It has been well over a year since I did my bit to make the Pebble a reality, and for more than three months I have been used to wearing it on my wrist, which I consider sufficient time to issue a totally impartial value judgment on which to today is the best smartwatch that you can buy on this planet.
The best in three parts
Without a doubt, the best thing about Pebble is that once you have it, you stop putting your hand in your pocket. The most notifications that we receive on the iPhone do not require immediate action (favorites on Twitter, likes on Instagram, emails received ...) and therefore making a simple turn of the wrist is more comfortable than taking out and putting the phone back. I know it sounds like extreme comfort, but it is one of those things that as soon as the tests do not want to go back for the world. Those of you who have one will know what I'm talking about.
Another highly positive point is the great community what's behind. There are a large number of watchfaces available and every day there are new jobs to provide extra functionality to the Pebble, so it seems that the future at the application level is really promising, since an invention of this type is nothing without a community of developers behind, like the iPhone would be nothing without the App Store.
Also noteworthy is the good functioning of the watch in general. Updates are regular, your fiancee water resistance It has been more than proven (I have gone to the beach and the pool with it on without any problem) and everything seems to work perfectly. Obviously there are some users with problems, but every new product always has a higher percentage of some small things failing, so I think it can be described as a success in terms of operation and reliability from the first unit.
The worst in four parts
Notifications do not work as they should on iOS due to the current system limitation. Both iOS 6 and iOS 7 work in the same way: if we do the famous finger dancing We make the notifications reach the clock, but if we do not do it, they often do not arrive or arrive late. This is a bug in iOS 6 that is fixed in iOS 7 but that we will not be able to take advantage of until the guys at Pebble update the firmware and the app to be compatible with Apple's operating system in beta, something that will not happen until the end of the year with the release of the final version. By the way, the famous finger dancing (name given in the official forums) is nothing more than disabling and enabling "View on locked screen" in the notifications of the app that we want to warn us on the clock. It works. But it is a bit heavy to do it every time we connect to the iPhone.
Second I choose the Runkeeper app. The performance is pathetically bad, more typical of an alpha version fresh from being compiled in its early days than a final version. It is not accurate, it is not reliable, it does not have support to display the keystrokes or it allows any configuration.
The third point against is the battery duration. Although it is not insultingly short, receiving notifications frequently is rare that it goes beyond 3-4 days, far from the week that they initially promised. I suppose that with each firmware they will improve it, but for the moment it seems to me a data that can be quite improved. And the fact of not having a permanent battery indicator (it only appears when it is low or when it is charging) does not seem like a good detail to me either.
To end the negative, I am left with the fact that we are still waiting for the promised implementation of Bluetooth 4.0 low consumption. They assure that the Pebble chip is compatible and that they will update it in an update, but for now we continue with Bluetooth 2.1 and without the great advantages of the new standard, something that is difficult to understand when many devices work perfectly with BT 4.0.
Conclusion
The cons are there, but they are normal in a new product created by a small company, and perhaps that is the best thing about the Pebble: you are carrying something really useful on your wrist that has been created by a company indie financed with the money his community. The future is bright for Pebble, but they are going to have to work very hard because the competition already smells a very interesting market in smartwatches.
surely it doesn't last a week because you use a watchface that changes every second or something like that ... I use a variant of the «fuzzy», which, as it changes every 5 minutes, extends the battery life up to a week (even going out 2 times a week). week to run with the runkeeper connected 1 hour)
I use a modified Revolution to show the year instead of the seconds, I think it comes more because I receive a lot of notifications ... we will continue investigating 😉
Partner, would you advise me to catch it?
Well, I'm still waiting for mine ... I asked for it blank, and looking at the page, they didn't even have it ready to send. And the most beautiful thing is that I ask them about it, and they don't even answer me ... Kizas have to screw me, and tell them to send it to me in black, which apparently they have. Does any of you already have it blank? I do not think that it is so complicated to make the target….
I use the Mario Bros watchface and the battery lasts up to 9 days. I think it is to prove.