Thanks for the update

I've not used the new OS for that long to know how much it affects the battery life. It is snappier, and has more animations, but I wouldn't have thought it took any more battery to do so.
Will be using it this weekend, but just as a guide, i use 10% a day. Can report back in a few days, but the new OS is really nice during my initial time with it

Android 5.0

I think you need to install the "Pebble Time" app (which is not the same as the "Pebble" app"), which then pushes the new OS to your smart watch.

Click the link I provided, and it will explain it all.

​what about this? http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/B00HQIN4DY/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?qid=1450040412&sr=8-1&pi=SY200_QL40&keywords=smart+watch&dpPl=1&dpID=41fykLwsUKL&ref=plSrch&th=1&psc=1

The link above is new firmware for the Pebble to make it even better.

bit like marmite

If you think it's ugly ( That's your opinion ) just keep it to yourself,knowbody is interested in your opinion.TROLL

YES

All sorted :smiley:

No.

If you want that level of functionality, you'd be better off with an Apple Watch.

You can use some aspects of your phone with this, but not "everything".

Nope. But if that is the only functionality you want, you can get that even on an iPhone with a £12 chinese colour touchscreen cheap watch on Ebay... It won't do much more, but if that's all you want then that's fine...:smiley:

You can get notifications, sure, but there's a LOT more to it than that. You can control your music player on your phone if you're listening to music. You can install any of the hundreds upon hundreds of apps available as well. You can link it to various fitness tracking apps as well.

You can change the watchface to anything you can find on the app store or you can create your own. It's really not just a notification device.


I've never once tried to touch the screen on either one of my pebbles - i had this one and upgraded to the Pebble Time. Using the buttons is completely natural - at least for me. I know the pebbles do have a microphone built in, but i don't think you can actually take and make calls on the watch itself yet.

You can get notifications of who is ringing you (or texting you) and decide whether or not you want to accept or reject the call (or text). I think if you accept the call you still have to then get your phone out of your pocket.


for what it's worth, i never thought i'd need one but now i'd never do without one. it's incredibly handy to not have to keep fishing my phone out of my pocket if i want to see who's emailed or texted me or if i want to fiddle around with the music i've got playing on iTunes or Spotify.

The sheer convenience aspect of it really is the selling point for me. I know many will say "so what's wrong with getting your phone out of your pocket?" which is a fair question, but if you kept getting emails, texts and calls, wouldn't you rather just have a quick glance at your wrist to see who it is instead of pulling your phone out every few minutes ?

Obviously with the number of apps available, you can do a LOT more than that, but, for me, those are the main reasons I find the watch so useful.

Well, that was disappointing for you :disappointed:
I'd say either you got a poor one, or
You've got a poor phone, or
You are not familiar with how to setup something like this.

But the Pebble is probably the most iconic Smartwatch that ever hit the market and the smartwatch that started the whole marketplace. The company had sold over 1 million watches worldwide by December 2014 and that number will be much bigger by now.

Your poor experience is not matched by mine or by hundreds of thousands of others. It is not "primarily a gimmick" and anyone in the market for a smartwatch that puts function first should consider one of the Pebble range.

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You sure it's the Pebble?

Install GSAM battery monitor and it'll tell you if it is.

I have some connectivity issues with my Pebble/Note 3/Lollipop 5.0 combo, but it has never been a huge drain on my battery, either on KitKat or Lollipop (and on Lollipop I'm also running a Bluetooth "force reconnect" app which gets round some of the connectivity issues and it's still not a big battery killer). It uses BTLE so shouldn't eat battery life. Unless you have set it to notify you of about a million different things I suppose ....

(Oh, and you should avoid heavily animated watch faces, they can have a negative impact on the Pebble battery life, but shouldn't affect phone battery life)

Only partially via 3rd party apps. Microsoft actually made a fully functioning Pebble app - but the douche in charge of Pebble refused to sanction it.

Yes, there are plenty. Off the top of my head, Endomondo has a companion app, and RunKeeper drives the watch display without needing a companion app.

This is a proper smartwatch. It augments the features on your phone, rather than tries to replace them with pointless fiddly little apps. It is also waterproof.

It also costs 1/6 the price - and has 7 day battery life (vs the 1 day battery life of the Apple Watch).

