[General Accessories] opasha:
PEBBLE WATCH REVIEW

Hello everyone. My pal vectron asked me for info about my Pebble watch since no one really has chimed in on it. So here goes. I'll keep it brief. I cannot compare it to the MetaWatch or the Sony SmartWatch because I do not own either. However, in terms of aesthetics and practicality, I really like the Pebble. Let's face it, the Note 2 is a big phone, lol. It's not always easy or fun to pull it out just to check a text message or an email notification if it's not that important or you're busy in a movie or a meeting. That's where these gadgets are highly useful. The Pebble is also waterproof...I sweat a lot when I run or play soccer, and I always have my watch on even in the shower.

So, I've had my Pebble for a good 2-3 months now. The updates to the firmware are very well done and I've had no hiccups whatsoever every time I've updated through the Pebble app, which can be downloaded through the Google Playstore. I mainly use the Pebble app and Glance app (which is my main screen most of the time with the Glance watchface that shows Time, Date, Weather, Sms, Missed Calls, Gmail). I also use the music toggles fairly regularly while driving with Pandora so I don't have to always turn on my screen and hit next. I just push the next button on the watch. The watch also auto reconnects after being away from the phone when I return. It has a range of about 20-30 feet I would say and I'm in an apartment made with concrete walls so I'm sure you could easily get 30 feet or so. I always have my bluetooth enabled on my phone now and on the watch. The battery life of my phone is barely affected, but that's probably because I'm running cleanrom with perseus kernel and tweaked my settings a little for better battery performance so don't assume every phone will be affected the same. Bluetooth 4.0 is supposed to be battery efficient from what I have read.

Latest Firmware: Pebble App: 1.8.2 Pebble Watch: 1.12 Pebble Forums: http://forums.getpebble.com/

Appearance: It's a beautiful yet simple watch. The right side has 3 buttons: Top and Bottom buttons are scroll up and down and can be configured for the light and send sms in Glance App while the Middle Button is the select/dismiss button. The left side: The only button on there is the back button to go back and directly below that is the magnetic charge port. I have a few face skins for it but after trying an aluminum silver finish, which was very nice, I ended up wanting to keep the original black because it just makes it look much sleeker as opposed to a teenager watch. To each his own though...there's so many skins out there that truly make it highly customizable.

Battery Life: My Pebble has everything on for email, whatsapp, sms, and phone call notifications. All have vibrate option on. Even with that, I get anywhere from 4-6 days of use depending on the number of texts or email in a day or how much im shaking my arm (because I have the light set to turn on with movement of the wrist - in settings you can turn vibrate and light on, off, or auto to know if natural light is there to avoid turning on the light when you shake your wrist or press the buttons).

Apps: Ok, so the developer feedback on this watch is insane. If you go to mypebblefaces.com you can download literally any type of watch face, app, or game you can imagine. Also, apps are getting updated regulary in the playstore such as Pebble Glance, Pebbler, Pebble Calendar, Pebble +, etc. You can do your own research on those since many of them are free. Obviously, the Sony Smartwatch has more apps I believe due to being out for so long, but the Pebble is catching up fairly quickly. They've done a great job in the development sdk department.

I know my review is not that great because it's late and I'm about to go to bed, but I told vectron I would do this since he asked. The xda-developers picture is actually the email I got from him, lol. If you guys have any questions at all, feel free to ask them here and I'll try to answer to the best of my knowledge :)

Rating: 8.5/10 - I would rate it higher if it looked as beautiful as the White MetaWatch Frame. The fact that it is kinda flimsy looking doesn't give it that business feel, but that's ok because it's very very light and dries easily due to it's band. Nonetheless, I'm very happy/content with my buy. I love gadgets much like you all in this thread, and I'm very excited for the future watches and phones that are coming out! I even saw the sony xperia z ultra with the 6.4 in 1080 thin display and I was just amazed! I still love my Note 2 - I literally do almost everything on it such as watch my medical videos, stream online tv shows, browse and read through the forums, etc, etc....the list goes on. It's a wonderful phone and I will never buy anything smaller!

Pics: The grayish blurry stuff at the bottom on the email and sms screens just means that there is more to scroll down through with the scroll bottom right button.