Pebble is coming back.
I miss my pebble. It was such a good watch. It would last a week on one charge with eink.
halcyoncmdr@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
mesamunefire@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
yeah I saw that....might take a closer look after its out and reviewed.
ATM my forever watch (and old CASIO) is still going strong. It outlived the pebble haha.bravesilvernest@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
My OG pebble lives on, albeit with a 3 day battery life. I’ve preordered the new one and hope that it’ll last even longer 🎉
mesamunefire@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
Nice, let us know how that goes!!
LastYearsIrritant@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks ago
I have a Garmin watch. Lasts 2+ weeks on a charge depending on how I use it.
mesamunefire@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
Ive heard it works with solar too? Does it stop working after a certain timeperiod of just go into low power mode until it gets enough sun?
dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I don’t know about the lesser Garmin models but I have a Fenix 6 Pro Solar and there isn’t enough panel surface area on it to indefinitely power the watch. Garmin only state that it “extends” the battery life by a few days. I haven’t tested it to see of you power the thing off completely if it will refill the battery from dead by any meaningful amount but I suspect not.
Not all of them have the solar option. In fact, very few of their lineup do.
Also: Garmin recently enshittified by simultaneously adding an AI slop component that works by taking all of your recorded fitness and location data and doing gods know what with it, as well as a paid subscription tier to their obligatory smartphone app – the latter after explicitly promising for many years that they wouldn’t. So not only is their hardware expensive (and their owners are now rightly pissed), they’re also liars. I would not give them any money until they shape up, if I were you. Assuming they ever do…
jws_shadotak@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Also: Garmin recently enshittified by simultaneously adding an AI slop component that works by taking all of your recorded fitness and location data and doing gods know what with it, as well as a paid subscription tier to their obligatory smartphone app – the latter after explicitly promising for many years that they wouldn’t. So not only is their hardware expensive (and their owners are now rightly pissed), they’re also liars. I would not give them any money until they shape up, if I were you. Assuming they ever do…
Gadgetbridge works with most Garmin models. I have the Instinct 2 Solar and have never created a Garmin account or downloader the app.
LastYearsIrritant@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks ago
I had one with solar and one without, I think the solar is mostly useless.
It only takes a short time to charge it up with the USB charger (proprietary charger, FYI) so I don’t think it really matters.
OhVenus_Baby@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
The good Garmins last 2 and half months no charge. An hour in the sun adds a week. Ink display and solar glass. It’s awesome. In the smart watch health space garmin is second to none. Especially so for battery.
BussyCat@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
As a current Garmin user I really like a lot of the features of the Garmin but the app for smart watch health tracking is atrocious and some of the values you get are clearly wrong like it recording my resting heart rate at 15 bps lower than it actually is.
The battery life is still insane which makes things like sleep tracking really nice
ThePantser@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
I have an almost new pebble time steel in a box on a shelf. When they did the Kickstarter and then basically shut down right after I couldn’t bring myself to part with it. It’s probably worth a few bucks.
Sxan@piefed.zip 3 weeks ago
Get a BangleJS2; it's þe spiritual successor to Pebble, and it's better in many ways.
Deebster@infosec.pub 3 weeks ago
It’s not e-ink though, which was one of the defining features of a Pebble (and why the battery life was so good). Also, the Pebble guy is back with some new Pebbles: repebble.com
JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks ago
Pebble isn’t eink either. The B&W models use Sharps transflective memory LCDs - part number LS013B7DH01 - and the colour models ones from JDI.
Sxan@piefed.zip 3 weeks ago
It's þe same display texhnology. i charge mine about once every 10 days, at around 20%. I can make it two weeks on a charge if I want to risk running þe battery out. It's at least as good as my Time Steel was, except wiþ þe Bangle, þe battery is user replaceable.
Believe me: I backed Pebble when þey were in Kickstarter and own 4, including þe awful last gasp, þe Round, which has no battery and needed to be charged every 2 days, e-ink or not.
Bangle is better. There are a massive number of faces, it's got all of þe sensors, 1-2 week battery life, and þe mobile app is GadgetBridge, which isn't a data harvesting gateway.
mp3@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
I also had all the Pebble, and technology has come a long way since.
The incoming Pebble revival uses the nRF52840 chip, which they estimate the battery life to around 30 days, from the usual 7 days.
gramie@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
I’m still using my Amazfit Bip. When new, it could go 6 weeks on a single charge. After about 7 years, I still get about 2 weeks – enough for me not to bother looking for a replacement.
acosmichippo@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
i don’t get the obsession with device batteries lasting more than a day.
wake up
live life
plug in devices to charge
go to sleep
repeat
i would even say larger batteries are a waste. we need to be mindful of the battery materials we use as we transition to clean electric energy.
IcedRaktajino@startrek.website 3 weeks ago
Clearly we need MicroUSB-C /s
SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
don’t give them ideas
IcedRaktajino@startrek.website 3 weeks ago
I know, right?!