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submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by JPDev@programming.dev to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev
 
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[–] UnRelatedBurner@sh.itjust.works 4 points 11 months ago (2 children)

u sold me if it has hearthrate and stuff (idk what tracks sleep)

[–] Lord_ToRA@lemmy.world 9 points 11 months ago (4 children)

I would not say that any of the features work well enough to consider them as actual features. The only thing that is truly reliable is telling time.

My battery life is about 3 days. The notifications are ugly and bare minimum. It does not store more than 5 at a time.

[–] trafficnab@lemmy.ca 9 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Why does every manufacturer fall for the IPS/OLED meme instead of using a transflective LCD (like what a calculator has)?? My Amazfit Bip gets 6 weeks on a single charge with the screen on 24/7

[–] UnRelatedBurner@sh.itjust.works 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

transflective LCD is like magic tho, the things are floating. Jokes aside is there a smartwatch that has this screen, but with actual pixels, so that it's just as "smart"? I know thag amazfit can show you all the info, but having a mini-mini-pc is cool.

[–] trafficnab@lemmy.ca 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I basically just want a smart watch to be an extension of my phone's lockscreen:

Tell me the time, and tell me why my phone just buzzed, almost anything else is bloat that's shaving literal weeks off of the battery life

[–] UnRelatedBurner@sh.itjust.works 2 points 11 months ago

Whatever floats your boat ig. For me it's 50% looks and 50% sleep tracking. I don't think a wristband can track how much calories I burn, and sport tracking is basically a meme. But for checking if I get enough sleep, and a fashion piece. Yes, pls.

Different market.

[–] drndramrndra@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 11 months ago

My battery life is about 3 days.

Have you updated it this year? 1.13 improved the battery life from 3-5 days to 10+

[–] M0oP0o@mander.xyz 2 points 11 months ago

What does not work for you? Other then the one player pong sucking I have had the opposite experience.

[–] CosmicCleric@lemmy.world 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I would not say that any of the features work well enough to consider them as actual features.

That is a bold statement. I as someone who was considering purchasing one, could you elaborate?

[–] Lord_ToRA@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

The step tracking is far less accurate than any other fitness watch I've had.

The raise-to-wake is not reliable regardless of how it's calibrated.

The heart rate monitor I can't provide evidence of accuracy, but based on the experience I had with the other features it's safe to guess it's not very accurate. More importantly it's a battery killer and turns itself off constantly.

The interface in total is severely lacking.

Coding custom features is highly unenjoyable.

A large part of it relies on the companion apps which just don't provide much support for the pinetime, especially in comparison to other devices.

The timer/stopwatch/alarm is laughable as it buzzes once and that's it.

I mentioned already that notifications are ugly and bare minimum. Most information is cut off and it can only handle up to 5 notifications in memory before it's cut off and you don't get any more until you check them or it just clears the oldest one. I'm not exactly sure how it handles that because to me it's just unusable.

[–] M0oP0o@mander.xyz 1 points 11 months ago (2 children)

It does not track sleep as that would require too much info to be sent to a third party. The battery is insane on it as well I get 5 plus days on mine.

[–] JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Why would it require any info to be sent to a third party? My P32 tracks sleep and I keep it entirely offline.

[–] M0oP0o@mander.xyz 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Not enough processing on the watch I think. You can look it up on the pinetime gethub (https://github.com/topics/pinetime) somewhere in the mess of projects it is mentioned.

[–] onion@feddit.de 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Couldn't it connect to a phone and have that do the math

[–] M0oP0o@mander.xyz 1 points 11 months ago

They have not made a phone side app yet. That would be the third party I think.

[–] trafficnab@lemmy.ca 6 points 11 months ago (3 children)

How far the smart watch has fallen that 5 days of battery life is now "insane", these things should last weeks

[–] sxan@midwest.social 2 points 11 months ago

sobs in Pebble

[–] drndramrndra@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 11 months ago

It's just bad coding. Half a year ago they released a patch to more than double the battery life. 2 weeks is reasonable, especially when you limit the useless notifications.

[–] InFerNo@lemmy.ml 1 points 11 months ago

Maybe they meant insanely short 🤔