4 hoursDid they ever solve why the original PineTime had weird charging behavior? Mine and several others, when charged to 100%, would not behave correctly and would bootloop.
- Lutra@lemmy.worldEnglish1 day
If you’re new to Pine - the watch and phone are Open Hardware devices for people who are want to help build that future of open hardware. As a coder, I think this is a good thing. I have several but I wouldn’t give one to a family member, just yet. Pine itself is about open hardware - but that process happens over a large time when smart people do good work. By comparison, Linux has been around 35 years.
- SomeDudeFromSpace@lemmy.mlEnglish2 days
I have the og PineTime, and in my opinion, we don’t really need better hardware. What we need is better software!
Isn’t a bit of the challenge with the software to write something that supports the very modest hardware?
- 1 day
Agreed, I never felt like the software quite got the support it needed. Know it’s not easy, but even basic needs like can we maintain a connection and can the device update itself were not guaranteed.
Supposedly the pro can. I’d imagine it’s quite a bit harder to run than infinitime
I like the idea of keeping track of my hikes using GPS to be able to remember exactly where I’ve been, but I don’t trust the kind of data gathered by a smart watch with any company out there, and I don’t want to drain my phone by keeping the GPS on constantly. If this has good battery life it sounds interesting to me.
I’m generally sceptical of introducing another screen into my life though. Something about smart watches just seems inherently intrusive even if the software itself isn’t spyware.
- codenul@lemmy.mlEnglish1 day
Agreed. Wear my Pinetime everyday and was super excited to hear them announce this.
It’s more about what it doesn’t have. I already have a phone and a laptop, so I don’t need another screen. But it would be neat to be able to track things like sleep quality with an inconspicuous ring
- solrize@lemmy.mlEnglish2 days
Ugh, it has a microphone. Eavesdropping malware incoming. And it’s another big clonky smartwatch.
It’s nice that it has a blood oxygen sensor I guess. And there’s a 6d accelerometer. I don’t see mention of a temperature sensor either, though with the wireless connectivity and presumed frequent recharging, I guess you can keep correcting the time.
I still like the Sensorwatch (sensorwatch.net) better. Much more modest, smaller, etc. Runs for a year on a coin cell, has a temperature sensor which can used to correct the oscillator and give timing accuracy to within a few seconds a year, and other cool stuff.
- piyuv@lemmy.worldEnglish2 days
“It has a mic, so it’ll definitely have eavesdropping malware” is quite a logical jump to make. Everything has a mic nowadays.
- solrize@lemmy.mlEnglish1 day
The crappy old Casio that I use now has no microphone and no wireless comms. Just an LCD and some pushbuttons.
- Lutra@lemmy.worldEnglish1 day
I have a pinephone, and it has hardware on/off switches for mic, wireless, camera. my bet would be so will the pine time pro.
- solrize@lemmy.mlEnglish1 day
This is about a watch, not a phone. It looks like they added the mic as an afterthought.
