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Re:iPhone Air by klardotsh on Tuesday September 09, 2025 @05:54PM (#45189789)
Yes. My Pebble Steel got over a week of battery in 2015, had physical, tactile buttons that worked even wearing thick winter gloves, and had an always-on-no-matter-what screen that was clearly readable in full sunlight.

Every smartwatch that hasn't met that bar, which is almost all of them ever made, is a joke to me. I'd have ordered a RePebble had I not moved back to analogue dumbwatches instead just before they were announced (and were iOS not actively hostile to competing watch implementations).

Re:iPhone Air by qwezxcrty on Tuesday September 09, 2025 @06:28PM (#45190218)
If you are okay with less smart smart watches, and okay with no hackability, Garmin should have a few with black and white display and >1 week battery life (even indefinite with sufficient solar).
Re:iPhone Air by qwertytyyuu on Tuesday September 09, 2025 @06:43PM (#45190418)
That’s not really the same category of device
Re:iPhone Air by wahnfrieden on Tuesday September 09, 2025 @06:15PM (#45190081)
Isn’t that a laggy b&w screen, with no ability to respond to notifs, no cellular. I guess those are ok for some users
Re:iPhone Air by brookst on Tuesday September 09, 2025 @09:53PM (#45192121)
And motorcycles get way better gas mileage than cars. But it’s still odd to frame a (totally understandable!) preference for one product category in those terms.