I think the pebble was one of the first big smart watches, and here is a picture of mine paying tribute to my other hobby, retro computing.

I lost this watch on a skiing trip. Today I am more fascinated by mechanical watches, but I still miss this guy. I think I had the Apple Watch nailed a solid year before Apple. Today I am more fascinated by mechanical watches, but if they still made these I’d buy one in a heartbeat.

  • meteotsunami@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Pebble was everything that was right about connected watches. It wasn’t a spy. It didn’t nag you to walk around. It just did what it did and that was passive notifications. I had two, but neither survived very long before the screens would flip out. Everything else that came along afterwards was definitely not my cup of tea and I went back to mechanical and automatic watches.

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    1 year ago

    I miss my pebble watch. best alarm I ever had. battery was great so you didn’t have to charge at night, so you could sleep with it on; and it peacefully vibrates to wake you up gently, so great.

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    1 year ago

    I purchased one when it came up. I think there were “smart” watches before it, and it came as an alternative for long battery duration, which was amazing, and also focused in only important stuff to notify. I think it failed because the lack of all the bloat.

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    1 year ago

    The pebble is still my favorite smart watch ever, the escreen and the long battery has not been beaten! I still have mine and still works!

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    1 year ago

    I’ve got somewhat mixed feelings about the Pebble. It was great for its time, but it didn’t look that great - esp. the later version with limited colors and huge bezel. Also, I could never be bothered to start development - it felt too much like going back to early MS-DOS days (C, limited memory, …). And finally, there was this graceless death in the middle of a Kickstarter to a version that seemed like a better compromise than the ones before.

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    1 year ago

    Holy blast from the past. I adored my Pebble Time Steel. When the battery wore I out I switched to a Fitbit Versa but it just wasn’t the same. Sold it and went back to “dumb” watches. The Pebble really was something special.