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If you were to buy an open source smart watch today to pair to a GrapheneOS smart phone which would you choose?

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[–] Qkall@lemmy.ml 18 points 6 days ago (3 children)

pinetime is a neat affordable project to check out... but i think they're sold out atm. i saw someone say that in the last week in the chatroom

[–] Yaky@slrpnk.net 7 points 6 days ago

Got PineTime pre-tariffs (even though it took a while to ship to US)

Pretty neat piece of hardware, has everything that I want (notifications, time, weather, timer), InfiniTime OS is open source and was easy to read, build and flash (had to do so to add missing Cyrillic letters and a shortcut)

As long as your expectations are that of a microcontroller-powered device and not a supercomputer-on-your-wrist, it's fantastic.

[–] Eat_Your_Paisley@lemmy.world 7 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Pine was my first stop but when I went to purchase I got a 404/so I assumed it was not available which is why I'm here

[–] henchman2019@lemmy.world 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I just put one in my cart and made it all the way to payment option.. maybe try again?

[–] Eat_Your_Paisley@lemmy.world 4 points 6 days ago

It works on my computer and not on my phone...Thanks

[–] lucullus@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

In the EU store it is currently out of stock and also priced at 66€. Can it be, that this is a victim of the US-EU trade war, that Trump started?

[–] Qkall@lemmy.ml 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)
[–] lucullus@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

That is a US based company, so with shipping and taxes I certainly would also reach the over 60€. Honestly I wasn't that happy with my Pinetime. I tought about buying it again (destroyed mine when I dropped it) because it is cheap (26€). But for 66€ I might just get a different watch, that works with gadgetbridge

[–] todotoro@midwest.social 2 points 6 days ago

So, I bought a Pinetime with tariffs applied to go with GrapheneOS. It came to me about $50 USD shipped. For that price, I would do it again if it broke.

My needs are very basic, I can control music, see notifications, and get my heart rate on a graph when I work out. I only switched to this from Sensor Watch, simply because of the heart rate sensor.

Speaking of, you would be surprised what you could make a Sensor Watch do for you with no connectivity to your phone. I had totp for work, chess, and sunset/sunrise times as well as a onboard temp sensor.