Pebble Time Steel Review

Pebble smartwatch review

Pebble Time Steel

Pebble is another smartwatch company. Where juggernauts Apple and Google have monthly revenue number that completely match the GDPs of all countries. Like the previous Pebble watches, the new Pebble Time Steel watch was backed via Kickstarter. Time Steel is a fancier version of the Pebble watches.

Much like the previous Pebble watch, you get long battery life, a low key color display and watch quality content than most Android Wear wrist garb. This Steel edition provide a longer stamina, nicer strap, and, you guessed it, more steel.

The display is the same size as previous version, but more of the external look is designed by Gorilla Glass rather than the normal steel. The look and feel is slightly improved. Choose a watch face with little bit dark background and with blank space around the screen becomes less obvious.

Despite the look and feel, the only big difference between Pebble Time Steel and Pebble Time is the battery life. Pebble hasn't changed the actual specifications of this release, but given the long battery life to last for up to one week and has a 150mAh unit, we would expect around a 200mAh unit in this Time Steel as company says it'll stay for up to 10 days.

However, you'll get some extra days off a charge; although Time Steel exactly how long lasts will depend on how you use this watch. Using it for email or phone notifications and makes the display light on.

The reasons behind why the Time Steel awakes so long are those that putt to all Pebble Watches. It uses a low-consumption screen and does not do heavy lifting to itself: it's not a type of watch that performs much on its own.

The Time Steel watch has a LCD screen, but it's fully unlike the normal LCD displays that you're used in phones and other smartwatches. Time Steel doesn’t have a backlight, its screen pixels depends on day light to make the display more visible. As such it's near to the screen of a digital watch.

However, unlike a classic 144x168 pixels can makes whatever they want, including color. The 64 colors it can display aren't very visible, though. They're there to pick Pebbles smartwatch and out the dull monochrome world. The Pebble Time Steel is slightly fancier, more attractive and longer-lasting in battery life. All other components are pretty much the same.

That means those who don not want the new front-end design and don't want to have a high-grade strap should make with the Pebble Time Steel. Want a leather high strap? It's a sound stunning version. Then the question is whether you get on with the Pebble Time Steel watch at all. While easy to pick, its limited functionality mean it has low potential than the competition from Android Wear and Apple. What really limits the Pebble smartwatch as a simple smartwatch, are its low quality sensors and how you use and interact with it. it doesn’t have touchscreen, only three steel buttons on right side of the watch. Buttons are made of steel, and they need a firm push, so that they look a little bit better, a bit fancier, than the standard Pebble Time smartwatch.