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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.

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

For the first time, Pebble Time lasted about 4 days. ~60% from Pebble advertised, Recharging from 10% to full took less than an hour. 4-active-day out of 60-minute charge was nice.

Damn it. It only got worse over time. Maybe I used it too much? had too many notifications?

2015-06-23 1:37PM 20% battery (4-day)
2015-06-23 1:39PM started charging

2015-06-26 8:14PM 20% battery (3-day 6-hour)
2015-06-26 9:52PM Full charged

2015-06-30 1:00AM 30% battery (3-day 4-hour)
2015-06-30 5:00AM Full charged

I contacted Pebble support since I saw they said that if user experienced 4-day or shorter battery life, that pebble might not function properly. Well, I contacted them, all they suggested was to uninstall all watchfaces & apps to gain better battery life. Also, turning off motion sensor might help. Seriously? so I should buy a not-so-smart watch which had a better watchface and lasted forever, shouldn't I?

I mean their support were next to none at this point. Basically they were clueless or not telling what really caused the issue or they couldn't swallow their false 7-day battery life brag and tell people the truth. I mean 3-day battery life was decent enough already. Why giving a false advertisement?

Up to this point, I was happy that I decided not to get Pebble Time Steel which I was sure of that it lasted longer than regular Pebble Time, but I doubted it ever hit 7-day battery.

Awesome:

• butterly smooth animated transitions
• Battery life (You will never need to worry about that basically; it's not going to die during the day.)

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)
• Battery life (as far as their advertisement is concerned)