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Is it though? Nearly 10 years ago they were going to sell them in retail for 200$, now it is 225$, and its going to be so much better. My time steel lasted for so many years... And it was wonderful, I miss it so much. After the battery started to get too weak I started the search for an alternative, there's so little offering what pebble offers. Ended up with a Garmin, which is... OK, but the price makes me nearly consider it not worth it, around two years ago it cost me 350โฌ, and it was the cheapest version. It's probably great for super sporty people, but I just want a basic watch that helps me get notified and check a bunch of things.
In my opinion what pebble offers is incredibly good for the price, specially compared with what there is in the market currently.
There was no $70 alternative back then. There is now. Hell, my first smart watch was 30โฌ.
https://en.nothing.tech/products/cmf-watch-pro-2?Colour=Dark+Grey
Every single pebble I had would last 6 months before screen tearing would make everything unviewable. I wonder what new issues this will have.
I also experienced screen tearing on every Pebble unit I owned. If they fix this, Iโll absolutely buy a new one
They fixed the screen tearing over a decade ago, it was only present on the original and Pebble Steel because they used zebra strips for the display connection. And unless you had the very first kickstarter edition, which was glued shut and didn't have screws, the fix for the screen tear was to put a piece of paper inside the case to add just a bit of thickness, it took less than 5 minutes.
This is not true. The screen tearing issue was also there in the pebble time series. I had a pebble time with the colour display and it still teared.
Time uses a normal display connector, it doesn't suffer from the pebble screen tear as it's known.
You can still damage the display, either by force or with moisture ingress, but it's not at all the same type of an issue - zebra connectors require pressure to stay connected, and over time they lose their squishiness and the connection gets unreliable.
The screen tearing was actually a hardware issue specific to the original Pebble and Steel models (with the zebra strip connectors). The Time series used different display technology that fixed this isssue completely. If the new model keeps the same display connection method as the Time, you should be good to go!