- Casio has another step-counting smartwatch for your consideration
- The Casio F-B100W is now going on sale outside of Japan
- Daily steps can be monitored on your phone or the watch itself
Casio’s commitment to adding modern fitness tracking features to its classic retro-style smartwatches, is continuing apace, with a new watch model that’s now widely available outside of its home country of Japan.
The Casio F-B100W (via Phandroid) is very much in the traditional Casio style when it comes to aesthetics, with the familiar LCD screen and rubber-like resin band, but there are some smarts built into the device too.
It’ll link with an app on your phone for a start, which lets you control various watch settings from Android or iOS. It also acts as a phone finder, so you can use your timepiece to get your phone to make a sound, should you misplace it.
There’s also step counting included here, so you can set goals when it comes to getting your steps in, and see your progress through the day — either through the connected mobile app or on the screen of the F-B100W itself.
Features and pricing
Other features worth noting are calendar, timer, and stopwatch tools, plus a dual world time zone display option that lets you pick from around 300 cities across the globe. The replaceable battery should last you a couple of years.
Casio is certainly leaning into the retro-meets-modern angle, as you can see from one of the promotional images at the top of this article: newspaper cuttings (remember those?) announcing the watch features, alongside an image of the device itself.
If Reddit is anything to go by, the new model could be a hit: “A watch I’d actually buy,” writes one commenter who loves “the retro aesthetic”, while another simply says “oh man that’s absolutely beautiful”.
The Casio F-B100W is now available in the UK in black or green for £55. It hasn’t made its way to the Casio US store yet, but based on similar models, is likely to be priced at around $95. It doesn’t look as though the watch will be available directly in Australia.
