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The Pebble Has Been Brought Back (store.repebble.com)
submitted 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Google recently open sourced Pebble and today, Repebble has put some of the watches up for preorder.

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Don't love the closed-in ecosystem but Garmin watches with MIP display do almost all you just said.

  • Touch screen + also Buttons for 100% touch-free interaction
  • Battery life of around 3 to 4 weeks (depending on what you are doing)... more with the Solar models
  • Media control is there, but don't really use that

Podcast ad skipping sadly not a thing.

Price might be an issue though. The top end models with all the whistles come at a smartphone flagship price point.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago) (1 children)

I have a Vivoactive 4 that I picked up used from Facebook a couple of months back. It's a few years old now, and the regular LCD screen looks pretty janky once you've got used to OLED. But it cost me £50, works perfectly well with GrapheneOS, and the battery still lasts a week.

It's left me pondering upgrading it to a new one with an OLED screen.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 15 hours ago

To offer a counter point: I've owned 3 different VivoActive 3 Music watches for about 2 years each. All of them had the screen stop working. Could be my bad luck, but I wasn't super rough with them (never wore them in water)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

The Garmin Instinct is what I switched to when my Pebble died. Recently upgraded to the Fenix.

You can absolutely skip ahead through ads with the music controls. Automating it would be the job of the app.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 19 hours ago

You are right. I think I read that wrong. I thought automatic segment skipping like YouTube SponsorBlock. You definitely can fast forward using buttons.