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Introducing Pebble Time

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Re: Introducing Pebble Time

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Post by TheHypnotist »

smackfu wrote: post #177
joosters wrote: post #163

What happened to 'Kickstarter is not a store' - https://www.kickstarter.com/blog/kickstarter-is-not-a-store ? Offering multiple quantities of a reward is prohibited. Hardware and Product Design projects can only offer rewards in single quantities or a sensible set (some items only make sense as a pair or as a kit of several items, for instance). The development of new products can be especially complex for creators a…

If it quacks like a preorder...

I was thinking the same thing. Whatever, if they adjusted the rules someone would find a way around it. It's pretty smart marketing.

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Post by pimlottc »

Is it just me, or does it look like he's squeezing the buttons fairly hard in the timeline demo images? I suppose you have to make the buttons firm enough to prevent accidental presses but I would hope that you could use the buttons with one figure comfortably.

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Post by erobbins »

joosters wrote: post #163

What happened to 'Kickstarter is not a store' - https://www.kickstarter.com/blog/kickstarter-is-not-a-store ? Offering multiple quantities of a reward is prohibited. Hardware and Product Design projects can only offer rewards in single quantities or a sensible set (some items only make sense as a pair or as a kit of several items, for instance). The development of new products can be especially complex for creators a…

$250k+ in fees (and growing!) for a product by an established company, that's what. KS isn't going to turn that down.

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Post by chrisfosterelli »

fudgie wrote: post #241
O____________O wrote: post #227

I think animated transitions are the skeuomorphism of 2015. Mind you, I'm technically impressed that an E-Ink display can now be animated, but I can't wait for the end of the animated UI boom.

Isn't the Pebble using E-Paper and not E-Ink? Wikipedia says the original Pebble used an 144×168 pixel Sharp Memory LCD ( http://www.sharpmemorylcd.com/1-26-inch-memory-lcd.html )

Correct. E-ink screens don't have a FPS anywhere near what is displayed in the video, and there wasn't any screen refreshing. The Pebble is using a LCD with no backlight, the terminology is slightly confusing.

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Post by wmeredith »

alistairSH wrote: post #239
eitally wrote: post #151

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I really just want a "normal" watch that has some "smart" features. I already have a sports tracker (Garmin Forerunner), and I have given up wearing my Moto360 because it's almost never useful in compelling enough ways that I don't just pull my phone out after seeing a notification ... and I have to charge it nightly.

Another option is the latest Fenix from Garmin... https://buy.garmin.com/en-US/US/on-the-trail/wrist-worn/feni... While it isn't a true smart-watch, it does provide alerts from your phone. I imagine for many users, that's enough. If I hadn't stopped wearing a watch completely a few years ago, I'd probably buy this one.

I hate to say it, because they're local here in Kansas City, but I'd stay away from Garmin if you want your device to integrate with anything else. I bought a GPS of theirs last year. I've never experienced frustration like I did trying to download a map from the internet and put it on this device. I now have SIX Garmin applications on my computer that I have to use to manage the device. (I'm not kidding.) Garmin BaseCamp, Garmin Express, Garmin MapInstall, Garmin MapManagaer, Garmin POI Loader, and Garmin Web Updater. Every one of them is buggy and hard to use.

Run far and fast.

Re: Introducing Pebble Time

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Post by taylorwc »

It's 2PM CST on launch day and they already have preorders for nearly 30,000 units. It's really a cool thing to see considering that 5 years ago this situation wouldn't exist.

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Post by kmfrk »

joosters wrote: post #163

What happened to 'Kickstarter is not a store' - https://www.kickstarter.com/blog/kickstarter-is-not-a-store ? Offering multiple quantities of a reward is prohibited. Hardware and Product Design projects can only offer rewards in single quantities or a sensible set (some items only make sense as a pair or as a kit of several items, for instance). The development of new products can be especially complex for creators a…

The upside of this is that Pebble get to rake in people's money for pre-orders - not a finished product - which means they manage to pre-empt Apple Watch stealing the show. The drive is going to run until ultimo March, with Apple Watch being ready in April.

The downside is that you eat a lot of fees by using Kickstarter, when you might have been able to run your own drive independently like Lockitron, so it's interesting to consider that they went with Kickstarter. I guess the idea of being a "big success on Kickstarter" would be good PR, when Apple is, well, Apple.

Maybe people are just much quicker on the draw with the credit cards there, which wouldn't surprise me. Especially after the Stripe payment system.

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Post by cheepin »

what_ever wrote: post #176
mikestew wrote: post #102

Earlier quoted context omitted.

(If I downvoted you, sorry. Stupid tiny arrows on mobile, and no undo or even a way to see which way I voted.) Meh, you get it a few months early, and they're not shipping retail until the Kickstarters are released. That, and as an original KS backer I get a special engraving I'll never, ever see. :-)

(Off topic) Is there any reason we can't undo voting on HN (like we can do on Reddit)?

Especially since post editing is allowed, though maybe post editing could just drop the votes or something.
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