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Re: Pebble Time 2 Design Reveal [video]

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Post by tills13 »

telesilla wrote: post #114
neom wrote: post #99

Looks great! The very first Pebble was actually instrumental in building digitalocean - I met them at MLH hackathon at CalTech and forced one of the founders to sell me a demo unit- all I used it for was notifications on the digitalocean twitter and outages pushed from slack, I tried to reply to every single tweet at us immediately. A little memento of when I hired Mikeal Rogers: https://s.h4x.club/4guEJN95 Funny, no…

Agreed. I'd kill for a watch that you could hold all notifications until you decided to receive them all, ideally at a slow pace over a period of time. For now, I disable notifications but it's a shame I can't access them when I'm ready to do so. I have hopes for this pebble!

I mean that's the killer app for a watch like Pebble that is at it's core open source.

> a watch that you could hold all notifications until you decided to receive them all

build it. _Even if_ you wouldn't know where to start I think a modern LLM could get you 90% of the way there.

Re: Pebble Time 2 Design Reveal [video]

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Post by 51Cards »

Karawebnetwork wrote: post #95
deanc wrote: post #61

What is the use-case now in 2025 for an e-ink watch? I have a Garmin Epix pro gen 2 which gets about a month of battery life and has a gorgeous AMOLED, has profiles for pretty much every sport ever invented, incredibly accurate GPS tracking, all day HR-tracking, ECG etc. I understand it's about 4x the price, but there's also lower-end Garmin's that are about 2x the price with the same screen, slightly less features a…

Personally, I try not to use screens for a few hours before going to bed. Before bedtime, I limit myself to my e-ink book reader. The idea of having a screen on my wrist doesn't particularly appeal to me. My partner has one and when they turn over in bed, I am sometimes blinded by the screen which still glows brightly even at the lowest setting in complete darkness. That's why I'm considering a e-ink watch. The reaso…

You may also find interesting that in this release update he mentiones that the backlight LED is now RGB and they are toying with ideas like making the backlight blue light aware at nights, etc.

Re: Pebble Time 2 Design Reveal [video]

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Post by 51Cards »

jmcphers wrote: post #110

I'm surprised more hasn't been made of the difference in screen resolution between this device and other Pebbles (and even the "new" Pebble 2 Duo). Old watchfaces and apps are not going to render without black borders, and given the niche market and limited run of this new model, it doesn't seem likely to attract much in the way of developer attention, so a healthy marketplace of new faces/apps may not surface. If I…

It doesn't really need to surface. This is PebbleOS, so all the faces developed for all of the previous models will also work here. There is already a huge library of faces and I see people still making new ones.

Re: Pebble Time 2 Design Reveal [video]

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Post by mattlondon »

Wowfunhappy wrote: post #111
com2kid wrote: post #103

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm sad that no product since the Microsoft Band has put a UV sensor on a watch. I'm biased because I largely designed the UV experience, but damn I miss having sunscreen reminders.

Is having a sensor on the watch substantially better than just retrieving the UV index for your location and time of day?

Yeah because it tells you (I presume ) your actual UV rating in terms of exposure, and not just semi-useless "hey it's sunny out!" Yep we know the UV is high on sunny days but how much UV have I had so far?

Re: Pebble Time 2 Design Reveal [video]

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Post by legitster »

deanc wrote: post #61

What is the use-case now in 2025 for an e-ink watch? I have a Garmin Epix pro gen 2 which gets about a month of battery life and has a gorgeous AMOLED, has profiles for pretty much every sport ever invented, incredibly accurate GPS tracking, all day HR-tracking, ECG etc. I understand it's about 4x the price, but there's also lower-end Garmin's that are about 2x the price with the same screen, slightly less features a…

The Pebble battery life is with the display always on.

It's squarely aimed at people who want the watch functionality to be first and foremost - no dorky wrist flicks or the distraction of the screen coming on and off all the time.

Re: Pebble Time 2 Design Reveal [video]

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Post by iAMkenough »

cyberax wrote: post #88

Is there a possibility to add NFC payments, like on Apple/Android devices? Is it even feasible? This is really a killer feature for me. GPS tracking would be nice to track runs, but I can live without it.

The payment processors would be your biggest hurdle.

Re: Pebble Time 2 Design Reveal [video]

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Post by datadrivenangel »

roflmaostc wrote: post #86
deanc wrote: post #61

What is the use-case now in 2025 for an e-ink watch? I have a Garmin Epix pro gen 2 which gets about a month of battery life and has a gorgeous AMOLED, has profiles for pretty much every sport ever invented, incredibly accurate GPS tracking, all day HR-tracking, ECG etc. I understand it's about 4x the price, but there's also lower-end Garmin's that are about 2x the price with the same screen, slightly less features a…

my Garmin Fenix 6 used to survive with 21 days of display always one but lowest brightness, if I didn't use any GPS. Now, after 3 years it is somehow down to 10 days. No chance of debugging where it comes from as I haven't changed anything on my side.

That sounds like battery degradation. If they aggressively use less than ideal batteries, ~50% degradation after 3 years is bad but not uncommon.

Re: Pebble Time 2 Design Reveal [video]

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Post by coffeecoders »

deanc wrote: post #61

What is the use-case now in 2025 for an e-ink watch? I have a Garmin Epix pro gen 2 which gets about a month of battery life and has a gorgeous AMOLED, has profiles for pretty much every sport ever invented, incredibly accurate GPS tracking, all day HR-tracking, ECG etc. I understand it's about 4x the price, but there's also lower-end Garmin's that are about 2x the price with the same screen, slightly less features a…

I have owned a Fenix for years and have been wanting to upgrade, but I can’t make sense of the hundreds of models.

Re: Pebble Time 2 Design Reveal [video]

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Post by paxys »

deanc wrote: post #61

What is the use-case now in 2025 for an e-ink watch? I have a Garmin Epix pro gen 2 which gets about a month of battery life and has a gorgeous AMOLED, has profiles for pretty much every sport ever invented, incredibly accurate GPS tracking, all day HR-tracking, ECG etc. I understand it's about 4x the price, but there's also lower-end Garmin's that are about 2x the price with the same screen, slightly less features a…

"What's the use case for a $150 watch when you can just buy a $1000 watch instead?"

Re: Pebble Time 2 Design Reveal [video]

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Post by RandomBacon »

Karawebnetwork wrote: post #95
deanc wrote: post #61

What is the use-case now in 2025 for an e-ink watch? I have a Garmin Epix pro gen 2 which gets about a month of battery life and has a gorgeous AMOLED, has profiles for pretty much every sport ever invented, incredibly accurate GPS tracking, all day HR-tracking, ECG etc. I understand it's about 4x the price, but there's also lower-end Garmin's that are about 2x the price with the same screen, slightly less features a…

Personally, I try not to use screens for a few hours before going to bed. Before bedtime, I limit myself to my e-ink book reader. The idea of having a screen on my wrist doesn't particularly appeal to me. My partner has one and when they turn over in bed, I am sometimes blinded by the screen which still glows brightly even at the lowest setting in complete darkness. That's why I'm considering a e-ink watch. The reaso…

> notifications and such before bedtime could be just as harmful to my nightline peacefulness.

If you have an Android, you can set Do Not Disturb mode on a schedule.

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