Success and Failure at Pebble

Re:Success and Failure at Pebble by Deganta on Tuesday April 12, 2022 @02:30AM (#30999327)

I often hear about the great battery life of the Pebble watch, and that there is no smart watch with a comparable one. Thats kind of true, depending what one wants from their smart watch. But there actually is an alternative if you only need basic smart watch capabilites: Sport Watches. I personally only want notifications from my phone, which my Garmin Forerunner 245 can do perfectly well. And it has a battery life of up to 2 weeks, depending on how much I use the GPS of the watch.

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Re:Success and Failure at Pebble by happymellon on Tuesday April 12, 2022 @04:49AM (#31000134)

> I often hear about the great battery life of the Pebble watch, and that there is no smart watch with a comparable one.

My Fitbit Versa 3 has a week long battery life, can do Google/ Alexa Assistant, Google Maps, Spotify, GPS, health montoring, voice response to text messages although it does use its own Pay system. I think what they mean is that Samsung and Apple don't have watches with comparable battery life.

I would still switch back to my Pebble if they made it again.

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Re:Success and Failure at Pebble by perth on Tuesday April 12, 2022 @04:06AM (#30999879)

Yeah but the issue with a lot of sport watches are they have a "tacticool" look that doesn't look very fashionable, the Pebble had the unique aspect of having models that looked stylish while still maintaining their battery life.

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Re:Success and Failure at Pebble by samatman on Tuesday April 12, 2022 @07:57AM (#31001371)

Withings wins that particular narrow field handily, their watches do about four things: notify, tell time, track steps, and heart rate.

But they have real hands, and the 'smart' part is subtle enough that most people just see a watch, a couple weeks battery is realistic as well.

Pebble hit a sweet spot in terms of how much you can do with it, while being good looking with a hardy battery. If we limit the comparison to the last two of those things, Withings is in the lead, not to mention still actively sold and supported.

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Re:Success and Failure at Pebble by danuker on Tuesday April 12, 2022 @04:53AM (#31000162)

Fashion is what you define it to be.

Also, maybe a customer will remember the sporty watch contrasting with the formal suit, and call you instead of a competitor.

Also, Zuckerberg wears t-shirts and jeans.

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Re:Success and Failure at Pebble by thatguy0900 on Tuesday April 12, 2022 @06:15AM (#31000673)

Are you implying Zuckerberg is fashionable? I'm not sure I've ever seen a positive comment about his appearance, in fact he's usually said to not even look like a living human

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Re:Success and Failure at Pebble by Cthulhu_ on Tuesday April 12, 2022 @05:04AM (#31000227)

Nobody would want to fuck Zuck though.

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Re:Success and Failure at Pebble by joking on Tuesday April 12, 2022 @05:23AM (#31000362)

you have the venu sq, that looks nice, not the best battery however, but 5-6 days it's not bad.

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