zoranb
Contributor
I dove the fw 4.0 this past weekend, and here's an update:
To begin with I have mixed feelings about this new firmware. Yes, it’s cleaner, easily readable and has more options, but I have a feeling it is more hands-on than before.
„What do you mean hands-on?”
Well, I seem to have spent a lot of time on my dive pressing the buttons. Not because I wanted to press them, but the information that was previously crammed on the screen is now accessible by button 3 (TEMP – STOPWATCH – TIME – Icon battery – Probe battery – AVG DEPTH – CONSUMPTION). If you’re used to having any two of these on your display when diving, be prepared to press that button a lot. You need to cycle through all of these again, and again, and again. I need the temp and the consumption for instance.
I’m a bit confused why Mares reverted the air display on the right to the tank picture instead of the numbered display with the consumption in 3.07. Yes, it looks nicer, but having a third of the display real estate taken up by just a coloured image of a tank is not a good move. I need to know what the pressure in the tank is, not how it would look were the air liquid. Which is not.
Everything else I approve and consider and improvement apart from the air display.
Another thing is that the icon reported on the surface my probe battery to be half full. Immediately upon diving, the battery was proclaimed as low, and the G1 low battery was displayed across 1/3 of the screen. The probe battery icon was then displayed in the lower right corner over and over again during the entire dive which is a nuisance. Yes. Show the info, but don’t let it hog the display. After surfacing (when the probe warned up a bit), the battery was again half full… J
Anyone from Mares development reading this?
To begin with I have mixed feelings about this new firmware. Yes, it’s cleaner, easily readable and has more options, but I have a feeling it is more hands-on than before.
„What do you mean hands-on?”
Well, I seem to have spent a lot of time on my dive pressing the buttons. Not because I wanted to press them, but the information that was previously crammed on the screen is now accessible by button 3 (TEMP – STOPWATCH – TIME – Icon battery – Probe battery – AVG DEPTH – CONSUMPTION). If you’re used to having any two of these on your display when diving, be prepared to press that button a lot. You need to cycle through all of these again, and again, and again. I need the temp and the consumption for instance.
I’m a bit confused why Mares reverted the air display on the right to the tank picture instead of the numbered display with the consumption in 3.07. Yes, it looks nicer, but having a third of the display real estate taken up by just a coloured image of a tank is not a good move. I need to know what the pressure in the tank is, not how it would look were the air liquid. Which is not.
Everything else I approve and consider and improvement apart from the air display.
Another thing is that the icon reported on the surface my probe battery to be half full. Immediately upon diving, the battery was proclaimed as low, and the G1 low battery was displayed across 1/3 of the screen. The probe battery icon was then displayed in the lower right corner over and over again during the entire dive which is a nuisance. Yes. Show the info, but don’t let it hog the display. After surfacing (when the probe warned up a bit), the battery was again half full… J
Anyone from Mares development reading this?