I do not trust this. I want it to be true, but I feel like even as a FOSS OS... Maybe I'm an idiot (not maybe) but I had the rug pulled from under me once already,
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Google rugpulls shit way too often for me to take the risk.
I wonder if there's any ESP32 boards that would work well for this. I know there's a mesh-tastic capable watch that's got to be super programmable.
Raspberry pi Pebble when?
I loved my PebbleSteel but the build quality just wasn’t there. Had two go bad after a very short time with button issues. When Pebble got sold i begrudgingly moved to an Apple Watch and have been ok with it. I do wish Apple offered an E-ink display tho. I’d gladly trade display colors and screen resolution for a multi-day battery and lower prices.
I’m all in on the Apple ecosystem but won’t get an Apple Watch for that reason. Besides the fact that I already get distracted enough, I can’t bear to have a wearable that won’t make it 24 hours without a charge. Resistance to that level of obligation is the same reason I never bought a Tamagotchi.
The newer watches can last up to 2 days I think at least my Samsung ones did I would assume apple is about par
I got a Tamagotchi when they were new and it was annoying as fuck, so I stopped playing with it after two days and enjoyed looking at the floating ghost.
My kid has an Apple Watch but because you can’t play a game on it he often leaves it charging by his bed. He’s also responsible and sets alarms for his chores which means I’m often the only one around when they go off. Sometimes I think about turning it off and hiding it.
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Nothing else ever really achieved what the peobble did. I just wanted a cheap second point of interaction with my phone.
After it went under the industry has doubled down on insane cost, pointless features, abysmal battery life.
I don't get it. Pepple made all the right trade offs and the third party support was incredible.
I hope this works out.
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Never trust or buy something from a Alphabet company. They will always cancel the project and leave you high and dry.
Their track record speaks for itself.
Yes, true, but irrelevant in this case.
But this doesn't have anything to do with alphabet? They just open sourced the code.
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I all keep going back to my Pebble Time. The battery life and focus on productivity are second to none.
I'm just very unoptimistic that this won't come back as corporate garbage and not remotely resembling what it once was.
The people doing the revival have been working to keep the original pebbles working for years now. I think they're really passionate about the watch, and that gives me hope for the revival.
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Just want to shout out my PineTime. no one seems to be talking about it. Its a nice piece of kit for $35.
Yup. I've been rocking the PineTime since my Pebble crapped out. It does what I need it to do without any of the invasive stuff. But, still excited about this Pebble news.
I just went to take a look at it, its €65, I don't see a price anywhere near $35?
and then i saw they had an e-reader and got all excited... They charge €610 for that thing, holy crap that's stupid expensive.
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Under the Apache License 2.0 license, no less! Nice!
I ran my Pebble Time into the ground, so I'm hyped as fuck for this. I bought it in my early highschool years and wore it nearly daily until last year when the rumble motor finally gave out. Still wear it from time to time, but it not buzzing for notifications is a bit of a deal breaker for me.
I bought a replacement and it's so pristine I didn't want to risk slowly damaging it at work, but now I'm charging that bitch up and running it into the ground until new Pebble comes out. Thanks for sharing OP, this news made me week!
Bonus, here's what mine looked like as of a few years ago right when the vibration went out. You can see I slapped a skin on it to cover up the bezel scratches, but the screen still looks totally fine!
I miss my Pebble Time Round every day, it's the only smart watch that I owned that I actually liked. I even bought a second and got it running via Rebble.
They both died due to a swollen battery but I've been pining for something similar for years! Hope this pans out
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Interesting to see if it will be better than Bangle JS 2, the spiritual successor to Pebble. That's the one I've been using a few years and I still like it a lot.
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