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title:  "Pebble Time - Awesome Smartwatch, Many Compromises"
date:   June 24, 2015
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  display_name: 'sipp11'
categories: Kickstarter review
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  url: http://kck.st/1BluaTQ
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Pebble Time Arrived. Everyone I knew liked or loved it. Pebble team had done a fantastic job upgrading the original Pebble to this one. I honestly didn't like the original one at all, but this one? I had many reasons to love it, yet a lot of compromises came with it.

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I didn't have time much to write in-depth, but I would try to update as much as possible. At least, you should have seen it in the pictures first.

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Pebble screen wasn't particularly outstanding; very low contrast; but it somehow looked much sharper than the original one which was black and white and oddly had the same exact resolution. Pebble screen was one of the unique screens since its backlight didn't make any better. It was good on its own, very readable in direct sunlight; however, if you were looking at Pebble ads on Facebook or anywhere and you thought for a second that screen would be that vivid, you would be disappointed. In my opinion, the screen was already good enough. If I could change, I would love to have a bit more saturation. Anyway, it wasn't anything close to dealbreaker at all.

### Battery life

I had it for little over a week at the time of writing. For the first time, Pebble Time lasted about 5 days. ~80% from Pebble advertised, but let's see once everything set on my side. By the way, recharging from 10% to full took less than an hour. IMHO, 5-active-day out of 60-minute charge was unbeatable already.

Awesome:

  * butterly smooth animated transitions
  * Battery life

Not so good

  * Not all unicode characters are created equal still
  * Cannot count step in background
  * bugs on stock Music app with iPhone 6 plus (other models I couldn't confirm)