[mmelin]

Last week I received my second Pebble, one of the new Pebble Steel watches. I'm very happy with it, and it always generates some questions.

I usually describe it as the same feeling as using the Nokia N95 back in the day; it's obvious the category is the future, but someone else will probably make a smoother version of it in a couple of years (iPhone in Nokia's case, who knows in regards to Pebble).

But just getting push notifications from Google Maps on your wrist when walking around a new city is pretty amazing and feels like living in the future, without having to wear a dorky Google Glass.

[jnovek]

I wish I could say the same thing about my Pebble. It constantly disconnects from my phone and Pebble's support take 5+ days to respond with boilerplate.

Right now it's an overpriced plastic non-smart watch that I have to charge every four days.

[wvenable]

I occasionally have this issue; seems like a firmware bug to me. Doing nothing else but turning off the Pebble for a few minutes and then turning it back on resolves it for me. Anything else (cycling bluetooth on phone, the pebble, etc) doesn't help. Rebooting it in this way usually gives me a week of uninterrupted connectivity. I'm an iPhone 5 user.

[mmelin]

Which phone are you using? I haven't experienced any issues like that with my iPhone 5S. Charging is a pain, but I've given up trying to make it last multiple days and just started charging it every night when I plug in my phone.

[jnovek]

I'm using an iPhone 5.

I don't really have a problem with charging, it's just that it doesn't offer any advantages over a normal digital watch right now and it still has to be charged every few days.

I've tried a lot of things to get it to behave and at this point I'm pretty sure my Pebble is broken. I would seek an RMA but Pebble support is like a brick wall.

[Kiro]

I only need to charge mine once a week.

[stefan_kendall3]

I ordered early February and mine still hasn't shipped.

[joshstrange]

Same here, I am not happy with the way they changed the delivery dates after I ordered or how they changed the status of my order to "backordered" without notifying me at all.

[stefan_kendall3]

The text on the website also changed from "ships in order of availability" to "6-8 weeks from purchase date."

8 weeks is a pretty fancy way to say "two months."