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 Pebble and Microsoft partnership fell apart, I haz sad

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TSmrl
post Feb 26 2015, 07:00 PM, updated 11y ago

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http://www.windowscentral.com/pebble-micro...n-windows-phone

So, basically what happened was Microsoft bend over backwards trying to please Pebble, do the support development and proved Pebble can be run on Windows Phone but the CEO seems to have personal issue with Microsoft. So, we are not going to see support for Pebble; most likely ever...

How do you feel about that? I was hoping some sort of official support would come eventually and was planning to buy Pebble as soon as they have proper support, but looks like I can say goodbye to the dreams now... I hope Microsoft produce more Band will bring them in to Malaysia...
zack9999
post Feb 27 2015, 09:44 AM

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I am not interested in Peeble thing. But yes for fitness tracker like Microsoft Band. Been using Runtastic for a while and I even become its premium website member to track my running performance. Only if a smart watch can have long battery life like a month or so then I will consider. Otherwise I am happy with a fitness tracker to track specific physical activity.
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post Feb 27 2015, 11:18 AM

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QUOTE(zack9999 @ Feb 27 2015, 09:44 AM)
I am not interested in Peeble thing. But yes for fitness tracker like Microsoft Band. Been using Runtastic for a while and I even become its premium website member to track my running performance. Only if a smart watch can have long battery life like a month or so then I will consider. Otherwise I am happy with a fitness tracker to track specific physical activity.
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I was actually more interested on the Band, but since they are very limited even in US much less bringing it to Malaysia I was eyeing Pebble for its 7 days battery life. What I really want is to check notification on watch but additonal features doesn't hurt if the price is right, especially with Cortana integration biggrin.gif
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post Feb 27 2015, 03:17 PM

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The band is still in the early stages. Hopefully MS can improve the form factor, more like fitbit. Currently it looks to be huge on my wrist. I used to wear fitbit all day long, even during sleep, but the experience is uncomfortable.
Heard that Swatch is considering to enter the smartwatch with long battery life and best of all it WILL WORK with Windows Phones. So I hope its true. One of the problems with smart watch nowadays is short battery life.

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TSmrl
post Feb 27 2015, 04:31 PM

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No doubt it looks huge... But I can work with that...

It's true the battery life is short, but I can work with charging once a day as well. I don't mind not using smart watch at night unless it is an activity tracker, which one of the thing that I find Band is a little turned of but that's additional feature for me so I can't say I won't grab it because of that.

 

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