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Who's the target audience for this? Doesn't nearly everyone have a smartphone with an accelerometer, or will very soon?
by jey 10y ago
Who's the target audience for this? Doesn't nearly everyone have a smartphone with an accelerometer, or will very soon?
- sz4kerto 10y agoI don't fancy running with my 5.7" phone, to be honest.
- montecarl 10y agoI didn't until I bought a running belt (flipbelt). Its a tight spandex belt that you wear around the top of your shorts. My phone stays pressed flat against my back and I forget it is there. The belt is hidden by your shirt so it doesn't even look like you are wearing it.
- jrowley 10y agoIf you don't want to bring your big expensive smart phone with you while running, this could be an alternative. But as a runner I love having my pace on my wrist watch - it has fundamentally changed how I run. So I think they missed the boat on this (because it doesn't apply to me) but in reality there are a lot of runners who don't care about pace and might love such a device. And additionally I don't like taking my phone with me - not because it is big but because after a few miles I can't directly interact with it via the touch screen because my fingers are too sweaty. So they might be on to something if the UX of the device turns out to be nice.
- jamesxwatkins 10y agoI agree. It seems like they are close, but not quite there yet. I don't bring my phone on my runs (6 plus), but there have been times (few) where i really could have used it. I don't see this replacing my Garmin watch anytime soon.
- jadyoyster 10y agoThe Core is made to be combined with the watch, so you should be able to have pace on your wrist without having to carry your phone.
- dougmany 10y ago>Core provides real-time stats via audio cues while exercising So you might be able to get pace through audio.
- brianwawok 10y agoI mean I run with my garmin 735, which cost $450.. not that much cheaper than my smartphone.
- jrowley 10y agoBut really, who is going to run a triathlon with a pebble. I doubt it's battery could even last an entire race if it was playing music and using GPS. Also, I imagine you can do HRM with the core but it didn't mention it.
- angus-g 10y agoAccording to the page they're aiming for 9 hours battery life with location tracking and offline music. Although it doesn't seem waterproof so a triathlon might be out of the question.
- lost_name 10y agoI actually wanted exactly this, because my gigantic smartphone would probably be uncomfortable to run with strapped to my arm. However, my SO introduced me to the Flipbelt, and that kind of solved all the problems.
- usrusr 10y agoMany runners don't like carrying a heavy smartphone during exercise. The iPod shuffle form factor does have a certain appeal to those. The bad news (for pebble) is that runners have been using wrist mounted gadgets literally for decades (HRM watches go back to the 1980ies), so they are trying to leave the wrist in the single market where wrist-worn computers are actually established.
- sp332 10y agoI don't think they're leaving the wrist. The Core only has 2 buttons, so all the UI is on the Pebble on your wrist. (Or on your phone.)
- usrusr 10y agoTrue. The pebble core should probably be seen as an alternative "server backend" that can stand in for the smartphone whenever one of the "fat client" smartwatches would be used in standalone mode. As that, it makes a lot of sense, literally filling a gap in the pebble lineup. And yet it may still find a market amongst non-smartwatch wearers as the "spotify shuffle".
- 27182818284 10y agoI was looking at Pebbel the other day as sort of an entry into the smartwatch world for one. Running and sleep tracking were secondary reasons. I'm glad I chose not to buy as I would have remorse with the "new version" of sorts being presented on Kickstarter.
- JustSomeNobody 10y agoNobody wants to run with a phone on them. It's not comfortable at all.