Pebble

I've had a Pebble for three months and this is what I think: it's nice but completely non-essential to my life. Having notifications on my arm is convenient, but not so convenient that it's worth it for me start wearing a watch again after not wearing one for years. If you wear a watch anyway, this might be a good addition to your electronic arsenal (assuming you like the way it looks, which I do).

 

One social aspect of using a smartwatch that needs to be ironed out somehow (and perhaps this is an unavoidable fatal flaw) is that whenever a notification comes in and I glance down at my Pebble, people around me assume that I'm in a hurry and want to leave.

 

One other factor makes the Pebble less than ideal for me is that it doesn't support non-Western character sets. Half of my notifications are in Chinese and they just show up as blank squares on the Pebble.

 

So I have been wearing it less and less over the course of the past three months and now I'm ready to just sell it on an auction site and end the experiment.

Done