Casino/Timex were never GPS players

I gambled on the Casino watch back in 1981 and have yet to lose. I don't need a global positioning system to tell me where I am. Every where I go, there I are!!

My Coros Vertix has 60 hrs of full GPS battery life.

I'm right here..... wrote:

I gambled on the Casino watch back in 1981 and have yet to lose. I don't need a global positioning system to tell me where I am. Every where I go, there I are!!

Good catch. I get tired of correcting autocorrect and just let words fly sometimes.

Timex isn't in the game today because they entered the market without regard to quality. I had one of the earliest timex gps watches and it was horrible. I'd be lucky to get 80% accuracy out in the open.

Casio and Timex are for fast runners, particularly track runners, for whom something as inaccurate as GPS is completely useless.

Even out on a tempo run, you're not gonna get as good splits from a GPS as if you take the 5 minutes to mark exact split points on mapmyrun.

The only question is why the hell did TomTom discontinue their watch brand?

They were the only true Garmin competitor. Now it's all over.

What about this Hauwei GT2 watch?

It's got decent reviews, GPS seems to be ok...

Tom Tom Watch wrote:

The only question is why the hell did TomTom discontinue their watch brand?

They were the only true Garmin competitor. Now it's all over.

TomTom made the Nike watch. After Nike dropped them, they probably struggled. I know that TT also changes the maker of their internals. Something something South Africa. Something something distribution. I don’t think they ever recovered.

Timex had a great non-GPS HRM watch around 2012, IIRC the date correctly. The Ironman Tapscreen HRM, but they botched the marketing by telling users that they could "tap" the screen for start and splits. At the light setting, the jarring of running would set off the tap. At the medium setting, you had to whack it to get it to work. Timex dumped them and came out with an "improved" version with a more complex interface and...I kid you not!... a DOT MATRIX display. Hey, Timex, 1980 called and they want their watches back! I discovered that a fingernail tap on the medium setting was perfect and I bought 5 when Timex discontinued them. I've since given two away as gifts.

After those two fiascos, Timex probably made a marketing decision to avoid the GPS running market.

Garmin Conned? wrote:

What about this Hauwei GT2 watch?

It's got decent reviews, GPS seems to be ok...

You've been on a crusade talking about your horrible customer service with garmin, and your horrible watch you got from them. I've been wondering where you're going.

Now you're pushing a huawei product? Either the UK is that much more comfortable with that company than the US, or I'm gonna have to get a little suspicious of ya, bud.

I've had enough of Garmin, Polar the whole way for me now.

Polar and Suunto are both fine alternatives to Garmin, and from what I've heard Coros is also good. I don't like how Garmin watch faces are so easy to break.

The real question is when will Apple make a decent watch?

Bad Wigins wrote:

Casio and Timex are for fast runners, particularly track runners, for whom something as inaccurate as GPS is completely useless.

Even out on a tempo run, you're not gonna get as good splits from a GPS as if you take the 5 minutes to mark exact split points on mapmyrun.

So you just ignore the GPS distance when you're on the track... duh. As long as your route doesn't have lots of tall buildings, really dense tree cover, or lots of sharp turns, GPS distances are usually spot on. I've been out on many tempo runs where I had to adjust my route mid tempo because the path was flooded, or icy, or closed for construction, or there was a cancer walk going on, or there was a really strong headwind... would have been screwed if I measured the route ahead of time.

I'm right here..... wrote:

I gambled on the Casino watch back in 1981 and have yet to lose. I don't need a global positioning system to tell me where I am. Every where I go, there I are!!

Those signs in malls and parks that have the You Are Here marker freaks me out. How do they know?

Good GPS tech is a lot harder to make than good watch tech. Back when GPS watches first hit the scene in the early 2000s, a wrist-wearable GPS unit was a huge advance and Garmin had the tech to make it possible. They were one of the first, so they got a huge head start.

Yes In the early 2000s Timex had a GPS watch but it had a wrap around arm band sensor. I think it was like $400 too (back then)

Bad Wigins wrote:

Casio and Timex are for fast runners, particularly track runners, for whom something as inaccurate as GPS is completely useless.

Even out on a tempo run, you're not gonna get as good splits from a GPS as if you take the 5 minutes to mark exact split points on mapmyrun.

+1, I use a timex when I’m doing 2,600m repeats.

I'm right here..... wrote:

I gambled on the Casino watch back in 1981 and have yet to lose. I don't need a global positioning system to tell me where I am. Every where I go, there I are!!

Yep, they show the time and can accurately enough measure time as well.

I write it down in my note book and I am never bothered if Strava asks for more money.

I've always been a casio guy but sort of turned away as they didn't have GPS watches. Lo and behold, a guy (Joe Gray) I followed on IG is one of their athletes and had a video and pica about their new GPS watches. I'll be switching back!