@scorp:
I recognise a lot of the things you mentioned: the almost instant 'low battery' alerts (my lcd screen goes blank now, contrast dims to nothing, then beeps and blinks and comes back without battery alarm for days), the wet- activation, the incredible time difference (you easily lose minutes in a matter of days).
I never really understood the logic of FREE mode (runs for hours, how do you stop it?) and the stopwatch.
Apparently a lot of testing went into the development of this watch, but -to me- not quite enough. It had been received with a lot of praise even before any mortal had it around his wrist, any idea was welcome at that time.
Now, months after its launch, it's become very quiet. Time for a thorough review and firmware updates and for the company to follow up some of the ideas.
To me, it's a great watch for non-pool dives.
As a watch (inaccurate), an alarm (too short, too silent), stopwatch (make sure it stays dry when buddying!) or logbook (what day!?) it is not useful.
The depth and interval alarms: They're all the same pitch, and some alerts do take their time: I mean "3 one-second beeps" for RDI (repeating depth interval), come on! Sure, nice enough if you dive to -100m. Change pitch or add rhythm/melody/morse to the alarms. Anything, but stay under 1 second with alerts (except for alarm: no 1-second beeps ever woke ME up) .
Great things:
Large LCD screen, good contrast, great backlight duration, red led to compensate for low volume (5mm hood + pro-plugs = near deaf), good strap.
Logging the temperature has NO relevance whatsoever for my dives, I much rather see a DATE in my logged dives. But if you do log, I'd rather see the depth of the thermocline (by logging temp every 1 second) than the lowest value. (Yep, still 4°C like the past two months).
