I can't say it's essential to have it on the wrist every single day, but I found it nice to have. And yes, my anticipated use-case almost completely maps with r

I can't say it's essential to have it on the wrist every single day, but I found it nice to have. And yes, my anticipated use-case almost completely maps with reality. Now, before I explain myself, a bit of disclaimer (apart from the obvious - I'm not a native English speaker ;) ). I like to wear a watch, taking out the phone from the pocket to check the time don't work for me. Also, for various reasons I usually can't ignore notifications from my phone (my employer is in different time zone than me, I have small kids, etc). So this is my use case, I have no doubt that other people have different expectations/needs. The original Pebble looked too plasticky to me, Samsung watches are abominations, we all hear that Apple and Google is cooking something but v1 from Google is usually a disaster and v1 from Apple is usually pricey, shiny and pretty limited, so I ordered Pebble Steel in early January. My experience so far: - I stopped checking the phone every now and then, especially during the conversations/meetings - if there is some notification, I'll see it on my wrist. No more "did the phone vibrated?" moments. - Having notifications delivered to my wrist is super useful when I'm home, and the phone is not in my pocket. - Even more useful having a smartwatch is when I'm driving - instead of pulling the phone from the pocket and trying to stay on track, I can just glance on the wrist and see is it something important or ignorable. All of these use cases is something I anticipated, and so far I'm happy. But not everything is smooth: - I have an iPhone, the Pebble app on iOS don't work always as expected. So I developed a habit to run the app in the morning, to prevent it to be kicked from the memory. - Someone would expect to have basic watch functions on the watch. Pebble don't have a stopwatch, so I need to run third-party app to measure time. Which is nice, but Pebble OS don't support multitasking, so if I exit the app (accidentally or on purpose - maybe I want to check time), stopwatch stops. Same for timer applications. I would be nice if the OS have some basic hooks for such essential functionality - Alarms are dumb. I can have working-days-only alarms on my old G-Shock, but I can't have it on smartwatch? - Currently I can't buy a plastic/rubber/silicone wristband for my Pebble Steel (because of "smart" case design), so I can't swim with my watch.