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Re: Two new PebbleOS watches

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Post by OkGoDoIt »

erohead wrote: post #3

I'll be hanging out here - happy to answer any questions you have!

Thank you for making this happen! My family and friends are sick of my decade-long attachment to my pebble steel by now, haha.

Any chance the particular extra color for the metal one could be an actual metal color? My pebble steel with the metal link band was a great combination of stylish and functional. I never really liked the look of any of the later models so even when I bought them I always went back to my pebble steel. I went ahead and pre-ordered the new metal one and I suppose I’ll go for black if I have to but I really hope you come out with a stainless steel or silver color.

Also what’s the watchband compatibility? Will this work with the original pebble bands or with standard watch bands or something new and proprietary?

Re: Two new PebbleOS watches

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Post by colecut »

ActivePattern wrote: post #318
bigstrat2003 wrote: post #305

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What they call "gross profit" is not profit , by definition. It's certainly useful to track $revenue-$cost_of_goods, but you can't call that profit. People are free to use words incorrectly, but they shouldn't expect anyone else to go along with them.

Who chooses the "correct" use of words? Is it you? Wikipedia disagrees with you: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gross_margin . Maybe you should make your own encyclopedia.

you mean some person on wikipedia disagrees with him.

Re: Two new PebbleOS watches

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Post by spaceguillotine »

Former Pebble and Pebble Time owner and these kinda feel, meh in 2025. The Pebble roadmap seemed like it had more potential back in the day with experimental bands that didn't really materialize.

Hoping once they actually release and we find out if the targets are hit or not with battery life and water resistance.

I just hope they don't release limited color cases again and not have any left for warranty support as happened with my Blue Pebble and all they could offer was a Black one.

Re: Two new PebbleOS watches

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Post by spaceguillotine »

bentcorner wrote: post #104
isjustintime wrote: post #34

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Personally I never found myself using my NFC payment watch. It felt like if I was venturing far enough to the store, I'm just going to bring my phone with me anyways. I wonder if this differs for areas that don't get as much suburban sprawl.

I use NFC payments on my watch all the time, even though I have my phone and card in my pocket. Tapping my watch is just easier than digging into my pockets and/or opening my wallet app on my phone.

i like you use NFC via watch way more than by Phone. I don't wanna take out my phone all the time, i'd like to look at my phone screen less and less as time goes on.

Re: Two new PebbleOS watches

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Post by Avamander »

jmcphers wrote: post #249
Avamander wrote: post #242

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Unfortunately it's the software that determines how good such a device is to use. What's currently considered the best firmware for the Bangle? I will also note that backlit LCD is vastly inferior to e-paper in smartwatches. Size of the watch also matters, there are some tradeoffs you have to make.

Pebble's display is also a backlit LCD. It is better than some backlit LCDs but the technology is not fundamentally different. Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/pebble/comments/3i6mje/epaper_tech_...

It was e-paper (transreflective LCD), although it had a backlight it is vastly different to your usual backlit TFT.

Re: Two new PebbleOS watches

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Post by just-another-se »

I couldn't agree more on how restricted popular smartwatches are. I'm working on a project to capture the maximum physiological and health data—such as heart rate (HR), heart rate variability (HRV), stress levels, and SpO2—from a smartwatch in the shortest possible interval. So far, the best I've achieved is once per minute. Could pebble support obtaining this data (particularly HRV) at even shorter intervals?

Re: Two new PebbleOS watches

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Post by fphhotchips »

bigstrat2003 wrote: post #307
4ndrewl wrote: post #301

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Wonder if this is a nationality thing? In the UK I'd say ~30% of sales are done via phones/watches these days.

That's fascinating to me, because many times I've tried to do that it's an exercise in frustration. Terminals don't always have the sensor in the same spot, phones sometimes don't register the connection, and so on. Maybe things work better in the UK?

It can be a bit difficult, particularly now that some phones are getting more demanding about re-authorising before it will go through. Tap-try to get fingerprint scanner working-tap again is a much less fluid procedure than tap-go.

The position thing is just something you get used to. There's not that many reader models in active use and most of them are pretty good about marking where the nfc reader is these days.

Re: Two new PebbleOS watches

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Post by mulderc »

xahrepap wrote: post #346
Reason077 wrote: post #324

> "30 day battery life" I've done the math and according to my calculations that's approximately 30X more battery life than an Apple Watch. Impressive!

About 60 for me. I have to charge mine while working to get it to last a day :/

I have had an Apple Watch since the original and never had it that bad. I think something is wrong with your watch.

Re: Two new PebbleOS watches

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Post by GlacierFox »

ahel wrote: post #313
robocat wrote: post #259

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> curious about the risk of a "at cost" replacement You can't tell consumers the raw manufacturing cost because people act weird when they are told it: they usually assume the "markup" is profits. They assume that they're getting ripped off because most people don't understand development costs or overheads and they always argue that any profit is too much. This problem can't be fixed. Apart from the risk of scammers…

Hey, I completely agree and I also suffer from this same bias: it's ruining me from enjoying stuff that I would like to buy but in the end I just give up because it feels that any profit is a scam. What kind of resource can I study for me to understand and accept other people making profits?

What do you mean? Excessive profit or _any_ profit? Haha. You'd prefer it people made things and just broke even?
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