Thread 106254447

Thoughts on the new Pebble Time 2?
I'm looking forward to an open source smart watch, but I won't be preordering anything.

>>106254447 (OP)
>looking forward to smart watch
beahaha

>>106254447 (OP)
Yeah that looks cool. I love epaper so anything with that is awesome. I would imagine epaper is pretty wasteful for a watch if it's actively counting seconds, though.

>>106254471
What's the issue? It's open source and has a 30 day battery life.

>>106254447 (OP)
i regret backing them. smartwatches are an abomination.

>>106254447 (OP)
just use whatever garmin instinct solar. i touch enough grass to not have to charge it

>>106255072
>just use whatever garmin instinct solar. i touch enough grass to not have to charge it

I use the 2 solar and the solar charge isn't enough to really go positive unless I'm outside every second of daylight during the summer or leave the watch on the balcony while I work. I heard the 3 solar has like many times the charging ability, if that's true it truly would be doable to almost never charge. Love my instinct.

The pebble does look cool too, been thinking of getting the 3 solar but the pebble could be another fun alternative to try. I can never go back to a watch that needs to charge more than like once a month

>>106254447 (OP)
They scammed all these metrosexual faggots into celebrating being ass raped on price. Old one was cheap as hell new one is several hundred dollars. Whole point of it before was it's cheap and you could make shit for it. New on is backwards compatible but somehow 5 times the price and all you pussy ass faggots are too dumb to speak up. Enjoy getting ass raped you rubes

>>106254447 (OP)
>a watch
>which is an extension of your phone
>showing you a text message
>telling you about a post on discord
I don't even care anymore man. This timeline sucks. This is beyond stupid.

>>106256128
>what is inflation

I'm heavily considering one. I love the PineTime and anything that follows a similar philosophy is cool by me

>>106254447 (OP)
I'll wait for some reviews to come out but I'm interested in it. I like the design.

What do you actually do with a smartwatch? It just sends you notifications? I've never used one.

>>106257547
Well, they can tell the time.

>>106254447 (OP)
Just wear a Casio or a fake Rolex you manchild

>>106257651
So can my phone, which I already carry on me everywhere I go and would be required to have for the watch to work. The only possible instance I can see wanting to have a watch is if you want to stop carrying around a glorified tracking device and return to simpler times.

>>106256128
Uh, no, its 1.25 times the price.

>>106257850
Yeah but you have to pull it out of your fanny pack. With this you just raise your arm, look at your wrist and enjoy.
Technology truly is a marvelous thing.

>>106254601
my watch doesnt have a source and its battery lasts for 10 years. it also isnt botnet which is a plus

>>106256128
The original pebble cost $100, the new cheap option costs $150. The old pebble time cost $200, the new one costs $225. It's not that much of a price hike

>>106257953
prove pebble is a botnet

>>106254731
"Bixby, set a reminder at 10 AM to call OP an unimaginative faggot."

Just justified my own smartwatch purchase. Faggot.

>>106258854
>tfw no assistant works in my language
I can use them in english but I just find it more awkward to do so. Suffering.

>>106258542
it connects to the internet
ez

>>106257850
The only usecase I have ever imagined for smartwatches would be tracking my swimming times with some programmable HIIT timer or some thing. Even for running you can carry your phone on some arm strap or your fanny pack.

But before wasting money on some gadget that won't last a few years, I'd need to get in the habit of exercise and swimming regularly and wanting to track that.

>>106254447 (OP)
>wearing a brick on your wrist 24 hours a day so that you don't have to pick to phone when you receive a notification?
what kind of person uses a smartwatch?

>>106254447 (OP)
Why should I get something like this and not a titanium solar watch with up to 3 times battery life and gps tracking for outdoor activities?

>>106254447 (OP)
I prefer real watches. Smart watches are ugly and useless.

>>106262174
>solar watch
>up to 3 times battery life
If you're only getting 3 times the battery life out of a solar powered watch you're either a cave dweller or bought a really shit watch

>>106263858
alright retard, tell me about another watch that last 90 days or more

>>106261740
Just look at the code
>>106262174
Cost

>>106254447 (OP)
>Thoughts on the new Pebble Time 2?
I will wait for the Pebble Time 3, thanks.

