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I still use the Pebble as my main smartwatch. I tried out a ticwatch, but got tired of it pretty quickly. The Pebble Time and Pebble Time Steel were really grea

by _ea1k 3y ago

I still use the Pebble as my main smartwatch. I tried out a ticwatch, but got tired of it pretty quickly. The Pebble Time and Pebble Time Steel were really great devices, with a great balance of capability and battery life. The fact that it can easily last a day on a small fraction of the battery has often unexpected benefits too. Forgot to charge? np, just charge while doing something else for ~10 minutes and it will get you through the day anyway. Even less if it just needs to last overnight to use as an alarm the next day.

afavour 3y ago
I’ve had an Apple Watch for years but I very rarely use it for anything I couldn’t do with my Pebble Time Round all those years ago. Set timers, control music, check the weather… all possible with a device that was cheaper, had a longer lasting battery and looked better (subjective opinion of course). RIP Pebble. You were always doomed because you couldn’t have the kind of OS integration a first party device could, but you were the little watch that could.
- _ea1k 3y ago
  TBH, OS integration on Android wasn't too bad. They were able to leverage a lot of the exposed Android Wear APIs. But they were really slow to embrace fitness usage and a lot of people found them less attractive than the Fitbit.
- amatecha 3y ago
  I've always felt the Pebble was superior to the Apple Watch for controlling music playback, because you could control the playback with tactile buttons you can operate without looking at. With the Apple Watch you don't really have any choice but to raise your wrist (to make the screen turn on), look at the screen to know where to tap, and tap precisely on the right spot on the screen. With the Pebble you can just feel for the upper button and push on it. One of the ways in which my "upgrade" to an Apple Watch was actually a downgrade :\
  - gnicholas 3y ago
    Exactly. I looked for a long time to replace my pebble. Garmin sort of does it, but most of the time I actually control music playback via my AirPods, which don’t need to be in the right state in order to control anything.

by _ea1k 3y ago

afavour 3y ago

I’ve had an Apple Watch for years but I very rarely use it for anything I couldn’t do with my Pebble Time Round all those years ago. Set timers, control music, check the weather… all possible with a device that was cheaper, had a longer lasting battery and looked better (subjective opinion of course). RIP Pebble. You were always doomed because you couldn’t have the kind of OS integration a first party device could, but you were the little watch that could.

_ea1k 3y ago
TBH, OS integration on Android wasn't too bad. They were able to leverage a lot of the exposed Android Wear APIs. But they were really slow to embrace fitness usage and a lot of people found them less attractive than the Fitbit.
amatecha 3y ago
I've always felt the Pebble was superior to the Apple Watch for controlling music playback, because you could control the playback with tactile buttons you can operate without looking at. With the Apple Watch you don't really have any choice but to raise your wrist (to make the screen turn on), look at the screen to know where to tap, and tap precisely on the right spot on the screen. With the Pebble you can just feel for the upper button and push on it. One of the ways in which my "upgrade" to an Apple Watch was actually a downgrade :\
- gnicholas 3y ago
  Exactly. I looked for a long time to replace my pebble. Garmin sort of does it, but most of the time I actually control music playback via my AirPods, which don’t need to be in the right state in order to control anything.