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Nice. A return to sanity.
Love this.
The more I’m hearing about the Pebble Time 2, the more I’m liking it and looking forward to my delivery.
But fuck the 30 day warranty. Stuff sold in the UK is usually 6 years of cover (albeit only 5 for Scotland). 30 days is actually pathetic.
That’s a concern for me as well, in Germany every new Product has to come with basically a 2 year warranty. 30 days is nothing.
This is sold by the same guy that created Pebble and then sold and killed it screwing the entire community, right? And it’s the same guy that later sold messaging app based on breaking e2e encryption that worked for like a week before being killed by Apple? Do I remember this correctly? I think I will pass, even with screws.
Same guy. This time the whole thing is open source though, even the hardware. So that’s insurance for what it’s worth.
So it’s best to wait for some other manufacturer to show up. If no one else is able to setup the manufacturing process it’s still up to this one guy to keep making them or sell and kill it again.
It is almost always best to ‘wait and see’ for most things.
But of course if everyone did that - it would never have taken off in the first place.
That’s the issue. It’s why I’ve learned that when I can afford it and I reasonably believe this firm or project should exist, and it has a decent chance not to fall flat, I end up buying in. It’s literally upfront investment in the thing. I’m still salty for not backing the Ubuntu Phone back in 2012 or so. I looked at it as another phone compared to what’s available on the market and how the price stacks up for the features. That’s very much the wrong way to do it. A part of the value it provides is the existence of the project and the labour dedicated to it. In the case of the new Pebble, I’m backing it despite Eric, and because it’s fully open source and that’s something I want to exist. A fully open alternative in the sea of proprietary wearable crap.
Soldered in battery still…
At this size battery connectors add way too much bulk.
I mean you see ribbon connector right there for the daughterboard, but yeah, maybe it’s too bulky for the current case design.
How much current does that thin ribbon cable carry? Battery connectors need to be more robust.
Should still be able to carry 1 amp, shouldn’t it?
I’ll change 100 of those batteries before I do another Apple Watch battery or lcd
This is not the final design, it might gain a connector in the final. It might not. But even if it doesn’t, splicing the wires shouldn’t be too difficult for most who’d dare open their watch. I’m pretty confident I can do it.
True. Although I’d still find a way to mess it up somehow.
I’ve repaired and tinkered with many phones and computers, I thought I’d be able to change the battery in my third gen iPod nano… But I completely messed it up because of the soldering. It ain’t easy :(
The nanos are pretty nasty to work on in general
