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Today I swapped out the battery in my Pebble Time Steel. After nearly 10 years in use, its original battery only lasted about 36 hours. I actually bought a replacement battery and Tesa tape from @iFixit last year, but balked at cracking the case until my friend with a better soldering iron (and more experience wielding it) was free to help. On my own, I surely would have made a mess of the battery flex cable contact points. But it came through the procedure in perfect shape, now (hopefully) with a new lease on life! I'm reasonably confident I can perform the same transplant on our other Pebbles (my spouse and kid both wear one too).

Huge thanks to Aadi B. for his great walkthrough at ifixit.com/Guide/Pebble+Time+S!

iFixitPebble Time Steel Battery ReplacementBy https://www.ifixit.com/User/4005459/Aadi+Bhamidipati

Why so sad techbro? Tariffs getting you low?

"Man, I think I picked a really difficult time to get back into manufacturing hardware."

youtube.com/watch?v=UCI7N70tNRE

(Eric is actually my favourite techbro, but it's kind of a low bar. And now he has a podcast. Which he daftly titled "Tick Talk", despite there already existing a product in his market space, the "TickTalk" kids smartwatch... CDO probably already being written...)

@rmgr a group just bought back the open hardware Pebble watch, which is at crowdfunding stage.

It’ll be excellent for protecting your data and you being in control and being able to hack on it.

One of the watches has a heart rate monitor.

But there’s no GPS, and they’ve explicitly said they not a sports watch.

So sorry this response is only half helpful, if that 😂.

Https://Repebble.com

repebble.comWe're bringing Pebble back!Eight years later, you still can't beat a Pebble

I've used at least one other smartwatch, but the only one that inspired multiple blog posts over the years that I eventually combined into a single page with a review and follow-ups was the #PebbleWatch

https://hyperborea.org/reviews/products/pebble2/

I'm seriously looking at the new limited-release watches from Core (same founder as the original Pebble, working with the Rebble community)

https://store.repebble.com/

The Core Duo 2 is basically an updated version of the one I had way back when, and the Core Time 2 is an update of the model I kinda wished I'd bought instead.

Kelson Reviews Stuff · Pebble 2 Smart Watch - ReviewThe rare smartwatch that was actually designed to work well *as a watch*. It was discontinued ages ago, but the just-announced Core Duo 2 is essentially an updated version.

turns out pebble's big announcement today was the start of pre-orders. "the pebble but new" and "color screens are nifty." $150 for the cheaper one. seems alright. I def like the way it doesn't do a bunch of crap I don't need. #Pebble #PebbleWatch