The new Bluetooth-geared up GB-6900 will come in blue, orange, and black, and value $199 when it arrives in October (click on to magnify).
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Final yr, Casio G-Shock dipped a toe into the smartwatch enviornment with two Bluetooth fashions, the GB-5600AA and GB-6900AA ($199), that communicated with your smartphone and provided some restricted notification options when an e-mail or name got here in.
The new GB-6900B, modeled after the “traditional” G-Shock DW-6900, and the greater GB-X6900B, up the Bluetooth ante a bit, with a model 2.zero “engine” that provides “two-approach” communications with a smartphone. That permits you to application your G-Shock’s buttons to function smartphone functions such as track playback. You can additionally use your smartphone to set an alarm, world instances, and the countdown timers, on your watch by way of a free app. The related electronic mail and name-notification options stay.
In improve of Casio’s thirtieth anniversary G-Shock adventure in New York on Wednesday, I had a probability to play round with the new Bluetooth watches alongside with now not reasonably last variations of some of the different simply-introduced G-Shock watches, together with the new $one hundred thirty XL 6900 (a 10 p.c higher model of the DW-6900) and the firm’s new excessive-finish steel MT-G Metallic Twisted timepieces, which begin at $900 and go up to $1,one hundred, dep… [Read more]
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