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I bought a £16 smartwatch just because it used USB-C (shkspr.mobi)
submitted 1 year ago by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] 51 points 1 year ago (9 children)

All I want is a smartwatch which will let me own all my personal health data, I don't want to get locked in to some monthly subscription just to access my own health metrics

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  • [–] 41 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    The FOSS app GadgetBridge, has a number of supported smartwatches.

    Supported watches can sync your health, activity, GPS, heart, O2, sleep data to GadgetBridge locally on your phone, instead of sending it online to who knows where.

    May need to use the watches app to set it up, but then all happens locally.

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  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    I have a rule: I never preorder anything. I broke that rule recently. https://www.repebble.com/

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago* (4 children)

    Their website has a question at the bottom "Are you still interested in Pebble?" And if you click yes, it'll show you their new models, but there's also a button for No, which takes you to Google's latest smart watch. The "we're not a big tech msgacorp" vibes are strong with this one.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago

    The only reason Pebble has come back is that Google agreed to open source the software after the original pebble founder pleaded with them.

    This is probably a cheap "thank you" for that.

    Pebble in its current state is absolutely not a big tech megacorp lol

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