What is the point of a lap counter if you can't view the laps until you have finished swimming?  The default screen shows strokes and not laps and you can't flick over through to view the laps without stopping.

It seems to be pretty accurate counting laps once it gets calibrated. Much more accurate than the swimovate lap counter I had. Its easy to read.

I have been using the watch for three weeks now.  The stroke counts are extremely accurate, very easy to program and use.  This watch is amazing!

I bought this over the swimmovate watch because you can replace the battery and it's a pretty common battery type.  I does have limitations over that product - only does 25 or 50 meter pool lengths, for instance.  My main disappointment with this watch and all the other products I looked at - you can't glance down in a turn while you are swimming and see the lap count.  You have to stop and then start the count over.  This defeats one of the main purposes of wearing it - I'm don't care so much about saving statistics on my swim; I just want to swim a mile without counting and know my overall time every few weeks or so for comparison.  It does count laps without my having to do anything and so far has been accurate at that.