I never got a chance to get one of the original Pebble's (didn't have a job yet) but it's exactly what I wanted from a smart watch so I'll be keeping a close eye on this space https://repebble.com/
If I can make one wish for the Pebble revival, please can we get something like the Pebble Steel again. I absolutely despise the look the most modern smart watches. I want to wear a watch, not a computer on my wrist.
@BrodieOnLinux Totally agreed. I hope it looks decent.
@BrodieOnLinux That's the main reason I'm excited. Pebble was almost a watch first. The always on screen was a huge thing that I still miss.
The only reason I even wear a smartwatch today is because the PineTime was cheap enough/nerdy enough under the hood for a FOSS nerd like me to swallow that: It looks too much like/is too much like a computer on my wrist; and that I have to control it through a janky touch screen rather than hardware buttons while not being able to leave the screen on 24/7 so I have to have janky 'wake-up' methods.
Give me a watch with hardware buttons, a good look, media controls and notifications. That's all I really ever wanted. I have a smartphone for everything else.
@BrodieOnLinux I had a Pebble Steel originally and I loved the look of it. The buttons malfunctioned, so I eventually bought a Pebble Time Steel from eBay and I didn't really like the way it looked, but it worked well. I always prefer a more angular digital watch. I just switched to wearing a nerdy Casio after a while
@BrodieOnLinux a replaceable battery would be nice too
@BrodieOnLinux Yeah I wish more smart watches looked like regular watches. I looove the looks of the hybrid Withings Scanwatches. Just a tiny display on a regular watch.
@BrodieOnLinux I have zero clue if this could be produced with small numbers at reasonable cost anymore but it'd be really cool to see. Right now the only real equivalent is maybe a G-Shock, which doesn't even have that level of smarts in it.
@BrodieOnLinux Was going to eventually ebay my Pebble Time. Still keeps about 4 days with Bluetooth on. Having the mobile apps and phone OS integration are fairly important, and Android at least has moved a lot (permissions, security) since work on the original apps stopped.