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 ? 😏

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 just bought the open source Pebble watch hoping that it might be my solution

Heyo, I’m considering both the Pebble Time 2 and SE 3. I mainly have experience with the Pebble. I wore a Pebble through High School. Now that I can wear it again, I am wearing it. During the break when Pebble was defunct, I used an Apple Watch S3 and then S6. I didn’t mind it but wish it had better battery life. I am assuming there are apps I can get to make it more ADHD friendly and less distracting (not be like an iPhone blasted on my wrist.) I’m at a point where I can get an SE 3 or a Pebble Time 2. I am looking for pros and cons of the AW/ advantages over the Pebble, real life battery results, etc. any help is appreciated. Worth noting I have the Pebble Time 2 preordered but can get my money back at any time. TIA

As someone who has used a good amount of the alternatives, I fall under the case of nothing really beats a Pebble. Wear OS is still an unstable mess imo and feels too much like just a phone on my wrist. The Pebble actually feels like an extension of my phones abilities but not overwhelmingly so. Plus, you can make your own apps for it if you are into it. The BangleJS2 and Bip are some alternatives but I didn't enjoy them anywhere near as much. A readable screen, you are looking at e-ink or the e paper we get on the Pebble, Bangle, Bip, JS, Fossil HR (I believe that is what they called their hybrid) and I believe some Garmin watches, though they fall into the category of I haven't used them. The battery life is the killer feature on the Pebble to me. Though the Bangle and Bip have great battery, the pebble just did more with it to me. The ability to reply is nice but a touch screen only was a deal-breaker for most watches nowadays. The buttons are really nice when I need them like when wearing gloves for work. I'm excited for my Time 2, and have my Time Steel on while I wait. I took off my Ticwatch Pro 3 and it has sat with getting put on the charger once a month to keep the battery from just stopping from working. If you have concern, grab a used time for cheap if you can and use it for a bit. Don't like it? Cancel your preorder and you can find something you do.

Yes the Amazfit ones are good. Pebble was the best smartwatch ever, supposedly it may be coming back. But RIP