Five days with Pebble
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Five days with Pebble
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#2Enjoyed the read, thanks for sharing. The 'decorum' bit made me chuckle, though - checking your watch while someone's talking is hardly the height of etiquette!
I'm not too familiar with Pebble's interactions and content display - can you really just glance at it after your pocket buzzes, or is there any cycling through display modes to see notifications? If notifications take over display, how long do they persist? What default content gets hidden to show the notification? Or does it work a completely different way?
I'm looking forward to playing with one myself but for now am reduced to eager fanboi questions...
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#3I'm at 4 days with my Pebble.
It's great. It's subtle, it looks nice and I like having a watch.
My only two caveats, I had to give a presentation the other day and it went off during my presentation. Sure, I was the only one who noticed, but it threw me through a loop for a second. A "Watch mode only" switch would be nice.
The other is the watch strap. I ordered a leather strap which I think will make the watch look an order of magnitude better.
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oh. I would also like notifications I clear on the watch to clear on my smartphone.
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#4Enjoyed the read, thanks for sharing. The 'decorum' bit made me chuckle, though - checking your watch while someone's talking is hardly the height of etiquette! I'm not too familiar with Pebble's interactions and content display - can you really just glance at it after your pocket buzzes, or is there any cycling through display modes to see notifications? If notifications take over display, how long do they persist?…
So, when a notification hits your phone, the Pebble immediately buzzes and lights its screen, displaying the content of that notification. It'll sit there for three minutes, then go back to whatever you were doing.
So if you were in the Music controller, you would hit the Pebble's back button to dismiss the notification and you'd see your current track again. If you were on a watch app, you'll see the watch.
Fair point about manners! The fact that the device rather noticeably lights up gives you a bit of cover though.
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#5Loving my Pebble, especially with Light Flow Plus and Pebble Notifier however, I am really hoping for the IFTTT channel to come out soon, although I heard from rumor that IFTTT isn't playing ball, but I don't know for sure.
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#6I'm really enjoying my Pebble as well. Screening text/calls on my wrist is a lot nicer than I thought it with be. I'm excited to see what kind of apps the developer community is going to come up with now that they have Pebble's in hand.
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#7I'm constantly missing calls/texts when I'm on the move/walking about with my phone in my pant pockets - can't feel the buzz, especially during winter season. Having a buzz on my wrist seems like a neat solution and w/o having to fish for my phone constantly.
It's definitely going to require some practice to fight the urge to simply glance at my watch (than fishing out the phone) when engaged with something/someone else.
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#8I'm not as happy with mine feature-wise but glad I participated. Build quality-wise it is pretty bad. I've already lost a button and reported it to them. I think of it as taking a cold shower before jumping in the iWatch hot tub.
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#9I've got an inPulse watch^h^h^h^h^hpaperweight. If you want to see the effect of the Langolier spammers go over and look at inPulse's website http://www.getinpulse.com/hack/forum/ (not recommended). You can also see folks crying in the corner for any information at all. They never followed through and made it work with 64bit versions of Windows, the Linux support was sub par at best, mostly unusable. Just checking they at least have finally turned off the page where they would let you order one.
To say this left a 'bad taste' would be an understatement.
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#10I'm at 4 days with my Pebble. It's great. It's subtle, it looks nice and I like having a watch. My only two caveats, I had to give a presentation the other day and it went off during my presentation. Sure, I was the only one who noticed, but it threw me through a loop for a second. A "Watch mode only" switch would be nice. The other is the watch strap. I ordered a leather strap which I think will make the watch look…
Could you not just disable Bluetooth on your phone for situations like that? Just curious if there's a downside.
Would love a Pebble but haven't ordered yet so I'm going to wait until they catch up on the backlog.