Pebble - Steel Smartwatch 33mm Stainless Steel - Black Leather
Model: 401BLR
SKU: 5163035
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Customers love the Steel Smartwatch 33mm Stainless Steel for its impressive battery life, stylish design, user-friendly interface, and compatibility with iPhones. They appreciate the convenience of receiving notifications, controlling music, and installing apps on the watch. However, some users have expressed concerns about occasional connectivity issues, the lack of a color display, and limited functionality compared to other smartwatches.
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When it comes to tech, I review stuff for a living. I've had the chance to play with many really cool devices and the Pebble is one of them. I think for what it does, it's a bit pricey, but if you are looking for a good watch to tell time and control different things around your home, the Pebble will do the trick. With an open platform for developers to create apps to work with all sorts of things the Pebble App Store is becoming a go to for me at least once a month. I owned the Cherry Red Pebble before switching up to the Pebble Steel and the first thing I can say about the Steel is it's heavier then the original Pebble. The Steel is much nicer looking the the plastic Pebble and the leather band is really nice. The Corning Gorilla Glass is strong and I don't worry about scratching its screen. I even think that Im getting a brighter display from it then I did with the original pebble. $225 is on the high side to pay for the average person, but the average person does not go out and buy a Rolex ether. I would have liked to see the price on the Pebble Steel be closer to $175, but maybe later on that might happen. So is it worth buying? Yes and no. Yes, if you are really into wearing watches. It will allow you to keep that watch front and center on your wrist and give you some cool features. No, if you don't already have that, "I must have my watch on," ingrained in your brain. Even with the options to control different things around your home with third party apps made for the Pebble app store most likely you are already carrying around your smart phone and could just as easily do it from it faster. The Pebble Steel is really cool and I own one, but I don't use it as much as I should. One really cool thing I like about the Pebble is I can leave my phone in a different room and still get my notifications. Email, text, Facebook, Twitter - really anything that sends me notification via push I can receive on the Pebble. This gives me a chance to charge my phone in a different room and quickly glance at what's popping up on it. I'm getting a break from being glued to my iPhone. One other thing that I enjoy is while out to dinner I don't have to be rude when waiting for that important message. I can keep my phone in my pocket and just take a quick glance at my watch when it vibrates. With so many different messages coming through I'd be checking my phone all the time. What ever happened to the good ol' days when people went out to dinner and had to wait to get home to see who called. I like my Pebble Steel. I say if its something you've been thinking about getting just do it. You only live once.
Posted by nickcal
The screen readability - The e-paper screen works great. Kinda like how the kindle can be read in sunlight, well the Pebble can to. It is super easy to read in sunlight – even easier than indoors. If it is dark, and you have backlight set to auto, the screen lights up in the dark. In a word - nice. The body - With the matted steel case and gorilla glass and the metal watchband, most people won’t even realize you are wearing a smart watch. It is stylish, and the different displays allow you to dress it up if you like. Pebble battery life – right now my battery looks like it will around 4-5 days or so – maybe a little longer if I keep my phone next to the watch 24/7 (ie during charges). I don’t have a lot of stuff hitting my phone (other than text and emails) right now, so that may be part of the reason for the nice battery life. IPhone battery - As far as the impact on my iPhone, I haven’t seen much of a difference after the initial set up. The initial set up consumed a lot more due to searches for apps, and getting the phone set up. Now everything is basically back to normal. Notifications – If you have a particular app on the iPhone notifications turned on, then you will see if on my Pebble. Simply as that. This applies to calendar appointments, reminders, emails, text, facebook, twitter, etc. Time & Clock functions – I use the Modern watch face since it allows me to see the current time, date and weather without any problems. Plus the modern watch face, in my opinion, looks the absolute best. Fitness tracking - If you want to track your fitness, this is very easy to do with the Pebble and the misfit app. You can track you daily steps, your sleep, etc. I loaded the misfit iPhone app so that my data from the Pebble would sync with the app and would be easier to review all of the data. So far so good – it syncs – it shows how well I slept – it does what I want it to do. Incoming Calls – it displays the name (as long as it is in your contacts) and the phone number of the person calling you. In addition, you have the ability to hang up/push the call directly to voice mail by pushing the button next to the “x”. Controlling your music – with the Pebble, you have the ability to control any of the music or podcast on your iPhone – no matter what program – and see what music is currently playing. I have played podcast and music without a single problem. In addition, you can play your Pandora list without fail. This feature to me is more important on runs/bike rides, or when the iPhone is sitting away from you and playing through speakers. Directions/GPS – I haven’t fully used this yet, but I have installed the PebbGPS and the companion app. I wanted the ability to use my iPhone’s GPS, but not be forced to hold my phone up and follow the directions. Now my iPhone still shows me the way, but pushes that info to my phone. I will update this review once I have a chance to fully test this out. Right now, the limited test I did worked flawlessly. This does require the use of a companion app to type of the location you want to go to. The apps – Some people complain about the limited number of slots you have available on your Pebble for apps (8). To be honest, I really don’t find this to be a problem. I have 6 apps loaded, and it does all that I listed above. The apps I loaded, in no particular order, are the Modern watch face, Misfit, Battery Lifetime, PebbGPS, Pandora, and Multi Timer (basically a very nice timer). In my locker (where you can easily upload to your watch), I have Gentle Wake, ESPN, and Cards for Pebble. The companion apps I loaded include, PebbGPS, RunKeeper, and Misfit.
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Posted by Alex
I would like to have an Apple Watch but I don't want to drop hundreds of dollars for a watch that will be useless if I forget to charge it every night. The pebble steel is a great looking watch and lasts on average of 5-6 days with all my notifications from my iPhone hitting it all the time. I am sure if I turned off the notifications it would last the full 7 days easily. It looks great, and I even bought the steel watchband for it and it is very comfortable. It tracks all my steps, calories burned, sleep habits, lets me control music on my phone and gives me the weather and the time. All for less than $100. I love it.
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Posted by Tstew