on the
iPhone 5, and this is probably due to the closed nature of the iOS system.
4. The email
notification works great, but you have to save your email login details on the
G Shock app first for it to work. Once that is set up though, you will get the
notifications of new emails on the watch, and it even scrolls the senders email
across on the watch display!
5. The next feature this
watch has is the find phone feature. Once the phone and watch are linked, you
can hold down a button on the watch and it will make your phone emit a very
loud melody/music (of your choosing) to help you find it if you misplaced it. This
feature works well and I am sure I will use this in the future. Of course this
will only work if the phone and watch are still connected to each other. If you
have no signal you are out of luck, but I noticed they will stay linked to each
other, even if they are in different rooms. Which by the way, the phone will
notify you when the connection is lost. I think that feature is great for people
who forget their things all the time, like my wife! For example, the wife is at
a café with friends and she puts down her phone on the table. They then finish
up yapping awhile later and walk away to pay the bill. By the time they get outside,
the connection between her watch and her phone has been lost, and the watch
will beep/vibrate at her. This will hopefully remind her that she left her
phone on the table!
Well that is about it
on this watch. I have the link to the feature comparisons of this watch and the
other similar models from Casio right below for your shopping needs…
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