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title: The Pebble Time!
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description: '"Smart" watches are not smart at all!'
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pubDate: 2024-06-06
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- pebble
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- impressions
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Today I finally managed to get my hands on the Pebble Time! I've been looking for a watch to fulfil my three main needs,
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without all the wacky account creation, data collection, and general annoyances sprinkled in for a while now, then I
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found the Pebble Time. And now about a year later, here's my first impressions/review of the Pebble Time
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([only 9 years late...](<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pebble_(watch)#Pebble_Time>))
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### Timekeeping
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less and less of them can do what they were originally designed to do—show the time. Instead, they're packed with
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features nobody will actually use that drain the life of the watch,
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[barely get a day of battery life at times.](https://9to5google.com/2022/05/31/pixel-watch-battery-life/)
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update!
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E-Ink.
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listening to or toggling my desk lamp as I'm running for the train in the morning. Having access to
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are not connected to the internet" block when trying to set up the watch,
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[which Rebble does cover how todo](https://help.rebble.io/setup-android/#7), but still, it took me 3 attempts.
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really nice way of interacting with the operating system, similarly, I like the physical buttons on the Pebble Time. We
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good time as ever to get into the land of low level!
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