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Diesel On Full Guard 2.5 Smartwatch $134.00 + Delivery (Free Click and Collect) @ JB Hi-Fi

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Diesel On Full Guard 2.5 Smartwatch $134.00 + Delivery (Free Click and Collect) @ JB Hi-Fi
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delirium211 on 21/05/2021 - 16:55 jbhifi.com.au (797 clicks)
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Great price - From the reviews that I see, it has the same issues as the other older WearOS watches with Qualcomm 2100 - 1 day battery, laggy processor but then, you can't beat the price. At 134$, you'd already have quite a nice looking watch to impress your date.

The silicon band model is also selling for $134.

https://www.jbhifi.com.au/products/diesel-full-guard-2-5-sma…

Overview

Diesel takes its wearable technology up a notch with the premium Full Guard 2.5. Powered with Wear OS by Google™, the touchscreen smartwatch alerts you of weather changes and real-time smartphone notifications, tracks your heart rate and every move, and lets you control music from your wrist. Unique dial effects add even more personality to this smartwatch with visual enhancements like the appearance of a cracked screen when a private notification is received.

Elevated materials like the colored anodized aluminum also make this touchscreen smartwatch lighter without sacrificing durability. The stainless steel lugs, crown guard and clips have also been sculpted to remove excess weight from the case, while still maintaining a strong structural integrity for ultimate performance.

Key Features

Rapid Charging

Untethered GPS

Swim Proof (30M)

NFC payment

Heart Rate

Electrical & Electronics Diesel (brand) Smartwatch Wear OS

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  • Bluebench on 21/05/2021 - 17:24
    +4

    I get the appeal of smartwatches, but I haven't had to change the battery in my Casio since 2015. Just Saying

    • CyberMurning on 21/05/2021 - 17:33

      blame human who cant invent new battery technologies since dinosaurs age. more feature we have less battery we get.
      companies are just able to create something that uses less battery (barelly nothing like 5% less battery, and people rejoice) but then there are few new features which eat 10% more batteries.

    • delirium211 on 21/05/2021 - 17:44

      yeah battery is a drag but smartwatches have been really useful for me so I dont have to lug around my phone at home - I get the notifications, SMS wherever I am. There a few apps that's useful for me as well without having to remove my phone from my pocket like Google Pay, Calendar, and my Grocery List.

    • smartazz104 on 22/05/2021 - 11:31

      But your watch does… what exactly? Tells time and…

  • CyberMurning on 21/05/2021 - 17:32

    " can't beat the price."
    wrong. whoever bought this will regret after 2-3 weeks. well unless you are super rich doesnt care about wasting 134.

    • klaw81 on 21/05/2021 - 17:36

      Meh, I paid ~$100 for my Moto 360 and got a good 2 years from it before the battery became too unreliable for a work-day. I reckon it was great value at $100, and this watch is similarly good value considering the extra features it has.

  • adrianhughes1998 on 21/05/2021 - 17:47

    "laggy processor" - processor isn't the issue, it's the measly 512MB of RAM. Anything 768MB RAM and above is fluid enough for WearOS with only the very occasional stutter/lag.

    This is barely worth $134, more like $99 it should be worth. And even the Diesel Fadelite the other day was down to $99 with the slightly newer SD3100 processor.

    • delirium211 on 21/05/2021 - 17:51
      +1

      Agree - the performance is bad. I only use it for the time, notifications, calendar, GPay, and the Bring grocery list. Cant recommend it for anything more than that.

      • adrianhughes1998 on 21/05/2021 - 18:03

        512MB watches with WearOS were really bad enough to start with, but at least Ticwatch and anything pre-Gen 4 Fossil's had a 60Hz refresh rate screen. Which ties in with the 60Hz refresh rate that WearOS is rendered at.

        Gen 4 lags are pretty bad considering its only a 45Hz screen. Sold my Explorist HR and Vapor 2, because they were both too painful to use.

    • Mitch889 on 21/05/2021 - 19:43

      The fact you need more than 512MB RAM to make a basic watch OS smooth is just pathetic.

      I had the original Apple Watch which also had 512MB RAM, and didn’t have any such performance issues.

  • delirium211 on 21/05/2021 - 17:49

    I have other smartwatches and outside of the battery life, they've been quite useful for me. It may not be enough reason for those who's not into smartwatches though.

  • easternculture on 21/05/2021 - 18:20
    +1

    Have this one. For the complements and style, ill give it 9/10. For the functionality probably a 5/10.

    I got mine for $30 though through david jones discount loophole over 8 weeks lol

  • oznik on 21/05/2021 - 18:30
    +1

    I'm sold:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MIoCqBZN_Dk&t=177s

    • adrianhughes1998 on 21/05/2021 - 19:24
      +1

      Haha this is exactly why I sold my Explorist HR. Lag was inexcusable on the Gen 4's

      • oznik on 22/05/2021 - 00:53

        Its ridiculous how bad it performs given its specs, a pebble has an 80mhz cpu and 1/2 meg of ram and its a rocket compared to that.

        • adrianhughes1998 on 22/05/2021 - 05:58

          Apples and oranges mate.

          That being said, they had watches released with 768MB RAM, all Google had to do was see that it performed decently with that bigger pool of RAM and say to manufacturers that you had to have that RAM as a minimum. But too late, reputation was damaged with in-store laggy demos.

          • oznik on 22/05/2021 - 10:53

            @adrianhughes1998: I have an embedded systems background, its a joke the specs they need for what the watch does.

            I get they wanted to reduce friction for developers by making it the same as android to develop for, but how many apps do you actually install on your watch vs decent battery life and smooth UI?

            If they made an efficient dedicated OS it would probably get 3 times the battery life and be as smooth as butter.

            • adrianhughes1998 on 22/05/2021 - 12:24

              @oznik: Maybe but same could be said for Tizen or WatchOS. Tizen has at least 768 RAM and others 1.5Gb and yet they still lag and hiccup here and there (rarely I must admit).

              I don't know but as you say what's the point of all the extra cruft in the OS, does it serve a purpose. That's what I wonder sometimes, as plenty of people have resorted to debloating their WearOS watch thru ADB, and it does help a bit but not a lot.

              How complicated does a watch have to be, not very much

  • Mitch889 on 21/05/2021 - 19:40
    +1

    “ 1 day battery, laggy processor but then, you can't beat the price”

    Junk is junk.

  • aldroid on 21/05/2021 - 22:41

    I have the Armani version of this watch which I believe has the exact same specs. Fortunately there is no physical Armani branding on the watch itself and after I got rid of the shitty default animated watchface and installed "Pixel Minimal Watchface" the lag disappeared completely. The only time the watch lags is when it's on the charge dock (don't even think about using it while it's charging) and for around 30 seconds after removal from dock. Yeah, the battery life is average. Expect a day at the most. Less if you use the onboard GPS and have lots of notifications active. I consistently get a full day with the always-on-display enabled and 5 minute heart rate sampling via "Cardiogram". Overall I'm very happy with the watch and at this price I'm very tempted to buy again as a present for my son.

  • [Deactivated] on 23/05/2021 - 19:39

    anyone know when this deal ends

    • delirium211 on 24/05/2021 - 11:44

      Not sure exactly but it can be when the current catalogue ends (May 26).

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