Apple Watch also only works on iOS, whereas this works on Android/iOS (and to a more limited degree, Windows Phone).

If you are after a smartwatch/activity tracker with built in GPS (so you can track your runs without needing the phone to supply the GPS data), then the MS Band is worth a look.

In what way? They both tell the time, both support notifications on your wrist and 3rd party apps. One is however a £45 (after cash back) product with an e-ink based screen and was designed to enhance your existing smart phone's notifications by bringing them to your wrist, while the other has additional sensors and a full colour screen that burns battery in a day and costs £300+ but does allow you to text/make calls from your wrist.

My wife has an Apple Watch, she loves it. I have a Pebble and it does pretty much exactly what I need a smart watch to do, despite being products in the same category I'd not suggest they are aimed at the same demographic.

For me I wanted a watch that didn't leave me shackled to a charger, I don't want to send messages from my watch or make calls but answering or declining calls and reading messages is useful, having audio control over my phone, the ability to control Wemo devices, get notifications, track deliveries, remote control media devices etc. I don't need to make calls or struggle to reply to messages - I have a phone for that.

No.

Originally the pebble is not compatible with windows phone, however you can download the 3rd party app which will allow you to pair your pebble with windows phone. :wink:

Ordered one for myself, although I was also thinking about Sony Smartwatch 2, we will see, it looks a lovely piece of kit and a truly history maker. TCB tracked at 41p, every penny counts :stuck_out_tongue:

Unfortunately I find both quite ugly. Is it just me?

Yes :smiley:

No.

You would look like an utter **** doing that, as well.

​yes, I'm using it with my note 4

I was skeptical. Since smartwatches came out I was always one of the ones who complained that first everyone wanted smaller phones, then phones got bigger and bigger and now they come up with watches for people that find their phones too big to take out and use etc.

That being said, I bought one just because of the price and it's been really convenient having one over the past few days. The most useful it's been is during driving, in my 10 year old car which doesn't really have any of the modern tech. It makes it easier to control the music, see who's calling and view and send quick replies. Even in the house I don't have to worry about keeping my phone with me and can leave it on charge in another room whilst still receiving all notifications.

I agree that it's not for everyone but over the past few days I've been really pleased with it and found it's gone from something I never really wanted to something that's almost an integral part of my day to day activities

So am I but I still bought one...:confused:

Starting to look dated??
I put it to you that you don't know much about design - this has such a classic, clean, minimalist look that it will never look dated, and likely never go out of style either, since it doesn't subscribe to a specific style, more a form-follows-function design.

Have you got True Caller installed by any chance ? If so ...it's the app thats causing the issue.

It depends what your using it for ? If it were me i'd buy both to test and return the one you least prefer.....either way it'll easily sell on....this might help :

i've just had a look on the pebble app store and you can get various activity trackers - the one i'm looking at now tracks biking, swimming, running e.t.c..

as a music player, it won't work as a standlone one because it'll only connect to your phone, but if you've got music on the phone, it'll easily handle the stopping and starting and skipping forward or back on the tracks - it's one of the main things i use mine for.

It needs to be linked to a smartphone, it won't do much on its own apart from tell the time, or run some apps that are preloaded to it. It controls the music player on the phone, it doesn't have a built in player.

Also, it would be big on an 8yo wrist. It has a standard strap fitting, you would probably need to change the strap to a smaller fitting one.

Dialer for Pebble completely revamps calling controls. It allows you to answer calls, decline calls, toggle speakerphone, toggle mic mute right from your pebble.

You can also place calls right from pebble without even touching your phone, by browsing call history or filtering through contacts and groups.

TURN OFF CALL NOTIFICATION IN ANDROID PEBBLE APP. OTHERWISE THIS WILL NOT WORK PROPERLY.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.matejdro.pebbledialer&hl=en_GB

works with ios fine

as has been said, works perfectly fine with iOS - worked with the 5s and now with the 6s.

OOS

Do you know if I can use pebblebits on an iphone that is not jailbroken?

What app did you use for the football. Are you able to choose more than 1 league, thanks.

Definitely this. I have both and unfortunately the Sony runs obsolete software so you're stuck with it's flaws.

Pebble have promised to update the classic to their new OS.

I found the Sony deeply frustrating and the pebble I replaced it with like a breath of fresh air!

