PineTime smartwatch

Long-term owners

Have had one for 2 years and it's brilliant. ... it runs a month for me on single charge.

Feb 2026 · comment

What hackers pick instead

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Every quote

The 17 most detailed of 21 comments. Each links to the original.

1. It’s pretty solid last I checked with good battery life and support for user apps written in rust

   Recommends · Feb 2026 · in “Ask HN: Programmable Watches with WiFi?”

2. Have had one for 2 years and it's brilliant. ... it runs a month for me on single charge.

   Recommends · Feb 2026 · in “Ask HN: Programmable Watches with WiFi?”

3. very open to customization and running whatever software you feel like

   Recommends · Aug 2026 · in “Hacking with Claude on a $27 Smart Watch”

4. which even offers a choice of the OS it runs

   Recommends · Feb 2026 · in “GrapheneOS – Break Free from Google and Apple”

5. it really is just a little too limited IMHO

   Mixed · Oct 2026 · in “Python on My Wrist”

6. it should even last more than a day

   Recommends · Apr 2026 · in “A DIY Watch You Can Actually Wear”

7. barely enough for ble stack, RGB framebuffer and other stuff

   Criticizes · Aug 2026 · in “Hacking with Claude on a $27 Smart Watch”

8. it's really really small and a pretty painful bottleneck

   Criticizes · Aug 2026 · in “Hacking with Claude on a $27 Smart Watch”

9. While the PineTime/Infinitime is an awesome project everyone in our community roots for

   Recommends · Feb 2026 · in “Show HN: AsteroidOS 2.0 – Nobody asked, we shipped anyway”

10. 64 KiB of RAM and execute in place ROM which is plenty for an embedded device

    Recommends · Aug 2026 · in “Hacking with Claude on a $27 Smart Watch”

11. significantly more refined than some other offerings such as the PineTime

    Mixed · Nov 2025 · in “How To Build A Smartwatch: Software”

12. Loved the original but I took mine rock climbing and cracked it

    Mixed · Apr 2026 · in “A DIY Watch You Can Actually Wear”

13. $27, which is a small fraction of the cost of a Pebble.

    Recommends · Feb 2026 · in “Pebble Production: February Update”

14. this is the one I found that looked good

    Recommends · Dec 2025 · in “Ask HN: Please suggest a smart watch that can be customized”

15. which I currently wear every day

    Recommends · Nov 2025 · in “Pebble Watch software is now open source”

16. looks like a nice upgrade

    Recommends · Mar 2026 · in “PINE64 FOSDEM 2026 Update”

17. my original PineTime kind of made me realize smart watches weren't worth it for me

    Criticizes · Mar 2026 · in “PINE64 FOSDEM 2026 Update”