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so while the Smartwatch Wars have definitely heated up a fair bit with

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heavyweight Apple allegedly selling more of the first generation Apple watch

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within days of its launch than every other Smartwatch maker combined ever

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pebble's original concept of offering notifications on your wrist at a

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reasonable price with crossplatform compatibility is something that nothing

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else addresses in quite the same way which is why the original Pebble

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continues to be available in spite of its lackluster hardware specs and

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decidedly lesser build quality especially when you hold it next to

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something like an Apple Watch or a Moto 360 but that doesn't mean pebble's been

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sitting on ass and today's video is about the Next Generation Pebble the

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pebble time by the way we're mostly back on track as far as production scheduling

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goes so throw a like below the video if you're stoked to finally see our

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Skylight coverage John is hard at work on that as we speak

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drop is offering a killer deal on a DJI Phantom 3 so if you're into Jones scroll

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down and check out that link in the video description to get yours now so

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let's start with what Pebble hasn't changed since the original the pebble

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time is still water resistant to 30 m only this time but it works for reals

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I've gone swimming with mine lots of times although I did that with the Apple

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Watch 2 and had no issues it features multi-day battery life with an all

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always on display always showing you the time they say seven days but in practice

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I get closer to four or five since I'm a bit of a heavier user it features

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backwards compatibility with the rich third-party app ecosystem for the

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original Pebble with everything from GoPro remote control to ringing your

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phone remotely to find it to fitness trackers that use the onboard sensors to

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pretty advanced music Control usable whether the app has been updated for the

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new color display or not pretty cool now

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let's get into the things that are different the big one as I just alluded

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to is the display the original Pebble used a 144 by 168 resolution eaper

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display which because eaper requires no backlight to function and only needs to

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be powered when the image is changing is what made it readable in direct sunlight

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and allowed it to achieve such monstrous battery life compared to its competitors

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at the time of which there weren't really any and in fact compared to its

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competitors now but being low resolution and monoch in the year 2015 is just not

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as cool as it was in the 1980s so the pebble time features a color eaper

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display unfortunately from my experience with the pebble time the viewing angles

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are so poor sometimes and the color is so washed out that it feels a little bit

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more like a novelty not to mention that the resolution itself has not been

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upgraded meaning that text is just plain not very sharp although this was done to

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preserve that backwards app comp compatibility that I praised like a

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minute and a half ago so I guess I could

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live with that if they could at least fix the viewing angle issues there are

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more improvements though the pebble time features a super easy to ous band

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swapping system that will even allow custom add-on bands to enhance

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functionality in the future with ideas like extended battery packs that could

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last for like a month and additional sensors like GPS being available for

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upgrading the pebble time after the fact the next big one for me is the

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microphone unlike Android Wear you can't just gesture and start talking at your

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watch to or start a navigation to wherever I want to go and you definitely

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can't hold a conversation just through your watch like the Apple watch thanks

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to its surprisingly good mic and speaker

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but honestly what I mostly use the mic on my watch for is for quickly

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responding to texts or emails something that the pebble time handles really

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really well I find that for the most efficiency it does require the use of

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both of my hands since it waits quite a while to stop listening if you don't

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press the button again to indicate that you're finished talking but voice

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detection was quick and accurate compared to other devices that I've used

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which leads us to some general analysis of my experience with the pebble time

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versus its competitors being platform agnostic is great I had no difficulty

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controlling my Google Play music connected to Sono speakers right out of

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the box something I couldn't do with the Apple watch Facebook authenticator was

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was Flawless out of the box it popped up a notification gave me the context

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appropriate option of opening on my phone and popped the number right after

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the lock screen and all of my Google junk worked flawlessly with even fairly

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deep options for actions that I could perform on things like my Gmail messages

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I also absolutely love tactile buttons I

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mean I cannot say this enough this is a huge thing that's missing with other

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SmartWatches for me which require you to be looking at them to do something as

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simple as change a song something I do with my watch a lot if you can memorize

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a couple of button presses then you can actually perform certain controls

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without ever even looking at it which you might argue doesn't matter I mean

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lonus how much time are you really saving by not looking at your watch to

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press next track to which I would respond this thing is made for people

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who bought it to save the 4 seconds it takes to get their phone out of their

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pocket of course it matters the pebble time isn't perfect though the animations

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between menus are actually kind of annoying remember Pebble this is a

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product for impatient people and some of them are so long it just feels like

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they're kind of stalling so as you scroll through your timeline it's quick

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but as you move between days it's like this little

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Sun pops up or something it's like they're stalling to get more time also I

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really don't like the way that the time gets really tiny or even disappears

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outright when you're looking at different screens the calendar being one

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of them that did irritate me although the good news is that Pebble has been

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updating it actively I got an update even while I was reviewing it that

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significantly improved it so maybe they'll see this video and maybe change

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that but uh the last thing though is that this might just be my unit or it

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might be a power saving measure to allow for that fancy color screen but I really

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need to flick my wrist to illuminate the back light for viewing in the dark

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something that I didn't really have to do on my original Pebble so the bottom

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line then am I switching to the pebble time no it

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was so close it was so close but I just

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can't get over the screen I could live with the kind of washed out colors and

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the hard to activate backlight I could even live with the low resolution but I

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will take the tradeoff of extra bulk and charging every night with the gatch r in

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exchange for being able to read it from any angle I think if Pebble could figure

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out how to get their panel closer to the front plastic this issue would go away

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for me and I think they could convert me back but for now I'm an Android Wear

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user really for now although if I was on

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the iPhone I'd probably go for the pebble time to be perfectly honest poor

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Apple watch and it's kind of a shame that I

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won't be switching to the pebble time permanently because it means I won't get to wear this super sick debrand skinned

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orange Pebble time anymore the guys over there did me up an orange one because

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they knew I loved my original orange Pebble so much and uh the pebble time is

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not available in that particular color but of course that's what dbrand exists

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to deal with although it's good for other stuff too because having a skin

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means that even careless people like me are less likely to scratch their

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sensitive Electronics I whacked my watch so hard at one point that I got a bunch

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of paint and drywall bits embedded in the orange skin but I guess the fact

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that I was able to clean it off is a testament to the durability of dbrand

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skins and to the functionality thanks to the vinyl wrap the watch housing wasn't

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damaged at all so check out dbrand.com

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oh crap what is it Pebble lus Pebble

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Linus Pebble thank you for that Nick to check out all the different devices they

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support and to see the colors they have that aren't orange I know not everyone

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is into that don't mind the man behind the

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