Pebble smartwatch

“They have very nice hardware, long battery life with always-on screen, open software, and an active developer community.”

“Pebble's custom applications is far better than Google or Apple. It's much more hackable.”

“Its a watch first and foremost, readable in any lighting conditions, waterproof, battery lasts for weeks.”

“Pebble's capabilities are excellent b/c the UX of a ~1.5" screen is wildly different than that of an iPhone.”

“Would recommend. I love battery time (around 2 weeks with my usage patterns with longer backlight time)”

“I went through 3 pebbles with the screen corrupting, and sending it back for a refurb.”

“It's been nice to have a small piece of technology that's designed to be this modifiable.”

“not a single damn wearable I've had has captured a fraction of the charm the original Pebble and Pebble Time had”

“Pebble was sort of the first/only smartwatch that are common+open enough && uses simplistic lightweight OS such that it'll last couple weeks per charge.”

“That's exactly why I have it. It's hard to get distracted by it as yet another screen in my life.”

“Glue and seals weaken with exposure to temperature extremes in both directions.”

“Pebble hadn't been in this mess in the first place, if it wasn't for him.”

“a device that is clearly complementing a modern smartphone rather than trying to be a second phone on my wrist”

“The thing I like about Pebble is the fact its not trying to do a million other things.”

“It was supposed to be waterproof and there was no puffed up battery either.”

“it's the only smart watch with an open source OS supported by the vendor themselves”

“Lots of people still use their original Pebbles from 10 years ago and the community continued to release content for the platform.”

“I'd pay more for being able to fumble about in the codebase and add exactly what I want.”

“I still have my old pebble (the metal one they made between the original and Pebble Time). The battery has finally died, otherwise I'd still definitely still wear it from time to time”

“The original Pebbles had a zebra strip connector to the display which had problems”

“are seemingly doing a good job so far prepping SDKs and more to easily write software for the new watches”

“PebbleOS was quite polished compared to the other RTOS out there. The animations were smooth most of the time, and responsiveness was great”

“Pebble (and Fitbit, and others) were always in the "week-plus" timeframe for charging.”

“The platform/product has proven resilient, mostly because of its users passion and commitment.”

“There is a major death of hardware out there that is user-respecting and hacker-friendly”

“The battery life and always on screen alone (especially at this price point) is reason enough.”

“The companion app is now completely open source, ensuring that the community can continue supporting the watches if Core goes under.”

“their openness last time is what allowed Rebble to scrape all the apps in the first place”

“The idea that someone steps away for 10 years and then expects to take the work of others to use them and throw them away”

“Their concerns about the closed-source parts of what Core has developed is valid”

“Battery life was great, upwards of a week between charges, because connectivity features were very limited.”

“a smartwatch that stopped being produced ten years ago generates even to this day is truly incredible”

“They want the data from the original Pebble store, which is not owned by Rebble.”

“There goes any interest I had in the Pebble revival until this is sorted fairly.”

“Having owned and worn Pebble watches for the lifetime of the original company and then some, I think you would be _stunned_ at how many little things Pebble got right that others didn't.”

“I do use pebble for (something like) that. I find that setting it up so they certain people can get to my wrist makes me check my phone less.”

“a company putting out products in 2025 in a way that embraces its community and works in the open is laudable”

“They successfully open sourced a beloved platform and embraced the community ecosystem that sprung up around it.”

“instead of shutting down the Pebble store and basically bricking all Pebble watches, they intentionally opened it up”

“The key value of Pebble to me was its incredible C SDK that made it super easy to write custom apps for it.”