{"id":8910,"date":"2013-07-26T16:38:08","date_gmt":"2013-07-27T00:38:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/?p=8910"},"modified":"2014-09-05T13:53:35","modified_gmt":"2014-09-05T21:53:35","slug":"my-fortnight-review-of-the-pebble-or-how-i-use-my-pebble-even-though-it-limited","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/2013\/07\/my-fortnight-review-of-the-pebble-or-how-i-use-my-pebble-even-though-it-limited\/","title":{"rendered":"My fortnight review of the Pebble or How I use my Pebble even though its limited."},"content":{"rendered":"

\"pebble<\/a>So its been just over 2 weeks (fortnight) that I’ve been using the Pebble constantly and here is what I have discovered.\u00a0 Its VERY limited with my iPhone.\u00a0 I’m sitting on 6.3.1 and have not bothered to jailbreak yet (been really busy lately) so the only thing that works is phone numbers, text and music control.\u00a0 Surprisingly, just this is enough to make me glad I have the Pebble.<\/p>\n

The basic promise of the Pebble is to get notifications on your watching from your phone.\u00a0 Yes I cannot get alarm, nor calendar, nor email, nor many other things Android and jailbroken Pebble users have, but just these 3 functions alone have proven to be useful.<\/p>\n

The primary use cases for me are when I’m driving or biking, in a meeting, and finally when I misplace my phone… which I do a lot.<\/p>\n

When I’m sitting in a meeting, I take the watch off and place it on the table.\u00a0 Then I set my phone on silent.\u00a0 Not only can I keep on eye on time without looking at the phone, if there is a call or text, I can glance over and see what it is.\u00a0 90% its something I can ignore till the meeting is over. Far less rude then those checking their phones every 15 min.<\/p>\n

When I drive or I’m biking, if there is a call or a text, a quick glance will let me know if I need to deal with it or not.<\/p>\n

And finally when I misplace the phone.\u00a0 I do this a lot.\u00a0 I try not to keep my phone in my pocket anymore then I need to.\u00a0 A few days I was late to a meeting and had to run out of the house.\u00a0 Could not find the phone.\u00a0 So I pulling up music control and pressed play.\u00a0 Then I just find where the music is coming from.\u00a0 Sweet.<\/p>\n

I know its not perfect.\u00a0 Like I said, on the iPhone, the functionality is VERY limited if you are not jailbroken. It would be great if I could get calendar alerts, and rule based emails.\u00a0 I would also like to use IFTTT so that I can get key tweets for breaking news.\u00a0 But even with these limits, its still worth it.\u00a0 And I do not feel like a dork waring it unlike say … Google glass which I consider the new crocks.\u00a0 \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

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