Pebble is rather good, I would say it is easily the best price:quality smartwatch available out there.
Smartwatch sales are tanking
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#162I don't get it. Decades of science fiction depicting Heads-up-Display glasses and wrist-strapped laptops, with people wishing and wishing we lived in such a world. Now here we are and society isn't going in for it. Bluetooth head sets, smartwatches, Google Glass, none of it is sticking. Even though smart phones are becoming cumbersome due to size and inability to use hands-free or even one-handed well. Are we ever go…
> Are we ever going to see a cyberpunk future? You mean, crypto wars and threats of civilization impacting DDoS don't count?
Don't forget corporate mercenaries, militarized police forces, private space exploration, and virtual reality! All we need now is brain augmentation and cybernetic limbs and we'll be living in neuromancer.
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For you I'd suggest checking out what Pebble has been doing. Battery life is about 7-10 days on some models, and has an 'always on' display.
Can you make payments with the Pebble? Turn on the computer when you come in proximity?
No, but for parity with a standard wrist watch the Pebble is your best bet.
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I would say that most smartwatches are indeed a parody of real watches. They certainly do not have feature parity with their traditional competitors.
Oops. Thanks for pointing that out.
Don't worry about it. We all understood what you meant. I couldn't pass up the opportunity for a pun though.
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The question is does this opinion comes from experience, or from assumption? Having an Apple Watch now for about 6 months, I can say I love it, and none of those things (and I shared the same skepticism before buying one) have proven to be issues. I don't tend to look at my watch when I sleep - so that one's easy, and when you charge the watch its in a mode that gives off a low-light time (nightstand mode, i think th…
> If you want a traditional watch, then get a traditional watch - comparing it to a traditional watch and holding to the same standards is not a position of common sense... I don't think this is accurate. Someone brought up a comparison of smartphone to a Nokia phone, but this is not the same kind of comparison. A smartphone greatly simplified user interface and made accessing the internet and sharing much easier, an…
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Yeah, this is why I went with the Pebble over the others - it gets the realtime notifications and the fancy sleep tracker and pedometer - and due to eink, can keep its screen on without the need to be charged every night. That's all I wanted it for, that's all it does. And most importantly - it's priced like that's all it does.
Pebbles haven't used e-ink since the first version. But they seem to get equal or better battery life out of the Transflective LCDs currently used, which operate on a similar principle as e-ink, in the sense of how the light reaches your eyes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transflective_liquid-crystal_d...
Interesting, I seem to remember them calling it color epaper in some marketing material so I just assumed it was a similar product to eink. Cool though.
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#167Earlier quoted context omitted.
For you I'd suggest checking out what Pebble has been doing. Battery life is about 7-10 days on some models, and has an 'always on' display.
Can you make payments with the Pebble? Turn on the computer when you come in proximity?
You can auto-unlock an Android phone with the Pebble via stock Android. (no passcode required with a Bluetooth connection to a certain device)
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#168The biggest issue for me with the "smartwatch" is that they don't have feature parody with dumb watches. I've had many watches in the past and the battery lasts for years. I can also turn my wrist and see the time instantly. Who would have thought? What I get now is some piece of crap that needs to be charged every night. So I basically have no features while I'm sleeping. I can't just wake up in the middle of the ni…
Here is an article about user perception about smart watch market: https://feedcheck.co/blog/smartwatches-quality-by-consumer-p...
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#169The biggest issue for me with the "smartwatch" is that they don't have feature parody with dumb watches. I've had many watches in the past and the battery lasts for years. I can also turn my wrist and see the time instantly. Who would have thought? What I get now is some piece of crap that needs to be charged every night. So I basically have no features while I'm sleeping. I can't just wake up in the middle of the ni…
Feature parity.
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No(t only). People wear traditional watches to bed because they have waterproof watches and couldn't be bothered with taking them off, and don't set their strap/bracelet too tight.
> People wear traditional watches to bed because they have waterproof watches and couldn't be bothered with taking them off What does the watch being waterproof have to do with wearing it in bed?
Not that. Watch being waterproof has to do with not needing to take it off. For shower, specifically, but this extends to sleep as well.