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Nothing else ever really achieved what the pebble did. I just wanted a cheap second point of interaction with my phone.
After it went under the industry has doubled down on insane cost, pointless features, abysmal battery life.
I don't get it. Pepple made all the right trade offs and the third party support was incredible.
I hope this works out.
Does it let you buy stuff?
I just want a watch that lets me buy stuff, without Google, Apple, or anyone else tracking me. The closest I found is a Pixel watch with WiFi, which I only connect at home, and isn't connected to my phone most of the time (GrapheneOS). Google still tracks me, but only after the fact, and only when I reconnect to WiFi.
I honestly don't care about the watch function, I just want something I can wear when I'm on a bike ride so I can leave my phone and wallet at home but still pick up a snack or something.
If the Pebble can do that without phoning home, I'll get it. But I'm pretty sure that's impossible since it's baked into the Wallet app.
Yeah I'm pretty sure the banks would shut down anything that clones NFC payment functionality onto a device without them knowing about it.
As they rightly should. I would certainly call my bank to set it up just like I did with my OTP app with my brokerage. I'm not trying to hide anything from my bank, I just don't want to share that info with Google.