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I loved my Pebble, but Android Wear offers such a superior experience when it comes to notification management. The only thing I use my watch for is processing
by dstaley 10y ago
I loved my Pebble, but Android Wear offers such a superior experience when it comes to notification management. The only thing I use my watch for is processing incoming notifications (such as liking a tweet, archiving an email, replying to a Slack message, etc.) The 4.0 release notes hint at the power of the Android notification system, and it baffles me that Pebble still doesnt fully integrate with it.
I'm afraid that Android Wear watches will improve on the battery life and outdoor visibility front faster than Pebble will improve on the software front.
- mixedCase 10y agoI highly doubt Android Wear will improve on battery life to compete with the Pebbles short of a huge scientific breakthrough. A full charge of the Pebble Time lasted me 5-6 days.
- e_y_ 10y agoThey can increase battery life by making the watch bigger and heavier. Don't laugh -- okay, do laugh, but it's surprising what people will put up with. We used to think that 6" phones were ridiculous.
- TickleSteve 10y agoAbsolutely right. There is no way that a Cortex-A series processor will be as efficient as the Cortex-M's microcontrollers that are being used by the Pebbles. There is also nothing that needs the power of the Cortex-A's either, the M series are perfectly capable of doing everything a watch needs to.
- sundvor 10y agoYeah, on the Pebble Time Steel it lasts me 7-8 days. Before I activated health activity tracking, I'd get to the order of 9-10 days on average. I find this highly impressive.
- KJKingJ 10y agoHave you given "Notification Center for Pebble" a try? It bypasses Pebble's native notification system by using a custom watchapp and a phone companion app. Compared to Pebble's native notification system, Notification Centre has a ton of different customisation settings globally and/or per app (e.g. font, text size, vibration patterns) and also supports Android Wear actions on notifications. I'd still prefer an Android Wear watch so I can do this natively, but until one comes out with a decent battery life and at a reasonable price point, this works for now.
- aerique 10y agoWhat does Android Wear add? I've only got experience with a Pebble.
- erohead 10y agoPebble can do all the notification actions (replying to slack, archiving an email, etc) that you mentioned! Any action that shows up in the notification shade on Android gets sent to Pebble. Using canned messages or the microphone to respond. We added support for all 'Wear' type actions late in 2015. Are there specific actions that you feel are missing on Android?