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by faldor20 167 days ago
I'm a staunch believer that watches should be small enough to never annoy, always show the time, and never have to be charged but I think this finally does all those things well enough that it's a legitimate option.

What is that warranty though? 30 days is pretty rough for a new and untested product. It's definitely enough to make me hold off for a year just in case.
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apparent 167 days ago
I hear you, but the first new Pebble is getting good reviews. It's been out for months and I've not heard anything bad about it. While the upcoming models are a bit less derivative of past watches, they are still pretty well-grounded in prior Pebbles. The software is the same as the P2D, and the hardware is pretty similar to the prior rect/round Pebbles.

I believe things could go wrong, but I'm not sure what sort of latent errors would make sense to worry about. The battery life dropping precipitously? (Why would it do this?) Sensors breaking within a couple months? (Again, what would lead to this?).

I'm curious to know what you are concerned about. I agree that a year of track record would be great, but IMO a Pebble will be such a big upgrade over pretty much anything else out there (AWs etc. that need charging all the damn time), that I'd rather not wait a year for the additional data to come in.

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nosrepa 164 days ago
As an anecdotal story of one, I know someone who has the currently out new pebble and they're already looking to replace the buttons.
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apparent 164 days ago
Yikes, that sounds awful. I know that was an issue on the old Pebbles, and the ones that are out have some old hardware. The Pebbles that aren't out yet don't share any parts, so presumably this won't happen to them.
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kridsdale1 167 days ago
My case full of mechanical watches need to be “charged” every 30-50 hours. At least they do indeed tell time.
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liampulles 166 days ago
If the production is similar to the PT2 watches, then there will be public beta testing before watches are shipped.
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lacunary 164 days ago
hard to beat a solar quartz movement if those are the criteria! no need to charge or service it for up to 20 years.
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