{"id":193,"date":"2015-06-02T09:55:19","date_gmt":"2015-06-02T07:55:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.swimmo.com\/blog\/?p=193"},"modified":"2017-05-30T19:05:51","modified_gmt":"2017-05-30T17:05:51","slug":"pebble-vs-swimmo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmo.com\/secure\/wordpress\/compare\/pebble-vs-swimmo\/","title":{"rendered":"Pebble vs Swimmo Comparison"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s wonderful that so many big players on smart things market is taking interest (somewhat&#8230;) in swimmers and swimming geeks who also want to belong to smartwatch family. \u00a0Another smartwatch producer who enters swimming pools is Pebble.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"700\" height=\"315\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-222\" src=\"http:\/\/www.swimmo.com\/secure\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/3_skos2-700x315.png\" alt=\"3_skos2\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.swimmo.com\/secure\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/3_skos2-700x315.png 700w, https:\/\/www.swimmo.com\/secure\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/3_skos2-250x113.png 250w, https:\/\/www.swimmo.com\/secure\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/3_skos2-768x346.png 768w, https:\/\/www.swimmo.com\/secure\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/3_skos2-120x54.png 120w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Pebble like<a href=\"\/buy\"> Swimmo<\/a> was a project on Kickstarter and had enormous success there. As a matter of fact both of their campaigns are in top 5 of biggest successes in the history of Kickstarter. Pebble might be perfect for most of your everyday activities but we&#8217;d never say that at any point Pebble will try to be a smartwatch for swimmers&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In a way, using Pebble in swimming pool is a bit like being at our meetings with R&amp;D and designers minus the fixes and solutions. Every difficulty and 'showstopper&#8217; we&#8217;ve experienced and fixed is part of Pebble\u2019s problems:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>it&#8217;s hard to be water-proof<\/li>\n<li>multiple buttons cause swimmers not to use the watch EVER when they&#8217;re in the swimming pool<\/li>\n<li>what works great during a walk might not work at all during a training session in the water<\/li>\n<li>low precision of measurements or being simply confused was the main problem during the tests with Pebble<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It&#8217;s obvious that part of making <a href=\"\/buy\">Swimmo<\/a> the best experience for swimmers was to minimize and remove all those problems from our design and even early prototypes of our smartwatch in some respects where superior just because of our focus on water sports:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>high class, water-proof device that can spend hours with you in the water<\/li>\n<li>ZERO buttons with revolutionary patent pending technology &#8211; Rotate&amp;Tap<\/li>\n<li>build with water in mind from the beginning without adapting for example the solutions from watches for runners<\/li>\n<li>precise and easy to read measurements where one of the results of our design philosophy<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Even if you&#8217;re not afraid you might drown an expensive piece of electronics you&#8217;ll still not getting much useful info by the fact of wearing it in the water.<\/p>\n<p>This is why we&#8217;ve decide\u00a0 at the very beginning to do less things but make sure we do it as good or better as the top players on this market.<\/p>\n<div class=\"image\"><img src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/swimmo-side-view.jpg\"><\/div>\n<p>If you like what you see and want to know more about <a href=\"\/buy\">Swimmo<\/a>, pre-order it today &#8211; it&#8217;s just one click away.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.swimmo.com\/shop\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"700\" height=\"467\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-293\" src=\"http:\/\/www.swimmo.com\/secure\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/2016_06_23_ks4-700x467.jpg\" alt=\"2016_06_23_ks4\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.swimmo.com\/secure\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/2016_06_23_ks4-700x467.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.swimmo.com\/secure\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/2016_06_23_ks4-250x167.jpg 250w, https:\/\/www.swimmo.com\/secure\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/2016_06_23_ks4-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.swimmo.com\/secure\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/2016_06_23_ks4-120x80.jpg 120w, https:\/\/www.swimmo.com\/secure\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/2016_06_23_ks4.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s wonderful that so many big players on smart things market is taking interest (somewhat&#8230;) in swimmers and swimming geeks who also want to belong to smartwatch family. \u00a0Another smartwatch producer who enters swimming pools is Pebble. 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