DWH5600 Square "G-Shock Move" Fitness Tracking Watch - My Sincere, Non-sponsored Review

Casio has a detailed write-up about this watch and, wow! There's a lot of information here! www.casio.com/us/watches/gsho... . This is a G-Shock Square unlike any other in my collection. It features "Solar-Assisted" charging to keep the battery running year after year. In theory, with enough exposure to good lighting, the watch will have plenty of power. However, it also comes with a USB charging cable for that battery, because it uses significantly more battery power than the other Squares I own. I find that I've needed to use the USB charger once or twice a week during these last few winter months.
This watch also has a Memory in Pixel or MIP display, which will give a much more pleasing look than the negative LCDs of some of my other G-Shocks.The MIP display also makes it possible for each mode readout to look completely different from the others. This watch does NOT have Casio's Multiband 6 or Wave Ceptor technology to keep itself synchronized to "Atomic Time" but, instead, it receives time adjustments through a Bluetooth connection with a smartphone or tablet.
If you're used to using some of the other G-Shock models I use, like the GW-M5610 models, you might find that the operation of this watch is non-intuitive. The combination of button presses to reach the various modes and to use them is different in a way which is still a bit confusing to me.
But the really, really big difference between this and my other G-Shock Squares has to be that this watch has sensors on the back to track my heart rate and blood oxygen levels. And, if I take the time to lean how to REALLY use this watch and the companion "Casio Watches" smartphone app, I can do a whole bunch of fitness tracking.
Speaking of using the Casio Watches App through a Bluetooth connection, I know that some G-Shock fans would rather not use any Bluetooth functions and features. If that's your preference, I'll tell you straight up that you shouldn't buy this watch. All of that fitness tracking stuff is just way too cumbersome to use without the app. It would drive you crazy.
Honestly, I am not too concerned about being able to track my fitness, heart rate, etc. using a watch. I'm not really interested in having any kind of smart watch or fitness tracker. But I'm convinced that if I wanted to do that then I might find that an Apple Watch or a Garmin Watch can do those things better than this G-Shock can (even if they aren't as objectively tough as G-Shocks). And that makes me wonder if this G-Shock will be a successful product. Its normal price is $299, which is a bit high for a G-Shock Square which isn't a limited edition or made of special metals or things like that. But that MIP display is certainly impressive. Overall, I think this would be more attractive at a lower price. And I wonder if, ultimately, this watch is just a stepping stone to a more refined product that Casio might release in the future. We'll see.

[@SuperMrgentleman]

Honey, wake up, new Greg Anderson just dropped

[@GoodTimekeeper]

I already recorded the next one. Stay tuned!

[@e28forever30]

I’m still on the fence. I like the concept of a smart square, and honestly, I’m not an athlete, I would only get it to track my health as I will celebrate my 50th birthday this year. It would suffice for my use, but it seems cumbersome to operate. Wish it had the standard G interface. Thanks for the helpful review Greg, greetings from Belgium 🇧🇪!

[@JAY61ish]

You can get the mips display .without all the monitors .and stuff.. with the GBD 200 G Life. Watches.. they are super cool..😊

[@hdmedia7404]

Hi Greg! The review I was craving for so much ;)

[@anjatrorup1612]

Great review 👍 To the point. Allround specifications. In depth test of functions. Personal impression. Perfect information pace. That's why I love your watch reviews 👍👍👍 Must take forever to edit this quality content. Thank you for making these videos

[@mercster]

I've actually looked at those for the great display! Nice, thanks Greg.

[@Happy-Me.]

Nice one Casio. I've found this watch to be very useful at keeping me on track with my health and fitness and because it's so low maintenance its just the way I like it. Finally I got it for an excellent price too! 😎

[@hansspiegl8684]

Thank you for this exellent review! I have seen so many, and the normaly are fanatc - bad or good. You told us, who should not buy this watch and who should buy it. Great!

[@mishamutavdzic5099]

Awesome review, as always. Thank you, Sir!

[@jamesmcintyre4287]

Great video as always.

[@desmondmao9328]

so detailed review, thanks

[@bigbluegr8ness383]

We have a preference for the same watches my friend awesome collection 👍🏻👍🏻

[@pupi-pupi]

metalic and golden tinted king of g's😍

[@MrPleers]

I'm conflicted about this watch. I could not care less about the Bluetooth connection or the fitness applications. But I love that MIP negative display.

[@7775Kevin]

Too much like a smart watch for me! Thanks for the review.

[@gerry9306]

Don't be a dinosaur Kev

[@NunoxFerreira]

I just arrived "late" to this Casio hype...but a Casio used to be my first watch back in late 1980's 😊 Own 2 GW-5610 U and 2 GW-5000 U;one of each for EDC and the other in box for collection!! This "almost" smartwatch Casio line seems very interesting to me.