>>106254447 (OP)
You don't need and never will need more than pic rel

>>106264402
Based Casiochad

I initially bought into the hype until the developer said he basically didn't have any plans to make the design good, and if you didn't like that "it wasn't for you, please don't buy one, etc."
So it's not for me, and I won't be buying one.

>>106264402
Based

Nah, I like the idea of a non-botnet watch but I'm not really interested in a tinkertranny gadget, which is what the CEO is making it out as.
I don't like the false dichotomy of having to choose between either a normal finished product but you don't own it, or an actually open one with decent practical features but it's supposed to be some kind of hobby project.
Basically this >>106264876

>>106255072
Garmins are cool but they're fuckhuge and thick and "rugged" as fuck. Call me vain, I don't usually care about appearance too much, but the garmins are so bulky that they'd just look like I'd be tacticool larping. I don't actually go out on hikes and stuff anywhere near often enough to be justified in wearing one.
If not for this I'd probably have gotten one, solar + monochrome + GPS + seemingly no internet connection for botnet seems great. Apparently "garmin pay" even exists somehow despite, again, no internet connection, which would be quite interesting if it actually works considering I'm never touching google pay/apple pay.

>>106254447 (OP)
>smartwatch
Into the trash it goes.

>>106261977
That's not really relevant if you're not training to become a professional athlete.

>>106254447 (OP)
>costs a zillion dollars
>battery life is kind of crap
>no local python repl
>apps still run in the cloud

Fuck no.

>>106265020
I don't want to become a professional athelete, but if i don't track progress i lose interest and drop the routine. Even if it's just "did 10 pushups today", that helps my consistency.

>>106261977
I like the idea of a wrist top compas/xbiff thing.

>>106265093
That's not a real use case.

>>106254447 (OP)
no. no interested. they already stated it was a limited run. just going to be another novelty watch that is DOA once released.

>>106265217
I'll bite.
Define use case.

>>106264402
>>106264953
It makes me laugh that even Casio has a variant of that watch but with Bluetooth connectivity and a special app for it.

Smartwatches are one of the dumbest ideas around. I have an actual smartwatch, a Timex Datalink USB, which has a 2 year battery and lets you play tetris while you take a shit with the crown. All this modern shit is bloated and has embarrassing battery life because of a focus on retarded notifications and wireless connectivity, instead of power saving.

But it's still not as good as a basic diver watch. My automatic movement will last probably 15+ years before the oils dry out enough to impact performance, at which point I'll spend another 30 bucks and swap it out.

>>106264402
If it can't automatically update its time based on GPS satellites is it even really trying?

>>106268106
You don't NEED sub 1 second accuracy and a 20 year solar battery. My watch right now is like 7 minutes out, because automatics don't respond well to jerking off.

>>106268131
>NEED
Come on bro your watch is literally less useful than a smartwatch if it can't properly keep time
It's not even a mechanical or a historical curiosity like a Seiko quartz

Loved my original pebble steel, now use a garmin instinct 2 and can't see any reason to move to anything else

>>106266808
The bluetooth is for syncing the clock. Their radio synced watches also have it in case you're in an area where you can't sync it via the radio signals.

>>106268131
Buy a casio oceanus. Abandon automemes, embrace the quartz.

>>106266835
>Timex Datalink USB
Oh hey my dad had one of those, I always thought it was cool because he had everyone's birthdays saved in it

>>106265217
What makes you think use case is a metric?

>>106254447 (OP)
still have 3 new old Pebble time, bought them for almost nothing after Pebble collapsed.

will the new ones have the same software compatibility, or the new apps will run only on the newer Pebble Time 2 hardware

What do these watches do?

I still use my time-steel with no real issues, don't see a reason to buy something new, though I wish pebbleOS received more ongoing development, it's definitely starting to show its age

>>106270428
pebble is famous for many many many community made apps and the low power ALWAYS ON display where Pebble Time 2 will last one month without charging.

But i mostly love it for the apps, with old pebble time i had app (that is not maintained rn so not working anymore) that showed me our public transport departures and thru the phone gps it found out near which station i currently am and showed departures for that station, so i just clicked a button on my wrist and had departures for where i was standing at the moment. The hundreds of community made apps were the main thing why i even got the old Pebble Time.

for me, it's radio-controlled Citizen Eco-Drives