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Why Pebble?

Always-on e-paper screen (it’s reflective rather than emissive. Sunlight readable. Glanceable. Not distracting to others like a bright wrist)
Long battery life (one less thing to charge. It’s annoying to need extra cables when traveling)
Simple and beautiful user experience around a core set of features (telling time, notifications, music control, alarms, weather, calendar, sleep/step tracking)
Buttons! (to play/pause/skip music on my phone without looking at the screen)
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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February Pebble Production and Software Updates (repebble.com)

submitted 3 days ago by tree@lemmy.ml to c/pebble@discuss.online

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/43395968

Pebble Time 2 Production Update: We’re in the Production Verification Test (PVT) phase right now, the last stop before Mass Production (MP).

Entering PT2 Mass Production on March 9.

Based on current schedule, the first mass production PT2s will arrive on wrists during the beginning of April. We should wrap up delivering all pre-ordered Pebble Time 2s two months later by the beginning of June.

https://www.reddit.com/r/pebble/comments/1r8j6dm/february_pebble_production_and_software_updates/

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47073112

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[+] BenderRodriguez@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

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[–] Pyotr@lemmy.world 6 points 3 days ago (2 children)

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.

[–] cv_octavio@piefed.ca 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

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.

[+] BenderRodriguez@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

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[–] Pyotr@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] village604@adultswim.fan 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

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.

[–] reallykindasorta@slrpnk.net 1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

I don’t want my watch location tracking me but I do want heart rate and step tracking. Pebble is open source so I can audit the privacy of the app and manage my own data without fitbit, garmin, or apple accessing it in the interim.

Also if the company goes under other apps can interface with the watch.

[–] directive0@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago

Brought my time out of mothballs when repebble came on the scene and I can't remember why I ever laid it to rest. Every other smart-ish watch I've adopted to fill the role it left has been a PITA or just no reliable. Really looking forward to my PT2!