[@andrewmarriott4033]

I definitely need to get this g shock I have 3 that connects to my phone love them but I’m like you always like to take my watch of at night 👍

[@WatchesAndPhotography]

Mr. Anderson, new watcher and will be a subscriber to your channel, nice to see a channel that disseminates GOOD information. Anyway, I am relatively new to Casio and I bought my first Gshock Tough Solar GW-5610u and I am wondering if there is a version of this exact watch but with a mips display? I mean literally, the same watch but only change is the display only. I don’t care for Bluetooth or heart rate monitors or any other junk features that will use up battery life and or potentially give my data to big tech.

[@ulfearles1108]

New video, great 👍🏻 I really like both Casio and Polar. However, they didn’t get this watch quite right. I am totally with you mr Anderson. An old style G-shock with MIPS would be super 👍🏻

[@GoodTimekeeper]

The more I think about it, this watch seems like a step toward a much-improved second generation model, but who knows when they’ll release it?

[@stevebarnard8580]

Lovely collection! The best non-MIP negative display is the GD 350, head and shoulders above the rest but it's not solar :(

[@blasien1]

I wore my old Pebble watch for years, Bluetooth tied to my phone. This looks like a step towards that direction with certain fitness tracking features added in over a Pebble. The Pebble had an odd proprietary charger cable too lol. I recall packing that charger on trips, but the Pebble held a charge for a week. When the gshock can report weather info off the phone I'll probably get one. I found the previous squares with Bluetooth disappointing, the app was clunky and had limited functionality for me. But this generation is getting closer to something I would actually enjoy. Maybe the next Gen will hit the spot for me. Until then I'll keep my square with radio time sync, really love that old standby

[@GoodTimekeeper]

A next-generation version might be very interesting, but I have no idea what Casio’s plans are.

[@ElectricShadowsZone]

Thanks for showing us your collection. I think MIP is the way to go. Have you tried non-square G-Shocks recently? My favourite G-Shock at present is the G-Steel GST-B600-1A. It has an analogue main time and a small negative LCD display that is hard to read. I still like the watch.

[@chevyro9816]

you can also just swap the modules, instead of trying to reverse the polarized filter, in order to get a positive display instead of negative.

[@hardcoregabbers373]

hi greg can you confirm that there is no hourly beep? Thanks for your video 👍

[@ianmaw66]

I have the same model. I find the 'paw print' on the back makes it a bit uncomfortable.

[@thebetamaxman]

Not to mention if you want A fib detection you might want something else. I use a tic watch 5 pro with a nice aliexpress 24mm leather strap for that more in depth monitoring. It also serves as my beater for work. I wear my good watches on my other wrist.

[@bradleyzimmerman4184]

MIP Displays are very nice. Even if they can't refresh fast enough to show in real time 10th or 100th of a second, they can still show those figures during review. Are you listening Casio? Speed up the processor to eliminate button press lag too, I as well as many of you, I'm sure, would like MIP on G Shocks with traditional non-health related features. My idea would be A GW5610u-1 with added sun/moon rise/set data with moon phase and tide. Wish? Triple sensor? Too much? ;)

[@GoodTimekeeper]

Maybe you’re asking for too much at this price but, then again, I have other feature-packed watches which didn’t destroy my budget. Hmmm.

[@WyvernDotRed]

The screen, at least the one in GBD/X-1/200 watches *can* refresh faster than once or twice a second. This can be proven by timing a split time well in the stopwatch mode, the indicator for this can flash quicker. But the watch is programmed not to, to save power and as the used low power processor is very slow. Which is important for those models as they run on a CR2032 battery, with 1-2 years of battery life depending on Bluetooth usage. It's not really possible to dumbify this watch besides removing or disabling Bluetooth, as the large matrix display needs smarter electronics to drive it. At which point they might as well go out of their way to synchronise up-to-date timezone and DST information, like these pieces do. The sports tracking stuff are needless extras those, the aforementioned models lack this aside from a low power IMU.

[@HLi-eu5er]

The GWX-5600 has a lot of these features.

[@vezquex]

Enter and Back to navigate modes, on the case with recessed buttons. Utter design failure. Glad I didn't buy this model, as it would have been a mistake. Thank you for showing exactly how some of the functions work.

[@pawninwordsandsoon]

I read somewhere that this watch actually has TWO batteries, but I don't know if it's true. One battery is solar powered and is used for the basic functionality of the watch (basically the features of a regular g-shock watch), and the other battery powers the "smart" features so to say it, since solar power would not be anywhere enough to keep them running. Which means that this watch can run for months on a single solar charge as a regular g-shock, you just won't be able to use the smart features.

