Casio Men's PAG240-1CR Pathfinder Triple Sensor Multi-Function Sport WatchI just received this as a gift yesterday and thought I'd post my initial impressions. Should anything change drastically I will post updates later:
I spent about 2 hours yesterday reading the manual, customizing the settings, and playing with all of the functions. I then used it all day at work, and came home today. Here's my rundown...
World Clock - 4.5/5 Has one city for every time zone (or UTC offset, however you want to think about it), being near Washington D.C. I have to set my city code to "New York", besides that it has a very convenient feature of showing UTC time initially when moving to World Time mode, this is great for all those military and government types always wondering what Zulu time is! Would like to have a couple more cities per time zone.
Sunrise/Sunset Time - 5/5 Works great, once you change your lat/long settings for your current location, times are within a couple minutes of any other information I could find online. No issues.
Compass - 4.5/5 Using my informal test, the compass seemed to be more or less accurate. Would probably get you out of a sticky situation if needed.
Altimeter - 2/5 Out of the box this stated I was about 420 ft above sea level, I am in fact only about 30. I told it my correct altitude as per the manual yesterday, today after coming home from work I checked it again and it now states that I am about 120 feet above sea level, sitting on the same couch. I'll try setting my own value again and see what happens. I guess as long as it's accurate within a hundred feet or so that's not bad for being on a watch. Shirely I wouldn't start landing a 747 off of its advice, but not bad.
**update** So far no matter how many times I set the correct value the watch will be hundreds of feet off a day later. I'll contact Casio to see what they say.
Barometer/Thermometer - The baroemter reading was almost exactly what weather.com told me the value was for my area. The thermometer seems accurate provided you give it a few minutes off your wrist to get an accurate reading. I might do some research and return with barometer impressions.
General Display and Function - 5/5 The dial is pretty big and has a lot of information. It is easy to scroll through the different modes and feels very solid. You can definitely take this out to the field or camping and not have to worry about it holding up. Not too big that I feel like I can't wear it every day.
Solar Battery Function - 5/5 I've been playing with my watch off and on for a full day, and have hit the illumination button quite a few times and the battery indicator hasn't moved off of "high" yet.
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