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Really love what the watch offers, but the price is quite damn steep
Is it though? Nearly 10 years ago they were going to sell them in retail for 200$, now it is 225$, and its going to be so much better. My time steel lasted for so many years... And it was wonderful, I miss it so much. After the battery started to get too weak I started the search for an alternative, there's so little offering what pebble offers. Ended up with a Garmin, which is... OK, but the price makes me nearly consider it not worth it, around two years ago it cost me 350β¬, and it was the cheapest version. It's probably great for super sporty people, but I just want a basic watch that helps me get notified and check a bunch of things.
In my opinion what pebble offers is incredibly good for the price, specially compared with what there is in the market currently.
There was no $70 alternative back then. There is now. Hell, my first smart watch was 30β¬.
https://en.nothing.tech/products/cmf-watch-pro-2?Colour=Dark+Grey
I never mentioned anything about how much it was 10 years ago. I'm talking about how much it costs now. To me, there are better alternatives in the same price range
Yep, back in the days the early bird price was $169 and MSRP was supposed to be $199. And now we're looking at $225 pre-order price.
Adjusted for inflation, $199 in 2016 would be $267.85 today.
I mean, inflation is one thing. How much have wages gone up since then?
Relative to 2016-dollars, wages have gone down.
But that's not the watches' fault.
Every single pebble I had would last 6 months before screen tearing would make everything unviewable. I wonder what new issues this will have.
Whaaaat?! I've never had that issue and have a half dozen pebbles
What other issues did you have since you bought half a dozen of them?
I bought so many because I lived pebble, it's features and price point. When it got bought I didn't think we'd ever see another pebble, so I bought a bunch to last me hopefully the rest of my life. To the point of your question, the main issues I've faced since are battery over time and crashing. The only pebble 2 I bought failed in a year because the buttons got worn through, and water ruined it. Makes me wary of the newer upgraded pebble 2s
Me neither. I had 2.
It was a well known issue and happened to more than half of all pebbles. If you simply search βpebble screen tearβ youβll find whole forums and websites and different solutions to try and fix it.
Iβve had 3 pebble originals, a pebble steel, and a pebble time. All had screen tearing after a few months.
I also experienced screen tearing on every Pebble unit I owned. If they fix this, Iβll absolutely buy a new one
They fixed the screen tearing over a decade ago, it was only present on the original and Pebble Steel because they used zebra strips for the display connection. And unless you had the very first kickstarter edition, which was glued shut and didn't have screws, the fix for the screen tear was to put a piece of paper inside the case to add just a bit of thickness, it took less than 5 minutes.
This is not true. The screen tearing issue was also there in the pebble time series. I had a pebble time with the colour display and it still teared.
Time uses a normal display connector, it doesn't suffer from the pebble screen tear as it's known.
You can still damage the display, either by force or with moisture ingress, but it's not at all the same type of an issue - zebra connectors require pressure to stay connected, and over time they lose their squishiness and the connection gets unreliable.
The screen tearing was actually a hardware issue specific to the original Pebble and Steel models (with the zebra strip connectors). The Time series used different display technology that fixed this isssue completely. If the new model keeps the same display connection method as the Time, you should be good to go!