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5.0 out of 5 starsBest. Smart watch(/fitness tracker). Ever.
ByMarceyon February 12, 2017
I'm amazed by how much I love this thing. I've been looking for a smart watch/fitness tracker I liked for more than a year. I've owned the Moto 360, Fitbit Charge HR, Fitbit Blaze, Jawbone UP3, and Xiaomi HR. None of them hold a candle to this thing.
1. The screen. Omg. I was disappointed at first by two things: it has no color, and it's not touch. Guess what? I was wrong! Those things are AWESOME. It's crystal clear, the lack of color looks super classy and eye-catching, and no touch screen means navigation is super simple and accurate. I hated the Moto 360's touch screen, you'd touch three things you didn't mean to before you got the right thing. And the Blaze's was super laggy and everything was tackily oversized so you could click it easier. But I didn't realize before now... A touchscreen is completely unnecessary! I think I just wanted it for the 'cool' factor, or maybe it's just been programmed in me that touch screen=more advanced=better. But the navigation on this thing is so simple and easy and accurate. I absolutely love it. It even lets you program quick buttons, so holding down each of the four buttons for a second will automatically load whichever app you choose. And the four buttons is a million times better than the standard one or two that's on most fitness trackers.
2. It's so fast!! I've never had such a fast gadget. It's faster than my Galaxy S6. It loads everything SO quickly it still trips me out. No glitches (so far), no freezes or anything. And the speech-to-text feature is faster than the Google app on my phone. I don't know how, but it's movie-quality fast and has yet to get a word wrong.
3. The HR monitor is as accurate as I can find. As good as if not better than the Charge HR. Which, PS, makes the smart alarm work PERFECTLY. And- how cool is this- it takes just seconds to set a smart alarm from the watch itself. Just menu>alarms>smart alarm or >basic alarm. (If you don't know what a smart alarm is, it uses your HR and accelerometer info to decipher when you're in the best part of your sleep cycle to wake you up. You set the latest time the alarm should go off, and give it a window of time that it could go off. During that window, it'll wait until you're in the lightest part of your cycle to wake you up, since waking up out of deeper sleep makes you groggier. This thing wakes me up feeling nice and refreshed, which never happens [never used to happen, anyway!] Both the basic and smart alarms are vibrate only, and you can set different vibration patterns/intensities.)
4. The app is pretty cool. It's easy to navigate, appealing, and has everything on it that I'd want. Your sleep, heart rate and workouts are right there with no digging, and they're easy to understand/navigate through. Out of all the apps I've used (for fitness trackers), I'd say it's a smidge better than the Fitbit app. That one always sucked at connecting and updating (it would take hours to upload info from the tracker to the app and then onto Fitbit.com or whatever, which wasn't optional and would take way too long). This one has no connection problems, updates within minutes and has yet to glitch out on me or be buggy.
5. Even though they have a LOT of user-made apps that do just about whatever you want, the default Pebble itself is super useful and programmed very well. And it's super cute. Right out of the box it was programmed to know my calendar and warn me of appointments and such, could control the music I was playing on my phone (Spotify), and the weather was one click away. And the animations are all so smooth and just plain nice looking.
6. I've heard a lot of complaints about watch faces. How many do you need? There are THOUSANDS. There are even lots of ways for you to make your own. I've had mine less than a week and I already have nine favorites that I've been toggling between because I can't pick a favorite. And I'm very picky, so if I had to guess I'd say you can find at least a handful you like.
7. It's so sleek! And gorgeous! And comfortable! The band is that strange silky silicon that you just want to keep touching. It's waterproof and the battery lasts up to a week. It's simple but eye-catching. I can find no faults with this awesome little watch. I'm so happy with this thing. I don't care at all that Pebble was sold and will no longer support it. Who cares? How often have you had to contact a manufacturer about your watch? These things are ephemeral anyway, and if you're really that afraid of losing your $100 smart watch in a year or two due to some kind of failure then you probably shouldn't be in the market for a smart watch.
I will 100% stand by and recommend the Pebble 2. No more smart watch searches for me! Woohoo!!!