Can this be something good?
Looks to be only only $25 which makes it a nice plaything. I think the storage is rather limited at 4mb though.
I thought it was a typo for GB maybe?!
Open Source Smartwatch
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#62I'll buy one in a heartbeat which tracks Sp02 throughout and viberates/beeps when it goes below a threshold.
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#63Promising specs! I'd rather have multi-day battery life than fancy graphics, maybe even an e-ink display.
It doesn't say, but since it mentions IPS, it doesn't have an always-on LCD ?
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#64After using a pebble time round since it came on the market, I really value the 4 physical buttons (back) on the left vs (up/select/down) on the right. I have never used a watch with a touch screen function, but I read oppinions of the watches made by fitbit after they aquired pebble, that it was a mix of touch screen and buttons. letting this have both technologies while being open source leaves a lot of room for de…
Weirdly enough, I prefer the more "toy-like" Pebble buttons to the more "solid-looking" Pebble Time ones : they are easier to find without looking, and easier to press.
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#65I have a pinetime and the form factor is great (until I lost the back plate, next one will be sealed). All the opensource activity around the watch is also great. The biggest drawback to me is only 64k of ram. Thats a Commodore64's worth of ram. The 240x240 screen is 57kbytes, it must have its own display ram.
Also NordicSemi never seemed to be particularly opensource friendly. I'm hoping for a future RISCV edition of this watch with more ram.
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#66Casio F-91W for cyberpunk IED makers.
I wish smartwatch templates adopt more multiple programmable buttons. Nice to have a functional media remote during winter with gloves on. Pepple got so much right.
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#67Lack of NFC :(
But probably even if it had it it wouldn't work with Google/Apple Pay, for me payments using my watch would be the best application of "smart" together with notifications.
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#68See also the TTGO T-Watch-2020 which is based on an ESP32 processor.
[1]: https://www.tindie.com/products/ttgo/lilygor-ttgo-t-watch-20... [2]: https://github.com/Xinyuan-LilyGO/TTGO_TWatch_Library
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#69Lack of NFC :( But probably even if it had it it wouldn't work with Google/Apple Pay, for me payments using my watch would be the best application of "smart" together with notifications.
>But probably even if it had it it wouldn't work with Google/Apple Pay
Defy not with 4MB of storage.
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#70Promising specs! I'd rather have multi-day battery life than fancy graphics, maybe even an e-ink display.
Agreed. I moved from smart watches back to an old Casio sgw-100. Battery life is the main reason. It's nice just to always have a watch that works, and be able to go on camping trips and really be able to rely on the device.
I've changed the battery once in 2 years (and that was simply preventative). The fact that it just keeps on working for years at a time is a nice contrast to basically every other modern device.