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IuniusBrutus posted:I always wear a watch already anyways, and I don't like pulling my phone out at work. Is purchasing a pebble still A Dumb Idea? Or is it solid enough that I won't be upset by using mostly for just time and notifications? I loving love mine for time, notifications, and most importantly music control.
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Honestly Facebook and Gmail notifications, time, the alarm, and pausing/resuming podcasts are about all I've been using mine for and it's been pretty great so far. Although I did set up one of the 3rd-party notification things to send notifications from Google Maps and use it to find a couple of places when I was walking around the other day and while getting updates every few meters/every time the GPS resyncs was a little bit of a pain in the rear end, it was also actually pretty handy.
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Jun 5, 2013 21:22
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IuniusBrutus posted:I always wear a watch already anyways, and I don't like pulling my phone out at work. Is purchasing a pebble still A Dumb Idea? Or is it solid enough that I won't be upset by using mostly for just time and notifications? If what you want the pebble for is time and notifications, then you will be 100% satisfied with it. It's only other people (such as myself) who were sold on the whole "app store for your watch" stuff that are a bit let down with the thing.
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Jun 5, 2013 21:42
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Awesome - what's the wait time looking for non-kickstarter orders for a black one? They seem...apprehensive...to give any firm timetable.
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Jun 6, 2013 02:37
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IuniusBrutus posted:Awesome - what's the wait time looking for non-kickstarter orders for a black one? They seem...apprehensive...to give any firm timetable. I am pulling this completely out of my rear end but I'd say 2-3+ months. They haven't even finished shipping all of the kickstarter editions. Pebble also has gotten a lot of press so I'm sure its gotten a lot of preorders since then.
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Jun 6, 2013 05:11
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IuniusBrutus posted:Awesome - what's the wait time looking for non-kickstarter orders for a black one? They seem...apprehensive...to give any firm timetable.
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Jun 6, 2013 05:26
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They're on their last new color production (white) and within the next two weeks will probably have satisfied all Kickstarter stuff. Soon after that the preorders will start to get shipping notices.
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Jun 6, 2013 06:37
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Long shot, but have any of you guys tried developing an app for the watch? I did briefly, and my general impression is that it's an absolute mess. I'm seriously impressed by the few people who have managed to stick it out long enough to get anything other than a simple watchface working. There's no debugger, no simulator. You have to recompile, redeploy, and manually reinstall the app to your watch (via clicking an .apk link on a local webserver) every time you want to test. Plus, there's no basic services provided by the Pebble app on your phone, so if you need any sort of communications with features on your phone or the cloud you need to roll your own iOS and Android app on top of that. There's a generic "httpebble" library and matching app that lets you do a very limited set of JSON calls, but trying to bridge between that and other services is sort of impossible. The whole thing has a long way to go before anyone other than seriously hardcore "i love a challenge" types will do anything with it, let alone anything that's really new or otherwise not obvious (ie: not a timer, stopwatch, time & temp display, etc...)
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Jun 6, 2013 13:55
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kuskus posted:They're on their last new color production (white) and within the next two weeks will probably have satisfied all Kickstarter stuff. Soon after that the preorders will start to get shipping notices.
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Jun 6, 2013 14:39
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Welp, I wanted a black one anyways, so I put a pre-order in. Maybe I'll get it before I get too impatient and pay double. 
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Jun 7, 2013 02:55
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It's a cool device, but it's not worth 2x the retail price. Stay strong or you're going to wind up with a serious case of buyer's remorse.
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Jun 7, 2013 03:00
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Pebble still feels huge. Anyone know how to get a bigger wrist, besides getting fatter?
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Jun 7, 2013 03:00
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According to Reddit, black preorders have started arriving today.
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Jun 7, 2013 04:08
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I hope the mobile app adds a watch face tile gallery with more than 8 slots. There's very little reason, since you can only hold 8 faces on the watch, why you shouldn't just be able to store the others in the Pebble mobile app and highlight the ones that are "enabled" and sync. Rather than me just storing the others in the downloads of another browser app until I'm ready to juggle them to the middleman Pebble app, deleting others to store new ones. That's overly tedious. I'm also hoping there will be better notification support in iOS announced on Monday for satellite devices. Re-enabling notifications for every third party app every time I connect the Pebble is really the only thing I don't like about it. They're going so slow with dev ease and getting their product to market that other products will replace it before it gets more useful than it is now. I'm sure by this time next year there will be clones from Casio/Sanyo/Coby for $99. And this will be seen as an early adopter's watch with a dead soldered battery. Fingers crossed that this isn't the case.
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Jun 7, 2013 04:44
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My pre-order, from back in August, just shipped out. Please don't tell me it's poo poo.
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Jun 7, 2013 08:09
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Wait a loving second, they haven't even finished making for or shipping to backers yet and they're already shipping later pre-orders? Jesus Christ, is there any aspect of this whole project they can't manage to screw up in some fashion?
