We're bringing Pebble back!

[turret3857@infosec.pub]

Just want to shout out my PineTime. no one seems to be talking about it. Its a nice piece of kit for $35.

[excessshiv@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

I just went to take a look at it, its €65, I don't see a price anywhere near $35?

and then i saw they had enough e-reader and got all excited... They charge €610 for that thing, holy crap that's stupid expensive.

[turret3857@infosec.pub]

Skill issue?

[excessshiv@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

Not really

[poolitzer@lemmy.world]

Maybe the bangle js 2 is interesting for you? https://banglejs.com/

[hyrulian@lemmy.world]

I ran my Pebble Time into the ground, so I'm hyped as fuck for this. I bought it in my early highschool years and wore it nearly daily until last year when the rumble motor finally gave out. Still wear it from time to time, but it not buzzing for notifications is a bit of a deal breaker for me.

I bought a replacement and it's so pristine I didn't want to risk slowly damaging it at work, but now I'm charging that bitch up and running it into the ground until new Pebble comes out. Thanks for sharing OP, this news made me week!

Bonus, here's what mine looked like as of a few years ago right when the vibration went out. You can see I slapped a skin on it to cover up the bezel scratches, but the screen still looks totally fine!

[averyrandomusername@lemmy.ca]

Never trust or buy something from a Alphabet company. They will always cancel the project and leave you high and dry.

Their track record speaks for itself.

[llii@discuss.tchncs.de]

But this doesn't have anything to do with alphabet? They just open sourced the code.

[trubedour@midwest.social]

I miss my Pebble Time Round every day, it's the only smart watch that I owned that I actually liked. I even bought a second and got it running via Rebble.

They both died due to a swollen battery but I've been pining for something similar for years! Hope this pans out

[tire@lemmy.ml]

Fitbit bought Pebble then Google bought Fitbit.

[sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works]

Why are PINE64 EU prices higher than Pine Store Ltd.?

Prices listed on PINE64 EU include both VAT and shipping cost. In short, you pay the listed price and receive your delivery within 7 days without additional charges.

Cheapest shipping to me is $12, and sales tax varies by US state so isn't included. VAT looks to be 15-25%, so that explains most of the difference. Since it also doesn't seem to e affiliated with Pine64 directly, Lucasz is probably taking a cut as well.

[thegrandnagus@lemmy.world]

Yes, and this has nothing to do with Fitbit or Google (beyond Google open-sourcing the old Pebble code).

This is not a Google product.

[sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works]

Does it let you buy stuff?

I just want a watch that lets me buy stuff, without Google, Apple, or anyone else tracking me. The closest I found is a Pixel watch with WiFi, which I only connect at home, and isn't connected to my phone most of the time (GrapheneOS). Google still tracks me, but only after the fact, and only when I reconnect to WiFi.

I honestly don't care about the watch function, I just want something I can wear when I'm on a bike ride so I can leave my phone and wallet at home but still pick up a snack or something.

If the Pebble can do that without phoning home, I'll get it. But I'm pretty sure that's impossible since it's baked into the Wallet app.

[sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works]

Just got my kids the same, and they were stoked when I told them it would probably last longer than they want it to.

[mesamunefire@lemmy.world]

Same. I bought one of those ifixit kits and tried to repair mine, but it turns out the wires are very small and I couldnt get everything hooked back in.

[mentaledge@sopuli.xyz]

Yeah I'm pretty sure the banks would shut down anything that clones NFC payment functionality onto a device without them knowing about it.

[trubedour@midwest.social]

I thought about trying but decided it wasn't worth it. IIRC there was like ONE guy who had the batteries and could do it if you mailed it to him lol.

All on I actually bought 4 time rounds in addition to my OG Pebble, as my wife had two as well. She's just as stoked as I am. Big Pebble fans all around!

[mesamunefire@lemmy.world]

Man I would love that contact

I'm personally going to keep my old Casio running til the end of time. But I hope the new watches are repairable, cause I don't fully trust Google (but rebbel is solid).

[paradox2011@lemmy.ml]

I'd suggest looking in to it farther. The commenter above basically covered it, but no, beeper is not all closed source. Their hosted server has never been open source, but all the self-hosted bridges have been, and continue to be. You can run your own, open source, self-hosted beeper server, just like you've always been able to. There's nothing embrace, extend extinguish about that.

[tehworld@lemmy.world]

Cash…. What you’re looking for is called cash.

No way is any purchasing system going to allow you to walk away without checking that you are won you claim to be, and that you have the funds available to you to make that purchase.