I was really excited, but the price is steep compared to the Garmin watches. I currently own an instinct 2. That one gets me between 15 to 18 days of battery and that’s in winter time. In the summer it is longer due to the small solar panel in it. I guess I’ll wait for the reviews and take some nights of sleep on them
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I really wanted a Pebble when they first came out, and then REALLY wanted one when they were selling for next to nothing when FitBit bought the company.
I love a smart watch, but hate the daily charging. Im currently wearing a fossil hybrid which has an eink screen under the hands, and I love that it lasts 30 days on a charge, but wish it did more.
So I ordered a Core 2 Duo. I might still cancel the order before December, but no other watch does what I want, and this is the closest.
I wish them the absolute best of luck and hope they stay firmly in their niche.
I'll be sticking with my mechanical and dumbquartz watches personally, got more than enough gadgets by now..
I was thinking of getting this but the focus is mainly for fitness. I think a garmin would be better for my purpose though because I honestly don't know what I would do with this watch
Yeah for the same price as the color option you could get a Garmin Vivoactive on a sale.
Idk if garmin allows you to download your data in an easily accessible format but I would expect Pebble to do it and I expect a nice ecosystem of user-created apps based on that
as much as I loved the original Pebbles (and love the design of these too), I think basically the world has moved on... for this kind of money, I am buying a Garmin watch with GPS, HR, etc. but I hope there will be a group of enthusiasts and wish all the luck to the company with sales. more options are always better :)
No moving on here. I still wear a OG Pebble daily, and I'm super excited about this. I just wish they hadn't chosen 'Core 2 Duo' like it hadn't been the name of another product...
I haven't moved on. Pebble Time Steel was the best watch I've ever had. I've been using Fitbit since the death of Pebble and they never got as good as Pebble was. If Repebble hadn't shown up, I'd probably be going Garmin after the inevitable death of Fitbit. But now that the choice is between Garmin and a hackable open source Pebble with 30 days of battery life... Repebble wins for me. ☺️
Fitbit was pretty bad. My wife had it and after the 3rd rma she just didn't bother anymore.
I have a PineTime now and she basically claimed it as her own so I'm back to wearing analog watches.
Oh I love my PineTime. I bought mine two years ago but it never played nice with Gadgetbridge, so it lived in a drawer until last month, when I saw someone had been using theirs pretty regularly with Gadgetbridge. I asked about it and mentioned my difficulties, they said that both had been significantly updated since then. Now here we are. It's a great watch.
I'm being horribly pedantic here but analog is just the display, you can have a highly computerized analog watch, or a purely mechanical digital watch!
out of curiosity what's your favorite analog watch (by anyone's definition) you own?
I only have a Rodania and a Hugo Boss watch. Nothing special.
Cool!
too bad its a US based company
I just pre-ordered one, but the price made me wince 😬
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