Pebble was a game changer. Mine's in a drawer somewhere..
As is mine. Loathe to throw it away, yet quite sure it doesn't work anymore.
If you don't want it I'll gladly take it off your hands.
Over 16k people still use a Pebble smartwatch
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#72Wonder how many are still using an iPod nano as a watch. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1104350651/tiktok-lunat...
My iPod nano battery expanded and cracked the whole device open. I almost literally cried, as I loved that little device too much. Getting a replacement is not an option as any iPod nano battery is about 10 years old now. A sign of what will happen to all the Apple Watches out there.
I loved my 80Gb classic iPod. When its hard drive finally died I couldn't bring myself to dispose of it.
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#73same here with Amazfit Bip, had few months stint with AMOLED smartwatch which was necessary to charge twice a week until I got fed up with that (plus unreadable display in sunlight unless maximum brightness) and bought again second Amazfit Bip (1st broke) which cost me less than 20USD used and I have to charge it once a month plus it has perfectly readable transreflective display not requiring any backlight, which looks better with more sunlight, it's shame almost all companies switched to nice looking but extremely power hungry AMOLED displays, I wish there were cheap options for simple watch with transreflective display or e-ink
I would be perfectly content with something like Casio F91W if it could display notifications through bluetooth from my phone, I don't really need any sleep tracking or any other features just watch with notifications so I don't have to turn on phone screen
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#74I'm one of them. Still love it. The built-in compass and the third-party app that integrates with Google Maps are priceless to me. Using physical buttons as opposed to touchscreen is another great feature. All these years, I haven't found a replacement.
Wait, which versions have a compass? My P2HR does not mention that anywhere.
Re: Over 16k people still use a Pebble smartwatch
#75If it works for you, why would you migrate to a different product with features or performance outside of your needs? We are so deep into a disposable society that we eagerly await the NEXT BIG THING (TM) without ever evaluating what our need consists of or whether we have any need for an upgrade to begin with.
The pebble was a bit of a gimmick. It was the start of the future but on its own it was kind of worse than a regular watch. It looked ugly, had a terrible screen, didn’t have any of the stuff you mostly do with a smartwatch now. And half the features no longer work.
> And half the features no longer work.
Which features don't work? I'm still wearing a Pebble Time Steel every day with Rebble Services and not encountering problems.
Okay, I guess Apple integration doesn't work anymore, but that's an Apple problem. If Apple allowed sideloading & half of the things you can do on Android, Pebble would still work there. I used to be an iPhone owner (I was one of those queue-on-day-one types that got a standing ovation from the Apple employees as you walked out of the Apple Store), but I am so glad I switched to Android.
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#76Earlier quoted context omitted.
And it had an insanely long battery life, I could respond to, and read text messages without opening my phone. It didn't have unnecessary stuff- it was simple and met my watch needs. I don't have a smartwatch now, because I'm not interested in having yet another computer on my wrist. I guess I've just decided to settle for a gimmicky automatic watch, it doesn't even have an alarm! And it dies if I stop using it for a…
>And it had an insanely long battery life. Is there a term for complementing something that is objectively much worse than what came before only because it's better than what we have now. Stockholm syndrome? Watch batteries used to last month's/ years / didn't need batteries at all. It's the same with phones, they used to last a week easily, now we get excited when they last 2 days.
I don't know of any official name, but it would be adjacent to the Rachet Effect [0]. Where the Rachet Effect is a steady increase in expectations, rather than a steady decrease, they both derive from the same limited time frame used for comparisons.
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#77Pebble was a game changer. Mine's in a drawer somewhere..
Mine too. Would one or two of the 16k please make the pitch. What are the features that keep you using it? How much work to get it going again? This is timely for me as I’m now in the doghouse for missing a reminder to take my kid to the dentist yesterday :(
Runs one week on a charge, I wrote a custom time-tracking app for it that I have been using for years, syncs with google calendar, shows TOTP auth codes, weather and notifications, controls music playback in the house, all without having to take my phone out...
Re: Over 16k people still use a Pebble smartwatch
#78If it works for you, why would you migrate to a different product with features or performance outside of your needs? We are so deep into a disposable society that we eagerly await the NEXT BIG THING (TM) without ever evaluating what our need consists of or whether we have any need for an upgrade to begin with.
I know a guy that bought every new Samsung flagship device as soon as they hit stores. He said he just has to upgrade.
I know a guy who does this with Apple products. Half monthly salary for a phone for a year sounds extreme to me. Plus all the gimmicks that come with the phone - pad, phones and watch.
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#79I love my pebbles. Especially with notification center on Android, I can set complex regex filters for what messages get sent to my watch, vibration patterns etc.
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#80Earlier quoted context omitted.
I know a guy that bought every new Samsung flagship device as soon as they hit stores. He said he just has to upgrade.
I wonder sometimes how can people reconcile buying a new X every Y and still be concerned about human rights and the environment, etc.
Both is to raise your social status among your “friends”.