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If you’re new to Pine - the watch and phone are Open Hardware devices for people who are want to help build that future of open hardware. As a coder, I think this is a good thing. I have several but I wouldn’t give one to a family member, just yet. Pine itself is about open hardware - but that process happens over a large time when smart people do good work. By comparison, Linux has been around 35 years.
I have the og PineTime, and in my opinion, we don’t really need better hardware. What we need is better software!
Isn’t a bit of the challenge with the software to write something that supports the very modest hardware?
Agreed, I never felt like the software quite got the support it needed. Know it’s not easy, but even basic needs like can we maintain a connection and can the device update itself were not guaranteed.
Couldn’t they theoretically just use PebbleOS?
Supposedly the pro can. I’d imagine it’s quite a bit harder to run than infinitime
Kinda wish it had nfc
Seems like a missed opportunity to make it a viable alternative
I like the idea of keeping track of my hikes using GPS to be able to remember exactly where I’ve been, but I don’t trust the kind of data gathered by a smart watch with any company out there, and I don’t want to drain my phone by keeping the GPS on constantly. If this has good battery life it sounds interesting to me.
I’m generally sceptical of introducing another screen into my life though. Something about smart watches just seems inherently intrusive even if the software itself isn’t spyware.
Love my PineTime on InfiniTime. Looking forward to this.
Agreed. Wear my Pinetime everyday and was super excited to hear them announce this.
I want them to make a smart ring
What does a smart ring do that a smart watch doesn’t?
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Ugh, it has a microphone. Eavesdropping malware incoming. And it’s another big clonky smartwatch.
It’s nice that it has a blood oxygen sensor I guess. And there’s a 6d accelerometer. I don’t see mention of a temperature sensor either, though with the wireless connectivity and presumed frequent recharging, I guess you can keep correcting the time.
I still like the Sensorwatch (sensorwatch.net) better. Much more modest, smaller, etc. Runs for a year on a coin cell, has a temperature sensor which can used to correct the oscillator and give timing accuracy to within a few seconds a year, and other cool stuff.
I have a pinephone, and it has hardware on/off switches for mic, wireless, camera. my bet would be so will the pine time pro.
“It has a mic, so it’ll definitely have eavesdropping malware” is quite a logical jump to make. Everything has a mic nowadays.
The crappy old Casio that I use now has no microphone and no wireless comms. Just an LCD and some pushbuttons.
