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Not in my opinion. The closest I’ve found are hybrid watches which will forward alerts (but generally with no text), but certainly nothing with the screen, battery life, and OSS vibe.



I picked up an older Fossil Hybrid HR a few months ago for $100. I've been rocking it every day and it's been great - battery lasts a couple weeks.


I can confirm that it's pretty good, but mine often loses track of time and needs to be calibrated via the app. I don't have it constantly connected to my phone, and only connect it ocasionally to sync, so maybe that could be the cause. I've even once had the calibration refuse to work, which required a hard reset of the watch to fix.

It's elegant, and the smartwatch features are unobtrusive, but I wouldn't trust it for any precise tracking, or even time tracking.


I had a fossil hybrid for awhile, and actually rather enjoyed it (gods below it was huge though - 44mm face). The problem was, if it wasn't my daily driver (that is to say, always within communication range of my phone), the battery would drain so fast. And it was a relatively uncommon coin battery, not a rechargeable battery.

I wish that hadn't been the case, but after replacing the battery 3x in one month because I swapped out watches occasionally, it went into retirement.


Interesting. I have a Fossil Hybrid HR from a couple years back, and it's got a rechargeable battery. If it didn't that would be quite annoying.


You guys seem to be more informed than me since I didn't use the pebble. Do you know how the pinetime compares?


In spirit it's extremely similar, but as it doesn't have large finances behind it, it lags behind in terms of features.

It's totally usable, but it doesn't have a vibrant app store like Pebble did for example.


Pinetime is new to me, going to dig in more. But at first glance, I'm not sure I like the IPS display, honestly. The always-visible e-ink Pebble display was one of the biggest features to me.




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