this post was submitted on 19 Feb 2026
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Pebble - rePebble
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Why Pebble?
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Always-on e-paper screen (it’s reflective rather than emissive. Sunlight readable. Glanceable. Not distracting to others like a bright wrist)
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Long battery life (one less thing to charge. It’s annoying to need extra cables when traveling)
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Simple and beautiful user experience around a core set of features (telling time, notifications, music control, alarms, weather, calendar, sleep/step tracking)
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Buttons! (to play/pause/skip music on my phone without looking at the screen)
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Hackable (apparently you can’t even write your own watchfaces for Apple Watch? That is wild. There were >16k watchfaces on the Pebble appstore!)
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The lack of "features" IS the selling point. It does only what a smartwatch should, its not another phone on your wrist but rather just a device that informs you what's going on with the phone you're already carrying and lets you do some limited control of the phone from your wrist, and lasts forever between charges, as a smartwatch should.
Preach!
I tried a Fitbit sense for a while. The entire reason i wear a watch is to tell time. A secondary benefit is a thing that buzzes when i get a call and my phone is silenced. I do not need you telling me you detected a walk. And when I'm on a walk and I lift my wrist, ALL I WANT TO DO IS SEE THE TIME, not how long the walk has been going on for, or my pace or speed. I do not need you to buzz and vibrate when I pass some fictional milestone. THATS WHAT MY BRAIN RELEASING ENDORPHIN IS FOR.
Can't wait for my new pebble.
I've menu dived enough on the device and app to know that it does. I'll take my pebble over this.
Well, I went from my pebble time to a garmin fenix, as it was the closest to a pebble as I could find. I don't use half the features it has because I didn't want them, but the physical hardware still adds battery drain and size to it, which isn't desirable, and makes even the 42mm size an absolute unit on my wrist. Also, it was multiple times the cost of what the pebble is. A current gen one with the MIP display is almost a grand - discounting the amoled/microled models as they've got an unacceptably short battery life.
The pebble is simple, only does what it needs to, and is indeed cheaper than any equivalent models out there. I'm absolutely looking forward to my new PT2 arriving
But it looks like a $5 Walmart G-Shock. I love my instinct 1, but I wish they would make one with the same features that looks different.