Having said that I've now replaced them both with a Sony SW3 and wouldn't look back....

This is one gen behind the latest Pebbles. The Steel is exactly the same as the Classic other than looks. The Time family is the 2nd gen. This watch has great functions and to be honest since my time with Time Round their are only slight functional changes with the only differences really being the form factor.

I've never had a minute's trouble with mine and i've been on iOS 9 for ages.

Stop tempting me :disappointed:

Ive been out with some naf looking women but theyve always been good in bed

Sure I read it's a 5 - 10% hit, don't forget that'll be offset by not using the phone so much.

For me it improves it. Sounds weird but because I'm not looking at my phone all day and instead viewing the notifications on my watch. And if I dismiss a notification from the watch it disappears off the lock screen of my iPhone, so less likely to go on the phone as no notifications to read/clear

Yep! You can set four alarms on the pebble itself. I still use mine for this even though I "upgraded" to a Moto 360.

Read further down and you find

Hot Deal - Pebble Smartwatch - Black, £49 was £99.99 1.05%

I talk to my car all the time. :confused:

Yes- you can receive notification like whatsup and Facebook, etc... as long you receive them on the mobile
No- doesn't change songs on Spotify - as far I know no smartwatch can change music on Spotify, but it does change music for the native music app

​ yes it does for both, you configure spotify in the pebble app and you control it with the default music app, you have to switch on device broadcast status in Spotify to see song titles though.

yes it does work for spotify :smiley: i use mine all the time for this. in fact its what i am doing right now :smiley:

Pebbles have already been paid by currys, the amount they make isn't determined by how much Currys stick it on the shelf for. If anyone is making a loss its Currys

Come on Flubit, give me a really good price :smiley:

When you come up with atom sized components, please make a better device. I'm sure it would sell by the million?

The face is actually much smaller than it seems in photos. As for appearance, it's no stunner but some would say the Apple Watch is pretty ugly, too. There are certainly slicker designs out there.

Just picked two up, one as a present and one for me. This is a crazy price for a very full-featured, established smartwatch. I had a Sony Smartwatch 2 which I sold as it was a complete mess - looked quite nice (with metal loop) but constant disconnections and notifications hardly ever worked properly.

Bear in mind this also takes standard 22mm watch bands, so if you don't like the silicone strap, you can add any you want. A stainless steel Milanese loop can be had on Amazon for a tenner (http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00U5PQ72K and http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00XBJURI2). The equivalent Apple Watch would set you back £599; a version with stainless steel link bracelet is up to £949.

Keep it in perspective, folks. This is a terrific price for a very, very capable smartwatch with a full week of battery life and a healthy app ecosystem - plus you can add any standard watch band you want.

Can you receive calls via the watch?

​ Google or Amazon.

I'm searching through the Pebble app store and I can't see anything that works with Strava.
There is a really good Endomondo App, and Runkeeper will update the Pebble display directly without need for an app.

Integrates well, shows distance, moving time & average pace on the watch face, only issue I had was that if I got a notification from something else it was a bit of a pain to get the Strava detail showing on the watch again.

​i am in a store now and they have a ticket out at £49

That's just wrong. It most definitely works with the iPhone 5c & iPhone 6 I know, I've had nine working perfectly with both. It is the best smartwatch (whichever model you get) for iOS that isn't an Apple Watch

Thank you very much

Sorry, I didn't review or give more details about the watch as I didn't have a time, and tbh I'm not the best one to ask about a review. However, you can look on youtube about the review as it's in more details there. and no it doesn't have GPS :smiley:

The only thing I don't like about the original Pebble is its appearance, otherwise I find the Pebbles to be the best functional smartwatches. They tend to lack the gimmicks of the more expensive watches, but get the fundamentals right - like battery life. I used the original Pebble for 2 years, now I'm using a Pebble Time. I'm not impressed by the new Pebble round, which has sacrificed battery life for questionable aesthetics.

There is no GPS integrated into the watch, but it is designed to be paired with a phone and it will use the phone GPS over Bluetooth and can display compass headings, maps and other GPS stuff just fine using dozens of available apps that you can load onto the watch.

indeed

​ it's not android software it's pebble own OS, I have a steel and works perfect with my android phone.