I'm with you on watches being too big and complicated, pika. I haven't carried a watch since my last one broke, probably 5-10 years ago. By then, I was carrying a phone, and it just wasn't worth it to replace the watch. I usually just get cheap watches made for boys, because their far less clunky and obtrusive, and they're also inexpensive. Even so, I've only had one watch in all my life outright die on me. Most of the time I lose them before that can happen.

On the whole barometer/altimeter thing, not having used one, it seems to me like I could never trust the reading on them unless you already know one or the other of the two measurements for sure, which sorta defeats the purpose, right? Is the altitude double checked via GPS and used to correct the other readings? Then, maybe it'd be useful.


Edited by 4evrplan (01/12/15 04:31 PM)
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