I appreciate what they're doing, and I use my pinetime almost daily, but without proper software, hardware is just hardware. And the current software on pinetime is barely just a wrist notification center.
this post was submitted on 25 Mar 2026
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has it got operating system this time? no? meh
As long as it's open source, it doesn't matter if it has an operating system. A watch needs to be as lightweight (software wise) as possible.
yeah but pine's thing is to release hardware without any software at all and let the community sort it out. i think there's still no end-user os for their e-reader.
Nice! I hope the new chip will capabilities for better software too, Infinitime is still quite lacking with very limited notification length and no characters outside the English alphabet. And development is very slow, with not many active contributors, that's just the reality of a niche open source project.
Still I daily mine.
Pebble better
Pebble expensive