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Still wearing my Pebble Time Steel daily, and recently bought a backup/replacement on eBay because the battery on mine is dying (down to barely 1-day of battery

Still wearing my Pebble Time Steel daily, and recently bought a backup/replacement on eBay because the battery on mine is dying (down to barely 1-day of battery, from the original 10 days battery life). I really wish Rebble were putting more effort into keeping it alive. I understand the firmware is now open source, but it seems the efforts to make new hardware (or even replacement hardware) never really went anywhere. I'm grateful that they're keeping the app store & weather & voice recognition servers active, but it feels like they could do more. I guess I'm maybe looking for the Framework of smartwatches, with the aesthetics of the Time / Time Steel team.

gnicholas 4y ago
Ditto on the Time Steel. If they had told the V2 backers that they had to 2x the price to stay afloat, I would have paid it. My battery is around 4 days (assuming I remember to put it in airplane mode when I sleep), and I'm considering trying the ifixit battery replacement. I'm also hoping that the Apple Watch Ultra will turn out to have 5-ish days of battery life in low power mode after this fall's software update. I could consider an Apple Watch at that point, though I don't love the stylings of the AWU itself. Mostly I like the battery and the fact that the screen is flat and protected by a lip. Hopefully they can produce another variant that isn't quite so extreme sports-focused.