There’s a lot to like about the pine time, and it’s really cool that you can adjust things and recompile. The reason it ultimately didn’t work for me was because the vibration motor isn’t strong enough for me to notice if I’m actively doing something. Your mileage may vary, but it’s worth keeping in mind.
The original pebble and garmin watches have all been great in that respect.
I was so annoyed that Google bought both Pebble and Fitbit, then did… absolutely nothing with them. Would’ve loved a low-end (sub $100) fitness tracker with ePaper.
Best thing they did was to release the pebble rights back to the creators.
I’ve ordered one of the new Pebbles, but in the meantime, I have a PineTime: https://pine64.org/devices/pinetime
I’ve even given some to nephews and nieces because they are durable enough and so affordable that we don’t need to worry too much about them
Pine was my first stop but when I tried to actually but it I got a 404
Yeah the main link is broken.
This one works for me: https://pine64.com/product-category/wearable/
There’s a lot to like about the pine time, and it’s really cool that you can adjust things and recompile. The reason it ultimately didn’t work for me was because the vibration motor isn’t strong enough for me to notice if I’m actively doing something. Your mileage may vary, but it’s worth keeping in mind.
The original pebble and garmin watches have all been great in that respect.
I was so annoyed that Google bought both Pebble and Fitbit, then did… absolutely nothing with them. Would’ve loved a low-end (sub $100) fitness tracker with ePaper.
Best thing they did was to release the pebble rights back to the creators.
Large corporations don’t buy small companies to make better products. They buy them to eliminate the competition.
Sometimes. Most times they buy them to gut them for their patents. Fitbit and Pebble both probably had some patents that Google really wanted.
Since they open sourced pebble, I’m hoping a Chinese firm will make a clone soon.