Is anyone considering buying Pebble?

Not only is that butt ugly and clunky looking, it's a bad photoshop job, which means the real deal may look a great deal worse.

 

WIll do. I stopped wearing watches a long time ago, but I used to love wearing them and like many here I prefer a good looking analog.

 

The idea of watching videos on your watch is ridiculous. GPS maps is a good idea, tho. Maybe they'll be limiting sales too much by making them accessories to phones, but Joe Consumer is probably going to want to play Angry Birds on these things and sales will tank because of the complaints about usability.
One iPod Nano watch bands came out Apple really should have realized the potential and offered a limited selection of apps. More expansive health monitors than Nike, GPS, email readability (tho responding would require voice recognition, i would think), etc.

 

I got a BB gift card for Xmas and decided I wanted to retire my Fitbit Charge and try out the Pebble Time since it was selling for a decent price and I liked its size and the features seemed to be something I'd like to try out.


So I got it and wore it for a couple of days and finally had to return it becuase there were just to many annoyances. One being the screen. I had read it was dim, but wow, it is just WAY too dim to be of much use, especially bad in darker rooms. Then as much as I thought I'd like having buttons to push to activate features, it became quite annoying after mere minutes. By end of day 2 I'd had enough and returned it.


I have since snagged a Zenwatch 2 45mm smartwatch to compliment my Zenfone 2 and so far I am extremely happy with my decision. It is SO much nicer having the ability to just swipe to read notifications etc. Not to mention being able to see a nice colorful BRIGHT screen. It has some great features and I'm still getting used to things, but for the money, it's a great "bang for teh buck" smartwatch IMO.

 

Looks like Pebble is officially dead, not really shocked.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/news/2016/12/07/report-fitbit-closing-pebble-deal/95082716/

 

It was inevitable. Still a bummer.

 

Absolutely a bummer. The Time Steel, along with Pebble's ecosystem, was a perfect balance of smartwatch and fitness tracker for me and I was really looking forward to the Time 2. Now all I'm getting, hopefully, is a refund of my Time 2/Core Kickstarter pledge.

 

Thing I hated most, aside from the screen being too dim was having to push all the buttons to get info you wanted. I like that I can just tap, talk to, or rotate my smartwatch and be presented with all kinds of info, be it fitness related, emails, texts, directions etc.

 

Funny, the button-based functionality is one of my favorite things about the PTS. It's a moot point now.