looks neat, but this would stop my buy:

""" Use USB charging for the heart rate monitor, step tracker and notifications. Time display is powered by solar charging alone when the battery runs low. """

I have a gshock already (GM-B2100D-1A) and I love it - I especially love that it should never be opened, always just works, and it looks ok too (:

Nah, this is not the first G-Shock with an HRM. This is only the first in the "G-LIDE" series designed for surfers which usually has a tide graph. But there have been Wear OS G-Shocks and G-Move watches with HRM in the past.

It's super cool and I love G Shock in general but the Casio app is straight up awful.

How's the battery life on these Casios with fancy features?

My ideal smart (dumb) watch has step/heart/sleep tracking synced to my phone, no other connected features (especially no notifications), and a ~month of battery life. Currently that only satisfied by a Withings Scan Watch or a few Garmin models with the notifications disabled...

    Run Time

    Using activity functions (heart rate): Approx. 35 hours max. 
    Using in watch mode with heart rate measurement OFF: Approx. 1 month
    Using with power-saving function ON: Approx. 11 months

Uhm the caption isn't remotely correct? Casio has had a G-Shock with heart rate monitor and smartphone link for years now. This is the first G-Lide series watch with these features however.

It's a cool novelty but as a sports+tech+watch enthusiast (I guess which makes me the ideal target market for it), it doesn't speak to me. It's far too chunky at 17mm (that's 0.66 inches) and the fact I would need to charge a "legacy" watch has no appeal to me.

I want this in the classic F-77W or F-91W shell. Has this been already done neatly?

> smartphone pairing enables automatic time correction

I like how they're advertising this shitty feature that's much more cumbersome than what their watches have now, namely https://gshock.casio.com/europe/technology/radio/

More like, automatic time correction is the best reason we found for mandating smartphone pairing and we hope you won't remember there's a better solution.

Also, 35 days that the battery lasts is 1/10 of a year, compared to 10 years that radio-synced watches have, so two orders of magnitude less. Fuck off with smartphone pairing, Casio.

edit: 35 hours, lol, so more like three orders of magnitude less.

Waiting for a watch that can measure respiratory rate.