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I've owned an original pebble for a couple weeks now, but I'm still skeptical on their usefulness. I save maybe 5-10 minutes of time per week by being able to c

by Rudism 12y ago

I've owned an original pebble for a couple weeks now, but I'm still skeptical on their usefulness. I save maybe 5-10 minutes of time per week by being able to check the weather forecast or dismiss non-urgent emails and texts using my watch instead of having to pull my phone out of my pocket, but that's about the only benefit I'm seeing so far. Maybe a smartwatch would be more useful to me if I was more popular and had calendar events to keep track of or more friends who contacted me regularly, but as your typical socially-isolated introvert software engineer, this thing seems to have limited utility.

joshstrange 12y ago
I've had my Pebble Steel for just at a year now and I have the opposite experience. I consider it to be as important as having my phone on me at this point. Part of this is no doubt due to never wearing a watch (for more than a day or two) prior to owning the Pebble so I love having the time/weather on my wrist at all times. I love having texts, calls, emails on my wrist and I've started using Pushover (Push notification API with app) more and more since I don't have to dig my phone out of my pocket to read push notifications any more.
RadioactiveMan 12y ago
Consider looking at the Glance app. I enjoyed my Pebble to start with, but it became far more useful with Glance. I can now reply to text messages from a list of options I created on my phone. I filled the list with the messages I send the most: "ok", "yes", "no", "on my way". I really like deciding if messages are worth my time without having to dig out my phone and I really like being able to send quick messages without fiddling about with unlocking and on-screen keyboards.
hammerandtongs 12y ago
For me its not necessarily a raw measure of just time saved. I realized that the physical habit that we've all developed of pulling our phones, unlocking , checking time or messages etc is a really really annoying physical habit. It's disruptive and awkward to do, interrupts conversations or basic interactions with things in your environment. A two handed fumbling time check/message check becomes a no handed operation with a smart watch. I don't actually check my messages any more often, in fact less, since the notification is actually much more obvious then phones chirping in a pocket and my decision about whether to handle the information now or later is just much more quick and fluent.

by Rudism 12y ago

joshstrange 12y ago

I've had my Pebble Steel for just at a year now and I have the opposite experience. I consider it to be as important as having my phone on me at this point. Part of this is no doubt due to never wearing a watch (for more than a day or two) prior to owning the Pebble so I love having the time/weather on my wrist at all times. I love having texts, calls, emails on my wrist and I've started using Pushover (Push notification API with app) more and more since I don't have to dig my phone out of my pocket to read push notifications any more.

RadioactiveMan 12y ago

Consider looking at the Glance app. I enjoyed my Pebble to start with, but it became far more useful with Glance. I can now reply to text messages from a list of options I created on my phone. I filled the list with the messages I send the most: "ok", "yes", "no", "on my way". I really like deciding if messages are worth my time without having to dig out my phone and I really like being able to send quick messages without fiddling about with unlocking and on-screen keyboards.

hammerandtongs 12y ago

For me its not necessarily a raw measure of just time saved. I realized that the physical habit that we've all developed of pulling our phones, unlocking , checking time or messages etc is a really really annoying physical habit. It's disruptive and awkward to do, interrupts conversations or basic interactions with things in your environment. A two handed fumbling time check/message check becomes a no handed operation with a smart watch. I don't actually check my messages any more often, in fact less, since the notification is actually much more obvious then phones chirping in a pocket and my decision about whether to handle the information now or later is just much more quick and fluent.