Hey John, Sounds like it’s along the lines of my Pebble watch. It uses an epaper transflective display that looks better the more sunlight available. And it’s battery would also last a week.
Unlike the Fitbit though, you could write custom apps for it using the SDK that was available. It’s a shame Fitbit bought the company out and then discontinued the line! Ken Sent from my iPhone > On Jul 17, 2019, at 11:07 AM, John R. Hogerhuis <jho...@pobox.com> wrote: > > (I'll get to Model 100 relevance by the end, trust me...) > > I picked up a Amazfit Bip smart watch just before prime day for $60. It's > more expensive now. > > Link: > > https://amzn.to/2XX6O3g > > I'm really liking it so far. It is a bare bones GPS watch with heart rate > monitor, and shows me notifications from my phone. I got it to track my runs > without having to bring my phone. > > It's kind of too simple in some ways... for example, you can use it as a > timer or stopwatch, but most everything on the watch is a mode, so you can't > do that and anything else.If you're tracking a run, you're tracking a run. > You can't install any 3rd party apps on the phone. > > But the coolest thing about it for me is that it lasts for almost a week and > has an always-on transflective color display. Outside, without a backlight, > the more sunlight you put on it, the better you can read it! Indoors or at > night you flip your wrist or press the button and the backlight comes on. > > Relevance to the list: the long battery life and sunlight readable display! > If someone made a Model T today, I think a display like this would be a good > fit. Low power, sunlight readable, longer battery life without the need for > backlight in some conditions. > > Apparently transflective displays aren't actually very common on smart > watches. Go figure. > > -- John.
