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The Pebble does function with the phone, as a watch with various watchfaces. It also functions as a bike computer with the phone even if the phone is not connected to the network (i.e. GPS). |
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Cheapest pricing on three seems to be £15 a month for unlimited data now actually.
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True it's still minuscule for a watch, but it works for me because, as strange as it sounds, I personally have no interest in wearing a "watch". I stopped wearing them shortly after I got my first cell phone. There just wasn't enough of a benefit in my mind. Last edited by Dylrob; 03-01-2015 at 05:19 AM. |
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I feel "lost" without a watch. On the rare occasions I forget to put my watch on in the morning I'm constantly glancing at my wrist and being annoyed to find my watch not there. |
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I have to read this thread with a fair amount of amusement.
I grew up with mechanical watches that had to wound every couple of days. |
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Yes, but would you want to go back to one now? Having had for many years a watch whose battery needs replacing only once every few years, I wouldn't.
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I rely on my phone most of the time. The only time I wear a watch is when I head into the great outdoors where phone service is touch and go.
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But those screens do use tech very similar to the Sharp screens which we know for a fact are used in the grayscale Pebbles, so it's possible. And those screens could be available at larger sizes, it's just that no device maker wants to buy them. |
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AFAICT, the problems are (1) the resolution: "By the way, the resolution has not changed (144x168)"; the displays of JDI have more resolution (205x140 or 180x180). This means that they would have to order them custom-made, or would not expose/use all the pixels. (2) the dpi: 182 in the JDI displays versus 175ppi in the original pebble. They don't match, though they are quite similar. OTOH, it seems that garmin has some watches using those displays: garmin fenix3 (the round display) and garmin epix (the rectangular display). The only interesting tidbit is that the garmin epix (pdf) is using a 205x148 display, that is different that the one that JDI announced, so maybe they are able to manufacture at multiple resolutions. I know, there are a lot of reasons that technology used on small displays may not be that great on big displays: pricey, hard to manufacture without bad pixels, maybe on bigger sizes the power consumption is not that great.. but at least on paper they seem a better match than regular lcd displays for reading, so one can wish. |
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Sidenote: Am I the only one who wishes Pebble would just come out and tell us? |
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Amazing!
Looks as ugly and chunky as my old Garmin Forerunner 310XT, without having the benefit of GPS tracking. ![]() But then, I'm that guy who stopped wearing wristwatches (even my nice 50's IWC and 60's Omegas) since I anyway had to carry a mobile phone with me, some decades ago. |
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