I do not know how many of you are into technology however this morning Pebble publicly unveiled their next generation smart watch and made it available for pre-order on Kickstarter. I backed the original Pebble three years ago long before most people became aware of the existence of these devices. As many of my friends know I absolutely love, and still wear my original Pebble watch daily, despite the fact that the watch is over two years old at this point and does not have all the flashy gizmos of some of the newer watches released over the last year. The reasons why I continue to use the Pebble are the screen is always on so it is truly useful as a watch replacement, it is super simple to use, it keeps me updated with all the notifications I need without those I do not, it is fully waterproof, plus it easily lasts over a week on a charge and 2+ weeks if I turn it off at night.
You would think with those relatively simple simple items someone else would have produced something just as good or better however I have yet to find a another smart watch that can do all that. Most other smart watches I have tried are simply trying to do too much and as a result they do not do anything really well. They generally end up being overly complicated to use and packing in all the extra features results in some really stupid compromises such as having to wake up your watch screen simply to read the time. The battery life also sucks on nearly all the other smart watches which results in watches that must be charged every day to be useful which nobody really wants to do.
It looks like Pebble has been paying a lot of attention to things as their second generation of smartwatch appears to take advantage of newer technology to add a lot of nice features to their watch without breaking their existing applications or compromising on any of the advantages which enabled this small independent start-up company to deliver over a million smartwatches in the last two years. That number is even more amazing when you consider the fact that all the Android Wear watches put together sold only 720K in 2014 despite being backed by Google and available in a variety of styles from a number of well known brands. The Pebble watches are also one of the only smart watches which work on both Android and iOS.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/597507018/pebble-time-awesome-smartwatch-no-compromises
http://getpebble.com
You would think with those relatively simple simple items someone else would have produced something just as good or better however I have yet to find a another smart watch that can do all that. Most other smart watches I have tried are simply trying to do too much and as a result they do not do anything really well. They generally end up being overly complicated to use and packing in all the extra features results in some really stupid compromises such as having to wake up your watch screen simply to read the time. The battery life also sucks on nearly all the other smart watches which results in watches that must be charged every day to be useful which nobody really wants to do.
It looks like Pebble has been paying a lot of attention to things as their second generation of smartwatch appears to take advantage of newer technology to add a lot of nice features to their watch without breaking their existing applications or compromising on any of the advantages which enabled this small independent start-up company to deliver over a million smartwatches in the last two years. That number is even more amazing when you consider the fact that all the Android Wear watches put together sold only 720K in 2014 despite being backed by Google and available in a variety of styles from a number of well known brands. The Pebble watches are also one of the only smart watches which work on both Android and iOS.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/597507018/pebble-time-awesome-smartwatch-no-compromises
http://getpebble.com
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