I Really want to go for this one but I think I’m going to wait on it until it’s closer to release. I hate waiting on a pre-order for that long haha! It’s going to be pretty awesome to have new functions like a touch screen for added gesture control.
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As a general reminder, don’t pre-order. Never pay for something that doesn’t already, currently exist.
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HAH! i agree but i have zero impulse control- i already preordered a Crucial Maple literally only because of how excited i was around the design.
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As someone who has a 3d printer on pre order and a few different YoYo’s on pre order I resent this statement. Then again I generally trust the YoYo folks. Like g2 hasn’t done me wrong yet. Figure there’s no reason for him to start.
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I suppose, like all rules, exceptions apply
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I get your point though. I don’t know the pebble guys nor do I know how legit this project is. It’s as much of a gamble as throwing money at kickstarter hoping they fulfill the rewards or buying a pre order from someone who makes YoYo’s your not familiar with.
I think I’ll take a chance on a b&w and worse case I’ll lose some cash but that’s my risk tolerance. I’m looking at it similar to a casino maybe I’ll win maybe I’ll lose but I’m willing to toss some cash into the pit and see what happens
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Personally, I don’t like pre-ordering (not that I don’t do it, exceptions and all that jazz), but that doesn’t mean there aren’t good cases, like smaller, but known companies or companies with a good track record for following up on delivering on promises. Personally, I think the drive for “don’t pre-order” is typically levied against large companies that can full well afford to front the cost and also afford to eat the loss of the product/service doesn’t pan out like marketing/research suggested (Like Apple and Samsung; Why they need pre-order? They’re multi-b/tillion dollar companies) as well as significantly smaller, unknown companies (pretty much public crowdfunding)
And don’t even get me started on games.
Also, of note, in the aforementioned link above, this doesn’t look like this is an actual Pebble by the same company, it just so happens that Pebble proper open sourced their OS
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Agreed on this. I can’t fathom pre ordering an iPhone.
Also yes this isn’t pebble as they technically sold the company to google but it is the founder Eric Migicovsky using the now open source pebble OS he sold to google and his watch design experience which gives me hope it’s similar enough. A company is just a name and maybe a product or idea (even if the federal government classifies them as people) and people are what make a company. If you lose everyone who made a company what it is the company has to pivot or will struggle to maintain its identity.
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Oh man I had a pebble for so long - I almost hope my watch breaks so I have any reason to look at this more closely.
Mostly having a battery life of a month would be so nice alongside even basic smartwatch features.
I saw this last night on Eric’s bluesky, so freaking awesome to see they were able to get the trademarks back. If you want more in depth updates check out his blog posts
I’m super pumped still! Been following it like a hawk haha! It’s so close to release for the 2 Duo it’s going to be so cool. I’ve decided that I will wait for the Time 2 to drop. Since I have a classic and a time already I’d prefer to get the one with all the bells and whistles (touch color display, etc.) Can’t wait for the SDK to drop too I really want to play around a bit with some ideas.
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The reclaimation of the trademarks were the final straw in the camels back and I reordered my pebble time 2. I am excited to see what colors they release, I love my pebble steel so if they have a similar exterior I’ll def pick that one up!
If these worked with litephone I’d totally make the switch but I guess needing an app kind of goes against the litphones design philosophy
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I know there was a jailbreak for LightOS a while back that allowed you to access the android layer to install apps onto it. Soooo, I guess it could be a workaround haha! The only problem is it may not work well depending on how their bluetooth stack works and all of the other background processing hooks may not work well since it’s a custom rom that runs on top of the Android base / kernel vs running android natively. It would be super sick though, the super minimalist phone with a nice minimalist smart watch that only feeds you what you want.
Oh man.
We need more of that. Intentional interactions vs always busy in your face distractions.
