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Honest question: Has anyone actually found a good use for their Pebble? I wore mine once the day after it arrived, felt totally ridiculous, and it hasn't left the drawer since.
Honest question: Has anyone actually found a good use for their Pebble? I wore mine once the day after it arrived, felt totally ridiculous, and it hasn't left the drawer since.
Calendar Reminders. Seriously. I get 60 minute and 10 minute reminders for upcoming meetings by way of SMS, which then shows up on my Pebble. I've been using the 60/10 minute reminders through Google Calendar for over a year now, but the Pebble has really made that feature a killer feature for me. Previously, I'd run the risk of my phone being on silent and missing the reminder. Now I get discrete reminders on my wri…
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Hold on a minute. e-paper and LCD are two very different technologies. You could possibly charge them for misleading. Is it bistable?
There's this big discussion about what constitutes "e-paper". Apparently, in some circles, e-paper is any display technology that is low-power and readable in daylight. The display in a pebble is a low-power transflective LCD display manufactured by Sharp. In Sharp's product brochure, they don't use the term e-paper though. They only say the display is "paper-like".
In middle school I was forcibly imprisoned in my locker for wearing a calculator watch, and honestly, it was a good learning experience. That thing is really ugly.
In middle school I was forcibly imprisoned in my locker for wearing a calculator watch, and honestly, it was a good learning experience. That thing is really ugly.
http://gizmodo.com/this-so-nerdy-its-cool-calculator-watch-i...
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There's this big discussion about what constitutes "e-paper". Apparently, in some circles, e-paper is any display technology that is low-power and readable in daylight. The display in a pebble is a low-power transflective LCD display manufactured by Sharp. In Sharp's product brochure, they don't use the term e-paper though. They only say the display is "paper-like".
Wait, is this "low-power LCD" stuff seems an awful lot like what I had in my quartz crystal watch in the 90s. Sure that wasn't "smart" and didn't display raster graphics, but otherwise are we talking about fundamentally different technology?
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Wait, is this "low-power LCD" stuff seems an awful lot like what I had in my quartz crystal watch in the 90s. Sure that wasn't "smart" and didn't display raster graphics, but otherwise are we talking about fundamentally different technology?
Yeah, it sounds a lot like my Zire 21. Thing had great readability at any light level, because it was just plain grey high-res LCD.
Honest question: Has anyone actually found a good use for their Pebble? I wore mine once the day after it arrived, felt totally ridiculous, and it hasn't left the drawer since.
Honest question: Has anyone actually found a good use for their Pebble? I wore mine once the day after it arrived, felt totally ridiculous, and it hasn't left the drawer since.
Here's the product page: http://www.bestbuy.com/pebble This news makes me very disappointed in the company's handling of their KickStarter campaign. I backed their KickStarter campaign and ordered a white Pebble in May of last year, and I still haven't received it. So if I understand correctly, someone who walks into Best Buy next week will get a Pebble before I do? While I understand the desire to stay out in front…
They offered you the chance to switch to the black one a month or two ago, which is what Best Buy is selling. That seems fair and reasonable. You can certainly still be upset that the color you picked got the short end of the stick, but one of them had to be last.
In this case someone is getting a Black Pebble before they get a White Pebble. If they wanted a Black Pebble they could have had that.
The reverse is to say they'll be one of the first with a White Pebble while the plebeians are stuck with black and red.