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Re: We're bringing Pebble back

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Post by hobos_delight » Mon, Jan 27, 2025, 10:14 PM UTC

hparadiz wrote: post #77

abraxas wrote: post #74

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I just gave away a very expensive Garmin to my son. Its feature set is to dream of. Its user interface is hot garbage. When I'm out on a hike or in the pool trying to just measure my fsking laps I need a single click option or something. Their paradigm of "button 1, button 3, button 5, long press button 4, button 1 again to confirm. Now you can push off the wall in 3... 2... 1" is beyond fucking stupid. Does anyone a…

All this plus not being able to see any data while offline. Super useful when you're 13,000 feet up on a mountain somewhere.

I'm not sure I understand. I have had an Instinct, Tactix Delta, and Tactix 7 Pro and have always been able to see the data without a phone or any network present.

I love these watches after moving from an Apple watch, primarily for two reasons:

1) the battery life - I cant stand having to charge my watch every day or so - my (current) Tactix 7 will go ~3-4 weeks depending on how much GPS I use.

2) (this may be out of date) when I would use the Strava or Run app on the Apple watch, it would not signal when it had a GPS fix, which resulted in a number of runs that had a "teleport" at the start, resulting in messed up metrics. Only a small thing, but it really frustrated me.

Re: We're bringing Pebble back

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Post by egeres » Mon, Jan 27, 2025, 10:15 PM UTC

I still keep around my pebble time (which I mostly use as a timer because I love the UX experience) and I'm surprised about how well the battery still works. Seeing devices such as the mi band 9 having a battery that lasts around 20 days, I can't help but wonder how much longer could last a new pebble

Re: We're bringing Pebble back

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Post by lawki » Mon, Jan 27, 2025, 10:15 PM UTC

I'm still disappointed that the pebble core was pulled. A pebble like watch with connectivity might get me interested again.

Re: We're bringing Pebble back

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Post by Findecanor » Mon, Jan 27, 2025, 10:16 PM UTC

soxocx wrote: post #29

vermarish wrote: post #23

I love the animation when you click "No" on "Do you want a new Pebble?". So extra.

On the iPhone I get redirected to the Apple Store page for the Apple Watch. Nice humor.

I got a tiny bit offended by the assumption that I'd rather have an Apple Watch.

I'd think the ideal for me would instead be something in-between a Pebble and a Sensor Watch. Something hackable with more battery life, that is a watch first (and a smartphone notification screen never). I wonder how far I could go towards that goal with the upcoming Pebble hardware and rewriting the OS kernel to sleep more.

Re: We're bringing Pebble back

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Post by HaZeust » Mon, Jan 27, 2025, 10:16 PM UTC

jacobgkau wrote: post #111

soxocx wrote: post #29

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On the iPhone I get redirected to the Apple Store page for the Apple Watch. Nice humor.

I think it's just a static redirect, it sent me to the Apple Watch page in Firefox on Linux. But I also wondered if it would shuffle between a few different brands or something (I guess not).

It looks like:

- Chromium browsers (tested in Edge, Chrome, Brave) go to Pixel Watch,

- Android devices go to Pixel Watch,

- Apple devices go to Apple Watch,

- Firefox brings you to Apple Watch.

It might also be randomized, but that's what my tests got me, and only the Firefox one doesn't make humorous sense.

Re: We're bringing Pebble back

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Post by Molitor5901 » Mon, Jan 27, 2025, 10:16 PM UTC

I bought a Pebble watch long after support stopped because I wanted to have something I considered a piece of technology history. Never thought it would come back and I could change the faces, update it, and make it last. This is wonderful news.

Re: We're bringing Pebble back

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Post by abraxas » Mon, Jan 27, 2025, 10:16 PM UTC

brian-armstrong wrote: post #148

abraxas wrote: post #84

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Bah! They nailed what exactly? It's so mofing complex to use I hurled it at a wall (literally) and then gave it away to my son. A $600 CAD watch that I could not stand to use without seething.

You might want to invest some of that money in anger management classes

Ha! It's a testament to their great hardware though! I did not even scratch the watch by throwing it full force again a hard surface.

Re: We're bringing Pebble back

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Post by knifie_spoonie » Mon, Jan 27, 2025, 10:17 PM UTC

WD-42 wrote: post #66

ctkhn wrote: post #52

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Gotta be honest I feel like Garmin is the perfect balance of pebble vs apple watch

I like my instinct, but Garmin is so locked down, less hackable than even an Apple Watch.

I'm curious why you're saying it's less hackable?

I've written my own little app for my Garmin watch, and I didn't need to get permission from them or pay them anything.

Re: We're bringing Pebble back

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Post by amazingamazing » Mon, Jan 27, 2025, 10:17 PM UTC

ironically when I had a pebble time, the battery life was so good I'd get used to not charging and would have days where the battery would die due to forgetting. now that I have an apple watch I've never had that happen, and ironically it's because the battery doesn't last a long time.

Re: We're bringing Pebble back

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Post by camtarn » Mon, Jan 27, 2025, 10:18 PM UTC

2OEH8eoCRo0 wrote: post #102

drawkward wrote: post #82

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And worth every penny. (I say this as a former pebble and then rebble user.)

I moved from Pebble to Casio F-91W. Worth every penny!

Ha, I actually did the same, albeit after using a succession of disappointing Fitbits. In the end I realised that what I mainly cared about was having the time on my wrist, and I could leave everything else. So I ended up with the steel strap, EL-illuminated version of the F-91W.