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> "The smartwatch everyone wants has a battery that lasts for weeks, a high contrast always-on color screen visible in daylight and total darkness, no bezel, and a round case only a few mm thick."

The Garmin watches that have a MIP (Memory In Pixel) display already cover most of that, provided you avoid using some of the more power hungry features that the Pebbles never had anyway. What is the Pebble Watch's value proposition in 2025?

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I gave up trying new smartwatches after three or four bad ones. I haven't tried the recent Garmins. But looking at the current products, they seem like giant ugly bricks compared to the Pebble Time Round, which I believe still wears the crown of thinnest smartwatch ever made (and not by a little bit either). I very much doubt the software compares either (either on the watch side or the phone side).

Compared to _Garmin_? The Pebble UI and OS will run circles around it. Intuitive, fast, and amazing.

Do you think Garmin watches are displaying the seconds late or something?

The aesthetics are different enough that a comparison doesn't seem that interesting.

I use Linux daily; the Garmin interface is painless by comparison, dohohoho.

More seriously, yeah it could be more intuitive and consistent. But I sat down, read through the manual end to end, and now I'm fine with it.

I use a Fenix 6X Pro and it's a great exercise tracker with notifications. I don't see it as a smartwatch though. You can't reply to messages beyond stock replies or visit an url. I'm yet to find an interesting app and I find the UI cumbersome whenever you want to do something.

I still think it's a great watch and I love the battery life. I just believe it's possible to make something so much better. I don't know if Pebble is the answer but I welcome them trying.

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