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Re:The future of Rebble by MostlyStable on Monday January 27, 2025 @05:15PM (#42846339)
I never had one, but doing some quick googling, it looks like at least some models had an e-ink display. Certainly several commenters seemed to think it did.
Re:The future of Rebble by will0 on Monday January 27, 2025 @05:21PM (#42846417)
It was a transflective memory LCD, which Pebble marketed as "E-Paper" (not the same as E-Ink)
Re:The future of Rebble by Groxx on Monday January 27, 2025 @09:19PM (#42848212)
An excellent one at that. It boggles my mind that others didn't follow suit.

I've got a Bangle.js 2 at the moment and while I mostly like it, the screen is nowhere near as nice. Transflective is still very obviously what I want in a watch though, even the best oleds don't even come close in visibility.

Re:The future of Rebble by terramex on Tuesday January 28, 2025 @05:49AM (#42850941)
> It boggles my mind that others didn't follow suit.

Most fitness smartwatches (Garmin, Coros, Wahoo) used the same display technology for years, called it MIP displays. Nowadays they are switching to OLEDs.

https://garminrumors.com/amoled-vs-mip-in-garmin-devices-a-d...

Re:The future of Rebble by Groxx on Tuesday January 28, 2025 @01:32PM (#42856044)
Somewhat!

The vast majority I've seen are black and white, with a color layer on top that is disabled when in "low power / sunlight readable" modes. And many of the smartwatch-focused devices (rather than Garmin's super pricey and gigantic "hiking for days without a phone so it solar charges and has gps and..." watches) only use OLED, even if the brand has MIP screens in some other product lines.

I haven't seen anything even close to what pebble's color watches did. Banglejs is by far the closest, with 6 colors and a much more muted screen in general.

Re:The future of Rebble by yjftsjthsd-h on Monday January 27, 2025 @05:23PM (#42846447)
No, it had an "epaper" display that visually looked a lot like eink but was a different technology