Pebble Watch

So, anyone else get one of these off Kickstarter?

Pondering downloading the SDK and doing some watchfaces (or even a simple stopwatch, timer, etc).

Will take care of screenshots tomorrow (as I'm on baby duty right now and don't have time), but there isn't really much to show at the moment. The one big let-down is that the iOS app, at the moment, can't install third-party apps or watchfaces on the watch without workarounds that suck. I'm eagerly awaiting the ability to do this as I'd like to make my own watchfaces.

It's a solid product, though. Battery life is a hell of a lot better than the iPod I've been using as a watch for a couple years. Updates are effortless through either Android or iOS. Notifications are great, and even better if you have Android or a jailbroken iOS device with notifications patched to be less broken.

OK, better late than never. The release of the 1.0.6 app for iPhone greatly simplified the ability to install 3rd party watchfaces / apps. Here are a few watchfaces that I just installed (yes, there's a Star Trek watchface, I found it funny but it apparently drains the battery like crazy). I'm currently using the first one, it looks slick.







Also, a simple timer app and what looks like a decent stopwatch with lap timer, and a calendar that shows the current month with today's date inverted and lets you actually scroll through months as well.







There's a whole bunch more. The repositories are growing by the day and this is just the very beginning of people using the test release of the SDK. Check out:

http://forums.getpebble.com/categori...happ-directory
http://mypebblefaces.com/

Heh, now this is awesome. Still requires a fair amount of manual intervention, but this is the shape of apps to come.

Watch App : Google Two-Step Authentication Token
http://forums.getpebble.com/discussi...tication-token

This shit is getting awesome.







New watchfaces every day.

No idea, bought mine and my wife's off Kickstarter and they've been shipping the preorders for weeks now. They were very, very late on fulfilling KS orders, but now that they have their production line up and running, it shouldn't be too bad. All I know is I'm super impressed by the work that's already being done with the fledgling SDK for this thing.

http://getpebble.com/is your friend for all Pebble ordering!

I'd rather not wave my phone around all the time, depending on where I am. In public, people get their phones stolen all the time because they're paying more attention to the phone than to their surroundings, some workplaces don't exactly allow cell phone usage, etc.

The watch lets me control the phone to some extent -- answer calls, play music, maybe some other things viaIFTTTor some other type of watch app. The SDK isn't fully complete, so who knows what will be possible. It's definitely not for everyone, though, you're right. For me, the ability to have a bunch of different watch faces and apps that do different things is awesome.

RunKeeper updated to work with Pebble, both iOS and Android.

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/...506b2d67211a77

I still wear mine. RunKeeper integration is great, and there are more and more useful watch faces and apps every day. I do wish they'd iron out some of the persistent issues with iOS but that's more an Apple thing than a Pebble thing, tbh. I'm told the watch is more useful with Android devices as it's less limited in how it can talk to the phone/tablet.

I'd still recommend it as a watch for someone who wants more than just the time on their wrist. If all you want is a watch with changeable watch faces, the price is a bit steep, in my opinion, but that's just me.

Oops, I never did answer. The integration issues are simple: You can only have one app talking to the Pebble at a time, so if (for example) you have httpebble and SmartWatch Pro running on your phone at the same time, whichever one connected to the watch last will be the one that sends data. The other will fail. There is no way around this at this point as it's an API limitation (of the phone, not the watch).

That said, for the most part, httpebble works really well so I don't need anything else. It makes details available for watchfaces, e.g. weather info, sunrise/sunset. Makes things like this possible: