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Five days with Pebble

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Re: Five days with Pebble

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Post by vitno »

doodyhead wrote: post #10
vitno wrote: post #3

I'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.

yea, I had another presentation today and that's what I did. Nowhere near as convenient though.

I'd like a software switch in the menus for the current version and the next version to have a physical switch.

Re: Five days with Pebble

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Post by duskwuff »

ChuckMcM wrote: post #9

I'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 th…

"Langolier spammers"? Never heard that term.

Re: Five days with Pebble

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Post by rufo »

danilocampos wrote: post #4
harlanlewis wrote: post #2

Enjoyed 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 poi…

As someone who already dreads smartphones coming out at lunch or dinner outings with friends, I already hate the idea of people's wrists lighting up and distracting from conversation. :)

Re: Five days with Pebble

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Post by ChuckMcM »

duskwuff wrote: post #12
ChuckMcM wrote: post #9

I'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 th…

"Langolier spammers"? Never heard that term.

Stephen King novel "The Langoliers" (made into a bad TV movie) see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Langoliers

They are creatures that come and eat up the world after time has moved past, dead web sites (and dead forum sites in particular) get 'eaten' by spammers in much the same way.

Re: Five days with Pebble

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Post by modeless »

I'm loving notifications on my wrist, but there are a few rough edges. The worst is that dismissing a notification on your phone does not dismiss it on the watch and vice versa. Messages you received and already read on your phone/computer will remain on the watch face, obscuring the time. This forces you to constantly interact with the watch in addition to your phone/computer.

Other problems: There's no generic support for Android notifications, so only a few apps work, not including Google Now or G+. Google Talk notifications are nice but vibrate the watch too often.

Re: Five days with Pebble

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Post by danilocampos »

rufo wrote: post #13
danilocampos wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 poi…

As someone who already dreads smartphones coming out at lunch or dinner outings with friends, I already hate the idea of people's wrists lighting up and distracting from conversation. :)

Believe me, this is better. The curiosity urge is what gets the phone pulled out of the pocket. From there, it's very low friction to decide to open it up and start screwing around. Separating the two acts has, for me, been an improvement.

Re: Five days with Pebble

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Post by 6thSigma »

Ugh, I should have ordered during the Kickstarter. I was literally at the billing info page when I decided to wait until some reviews came out.

I was bought one as a gift, and still haven't received a billing notification yet. :(

Re: Five days with Pebble

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Post by kefs »

danilocampos wrote: post #17
rufo wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

As someone who already dreads smartphones coming out at lunch or dinner outings with friends, I already hate the idea of people's wrists lighting up and distracting from conversation. :)

Believe me, this is better. The curiosity urge is what gets the phone pulled out of the pocket. From there, it's very low friction to decide to open it up and start screwing around. Separating the two acts has, for me, been an improvement.

...or you could just set custom notification tones and vibrate patterns/intensity levels for specific apps/contacts/labels/anything (on android)

Re: Five days with Pebble

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Post by doodyhead »

vitno wrote: post #11
doodyhead wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

yea, I had another presentation today and that's what I did. Nowhere near as convenient though. I'd like a software switch in the menus for the current version and the next version to have a physical switch.

Makes sense!
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