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What is the most neatest Open Source smartwatch? (gadgetbridge.org)

submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I'm looking for any suggestions for smartwatch that it similar like Google Pixel Phones with GrapheneOS. Is there such a thing?

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[–] [email protected] 65 points 3 months ago (5 children)

The Bangle.js 2 is pretty cool

[–] [email protected] 29 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (5 children)

That's what I use. It's way more stripped down than a modern smart watch, but it has good battery life, a transflexive LCD, can discretely give me notifications so I can keep my phone on silent, and can show me the weather at a glance.

There are more things it can do, I just find my phone is better for the majority of them.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 months ago

That covers all my smart watch use cases tho.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Does it support an external Bluetooth HR monitor?

Apparently, an app does that

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Are the notifications actionable? (Snoozing alarms, canned replies to messages, etc)

I couldn't find that important detail on the website easily.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago

You can snooze alarms, play/pause/ff/rw media, and mark messages as read

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

what do you mean by "good battery life"?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Disclaimer I don’t have one, but seems like 2-4 weeks between charges.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

That's been my experience

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

transflexive LCD

LMGTFM (Me). Oh its easy to read (almost) regardless of light conditions. I too like my notification to be separated and discreetly delivered.

Sorry 8), thanks for the heads up. I'm filling in shipping info now.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago (1 children)

And priced for the average human! Wow.

Damn, if I didn't need the fitness tracking support of my Garmin watch, I'd be all over that!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Same here. Looks really cool, but I use a lot of sport features of my Garmin watch.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago

That looks like the closest successor to the pebble I think I've ever seen.

I may need to order one and test it out.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago (1 children)

So frustrating that their logo is a nice looking round watch, but their product is an ugly rectangular one.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago

The original one was round.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

I think I've just found my next watch. It looks more useful than my current Fitbit Versa. Thank you for bringing it to my attention.