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Re: We're bringing Pebble back

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Post by m-p-3 »

I owned the Pebble OG, the Pebble Steel and the Pebble Time Steel and despite all my attempts, I couldn't fill the void the Pebble left. I tried the Amazfit Bip, The BangleJS 2 (that one got pretty close IMO) and now rocking a Casio watch that does bluetooth but still work on a CR2032 (GBD-200), and more than a year on the same battery, which is quite a feat when you think about it.

The software UX of the Pebble was on point, and the animations surprisingly smooth for such a device. I'm still convinced that after all there years, the Timeline UI is unrivaled.

I'm eager to see what you'll come out with :)

Re: We're bringing Pebble back

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Post by asdff »

ctkhn wrote: post #52
vermarish wrote: post #23

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

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

I can't get over garmins predatory business model. The way they bin their products by activity is terrible if you have multiple hobbies. All of these devices are just a gps reciever, screen, battery, yet they sell it to you a dozen different ways for $500+ a pop usually because why unify the software and make it easy for the consumer?

Re: We're bringing Pebble back

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Post by egoisticalgoat »

cryptozeus wrote: post #375

Has anyone used it in the past ? Was it any good? I have never heard about this from anyone missing it after it was gone from the market.

My Pebble Time is still my daily driver! I mainly use it as a watch and for notifications, and occasionally for timers, but it's still a great piece of tech IMO.

Re: We're bringing Pebble back

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Post by ilvez »

jetrink wrote: post #99
pedrocr wrote: post #47

I get a week of battery time out of my Fitbit Charge 5 with really good sleep tracking as well as reasonable tracking of exercise including swimming and GPS tracked runs. The screen is really nice but not always on e-paper and I can't really program it, so I guess there's some space to improve but was the pebble really that much better?

Don't underestimate an always on display. It's very nice to be able glance down to see the time or other info without making an exaggerated gesture first. It was what I appreciated most after I switched from Fitbit. As to the Fitbit in particular, they just aren't well made anymore and have a habit of dying just out of warranty. My last one got stuck in a reboot loop 14 months after purchase. I tried everything with…

I have to same issues with Fitbit. I'm thinking about switching soon when this one dies. Wondering whether Pebble would be for good for sleep tracking? Don't care about fancy exercise tracking, just steps, heart and sleep.

Re: We're bringing Pebble back

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Post by zhyder »

I backed the first Pebble on Kickstarter. I didn't like its industrial design but voted with my wallet for the _idea_ behind it. I had high hopes for subsequent iterations but IMO it never evolved into a sufficiently beautiful industrial design. From the same era, Vector was better-looking with similar screen tech, but never captured meaningful mind-share or market-share.

I'd love to have a small watch with long battery life, reflective always-on hi-dpi grayscale screen, and classic industrial design using a metal case and small bezels. For now I'm (reluctantly) making do with a Withings ScanWatch Light.

Re: We're bringing Pebble back

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Post by synecdoche »

rafaelmn wrote: post #197
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 really like vivomove looks but after buying lux as a gift for my wife I think I will steer clear. App was bad, syncing issues, she wore it for a while because she liked how it looks but I think she has not charged it in over a year because of how much the experience sucks compared to apple watch or even withings. I have a withings scanwatch right now, the app is nice, ecosystem is nice - but accuracy is very underw…

2 short taps on the top button on Garmin Venu Sq 2 when swimming is the default activity. It counts laps automatically. It can be setup to display 2—4 statistics during the swim. Now if someone could explain what the other thing is that appears for a few seconds when changing direction at the wall in the pool is, and how to disable it, that would be useful. Two counters, one in large font and below one in small font. Typically they start at, or are, 0.

Re: We're bringing Pebble back

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Post by dqv »

abraxas wrote: post #166
llimllib wrote: post #140

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I don't swim, but I have done thousands of runs with my series of garmin watches and I can say that the UX for them is spectacular, everything is in a sensible place for me to do without thinking. Not sure what problems you've had with it specifically

Getting into the swim app itself takes a couple of different buttons presses. But then it tries to be both too smart and too stupid at the same time. All I wanted to begin with was lap counting with a big number on the centre of the display. Can't configure it and can't even start to get it to count laps without some ceremony of setting up interval training and it only gets more convoluted from there. It's useless fo…

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https://crossvine.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/20250128_0...

But I'd have to try actually swimming with it I guess. It always counts my reps in strength training pretty accurately.

Edit: But then again, if you want to manually track laps, the swimming app doesn't matter. It's only there for the convenience of not having to press a button to increment the counter. You can just copy the "other" activity, name it something like "manual swim" with the lap button enabled. The only thing that differentiates the swim activity from a regular activity is setting the pool length, stroke detection, and automatic lap incrementing. The data is still getting logged the same way as far as I can tell, so using the "other" activity would give you all the data you need to track the swim.

Re: We're bringing Pebble back

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Post by shaklee3 »

Reason077 wrote: post #356
echelon wrote: post #88

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Feels a little bit salty to send customers to Google's competitor given the fact that Google provided the exit and also liberated the code. They didn't have to do that. A better "thank you" to Google would be to direct people to Fitbit.

> "A better "thank you" to Google would be to direct people to Fitbit." Fitbit has already gone off to the great Google graveyard, unfortunately.

no. they just released the Fitbit ace

Re: We're bringing Pebble back

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Post by coder543 »

cryptozeus wrote: post #375

Has anyone used it in the past ? Was it any good? I have never heard about this from anyone missing it after it was gone from the market.

It’s not even a question. I still have my Pebble Time Round in a box. No other watch has come close. That thing was probably under half the thickness and half the weight of my Apple Watch Ultra and yet it had 3x the battery life!

The physical controls were incredible… I actually controlled my music from that watch, because you could do it without looking. Who has ever controlled their music from an Apple Watch more than once a month? It’s so clunky and cumbersome, and you have to intently stare at what you’re doing — you might as you reach for your phone.

I can’t believe we’re a decade on, and the smartwatches that exist today are a joke compared to the PTR. The only practical improvement from my Apple Watch Ultra is the fitness tracking / health tracking sensor suite… which is great, but I miss having a good smartwatch, not just a fitness tracker.

Re: We're bringing Pebble back

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Post by INTPenis »

jampekka wrote: post #35
INTPenis wrote: post #18

I'm glad. For a decade I felt like an outsider because all I want is a very simple wearable device that doesn't require charging more than once a month and can display simple notifications from my phone, and the time. I loved the Pebble Time. After that I went over to Fossil Hybrid, which is pretty decent actually. I'm sure the app steals everything it can but at least the device works.

Amazfit watches have done this for since 2016 or so. And cheaply.

Ok maybe I should say it's not only the charge time, but also the e-ink (like?) display that captivates me. The fact that I can always look at my watch and see the time, other people can look at my watch and see the time. No flicks of the wrist required, no always on OLED display.

I honestly enjoy the Fossil Hybrid more than the Pebble Time, because it has an actual watch with a screen behind the hands.

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