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Jun 7, 2013 09:15
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No no you don't understand, it's a different color
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Jun 7, 2013 09:59
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xamphear posted:Long shot, but have any of you guys tried developing an app for the watch? The tutorial is hilarious because you spend an hour googling why your local $PATH & ./profile may or may not be in sync (answer: for 10.7 & 10.8 I needed to modify /private/etc/paths), or why GCC is barfing (because I didn't un-tar things using the command line)... and then once you get to the end he says "I'm not going to explain my code." But it's a fun start! SyRauk posted:My pre-order, from back in August, just shipped out. Please don't tell me it's poo poo.
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Jun 7, 2013 10:50
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Mine died in two weeks and it took a month for support to respond...
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Jun 7, 2013 11:36
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Wow, back of my Pebble says Kickstarter Edition.
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SyRauk posted:Wow, back of my Pebble says Kickstarter Edition. I can almost taste the rage of backers who haven't even got theirs yet (assuming you're a pre-orderer and not a backer).
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WastedJoker posted:I can almost taste the rage of backers who haven't even got theirs yet (assuming you're a pre-orderer and not a backer). Yeah, pre-order. I almost feel a little bit guilty but we were supposed to get ours back in March.
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Yep, I did a pre-order last June, got my red one today and it definitely says "Kickstarter Edition".
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Jun 7, 2013 23:48
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I preordered mine back in late April, and it's the red one as well. I'm guessing I can expect it by 2015.
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I just bought a Cherry Red Kickstarter Pebble off eBay for £165. I regret nothing. I'll still buy my pre-order in $ then sell it on eBay £ and probably come out even.
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SyRauk posted:Yeah, pre-order. I almost feel a little bit guilty but we were supposed to get ours back in March.  My Orange just shipped out today, and I backed on Day One!A couple of links that are kind of buried in the OP: My Pebble Faces A user-made "watch app store". All of them are free, and there is also a selection of concept watches in case you want to develop a watchface but are not sure what kind. Watchface Generator It is what it says. You can upload an image and make your own digital or analog (new!) watchfaces. I used it to make this watchface based off of this watch.
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Ah Pebble, such a neat product, such a clusterfuck of a business.
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I made a simple and crude Daft Punk (Guy Helmet) watchface. http://www.watchface-generator.de/watchfaces/20130608/daftpunk/ I want to make a better version but the tools available on that site aren't that great. edit: Someone on reddit used the watchface maker and a QR code (leave a small border around it) to scan their movie tickets/Starbucks card/etc. Thought that was a pretty good idea to share here. I wish I were more gifted in programming (the extent of my coding knowledge comes from that Jonathan Coulton song) because I have some ideas as well. SyRauk fucked around with this message at 08:25 on Jun 8, 2013 |
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My Pebble arrives tomorrow. No idea what I'm gonna do with it but I'm gonna take it to work with me and impress my dumb friends with it.
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It arrived Got it setup for notifications easily enough and have installed the httpebble/pebble apps for apps/faces. Really do not like the strap so I'm gonna go on eBay and look for nice replacement straps.
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For me the band is fine, I'm just puzzled about why the body is so big.  Going wider to compensate seems like the wrong idea and approaches industrial/goth cuff or club or something, which is fine if you're about that. I haven't seen a better solution than leaving it stock; if you have, please post it.
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kuskus posted:For me the band is fine, I'm just puzzled about why the body is so big. I think most of that is for the waterproofing. I just got mine today, and it's about as big as my wrist. I have tiny wrists.   I had a huge bookmarked folder of replacement bands I was going to look at when I got it, but now I can't find it.  I was thinking something with a light orange accent, or one of those black metal bands.
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Kazy posted:or one of those black metal bands. They seem to have a lot of orange bands here Who knows what kind of orange it is, though.    Prices seem pretty salty. Just gotta find the Amazon equivalents.
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For those of you that received yours, what's the communication like leading up to delivery? Did you all get emails/tracking numbers etc. or did it just show up one day? I basically willed myself to forget about mine for the past year, but I'm starting to get antsy lately.
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I preordered in January. Then, I got impatient and bought one off ebay. I got this email today. pebble email posted:Great news! Pebble pre-orders have started shipping!
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sirbeefalot posted:what's the communication like leading up to delivery?
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sirbeefalot posted:For those of you that received yours, what's the communication like leading up to delivery? Did you all get emails/tracking numbers etc. or did it just show up one day?
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TetsuoTW posted:"Here's your tracking number and the website of Singapore Post to follow it on." vv Edit:  Why do I assume all goons / frivolous kickstarter-purchasers are US? Forgive me.
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kuskus posted:That's pretty interesting. Everyone I know (mind you- I'm counting on one hand) had theirs shipped from California. City of Industry maybe. The US distribution center is in California. Everywhere else (including Canada, I think) gets it shipped from Singapore. I've had mine about a day, and I really like it. Though I've had to redo the finger-dance on iOS7 a few times. I'm not sure if that's a bug with the beta or with the watch, though.
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kuskus posted:That's pretty interesting. Everyone I know (mind you- I'm counting on one hand) had theirs shipped from California. City of Industry maybe.
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