I’m looking for any suggestions for smartwatch that it similar like Google Pixel Phones with GrapheneOS. Is there such a thing?
The Bangle.js 2 is pretty cool
That’s what I use. It’s way more stripped down than a modern smart watch, but it has good battery life, a transflexive LCD, can discretely give me notifications so I can keep my phone on silent, and can show me the weather at a glance.
There are more things it can do, I just find my phone is better for the majority of them.
Does it support an external Bluetooth HR monitor?
Apparently, an app does that
Are the notifications actionable? (Snoozing alarms, canned replies to messages, etc)
I couldn’t find that important detail on the website easily.
And priced for the average human! Wow.
Damn, if I didn’t need the fitness tracking support of my Garmin watch, I’d be all over that!
So frustrating that their logo is a nice looking round watch, but their product is an ugly rectangular one.
Now I miss my Pebble and Pebble 2 :(
I held onto my Pebble for so long, wearing it from launch until about a year ago, where I got a Garmin Smartwatch.
So many things I loved about it, especially its simplicity and legendary battery life (at that time).
Samesies! The Garmin battery is starting to deteriorate after about 3 years use though. That said I don’t regret buying it, it’s been great.
Big fan of the PineTime for minimalism and extraordinary battery life, but the Bangle looks compelling. Maybe once the PineTime dies.
I would reall love to have an open source watch, but unfortunately both the pinetime and bangle.js 2 lack severely in the activity tracking, which is the primary reason for me to have a smart watch.
I’m not sure how the screen is on the pinetime, but on the bangle.js 2 it’s surprisingly bad. Not a deal breaker by itself, but combined with a sort of limping experience on other parts, it’s not a good product (yet).
PineTime is nice, wearing it right now.
Notifications, media control, minor navigation aids, some heart rate stuff (they’ve linked some papers for their algorithm which I think is cool cause now we can discuss the validity of said algorithm for heart rate monitoring) and most importantly 1024 (the game)
And 1 week (approx) of battery life
Similar to what most smartwatches can: measure heartbeat, show notifications and answer calls from your smartphone, flashlight (by showing white write screen), show weather, etc.
