Not that I care much about either product, but aren't they both water resistant? This new pebble claims to be resistant to only a splash from what I read... Not what I would want in a daily watch.
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Pebble Announces New 'Pebble Time Round' Smart Watch
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Good for them offering previous owners a sizeable discount, that's how you keep customers!
It's also really interesting to see the market move so quickly from rectangle/squares to circles, I suppose it was inevitable. I'm more interested in if Apple will follow suit and how long it will take them.
Funny, I still wear original pebble. Daily people in coffee shops or at cash register ask me if its the new Apple watch. Ha.
I'm waiting for Apple to design something that average folks don't think is a Pebble.
People think your Pebble is a Apple Watch not the other way around. The general public is aware of the Apple watch but have no clue what a Pebble is.
I suppose they are trying to be different from Apple Watch while still working with an iPhone but around 2 days battery life is no biggie. Probably still need to charge about every day anyway to be safe. I actually find a set routine of charging a watch more beneficial. I definitely make it through one day's use but would be pissed if I went to use it the second day and needed to charge midway through.
As for the looks. I don't care for it at all. If I had to I would buy one of the other smartwatches out there that says it can run with an iPhone instead. I don't like the 14mm size band at all and I'm a woman. Looks so thin, and to me makes the base seem all that much larger on the woman's wrist. The black circle on the face isn't as bad I suppose as the white (white wall tire look). But it looks strange to make the whole watch case so large to then have this much smaller watch face, clearly for room for components. I'm not impressed at all by the look of the various faces shown. Far cry from Apple's. Many of the screens look like what you might see on a cheap kid's watch. I went to their website to check them out further and gee their faces are even pixelated. Not something I would expect in this high tech age but guess if you are trying to make something so thin and always on display, you sacrifice the watch depth, the actual screen size, and you need to make a lot of compromises. Are there 4 buttons on the rim?
Hard to believe someone who bought a Steel would trade a supposed 10-day battery life for a 2-day one just for a round face like that especially with them being priced the same.
Someone said the CEO looked uncomfortable in the video and I have to agree. I might be able to guess why.
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I wish them well. Hopefully this will drive next Apple Watch design to make it thinner than what it currently is and produce a round version...
your joking though right?
Honestly I'd be embarrassed to wear this in public, it's hideous..
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Introducing Pebble Time Round.
As a small company we could not get a manufacturer to make us a custom round E-Ink display, so we used a square one instead. Our innovative engineering team at Pebble designed these large round bezels to hide the fact that the display is actually a square to give the customer a more traditional round display. Actually, this is how we were able to follow up Pebble Time so quickly with a new model. Instead of focusing on new gimmicky features, we focused on making our product thinner. So we reduced the size of the battery and removed the water resistant seals to achieve this thinner design. After all, thinnovation works for Apple, and we can all aspire to be as successful. So here is Pebble Time Round. As a tech savvy person, we know you will not buy one, but hey, you're friends might! CUT! CUT! Can't you see from the video, I need to go to the bathroom really bad.
As a small company we could not get a manufacturer to make us a custom round E-Ink display, so we used a square one instead. Our innovative engineering team at Pebble designed these large round bezels to hide the fact that the display is actually a square to give the customer a more traditional round display. Actually, this is how we were able to follow up Pebble Time so quickly with a new model. Instead of focusing on new gimmicky features, we focused on making our product thinner. So we reduced the size of the battery and removed the water resistant seals to achieve this thinner design. After all, thinnovation works for Apple, and we can all aspire to be as successful. So here is Pebble Time Round. As a tech savvy person, we know you will not buy one, but hey, you're friends might! CUT! CUT! Can't you see from the video, I need to go to the bathroom really bad.
For those that like it, I hope Apple adds a round version in the future, however I prefer square watches.
Be aware that the tag line for the site is, MacRumors News and rumors you care about . There has been lots of interest in pebble on this site, says well as discussion on other smart wearables. Personally, I am fine with seeing discussion and articles like this.
The black watch with that dial looks nice and reminds me of a few watches* that I own, like this one by "Teno"...
..it's nice and sleek and I like the design/look/style. The problem is that the bezel of a round smart watch looks far worse than the already hideous bezels of the Apple Watch and the bezelception that the Pebble Time has going on... in this case I'd even pick a Moto 270 over that Pebble. there's just no way I could ever get over that bezel (obviously that's personal preference).
