I just recently bought this watch but I must admit to being disappointed. The alarm is fine, the basic stopwatch is fine, but the exercise stopwatch with the pedometer etc is not that great. The watch has a memory, but it only records the data at midnight! You cannot recall any records from the current day until then. There is also no split timing on the exercise stopwatch. The pedometer also only beeps for 15 seconds max which is not much use if you wish to keep time with it for your whole run. Having previously used a Timex Ironman watch, which let you record information as soon as you were finished your run, and recorded all the lap times using the split timing, I am quite disappointed. There is also no countdown function on the watch. Having said all that, the watch does look good and is better quality than the cheaper and lighter str-300, but the str-300's features are perhaps more useful.