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I really love my Time 1. The battery life is outstanding and while most apps are not pretty, there is a lot of functionality here. Even if you limit it to text/

by NDizzle 10y ago

I really love my Time 1. The battery life is outstanding and while most apps are not pretty, there is a lot of functionality here. Even if you limit it to text/email notifications it's pretty great. I just went on a 6 day vacation and didn't even bring my charger. Worked like a champ.

antouank 10y ago
Same here. Happy overall. If only they supported more unicode chars...
- teekert 10y ago
  Same same, yeah, seeing a lot of squares for emoticons, but getting 12 days of bat life easily (just avoid often updating watch faces like with a seconds-hand.) My lower button does start to feel a bit mushy... It still clicks but not as nice as the upper one. If it stays like this, no problem, I'm just a bit afraid I will stop working exactly after the warranty runs out, and I can't see how I would be able to fix that myself. I'm hoping to get at least 4 years of usage out of this watch.
fredley 10y ago
I'd disagree over the prettiness, I think given the hardware they're working with the UI is generally fantastic!
- NDizzle 10y ago
  I think the UI is solid. Pretty is subjective. I agree with you overall.
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odiroot 10y ago
Funnily enough I just bought mine a few days ago. What apps do you use and can recommend?
- bdcs 10y ago
  I'm going to join in since I've been using a pebble for years with great enjoyment. I treat it as a secretary. I think of different communication media as having different urgencies / time constants. Emails are a daily report. My phone's notifications are an hourly report. Notifications which I forward to my watch are the instant things. Be sure to mercilessly "mute" most apps from bugging you on your wrist. With this setup, I never feel the urge to check my phone. If there is something important, it would've buzzed my wrist. Here are my subjectively appreciated apps Homescreen: Fairweather. It is information dense display of weather, sunset time, pressure, vis., etc. (Top) Button shortcut: Forecast weather. Shows a probability of precipitation over the next 24hrs (I donated for data from forecast.io). Great for avoiding the rain when walking the dog / biking home / etc. (Bottom) Button shortcut: A bus/train stop info panel. It uses the phone's GPS to tell you when the next buses/trains are coming. Handy for when there is a stop within 100 feet of the bar and you can know if you want that extra beer or not. Timer/Multitimer are great. Alarms for waking up are great. 7minute workout app is great.
  - TeMPOraL 10y ago
    I'm going to add a few more that I use: - Compass - for compass and the ultra-cool switching between normal and "in-flight HUD" display depending on your wrist orientation. - GPS Bookmark - lets you bookmark the location you're standing in right now, and later display the direction and the distance to that location. It uses the compass on your watch and your phone's GPS. It works on GPS coordinates, so it doesn't require you to have any Internet connection. I found it extremely useful when I was in Shenzhen, China - I bookmarked my hotel and work, and used the third bookmark slot (you have one slot per button) to record temporary locations like the metro station I just got off from. It was really invaluable for finding my way back from wherever I ended up going. - PebbleTasker - like the name suggests, it lets you call Tasker tasks to Pebble. I.e. you can make Pebble buttons do pretty much anything on your phone, without having to write an app yourself. You can bind some to each button, and then also use a list menu for more. The bindings can also be dynamically configurable from within Tasker, if you feel like making e.g. location-aware actions on your watch, or something. - AutoPebble from AutoApps plugins for Tasker - something similar to PebbleTasker, but more advanced - you can dynamically configure the contents and behaviour of the watchapp from Tasker. A bit more difficult to set up, but also much more powerful. It's probably the best option if you want to have whatever the data you want on your watch, and in the way you want it.
ncr100 10y ago
+1 Time2. Bigger screen, more battery life, heart rate, cheap, and all the good Time 1 features.

by NDizzle 10y ago

antouank 10y ago

Same here. Happy overall. If only they supported more unicode chars...

teekert 10y ago
Same same, yeah, seeing a lot of squares for emoticons, but getting 12 days of bat life easily (just avoid often updating watch faces like with a seconds-hand.) My lower button does start to feel a bit mushy... It still clicks but not as nice as the upper one. If it stays like this, no problem, I'm just a bit afraid I will stop working exactly after the warranty runs out, and I can't see how I would be able to fix that myself. I'm hoping to get at least 4 years of usage out of this watch.

fredley 10y ago

I'd disagree over the prettiness, I think given the hardware they're working with the UI is generally fantastic!

NDizzle 10y ago
I think the UI is solid. Pretty is subjective. I agree with you overall.
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odiroot 10y ago

Funnily enough I just bought mine a few days ago. What apps do you use and can recommend?

bdcs 10y ago
I'm going to join in since I've been using a pebble for years with great enjoyment. I treat it as a secretary. I think of different communication media as having different urgencies / time constants. Emails are a daily report. My phone's notifications are an hourly report. Notifications which I forward to my watch are the instant things. Be sure to mercilessly "mute" most apps from bugging you on your wrist. With this setup, I never feel the urge to check my phone. If there is something important, it would've buzzed my wrist. Here are my subjectively appreciated apps Homescreen: Fairweather. It is information dense display of weather, sunset time, pressure, vis., etc. (Top) Button shortcut: Forecast weather. Shows a probability of precipitation over the next 24hrs (I donated for data from forecast.io). Great for avoiding the rain when walking the dog / biking home / etc. (Bottom) Button shortcut: A bus/train stop info panel. It uses the phone's GPS to tell you when the next buses/trains are coming. Handy for when there is a stop within 100 feet of the bar and you can know if you want that extra beer or not. Timer/Multitimer are great. Alarms for waking up are great. 7minute workout app is great.
- TeMPOraL 10y ago
  I'm going to add a few more that I use: - Compass - for compass and the ultra-cool switching between normal and "in-flight HUD" display depending on your wrist orientation. - GPS Bookmark - lets you bookmark the location you're standing in right now, and later display the direction and the distance to that location. It uses the compass on your watch and your phone's GPS. It works on GPS coordinates, so it doesn't require you to have any Internet connection. I found it extremely useful when I was in Shenzhen, China - I bookmarked my hotel and work, and used the third bookmark slot (you have one slot per button) to record temporary locations like the metro station I just got off from. It was really invaluable for finding my way back from wherever I ended up going. - PebbleTasker - like the name suggests, it lets you call Tasker tasks to Pebble. I.e. you can make Pebble buttons do pretty much anything on your phone, without having to write an app yourself. You can bind some to each button, and then also use a list menu for more. The bindings can also be dynamically configurable from within Tasker, if you feel like making e.g. location-aware actions on your watch, or something. - AutoPebble from AutoApps plugins for Tasker - something similar to PebbleTasker, but more advanced - you can dynamically configure the contents and behaviour of the watchapp from Tasker. A bit more difficult to set up, but also much more powerful. It's probably the best option if you want to have whatever the data you want on your watch, and in the way you want it.

ncr100 10y ago

+1 Time2. Bigger screen, more battery life, heart rate, cheap, and all the good Time 1 features.