(*I'm not comparing the devices "traditional watch" - "smart watch" in any functional way, this is just my opinion on the aesthetics)
[hm, after looking at the scratches, I'd say it's Teno-Gate, but then I noticed the scratches in the table as well, Tablegate!]
..it's nice and sleek and I like the design/look/style. The problem is that the bezel of a round smart watch looks far worse than the already hideous bezels of the Apple Watch and the bezelception that the Pebble Time has going on... in this case I'd even pick a Moto 270 over that Pebble. there's just no way I could ever get over that bezel (obviously that's personal preference).
(*I'm not comparing the devices "traditional watch" - "smart watch" in any functional way, this is just my opinion on the aesthetics)
[hm, after looking at the scratches, I'd say it's Teno-Gate, but then I noticed the scratches in the table as well, Tablegate!]
Because the real e-ink display is not round. The wide bezel is to cover up the corners of rectangular display and all the connectors to it, so you only see a round window into the center of the display.
Smoke and mirrors.
You can do the same to your Apple Watch (showing a color or classic face) by sticking a post-it note with a round cutout on top of the display that just shows the round dial but that covers up the complications in the corners.
Not even close,they definitely failed in that regard.
I never felt so let down and disappointed by ANY of Apple products as much as the Watch.
design,functionality and personality was lacking.
That CEO looks really nervous and uncomfortable in that video.
He has wicked nice hair though.
I didn't feel that, but I sure feel sorry for them. I hope they sell enough to keep going. Maybe there are enough apple haters with some taste that will buy Pebbles.That CEO looks really nervous and uncomfortable in that video.
I think he did a surprisingly good job under the circumstances. Why don't you do long takes, smoothly, facing the camera for your product?
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I actually had the displeasure of interviewing at this company and I can tell you one thing for sure:
They are ruthless sons of beeches. Toward the public they try to appear like they are friendly sweet guys but they are anything but.
In private they are nasty. You could say that they are like blackberry in this respect.
It makes me sick to watch this douche bag trying to get people to sell his watch for him.
If anything this makes me want to go out and buy an Apple watch even though quite frankly I don't need any watch.
they have more than enough resources to pursue that.
unlike the LG and so on that have around LCDs…
if it were not square underneath, there would not have to be such a large bezel.
They are ruthless sons of beeches. Toward the public they try to appear like they are friendly sweet guys but they are anything but.
In private they are nasty. You could say that they are like blackberry in this respect.
It makes me sick to watch this douche bag trying to get people to sell his watch for him.
If anything this makes me want to go out and buy an Apple watch even though quite frankly I don't need any watch.
look at some of the photos of him on LinkedIn or the company website. he normally wears a scowl and he does not look like a nice person. that is because he is not one.
if that proved to be appealing, Apple would simply come out with a round one.
they have more than enough resources to pursue that.
that suggest to me that the actual E ink paper display underneath remains square.
unlike the LG and so on that have around LCDs…
if it were not square underneath, there would not have to be such a large bezel.
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I bet the screen underneath the bezel is still rectangular.
This is a sign of the company losing focus and being out of touch with what its users love about its products. If they try to be everything, they will be nothing.
This is a sign of the company losing focus and being out of touch with what its users love about its products. If they try to be everything, they will be nothing.
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Once again you demonstrate your appalling lack of imagination.
That's right. I find these graphics helpful in pointing that out:
That's the Huawei, sized exactly to the Watch.
Style is about the only reason to desire a round smartwatch IMHO. Round is good for things that involve circles, such as dials. So it's great for hands going around a watch face. If you like that, cool. Get a round watch.
But for the 199,999 other uses for a smartwatch that involve being a small computer display on your wrist, rectangular is better. Devs are used to designing for rectangular outputs. Almost everything we use on the Internet was designed to be displayed on something with four corners. So you make that face round and you either crop off things or make these said things smaller. For instance, photos and video. They're getting cropped or reduced already. It would be worse with no corners.
Looks nice. Good for pebble users to have more choice
When apple launches a round watch in the future, these assumptions that a smartwatch must be square will go away
Both round and square smart watches just work fine, it's actually more of a style choice.
When apple launches a round watch in the future, these assumptions that a smartwatch must be square will go away
Both round and square smart watches just work fine, it's actually more of a style choice.
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