Tag: Hardware

  • Pebble Core 2 Duo smartwatch

    I impulse ordered the new Pebble smartwatch as soon as it was announced. At the time, I was looking for excuses to stop wearing my Apple Watch, and this seemed as good as any.

    The watch arrived yesterday. It’s very white :). There was no setup to speak of other than downloading the app so I can pick from thousands of faces. That should keep me busy for a while. I love e-paper screens.

    I haven’t spent much time playing with everything, but I feel like we’ll get along fine. My only complaint is that there’s no way to rotate the display so that (as a lefty) I can comfortably use the watch on my right wrist.

    The only thing I’ve done is to add a Timer app and assigned it to a long press of the middle button. Time, weather, notifications, and timers are my primary uses for a smartwatch, so I’m covered.

  • Watches

    I used to want the fanciest watches I could manage to afford. I have a nice Tag automatic and it’s a fine watch.

    What I didn’t expect is that these days I love the fact that my everyday and my “dress” watches cost a total of around $50.

    Also, as the saying goes, “A person with one watch knows what time it is. A person with two watches is never sure.”