•  jcarax   ( @jcarax@beehaw.org ) 
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    31 year ago

    Watches sound great on e-ink, but last I looked into it, the displays couldn’t support the frequency of refreshes over a reasonable life time.

    I’m with you, by the way. I do like having a compact e-ink reader, but I really don’t want to do anything but that with it.

    •  Pxtl   ( @Pxtl@lemmy.ca ) 
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      1 year ago

      Huh, that’s disappointing. It’s funny how everybody keeps experimenting but nobody seems to have topped the Pebble for watch form-factor: low-power gameboy-ish LED screen and more of an old-school micro-controller chip instead of a phone-like chip and just use the “shake to wake” functionality to brighten the backlight.

      Pebble might not have been the smartest smartwatch, but it was definitely the watchyest smartwatch. Always-on screen and week-long battery.