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Ars Technica Goes Close Up With the Pebble Smartwatch

Posted by timothy on from the watch-out-for-these-things dept.

Ars Technica takes a close look at the crowd-funded Pebble smartwatch. The reviewer had to put up with repeated delays in production as a Kickstarter backer, but seems happy with the watch and optimistic about the future of third-party apps; an SDK is due later this month. "It currently ships with three default watch faces, as well as 12 others that you can load onto the watch with the companion app (free on iOS and Android). By far my favorite custom watch face is 'Fuzzy Time,' which rounds the current time to the nearest 5-minute interval and translates that number to what you might say if your friend asked you the time. While seemingly trivial, I love this rough approximation of time. Rarely do I need to know that it's 5:13:23pm, but seeing that it's 'quarter after five' is awesome."

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  1. Waste of money. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

    The iWatch will issue a quick and decisive butt kicking to this useless bauble.

  2. Re:Do you rememeber when... by ColdWetDog · · Score: 4, Funny

    And sex lasted ...

    Well, I've got nothing.

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  3. Re:Do you rememeber when... by folderol · · Score: 4, Funny

    I've got a solar powered watch :) The only annoying thing is it doesn't do daylight saving, so I have to set it twice a year.

  4. Re:Priceless by Stumbles · · Score: 3, Funny

    Yeah I see where your going; approximately in a fuzzy amount, 165 feet.

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  5. Re: fuzzy time eh? by Concerned+Onlooker · · Score: 3, Funny

    I've never really understood why they call it the second hand when it's really the third hand if you ask me.

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