< Usage of smartwatches

~walk

My wishlist for a smartwatch is:

- Less than 100$

- Opensource (I want to be able to write simple programs for it)

- Batery life works for at least 1 week.

- GPS for traking me when I run and keeping a fast peace in races.

I have used the pinetime for 1 year, I was very happy with it, but it does not have GPS and the step counter broke... :(

I now have an amazfit with GPS. I have only connected it to an android phone to set the time and never connected it again. I am pretty happy with it. It is kind of possible to write software for it, but I did not try it really, it comes with an older version of the OS and it doesn't make a lot of sense to waste time on some closed device... It has some bugs too.

Next one I want to try is the bangle.js, but it won't be soon :(

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~kirk781 wrote:

Yes, the Pinetime seems decent enough but the product isn't available worldwide yet, even in many major markets; hence restricting it being competitive. The original Pebble was also promising with a good battery life.