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Pebble cements its smartwatch legacy as Google shares source code with the community
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this post was submitted on 27 Jan 2025
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Pebble was a fantastic ewatch that had terrible build quality. That said, those were the only "smart" watches I would buy, unless there's something akin to it.
Take a look at BangleJS
I had never heard of BangleJS before and wow, that thing is awesome!
I'm neither a JS or Android/iOS developer, and this thing makes me want to try making a Fitbit-like fitness tracker and companion app.
I might seriously get one. I've been on a privacy/declouding kick lately and have somewhat missed my smart watch. This thing looks like great fun.
If it feels a little costly any, the PineTime's also pretty good. Not remotely the same degree of plugin ecosystem due to being written in C but definitely serviceable and only $27.
(not advocating over the BangleJS – as I haven't owned one and it does look more featureful – but mostly mentioning as I don't see a lot of people mention it, either)