PineTime – First Look and Impressions

I just got my pinetime as well, and the battery has impressed me the most! 10% over 2 days seems to be my average so far, which I suppose matches up with your experience.

I am hoping the new ability to stream image and font allows more rich notification capabilities, such as MMS and (to your point) accented letters.

Still need to get the development environment set up properly so that I can try and add a little extra functionality, but keep hitting build snags. Glad to see others hopping on the pinetime train though!

Edit: oh, author of the article didn't post this...egg meet face lol

£32.50 including shipping. I thought that was a mistake. So cheap! Bought one immediately 😁

I appreciate your write up here. Thanks you. I'm going to get myself one. And also your impressions blog was the best review I have read in the last few days of looking into this watch.

My Pinetime arrived exactly like yours: loose in the box like it slipped through. I don't know if it happened during shipping or if it was packaged haphazardly, but there were no scratches or dents so no big deal. Also, I noticed you didn't mention the other available OS. You can switch from Infinitime to Wasp-OS. I don't think one is necessarily better than the other, but Wasp-OS has some features Infinitime doesn't. The switching process is a little clunky, but there's a guide that walks you through the steps and links to the required files. After switching back to Infinitime, I haven't been able to load Wasp-OS a second time and I'm not sure why, but that could be a personal issue. All in all I'm happy with this watch. Most of the features the more expensive smart watches have over the Pinetime are things I wouldn't use anyway, and I like that it can function as a standalone watch if you don't connect it to anything. Thanks for the article, and I hope development keeps going strong for this neat little device.

The flashlight is my most use feature. I can walk and take a shower at night without switching any light on.

Battery life is crazy.

Nice write up.

Does it have some sort of always-on display mode, and if so any idea what it does to the battery life?

I thought you were supposed to use Siglo on the Linux desktop as the companion app? Might be worth a look if you haven't checked it out yet.

I have to say, as much as I like gadgetbridge I'm kind of jealous of InfiniLink on iOS.

As for software, I use the BPM vibration feature to time static stretches (set to 1 pulse at 60bpm). Means you don't need to keep count in your head to (accurately) get that minimum 28 second static stretch time, nor do you need to crane your neck and look at a clock as you're doing them. I only wish it saved the bpm config so you didn't have to manually define it every time you use the feature, since it's kinda finicky to operate.