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I'd love the idea, except that I don't want to recharge my watch like a cell phone. I'm used to my watch lasting years without changing the battery. But if I can program my own custom watch face with a button that turns off the Bluetooth, thus extending the battery life ...
Alternatively create an app that switches Bluetooth off at night automatically.
I'd love the idea, except that I don't want to recharge my watch like a cell phone. I'm used to my watch lasting years without changing the battery. But if I can program my own custom watch face with a button that turns off the Bluetooth, thus extending the battery life ...
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Just plug it in when you take it off at night. That step can't be that inconvenient, can it?
I'm not sure about GP, but I don't take my watch off at night. The only time I take mine off is when water is involved (I use a cloth watchband). However, if it only needs to be recharged every 7 days, I could recharge it along w/ my fitbit each weekend.
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Just plug it in when you take it off at night. That step can't be that inconvenient, can it?
I'm not sure about GP, but I don't take my watch off at night. The only time I take mine off is when water is involved (I use a cloth watchband). However, if it only needs to be recharged every 7 days, I could recharge it along w/ my fitbit each weekend.
I still want one though.
$1b/2 years = $1.4m/day
Still less than Instagram.
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Just plug it in when you take it off at night. That step can't be that inconvenient, can it?
It's significantly more trouble than what you would do with most other wristwatches: change the battery once every year or three (or if you have a self winding analog watch, never do anything).
In general I think that watches will make a comeback only if they become the phone. Maybe Pebble will be well positioned to do that in the future (remember iPod -> iPhone?).
BTW It's nice to see a hardware company coming out of YC. Also nice to know that Eric is from Vancouver. Good luck Pebble! I'll buy one as soon as I stop being a starving bootstrapper.
I see this as a sample of what's to come from mobile technology. I prefer that phones evolve instead of adding a new accessory.
Neat toy, but it looks like it needs a phone to use data, install applications and so on. Personally, I'm not the type of person that wants to wear another accessory. I used to need a watch. I don't need a watch that needs a phone. Just saying. I see this as a sample of what's to come from mobile technology. I prefer that phones evolve instead of adding a new accessory.
I agree in that I also don't need a watch, much less a watch that needs a phone. But I imagine I will wear a watch-like device again in the future. Have you ever heard about the expression "the internet of things"? Well, it is going to happen, but we're not quite there yet [1]. And when it happens, I bet we're going to navigate trough it using watch-like devices at first [2]. It's more natural because the watch in one's wrist is much more accessible and therefore has a much lower latency then the phone in one's pocket.
Today, the precursor of the internet of things is the internet of smartphones. So Pebble uses a watch to navigate the internet of smartphones. When the internet of things finally comes, they'll be in a very nice position with experience and brand recognition.
[1] The signs are here though: arduino, raspberry pi... How long until we have a low power 5 dollars board that we can put anywhere? How about a 1 dollar board?
[2] then we'll use augmented reality glasses and finally we'll just implant chips and be ourselves part of this internet of things.