[@mak450]

Thanks for the review! I'd heard alot of people say they didn't care for the user interface, so I was hoping more reviews would steadily pour out in case Casio ever updated the software. Something tells me that's not a priority for them though, at least at the moment. I'm not one of those people who hates the idea of my watch connecting to bluetooth, but what I've discovered from my one bluetooth connected square and a pair of edifices...is that I *_detest_* the fact that the Casio app(s) are always active and have to have GPS data turned on on the phone/tablet, regardless of what I'm doing with them. The tinfoil hat in me won't abide it, and I don't see why I have to let Google know where I am when I'm setting an alarm... So I'd at least like the watch itself to have it's own GPS sensor and be able to interface with that in a way that's not too cumbersome...perhaps that's asking too much of a device even at $300? I don't know. Maybe one day, or maybe smart watches just never will be for me.

[@wiver1676]

What website did you purchase your dwh5600?

[@markthibault8579]

Good review. Though, the requirement to press Enter to activate a mode would get annoying. They should offer the option to disable the mode title screens, or allow the mode to automatally activate after half a second. This would save the extra button press.

[@martincordova1538]

What website did you use to purchase this?

[@richardnoseworthy4031]

How about a g shock vs timex Ironman review

[@pompeylad1977]

I had the GBX-100, it was good but so many flaws, the menus are all over the place and as you show it’s not like the buttons we all know and love, plus the tide graph was a waste of time, it only shows the tide for the current hour, yes it’s got the wavey graph but it’s impossible to count the tiny little lines forward along the graph to see the tide in the future on that day- unlike my Gulfman which is superb. Casio need to do a lot of thinking and layout redesign of the MIP’s I reckon but I’d say DONT go touchscreen.

[@bbishop2009]

Ya, I struggle to read a negative display. Hey, what time is it? OK, hang on, almost there.😂

[@NoaeDoesStuff]

I just got a gba-900 and it is ok, but the app is a bit finicky

[@spacemanschannel6380]

My simple G-Shock makes my life better because I don't have to use my phone anymore to read the time. I think this G-Shock would be too distracting for me.

[@17cmmittlererminenwerfer81]

Thank you for *not* saying "colorways". Hate that idiotic phrase replacing "colors".

[@gerry9306]

English evolves pal. Otherwise we'd still be speaking Old English. Get with the times jack.

[@4chanresearchdivision107]

Good time to post such a video about G-Shock Squares, as I recently had an epiphany on why I don't have any squares despite liking their case designs. It bothers me that nearly all squares have a dot-matrix part of the display that is used to display the date/month and uses the heavily modified segment display for the day of the week, the same segment styled used in their cheaper watches. That always bothered me that Friday looks like F'R. In most of their other watches, like the circular g-shocks and Men of G watches they use 7-segments for the date/month and and dot matrix for the day, making it much more legible. 00:43 when the all the squares are shown, three of them have the dot matrix used correctly, the moon-phase square and two others, but that's it. Anyone else feel the same way? Or am I just being a snob?😅

[@HLi-eu5er]

Never had any problems: 20+ solar and multiband squares.

[@jorge23483]

Ok, my hot-take, I’m not convinced with this G-Shock… not this one nor the rest of the MIP display watches like the new rangeman, maybe the GBD-H200 but only because this one looks more intentionally designed. But yeah, I found all this watches with the MIP display slightly different unrefined and underpowered for what Casio wishes and it’s competition already have in the market. Another thing I’m finding disappointing is Casio sidelining Multiband 6 in preference of Bluetooth, what I love about my G-shock squares and My Rangeman is their independence of battery replacement and synchronization, but I guess having the bluetooth connectivity makes easier to sell in places where atomic signal doesn’t reach. Overall, this square G is very cool just for the MIP display and the though solar, so congratulations. Thank you for the video.

[@jorge23483]

I think I may try MIP display in a more affordable model like the current GBD-200 or the GBX-100

[@LV-42617]

@@jorge23483 The GBD-200 is great looking but the UI and the buttons response time is piss-poor. I received mine as a gift but if I would have to pay for it, the watch was going back the same day it arrived.

[@pompeylad1977]

MIP is a lot lot better than standard negative but still no way near as good as positive, negatives drive me mad!!

[@threadripper979]

All squares need bigger buttons, the newer MIP displays, Multiband 6, and solar charging. Leave the fitness functions to Suunto and Garmin.

[@ProjectSerpo90]

100% ive been saying the same thing. I love my GWX-5600 but absolutely hate the buttons. At the moment my favorite G-Shock is my GW-9400 but it’s definitely a much bigger watch than a square.

[@HLi-eu5er]

Have you tried a GWX-8900? A nice classic.

[@ProjectSerpo90]

@@HLi-eu5er i have never seen those before, but they look awesome! Same functions as the GWX-5609 but with better buttons. Thanks friend I’m going to have to pick one up.

[@LV-42617]

Problem is that Casio wants to be "smart" but gets dumber all the time...

[@bobtranquilli9985]

For me, it's a big "nah"

[@ThePookaHarvey]

No 10th/100th seconds on a stopwatch?!... Storms out.

[@tridens6708]

My personal view I hate negative display impossible to see and my eye sight isn't to good people don't want them casino don't list n to people customer 😢