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This is super exciting for me. I'm still wearing a Pebble Time Steel with the Rebble firmware and this can only do good things for it.


We're bringing Pebble back!

Eight years later, you still can't beat a Pebble
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Daniel Lowe
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- Battery lasts ~7 days on a charge
- Sunlight readable screen
- Button-based interface without touchscreen
- Comparatively very cheap
- Comparatively slim reasonable size
- Great app distribution
- (before the company went under) you could live-program your watch on the web. When you clicked upload on the website editor, it would send it to your phone, which would then relay it to your watch.

These days, what tech _doesn't_ do is at least as important as what it does do, and it really does exactly what I want and really well.

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Susan Rati Lane
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Hmm. OK. That does sound interesting.

I have spent the last several years trying to find an attractive analog-digital watch that is sized to look good on a (not even that fine-boned) woman's wrist. This doesn't seem like it ought to be a big ask, but it's been incredibly hard to find. The one I'm wearing now is the form factor I want, but it is old, and the digital window is hard to read.

So, I'm figuring that maybe it's time to give up and just get a smart watch and put an analog face on its default screen. But @Lady Heatherington received and early Android smartwatch while she was working there, and I found it incredibly uncomfortable to wear. That's unjustly colored my perspective on smart watches.

So the practical stuff is really appealing -- long battery life, sunlight-readable screen, and particularly slim size.

But I don't know how close Repebble is to having a product to market, so a lot of this is just exploration.

@Lady Heatherington
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If you get a Pebble Time Round, they're pretty attractive and are still alive through the Rebble project (rebble.io/). Pebble Time Steels are easier to come by, they're slim too, but not as nice.
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Susan Rati Lane
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OK, the first thing that's frustrating is that smart watch product listings don't seem to include the diameter of the watch face in the same units that a normal watch would. I know the maximum face diameter that works on my wrist in mm, but how does a screen size of 1.1 compare?
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