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Pebble Smartwatch
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Pebble smartwatch community. Old and new! Share ideas, troubleshooting, etc.
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Hi and welcome to the club!
If we're talking bare minimums to get started, all you should need to install is the Pebble app, from there you can connect to the watch, and you should be good to go (I think there's some kneecapping if you're using an iOS device, but I can't personally speak to that).
The time 2 line of watches aren't really out yet (and I don't have mine yet), so take this with a grain of salt, but one of the best parts of the original Pebbles was that they were watches first and foremost. Out of the box, I could always tell time, get pop ups for push notifications on my phone, calendar reminders, and control my music, which covers the vast majority of my use case. While the app store does have extra utilities and such for the watch, the only one I really remember using was called Find My Pebble- it lit up the screen and buzzed the watch so that I could find it if I took it off (and lost sight of it).
Everything after that is customization, one of the other nice parts about Pebbel was that they had a pretty vibrant community of folks making watch faces, so there was usually something for everyone. Some of my favorites for daily use:
I also remember using TH3 if I was at a career fair and wandered something a bit less whimsical for the setting.
Great, thanks for the extensive reply. So do I get it right that I can install multiple watch faces and switch back and forth between them at any time? The fact of the vibrant community is what makes me excited in the first place. Well, I'll have to wait at least four more month ๐ฌ
Yeah, watch faces can be switched at any time (I can't imagine it's changed, be you used to be able to switch faces from the watch itself as long as it was a face that you'd already installed). The landscape when Pebbel originally launched was vastly different and I'm not sure how vibrant the community still is, but it's crazy that it's endured this long. Plus now that new watches are being made, it can only grow from here, I'm super excited to be able to rock a pebble again (I still have my Time Steel and a sealed Time, but I think the batteries are well and truly shot (and one of the stand-out features of Pebble has always been their battery life)).
Hopefully it's a quick four months for you (and everyone else waiting)!
Right, battery life was also a factor for me. My current fitness watch had five days max and is decaying... And I think other "premium" brand smart watches have like a day or two - that's unacceptable for me.