The word "colorway" just reminds me of a dabacle with a certain browser.
Does it mean anything more than "color" or "color scheme"? Do humans use the word in real life? I've never heard it outside of marketing copy.
Pebble Time 2 Design Reveal [video]
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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.
This would be interesting. I was gifted a Kindle with backlighting recently after my old first generation one broke. The backlight is useless to me because it shines blue, so I just use a candle.
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I’m shocked they think they can get such long battery life with a heart rate monitor running all the time.
it'll probably pulse on / off. The main draw would be the display but since it's e-ink it only draws when changing.
I guess so. I've had two previous fitbits and I believe those track every second during exercise and every five minutes otherwise. But those watches would still only get 5-7 days of battery life.
Hence my skepticism that this feature can be offered and still get 4x more life than that.
Re: Pebble Time 2 Design Reveal [video]
#134Looks 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!
My Garmin watch on Do Not Disturb accomplishes this. I always forget to look at them though!
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#135(My personal perspective or views below.) To misquote Bernie, I am once again ~~asking~~ requesting for a single watch to have both heart rate/health tracking, as well as compass and barometer in a single watch. I had an Amazfit Bip which, just like a Pebble, also had a transflective screen and between 1 to 2.5 months of battery life. However, it did have a compass along with a barometer, alongside HR/activity/sleep…
What do you use the barometer for?
Measuring pressure
Re: Pebble Time 2 Design Reveal [video]
#136I love that it doesn't say Pebble on the bezel! I never wanted one before, but now I do. My only issue is that I have pretty small wrists and this watch would likely be too large for me.
Please Eric, if you are reading this, do not put branding on it where it is visible.
We have enough distractions in our lives that we don't need more advertising pushed in our faces, especially for something we already own.
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#137What 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…
It's not e-ink but a transreflective LCD. As to "why": I'm not interested at all in Garmin's sports and health features and their cloud stuff. Pebbles work well, get out of the way and have a nice, friendly and slightly quirky interface. There are many apps and watchfaces out there. As of the new ones, the OS is open source. Reasons enough for me. ;)
What is not e-ink? GP said that Garmin is AMOLED and according to [0] pebbles are e-ink/e-paper. Can you clarify?
Otherwise I agree. I would love an opensource fitness watch though, but I understand why this is not (yet?) possible.
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#138The word "colorway" just reminds me of a dabacle with a certain browser. Does it mean anything more than "color" or "color scheme"? Do humans use the word in real life? I've never heard it outside of marketing copy.
I hear it all the time in reviews or discussions of tech products. I don't think it really means anything other than "color" or "color scheme", it's just a more product focused way of talking about it.
Re: Pebble Time 2 Design Reveal [video]
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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!
My Garmin watch on Do Not Disturb accomplishes this. I always forget to look at them though!
PebbleOS has always had a feature called "Quiet Time" which does the same thing as "Do Not Disturb". Hopefully the new app will also respect the phone's native "Do Not Disturb" setting which has a bunch of nice automation features to e.g. turn on during meetings or at night automatically.
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It's not e-ink but a transreflective LCD. As to "why": I'm not interested at all in Garmin's sports and health features and their cloud stuff. Pebbles work well, get out of the way and have a nice, friendly and slightly quirky interface. There are many apps and watchfaces out there. As of the new ones, the OS is open source. Reasons enough for me. ;)
What is not e-ink? GP said that Garmin is AMOLED and according to [0] pebbles are e-ink/e-paper. Can you clarify? Otherwise I agree. I would love an opensource fitness watch though, but I understand why this is not (yet?) possible. [0] https://store.repebble.com/
e-ink is not a synonym of e-paper. Reflective LCDs are a type of e-paper.