[dagwaging]

this is one of the reasons i'm quite happy with my first gen pebble: the screen is always on, so i can always see the time

i also got mine for half the original price, at $75

i think they were smart to focus on the things smartwatches actually do well: notifications, and simple remote controls (i.e. for music, navigation)

having physical buttons makes it much more useful, since i can easily perform actions without even looking at the watch, or with gloves on

and only having to charge it once a week is wonderful

i personally don't use activity trackers, but the newest pebbles include that functionality

i think android wear and the apple watch both try to do too much, and end up being good at nothing

[jon-wood]

The activity tracking is the Pebble's killer feature for me. While I like getting notifications on my wrist, and being able to see the time whenever I choose is nice, what I really love is passive tracking of how far I've walked in a given day and how long I slept for. They've also just today released a mood tracking app alongside the rest of the tracking which prompts you once an hour for a quick summary of your mood and what you did in the last hour.

Being able to later go back and correlate all these things is awesome - even now I know that on days I get out and exercise more I'm happier, soon I should be able to give objective numbers on that, along with being able to determine things like the correlation between caffeine and happiness/energy levels over the day.

I'm pretty excited for the Pebble Core as well, especially since they announced Alexa integration, I think its got a lot of potential for drastically changing how we interact with mobile computing and moving on from the current interactive glass paradigm.