Anyone got a pebble yet?

[ronnus]

My pebble watch arrived yesterday at long last, definitely interesting. A few things don't work out the box, for example notifications from Hangouts (formerly Google Talk) but there's a wee app called Pebble Notifier on the Play store that can fire out a notification for almost any app installed on your phone, I've got mine set to let me know when there's any activity from my subscribed threads on the TP app, for example. Bit of tweaking and it seems to be going well, much less rude to check your watch in a dull meeting than whip out your phone!

Disadvantages are that there are still only a handful of watch faces supplied or available, bluetooth battery drain on the phone (estimated at 5%) and a lack of usable apps so far (the cycling one showed a lot of promise but hasn't materialised).

Anyone else? I appreciate this is only likely to apply to geeks, so all you norms can go elsewhere

 

[dankellys]

Haven't got one yet, going to hang on a bit until there is a bit more competition in the market, but I think they show a lot of promise, particularly as you say for things such a cycling. What sort of battery life do the pebbles have?

 

[ronnus]

I have to admit, I have the feeling that whatever comes next will likely usurp the pebble to a great degree, I'm not normally big on early adoption but can really see the potential with mine, especially with third party apps linked to the likes of Tasker.

Battery life is a week apparently, or five days with heavy usage. A full charge over USB takes 2 hours tho

 

[neil_g]

my god theyre ugly

 

[ronnus]

my god theyre ugly

Someone asked me if it was a Rado earlier, which gave me a chuckle

 

[Lyonspride]

Disadvantages are that there are still only a handful of watch faces supplied or available, bluetooth battery drain on the phone

Exactly what I was thinking as soon as I heard about the concept, I don't think there's anything worse than Bluetooth for draining your phones battery.

Things you could try are apps which schedule the turning on/off of things like WiFi, GPS and Bluetooth.

 

[ronnus]

Exactly what I was thinking as soon as I heard about the concept, I don't think there's anything worse than Bluetooth for draining your phones battery.

Things you could try are apps which schedule the turning on/off of things like WiFi, GPS and Bluetooth.

TBH my phone is so greedy for power that I put it on charge whenever possible so I'm not really noticing any additional drain, it doesn't show up in the android battery stats so unsure how bad it is...