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[-] jcarax@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago

Watches sound great on e-ink, but last I looked into it, the displays couldn't support the frequency of refreshes over a reasonable life time.

I'm with you, by the way. I do like having a compact e-ink reader, but I really don't want to do anything but that with it.

[-] Pxtl@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Huh, that's disappointing. It's funny how everybody keeps experimenting but nobody seems to have topped the Pebble for watch form-factor: low-power gameboy-ish LED screen and more of an old-school micro-controller chip instead of a phone-like chip and just use the "shake to wake" functionality to brighten the backlight.

Pebble might not have been the smartest smartwatch, but it was definitely the watchyest smartwatch. Always-on screen and week-long battery.

[-] jcarax@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago

I feel like Garmin is building their spiritual successor. They don't try to do too much, but they do quite a lot. And there are so many models, they address most folks use cases in one way or another.

Btw, the dude from Pebble (also Beeper, Eric Migicovsky) is trying to build a small Android phone.

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