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After my two Pebbles, I have never found something quite like it. I have then accumulated a drawer full of sad, obsolete and nonfunctional smart watches. I the

After my two Pebbles, I have never found something quite like it. I have then accumulated a drawer full of sad, obsolete and nonfunctional smart watches. I then moved my interest to good old plain watches. Digital, mechanical, self-winding, manual-winding, hacking seconds, chronographs, divers, all that. It's a rich, complex, and beautiful world. They can get as expensive or as affordable as you want, but for the price of one expensive smart watch you can get quite a nice collection of watches that you can combine with different styles of life and fashion.

spdif899 3y ago
I'm right there with you (drawer full of loved-but-neglected pebbles, along with a few Garmin watches). I ended up going the other direction, I got an apple watch and just sucked it up and accepted that I'll toss it on the charger every morning. It has a lot of really good features (I can approve okta logins and get authy codes from my wrist, I can check weather and scroll around to browse the forecast, things like that). I think there are two branches at this point post-pebble. You either get something that augments your phone with a couple benefits over a traditional watch, or you get something like Apple Watch that does many of the things your phone can do, saving you from spending time on the big screen. For me there's strong value to the latter that makes up for the battery downsides: the powerful-but-focused app functionality means I can accomplish a task without getting pulled into other things. On a phone I find it all too easy to check the weather then start checking notifications and get sucked into news or something.
2OEH8eoCRo0 3y ago
After my Pebble I switched to a $5 Casio that was on sale at Wal-Mart and has a "10 year battery" Less is more.
BloodyIron 3y ago
Why not revive your pebbles? Depending on the model, there are replacement battery options, and with rebble.io the software aspect is addressed. Literally wearing a fully functional Pebble Time as I write this. I also have a Pebble Time Steel (not wearing currently) also fully operational.

spdif899 3y ago

I'm right there with you (drawer full of loved-but-neglected pebbles, along with a few Garmin watches). I ended up going the other direction, I got an apple watch and just sucked it up and accepted that I'll toss it on the charger every morning. It has a lot of really good features (I can approve okta logins and get authy codes from my wrist, I can check weather and scroll around to browse the forecast, things like that). I think there are two branches at this point post-pebble. You either get something that augments your phone with a couple benefits over a traditional watch, or you get something like Apple Watch that does many of the things your phone can do, saving you from spending time on the big screen. For me there's strong value to the latter that makes up for the battery downsides: the powerful-but-focused app functionality means I can accomplish a task without getting pulled into other things. On a phone I find it all too easy to check the weather then start checking notifications and get sucked into news or something.

2OEH8eoCRo0 3y ago

After my Pebble I switched to a $5 Casio that was on sale at Wal-Mart and has a "10 year battery" Less is more.

BloodyIron 3y ago

Why not revive your pebbles? Depending on the model, there are replacement battery options, and with rebble.io the software aspect is addressed. Literally wearing a fully functional Pebble Time as I write this. I also have a Pebble Time Steel (not wearing currently) also fully operational.