Pebble has some pretty attractive watches on the market
Among all the pros and cons of a Pebble smartwatch has until now remained one glaring flaw: they couldn't get all the notifications from your Android phone.
Thankfully the latest Pebble Android companion app update has finally fixed that.
Prior to version 2.1 Pebble watches could only display notifications from select Android apps, including Gmail and others.
But now if your Android phone is trying to tell you something, your Pebble watch will display it, no matter what app it's coming from. You can adjust these settings in the app itself.
That's if you're using a smartwatch like the Pebble Steel with Android 4.3 or higher, while support for Android 4.0 and up will arrive later.
Pebble hasn't released a new watch in a while, but with the new apps and price drop its existing offerings just got now is a good time to pick one up.
Via PC World
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Pebble watches can finally see all the notifications from your Android phone
Thursday, November 27, 2014
Four-deal Friday: Watches, Kindles, Motos, and more!
Thursday, September 18, 2014
MetaWatch
Whew! You are looking at one exhausted cheapskate, friends. That's in part due to the whirlwind couple days I just spent in Chicago, groping some pretty sweet new toys from Motorola (see below), and in part because I've wrangled four supah-sweet deals for you.
Coffee kicking in in 3, 2, 1...
1. Watch and learn
The new Moto 360 smartwatch? Oh, heavens, is it sexy. But with a starting price of $250, it's definitely not for cheeps. (It's also not for iPhone users, alas.)
So maybe dip your toe into smartwatch waters with this: For a limited time, Best Buy has the MetaWatch Strata for $39.99 shipped (plus tax).
Available in your choice of snazzy colors, the Strata works with iPhones and some Android phones. The monochrome display delivers all kinds of notifications: calls, text messages, appointments, and so on, plus widgets for things like weather and stock prices. And you can use the buttons for music controls, a nice perk.
The user reviews are mixed, though, and PCMag was also lukewarm on some aspects of the device. But that was last year, when it listed for $179. At $40, I'll bet you can put up with a few quirks. I've certainly never seen a watch this capable this cheap.
2. More Kindlin'
Regular readers know of my fondness for Kindle tablets, which offer plenty of amenities iPads can't match -- for considerably less money.
In fact, for a limited time, Amazon is selling the refurbished Kindle Fire HD 8.9 (16GB) for $129 shipped. That's a nearly 9-inch tablet, as feature-rich as they come, for a pittance. A pittance, I say!
Like all refurb Kindles, this one comes with a one-year warranty. And based on my past purchases of them, it'll arrive in like-new condition. $129, people!
3. Mo' Moto, less money
The new Moto G: Bigger, better, still cheap. Motorola The big news from Motorola this morning: a new Moto X, the aforementioned Moto 360, and the very intriguing Hint headset.
The bigger news, in my mind: the new Moto G, which I'm just going to go ahead and call the Best Smartphone Value of 2014.
Indeed, while this isn't a deal in the traditional Cheapskate sense, it's definitely a deal: quad-core processor, 5-inch HD screen, beefy camera, lots of colored-shell options, microSD slot, and more, all for $179.99 unlocked. I'm particularly impressed at how solid and durable the Moto G feels -- not cheap or plasticky.
For the first time, there's a budget smartphone that doesn't seem in any way like a budget smartphone.
4. Store more
You know all those quad-copter videos you're shooting nowadays? All that footage needs to go somewhere. Like here: Newegg has the Samsung D3 Station 3TB USB 3.0 hard drive for $94.49 shipped when you apply coupon code EMCPAPE28 at checkout.
In case you don't speak tech, that's 3 terabytes of storage. I defy you to fill it all! This desktop drive features built-in encryption, an auto-backup option, and a three-year warranty. Reviews are mixed, but that tends to be the case with most hard drives these days. (Sad state of the industry, I guess.)
OK, cheeps! Who's buyin' what?
Week in Tech: Week in Tech: Watches, Windows and Waiting for Apple
Wednesday, September 17, 2014
More smartwatches than you can fit on your wrist It's the most wonderful time of the year. Yep, the first weeks of September are Geek Christmas: that's when the electronics industry shows off its most exciting new products at IFA, and it's when Apple unveils its latest iPhones.
But first: are smartwatches sexy yet?
If you've been singularly unimpressed by the first wave of Android Wear smartwatches, it might be time to take another look. In his review of Sony's new Smartwatch 3, Gareth Beavis suggests that Android Wear might actually be getting good.
Sony's isn't the only smartwatch in town. HP's invented a luxury one, the , Asus has created a pretty one and Samsung's unveiled one with a special tiny keyboard for mice and borrowers. You'd think they were trying to announce everything before Apple unveils the iWatch.
Remember netbooks, the ill-fated tiny PCs that were given a thorough kicking by tablets? Well, they're back! Asus has resurrected its Eee brand, and first up is the £165 (US$260, AU$280) EeeBook X205. It offers all the benefits of a Windows tablet with the comfort of a real keyboard, and we're cautiously impressed.
The X205 isn't the only cheap Windows device heading your way. There are tons of the things coming from the likes of Toshiba, Acer and, er, Haier. Could this be the beginning of Windows fighting back?
While we wait for next week's biggest-ever iPhone, Samsung has unveiled two new phablets: the flagship Galaxy Note 4, and the no-price no-release-date no-they'll-definitely-make-it Galaxy Note 4 Edge. The Edge is the weirdest thing we've seen for a while, with a wraparound screen that rolls around the right hand edge of the handset, but Samsung's Gear VR headset comes close with its high-tech take on Google Cardboard.
Sony's been busy: there's a new Xperia Z3 and Z3 compact, and there's another gadget that appears to be coming back from the dead: the Walkman. The NWZ-A17 portable audio player is aimed at people with really discerning ears and awfully expensive headphones.
The jury's still out on curved TVs, but Philips clearly thinks they're the future: its first curved 4K TV is "a bendy 55-inch beast", says Hugh Langley. Philips showed off stacks of new home entertainment technology this week including affordable multi-room Spotify speakers and some "vegan-friendly" (our claim, not theirs) Fidelio noise-cancelling headphones.
What sucks harder than any other robot in history? According to James Rivington, the answer is Dyson's incoming robot vacuum cleaner. The Dyson 360 Eye uses a 360-degree panoramic camera to see in every direction, and like everything else Dyson makes it's bound to be really, really cheap. Ha!
We're days away from Apple's iPhone event. Will we see both of the big-screened handsets? Will Bono turn up like a bad penny? Will everyone fall asleep during Tim Cook's World of Charts? The answers you need are all here.
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