Definitely a feature that adds so much for little.

I would love to see a schedule for colours. Indiglow blue in the morning, tactical orange mid day, and red for night time.

  • directive0OP
    3·
    10 days ago

    I feel you on the smart gadgets thing. After the fall of pebble I swore off smart stuff and was into Casio and simpler amazefit neo type stuff for a while. Then I fell into casio PCB conversions and before I knew it I was back at basically smart watches again like the pinetime.

    When I saw pebble was back I had to get it. I pulled my old pebble time out and started daily driving it.

    The time 2 builds on the existing pebble vibe but just sort of smoothes a lot of edges, improves quality of life and feels like a solid upgrade. It’s early days but I kind of love it.

    Pros

    • The screen is great. Maaaaybe a tiny bit less legible than the time screen, but easy to read in most light and in sunlight it’s stunningly crisp. Not amazing color reproduction but eh, it’s epaper.
    • the buttons are this nice knurled metal and they click satisfyingly. An improvement over my old time’s mushy buttons.
    • It looks pretty slick imo I love how it looks on the wrist.
    • should you want them there is a decent hobbyist level of apps and watchfaces available for all sorts of things. You could also easily make your own if so I inclined.
    • there’s lots of simple customizations that feel very neighborly for example letting you flip the screen if you like the buttons on the other side for wearing on your right wrist.
    • it just has that fun lo-fi feel that is kind of missing these days.

    Cons

    • I haven’t completely discharged the battery yet, but at current rate I don’t see the endurance target being realistic. I think theres optimizations like turning off heartrate monitor etc. Maybe we’ll get there with updates.
    • while cool the backlight is not exceptionally bright. It’s not dim, but I could have used a bit more juice personally.
    • there are some minor bugs. Backlight will stop sometimes while navigating the menu. Not ideal in the dark. Again maybe this will be fixed.

    Tl;Dr

    Yeah I recommend it if you’re like me and like the pebble philosophy and are willing to accept some deficiencies. If you want a polished finished product I’m not sure it’s there yet. It’s a nice watch in general though. Even without notifications it offers a lot of unique timekeeping functions.

    • jode@pawb.social
      2·
      10 days ago

      I just lost my Casio due to putting it down while preparing some chicken while not exactly sober lol. I may look into a new pebble if I can’t find that damn Casio.

    • deadcream@sopuli.xyz
      1·
      10 days ago

      How is notifications integration with Android? None of the alternative smart watches I used (Xiaomi, Amazfit) were as good as wear os. E.g. they don’t support notification actions beyond texting apps, even though it’s possible (KDE connect does it).

      • directive0OP
        1·
        10 days ago

        Good question I can’t really speak to that I don’t typically respond from my wrist so I’m not even sure what it offers in way of features there. Sorry.