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Originally Posted by ballfresno
The Pebble is, in many ways, a dumb smartwatch...
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Best I can tell it makes way too many sacrifices in the name of battery life. I've owned both a Pebble (original) and an Android Wear watch (Samsung), and I'll grant that having to charge the watch every night is a small PITA, but I have to charge my phone every night anyway so it's not that much of a burden.
Not having a touch screen, however is a major PITA. Those four buttons on the Pebble are not only hard to press as opposed to just a simple screen swipe, but are a good deal less than intuitive. The new "Timeline" interface is supposed to help with that, but what it really is is Pebble admitting that it wasn't well though out in the beginning.
The only thing that the Pebble (any version) has that I miss is the ability to see the screen in bright sunlight. I kind of wish that Qualcomm TOQ had been more than a prototype and had used Android Wear. The Mirasol screen would be a very welcome addition to Google's excellent and improving watch OS.
Oh yeah, did I mention; it doesn't support Google Now, which is really what makes a smartwatch smart.