Pebble - Pebble 2 +HR

How do you do it? I still find myself putting on my galaxy ultra to track certain fitness activities, I need gps and heart rate info. And it's nice to have strava and fitbit/samsung health update automatically in the background. Long hikes, mountain bike trips, i like getting a gps track with heart rate data , I have the pebble 2 HR ,which would be all I needed but nothing really gets all my fitness tracking apps up to date like the galaxy ultra. Any suggestions?

"Longer battery life" Man, I wish they could get at least 3 days. I'm on 5+ days on my pebble 2 HR years later, and my pebble time 2 coming in december it projected to get 30 days!

I wear my Pebble 2HR at the moment and it's indeed everything I can wish for as a daily driver, except for fitness activities... Indeed, whenever I go running or hiking, I use a dedicated "modern" smartwatch (used to be a Polar Vantage, now a Pixel Watch 3). I still keep my Pebble on the other wrist while I run because I don't want it to miscalculate my daily step count, though... Yeah, I know, I'm crazy : the step count is approximate anyway, and since it's not syncing to Google Fit anymore there's really no benefit in doing that ! 😅 Oh, wait, there still is the benefit of having the current time displayed in a big, easily readable font on an always-on display while my sportwatch displays elapsed time, heart rate and speed in tiny characters... 😁 In a perfect world, my next Pebble watch would have GPS, a good HR sensor (the one of the Pebble 2 HR sucked) and Strava sync, but if I have to chose between a good battery life and GPS/HR in my daily driver... well, let's be honest, I'd chose battery life any day. Maybe in another 10 years well have both, who knows ? 😏

This can't be your killer feature. I will always take weight, battery life, ease of use, large amount of customization (due to community) and always-on-display above something like NFC. We can't tell the future, but my Pebble Time Rounds and Pebble 2s are still (after a battery swap) working today. Moto or any other Android smartwatch will have less easy repairability and when they want to make it obsolete so you buy the new thing, they just pull the plug. If NFC is so important, why not check out the Garmin watches? Or other devices?

need convincing? seriously? how is that even a question. since the pt2 was revealed I can't look at the steel without gagging at the size of the bezel. that's why I resorted to my pebble 2 hr. if you go with the PT2, your upgrades are: almost 4x the battery life.  bigger, better screen with touch functions. screws on back so easier to repair. heart rate sensor. better water resistance. borameter. mic AND speaker (allowing phone calls and assistant support) and the fact that it's something you're already used to, and there's only going to be new features that improve the whole experience. something that I never thought I would see again. 

Physical buttons are the thing for me. I came from a Pebble that had no touchscreen - everything was done through the buttons. I just like buttons. I can control the watch when it's under my jacket or shirt sleeve, in the water, or even at night without having to look at it. Touchscreens are great, but I don't want to give up my buttons.

For me it went downhill for Pebble as soon as they went down the fitness tracking route. I for one do not care the slightest about the amount of steps I‘ve taken and all that stuff and always deactivate as much of it as I can. I loved the Pebble for everything else though because it gives me everything I want from a smartwatch: - Time - Push notifications - Vibration alarm That‘s it! The only thing missing for me is paying with it but that‘s not in the cards anyway.

Pebble is back! Baffling to me that every smart watch company insists on ultra high def led displays that eat so much power that the battery only lasts a day or two even with always-on disabled, and are hard to see in sunlight. It's a watch, I don't need the ability to watch Harry Potter in 8k HDR.

I have owned watches with AMOLED displays similar to the Moto watch. I will never buy another watch with an emissive type of display again. Reflective displays like those in Pebbles are vastly superior in my opinion. For that reason alone I would choose Pebble without even considering the other advantages like the great OS on Pebbles.

I figure the pebble will essentially have lifetime support, 3rd party or otherwise, being open source. I ordered mine yesterday. Not shipping till April is only bummer:/