• Pxtl@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    has it really already been 9 years i still think of smartwatches as new tech oh god i’m gonna die soon

  • WrittenWeird@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Still have mine in my drawer. Great watch, resisted getting another for years until wife got me a Samsung for my birthday. They have come a long way, but I still sometimes miss the Moto, wish batteries were replaceable.

  • qwertyqwertyqwerty@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I bought the LG G Watch when it was on sale for $80 with a free $50 Google Play gift card. I was worth that price, but, WearOS 2 declared watches without buttons dead, only a few months after I bought my first smartwatch. Google has an enormous history of killing off products, and while I know Android will have a solution to wearables, I don’t see Google supporting WearOS permanently.

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      Pebble had great UI. It’s a pity that Fitbit didn’t run with it. I still prefer the button to touch screens on watches.

      And now Google is nerfing Fitbit features so people have a reason to buy their full smartwatch. It’s shitty.

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    I miss the no bezel screen, despite the flat tire. Unfortunately I burned through three of these in a short amount of time from the cheap plastic back, and the battery was absolutely terrible.

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      Yeah that whole “flat tire” thing was so blown out of proportion. It looks better than any of the current watches with their huge bezels. I swear someone paid off reviewers to pan Motorola’s products. The moto X got a bunch of unfair BS too.

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    9 years and smartwatch are still pretty pedestrian.

    From buggy software, to shitty battery life, to too expensive.

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    1 year ago

    The Moto 360 just looks amazing. How come no smart watches are like that today?

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      1 year ago

      The fossil watches were spiritual successors to the Moto 360 series, IMO.

      The pixel watch is a cut above all of them now though IMO, despite looking less like a traditional watch at a glance

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    1 year ago

    The F with websites that doesn’t allow my DNS, my VPN, and my adblocker. My browser, my rules - your website and business plan, your choice. My private data.

    • Moonrise2473@feddit.it
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      1 year ago

      i accessed it with a very dodgy vpn (ivacy, which is blocked by a ton of websites for abuse) +privacy badger and it did not block me

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        1 year ago

        Thanks for the info. I’m a bit on the classic side, on mobile, with adguard DNS, proton VPN and Firefox Focus.

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    1 year ago

    Pebble Time Steel should have been the “standard”. Maybe I’m the wrong audience but the Moto 360 is a big miss for me. A smart watch for me needs to have:

    • Always on, sunlight readable display
    • “3 day weekend” battery life
    • Basic smarts only: notifications, alerts, calendar
    • Durable, waterproof
    • Compact size
    • Fitness tracking

    I don’t care too much about “premium materials” once some basic durability is satisfied. I don’t have an opinion about round vs square.