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I have a garmin forerunner 235 which is perfect for running, and functions as my everyday smartwatch with all day heartrate monitoring and basic notifications f

I have a garmin forerunner 235 which is perfect for running, and functions as my everyday smartwatch with all day heartrate monitoring and basic notifications from my iphone. Do you still wear your pebbles?

mikestew 10y ago
Do you still wear your pebbles? Wearing it as I type right now. But that's because all of my Garmin watches (610 and 910, IIRC) are old enough to not have the smart watch stuff. If I had a 920, I'd ditch the Pebble. I just can't yet justify the $400 simply to aggregate my wrist-worn devices.
marricks 10y ago
What's the battery life like? I heard it's not quite as good as reported and honestly it's a bit hard to believe a device without an e-ink display would fair as well.
- xirdstl 10y ago
  I'd guess it depends a lot on how much you use the GPS. I've had mine for about six weeks, and I charge it once per week.
- mjlee 10y ago
  It's decent, but using it in outdoor running mode (the only exercise mode I've tried) depletes the battery quite fast. I enable the optional GLONASS, I'm not sure how much effect that has. Big handfuls, you'll get about 8 days out of it, less a day for every 30 minutes of running. Garmin have released a few firmware updates for the watch which may account for the difference between my findings and those of early adopters.
  - DiabloD3 10y ago
    GLONASS on most devices that speak both is enabled only when GPS signal quality is poor enough, and it just uses it to improve the accuracy of your position. It uses more battery life, but in a lot of cases it's the difference between accurate positioning and not. So, yeah, I'd try doing same day runs on clear days, with GLONASS on and off, and compare drain rate.
    - mjlee 10y ago
      To be honest, it doesn't bother me enough to run any sort of rigorous trial. Going by some trusted reviewers, GLONASS sucks an extra 20% during activities. I'm never so far away from being able to charge it that such a small difference bothers me.
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- spoinkaroo 10y ago
  It lasts atleast 2-3 days, honestly I charge it every other day and run 3-5 days a week and it works great.
kjaer 10y ago
Do you still wear your pebbles? I'm not OP, but I've had the opposite experience: I'm not using mine anymore. I have both the original Pebble and the Pebble Time, but I've abandoned them in favor of a Suunto Ambit 3. It functions well enough as a basic smartwatch (it can receive notifications, and that's about it) and fitness tracker, but is far better as a running watch: it records and displays more metrics, with far greater accuracy. Since it is also my fitness tracker, I'm wearing it every day instead of the Pebble, because I don't want two sets of incomplete data. It's far more important to me to have a watch that functions as a running watch than one that has smartwatch features.
bigiain 10y ago
I got the original Pebble from the Kickstarter, and the Time as well. I don't use them for fitness* but I do like the sleep tracking. I've pretty much had a Pebble on my wrist 24x6.5 (I charge it overnight once a week-ish) - after pretty much stopping completely wearing a watch shortly after I got my first cellphone with a clock in the '90s.

mikestew 10y ago

Do you still wear your pebbles? Wearing it as I type right now. But that's because all of my Garmin watches (610 and 910, IIRC) are old enough to not have the smart watch stuff. If I had a 920, I'd ditch the Pebble. I just can't yet justify the $400 simply to aggregate my wrist-worn devices.

marricks 10y ago

What's the battery life like? I heard it's not quite as good as reported and honestly it's a bit hard to believe a device without an e-ink display would fair as well.

xirdstl 10y ago
I'd guess it depends a lot on how much you use the GPS. I've had mine for about six weeks, and I charge it once per week.
mjlee 10y ago
It's decent, but using it in outdoor running mode (the only exercise mode I've tried) depletes the battery quite fast. I enable the optional GLONASS, I'm not sure how much effect that has. Big handfuls, you'll get about 8 days out of it, less a day for every 30 minutes of running. Garmin have released a few firmware updates for the watch which may account for the difference between my findings and those of early adopters.
- DiabloD3 10y ago
  GLONASS on most devices that speak both is enabled only when GPS signal quality is poor enough, and it just uses it to improve the accuracy of your position. It uses more battery life, but in a lot of cases it's the difference between accurate positioning and not. So, yeah, I'd try doing same day runs on clear days, with GLONASS on and off, and compare drain rate.
  - mjlee 10y ago
    To be honest, it doesn't bother me enough to run any sort of rigorous trial. Going by some trusted reviewers, GLONASS sucks an extra 20% during activities. I'm never so far away from being able to charge it that such a small difference bothers me.
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spoinkaroo 10y ago
It lasts atleast 2-3 days, honestly I charge it every other day and run 3-5 days a week and it works great.

kjaer 10y ago

Do you still wear your pebbles? I'm not OP, but I've had the opposite experience: I'm not using mine anymore. I have both the original Pebble and the Pebble Time, but I've abandoned them in favor of a Suunto Ambit 3. It functions well enough as a basic smartwatch (it can receive notifications, and that's about it) and fitness tracker, but is far better as a running watch: it records and displays more metrics, with far greater accuracy. Since it is also my fitness tracker, I'm wearing it every day instead of the Pebble, because I don't want two sets of incomplete data. It's far more important to me to have a watch that functions as a running watch than one that has smartwatch features.

bigiain 10y ago

I got the original Pebble from the Kickstarter, and the Time as well. I don't use them for fitness* but I do like the sleep tracking. I've pretty much had a Pebble on my wrist 24x6.5 (I charge it overnight once a week-ish) - after pretty much stopping completely wearing a watch shortly after I got my first cellphone with a clock in the '90s.