I've just bought a pebble smart watch.

pedatron

Hi guys,

I've just ordered a black original pebble smart watch off their website. I went for that ahead of the steel for two reasons. The price and also the ability to easily get a nicer strap for it. The new app store and OS is much more impressive than before. Just wondering are there any bordsies that own one, have any tips and how they find them? Thanks lads.

yllw.ldbttr

I bought one via Kickstarter.

I had an iphone 5 when I first got my hands on the Pebble and subsequently moved to Samsung S4 and then a Nexus 5.
Before the app store Android had a huge advantage over iOS, now I'm guessing they are fairly equal.

I sold it at Christmas when I realised I hadn't worn it in over a month, novelty wore off for me but YMMV.

The new ones do look nicer than the original plastic ones.

evlgmaojr27ypu

Planning on buying one myself (steel one most likely). do you know how much you had to pay in import duty/tax ?

Aquos76

I have one about 9 months now at this stage, i love it, when i got it first, i wasnt overly impressed with it as the notifications were very hit and miss with IOS software, however, back in Nov I think there was a major update for it which gave full support to IOS 7 and since then its been excellent.

One thing though, when I got it first, battery life was about 6 days, now Im lucky to get about 3 days out of it at most.

squonk

Just had a look there. I'm not keen on the Black & White screen. I know it's for power saving purposes buy you just know that'll change before long to colour.

PADRAIC.M

I ordered a pebble steel January in pre orders and got it April 22nd!
About 40 euro in tax on it..
I love it for notifications and twitter, also handy for gps when walking on holidays!
I made a few watch faces too.

argolis

I got one off Kickstarter months ago and I use it a lot. In the car, I can see at a turn of the wrist who's calling. Might be moot if you have a good handsfree kit though. Same for when in meetings, I can see calls or scan a text/email without taking the phone out. I also tend to keep my phone on silent/vibrate only so I don't miss calls now like I used to.

The main con is the custom USB charger, be careful not to lose it! I'd much prefer if it was microUSB. For battery life, I understand that the clockface you choose matters. It refreshes the screen by checking every horizontal line and rewrites the whole line if a single pixel has changed. So a digital clockface that changes only by the minute is going to use a lot less battery to update the screen than an analogue clockface with a second arm that sweeps around constantly. I get around 5 days out of mine.

One of the first apps to get is the battery life indicator, otherwise it's hard to know how much juice is left.

kristok 2

have one since Christmas use it constantly it's well worth it