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Pebble Announces New 'Pebble Time Round' Smart Watch
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Apple Watch is water resistant.
Coming back to this one.
Reminds me of the "physical keyboard" argument
But it's E-Ink....
So then you should have no issue charging the Apple Watch.
I like to root for the underdog, but what Pebble is up against is pretty well insurmountable. Kudos to them for some great products (I really like their 'Time' and 'Time Steel'), but when the time comes for me to join the wearables evolution, I'm leaning towards HomeKit compatibility and quantity of quality Apps.
Still waiting for my original Pebble Kickstarter model to deliver on the promises they made....
No thanks.
No thanks.
You can read about my experience with it on my site, http://SatanSam.co.uk/blog or read my posts in the "why I took my AW back" thread on this site.
I have some screenshots from various WatchOS2 Photo watch face too.
What's it to be now?
My Pebbles water resistance is about 49.5m more than Apple's. I'm happy to wait for confirmed 50m resistance by Apple themselves. I don't want to risk it really.
What's wrong with e-Ink? Works great on my Pebble (long battery, always on). Whilst I owned an Apple Watch there were times the screen didn't come on when I wanted it.
Maybe you missed my other post. If I forget to charge my Pebble it's not a critical situation.
It's like I said before. The Apple Watch is great for what it does (apps, music) but purely as a time keeping device the Pebble is better suited.
It's very odd this dealing with fanboys. It's as if they glossed over the part where I said Pebble will eventually close, Apple will reign supreme after a few generations. I've already told Apple fans they'll be victorious (like it counts).
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I really like my plain old Pebble watch and the company was quite cooperative replacing my original kickstarter edition when the screen started to fail. I use the watch for work and I am a fan of it. That said, this round version, although sleek for a smart watch, is a total step backwards for the company. It looks like they went more with design over function. That bezel, to me, shows that the company may have had difficulty designing a larger, round screen and they thought that no one would notice. I would think by now they would have solved the bezel issue from the original Pebble and what's with the 2 day battery life? It looks like they rushed this one.
I'd rather not risk my (at the time) £520 watch with chlorine and sea water. It's fine that you do, but I'd prefer to wait for a few more generations until it's 50m water resistent.
I mean there are the other points too. At least another fanboy tried to address all of them
Auto-correct can be soooo cute sometimes.....
..... Sorry, couldn't resist.
Perhaps. The bezel doesn't bother me. I skipped the Pebble Steel and Time because they didn't interest me/do much more than my original Pebble. The only thing holding me back is 1) how will Pebble compete with Apples excellent communication/social tech in the AW and 2) a 2 day battery life is a bit sucky. Coming from my 7 day original Pebble at least.
Huge bezel on a round watch. I feel like the total area of the bezel is near equal to the total area of the screen. IMO it does not look good.
I know! Does keep me from getting one. I think my original Kickstarter Pebble is safe for some time.
They got the metal bezal right, the rose gold is nicer than the rose gold ip6s. I also think the color "e paper" display is the right way to go. Apple should have made a thinner, less feature intensive, round, thin, cheaper watch. The Apple TV should have been more feature intensive and more expensive. The IP6 should have less blank bezel space, and have square edges. Also the choice not to produce a space black ip6, but instead the worlds worst pink, cost them billions in sales.
Thai is using the GPS.
Connecting via BLE to either the iPhone (what I do) or to an android - I get at least 5 days if i have 3 - 4 hours of running with the gps on - and usually 7 days if I'm just using it with the heart rate monitor at the gym. I love the ability to load in new watch faces - I have about 8 different ones I cycle through depending on what I'm doing - and getting texts/emails/phone call notifications on my wrist is really nice. I miss being able to respond to them ala an apple watch but personally I don't get so many that I feel left out. I much prefer people thinking it is a big sports watch.
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That doesn't sound right. Played back perfectly smoothly over wifi to 160mbit cable here in Edinburgh, Scotland. Perhaps a CPU issue?
(What has this to do with Watches?)
I hate to be pessimistic and I appreciate the need for competition to drive progress but Pebbles days as a company are numbered in my opinion. They had a head start but they don't have enough technological progress. Looking at the photos On their site the band connectors look very similar to Apple Watch lugs without the removable aspect.
pebbler! oh god that is the most cringe thing ever! now can we all just kill the idea of wearable tech until someone finds a compelling reason for it. The idea is DOA for me, sales of all smart watches must only be in the tens of millions, or about as popular as home automation! Another DOA idea or about as popular as windows phone or blackberry os, all irrelevant over hyped waste of time projects.
Please can we just concentrate on tech that actually has a real world purpose?
Please can we just concentrate on tech that actually has a real world purpose?
I get a week out of my Pebbles (they're not Steels). That, the greater water resistance (I kayak with them), and the lower price are the points of preference for me.
It works with an iPhone -- that brings it into the fold.
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Same happened with the Macbook Air. There is no such thing as the only company to do a uniqueness.
Take that
