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Re: Pebble Round 2

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Post by micromacrofoot »

sho_hn wrote: post #36

I'm sorry for the sour grapes, but the recent ring announcement - disposable, single-charge electronics - soured me on the entire brand in a "never meet your heroes" sort of way. Somehow it makes the idea of wearing one of the watches a negative statement piece.

If you've ever thrown out a single smartphone, by weight you've created more ewaste than a lifetime of those rings. There's more ewaste in a single AA battery, surely you must complain about those in every comment thread they're mentioned?

Re: Pebble Round 2

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Post by modeless »

barefootford wrote: post #96

Sorta wish they would ship the last watches before announcing more that are months away. I’m pretty sure I preordered 9 months ago and still have nothing to show for it.

They're announcing now so that you can switch your preorder if you want. I got my Pebble 2 Duo a while ago and have been wearing it ever since.

Re: Pebble Round 2

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Post by baggachipz »

mmmlinux wrote: post #86
ossusermivami wrote: post #56

Earlier quoted context omitted.

garmin is arguably one major smart watch vendor and has a great battery life

Garmin is more fitness tracker than smartwatch.

I get notifications for text messages, phone calls, and emails on my VivoActive 6. There are also good apps; for instance, the built-in (free) golf app is great. Battery lasts over a week, too. So far, I'm pretty happy with it and don't feel the need to get an Apple Watch which requires charging every day.

Re: Pebble Round 2

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Post by nosrepa »

cyberax wrote: post #79
erohead wrote: post #3

Proud of this one! Feel free to ask any questions you might have. (Pebble founder)

I like everything about Pebble Round 2, except that it's round. I _HATE_ round watches with a passion, it's just form over function for electronic watches. Coincidentally, that's also why I still have an iWatch even though my phone is Android. There are _no_ good rectangular Android watches. Are you planning something like this but with a rectangular screen? I have Time 2 on pre-order, but I'd love to buy a water-res…

The time 2 is water resistant.

Re: Pebble Round 2

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Post by apparent »

sahila wrote: post #93
Pfhortune wrote: post #87

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Exactly this. Pebbles feel like they were built from the ground up to be a watch, whereas the Apple Watch and Android Wear feel like they started from a phone and stripped things away until it became a watch. Separately, it baffles me that Garmin, despite them having also built a watch OS from the ground up, never understood watch/limited-button UX. Their Instinct and Forerunner watches have all sorts of wonky, hidde…

> Pebble proves that a simple, shallow, and linear menu system works great! Hard to say this is true when Garmin watches are far more successful than Pebble. That aside, the forerunner is a sports watch first where you want lots of physical buttons that don't get bothered by sweat. The better Garmin comparison is the Venu series which only have two buttons https://www.garmin.com/en-US/c/wearables-smartwatches/?serie.…

> Hard to say this is true when Garmin watches are far more successful than Pebble

This may not be true for long, honestly. Pebble hasn't made watches in years, and I wouldn't be surprised if within 2-4 years they were selling more units than Garmin. The Pebble UI is a dream, especially compared to Garmin. I could never get my parents to get a Garmin, but a Pebble could totally work for them. Super intuitive, hardly needs charging, gives them notifications when they're in a different room than their phone, always-on/always-readable screen.

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Post by pavon »

Jiro wrote: post #88

So there is no way to get weather on this? That's conspicuously absent from the features.

Yeah, I'm curious about that as well. This is what I think the history is:

* The official weather app on the old Pebble used a weather server they ran, and stopped working when that service shutdown.

* The old faces did not use that service, but instead each one wrote their own code to fetch weather information from a variety of sources, most of which have since shutdown or changed in incompatible ways, however some faces have been maintained to continue working.

* Rebble created a replacement weather server compatible with the old Pebble one, and patched the weather app, and several watch faces to use it. This service requires a subscription.

* The few weather faces in the Repebble appstore that I spot-checked all appear to be using weather sources that are still active. I know that this appstore is curated by Repebble and presumably they verified that these faces still have working weather feeds.

* During the Rebble/Repebble drama Eric mentioned "We’re planning to include weather for free in our app and make the data available to all watchfaces so you don’t need to configure each one separately."[1], but I don't know if that is planned to be ready when the Time2 or Round2 launch, or some time later.

[1]https://ericmigi.com/blog/pebble-rebble-and-a-path-forward

Re: Pebble Round 2

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Post by apparent »

barefootford wrote: post #96

Sorta wish they would ship the last watches before announcing more that are months away. I’m pretty sure I preordered 9 months ago and still have nothing to show for it.

I think CES might have had something to do with this.
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