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this episode of technobuffalo is brought to you by netflix what's up everyone welcome to the debut episode of renters wrist the show that used to be called rettinger rants that one had about a year long run to the realize I'm not really an angry person I didn't have all that much to write about every single week if I didn't have anything it didn't feel genuine to just make something up a second doing a video so the new series is write yours rips where I just talk about something that's going on in my head that's do with technology every single week it up this week is the thing that's loaded on my wrist the pebble smartwatch let's go ahead and get riffic so I didn't do a review in the pebble smartwatch I just picked it up probably about three weeks ago I want to see what all the fuss was about people really interested about it there's a huge Kickstarter campaign I don't have been sort of the go-to for smartwatches so I bought one not a review units or picked one up on my own I've got a lot of opinions on it you're the kind of person like me that Cecily has to check your phone for email notifications I can be quite rude to constantly be you know going in your pocket pulled out your phone looking at it make sure it's what you need or don't need and putting it back in your pocket on the table got away if I got a baby at home and show us ur it gives me that sideways glance and only only women can do and they're like you know you did something wrong always got that now I get notification on my wrist I can look at it say okay I know I have to respond or don't respond right away I never have to take that phone in my pocket so i can turn steal a glance at my wrists was like for notifications it's really that's about it there's nothing really new the watch does the phone's not gonna do but the pebble does it very very well so if you things i like about it let's start with that first is the weight i was really surprised and how lightweight the pebble actually feels you look at it it's relatively big watch but it weighs epsilon nothing don't even notice it at all on your wrist that was quite nice the buttons are really well placed easy to find whether you're in a dark hood movies for example just want to see what's buzzing on your wrist really really easy to find now they redid these on the pebble steel coming out and figured again with the pebble steel coming out is probably good time to talk about this guy before it became antiquated and I like that you can change his faces I like that slowly open source and you can download a ton of different watch faces and kind of apps and the new pebble saw for coming out there going to be an app store it's going to work with this I also like that pebble is keeping essentially the hardware the same least internals of the pebble in the pebble steel so it's sort of not to piss off the early adopters everything that skill can do now this guy is going to do as well say for being a little bit thinner not having gorilla glass on the outside battery life we've had sort of mixed results Ashley's got one said she can easily get through a week Ralph's got one usually about five days I tend to get me bigoted mortifications in most but I tend to get about three and a half maybe four days on a full charge and i turn it off at night so i have had a few issues with it bluetooth wise first if you want data to show up on you i've got whether online see how beautiful is in southern california 77 degrees you gotta download a third-party app called HTTP pebble that creates another a bluetooth connection from your phone so i paired it now to an iphone 5s sometimes the connection doesn't work with them the drops out even if I'm standing right next to it that can be a bit annoying but on the plus side the Bluetooth range is crazy far least in our office I can be three offices down and still have a nice clear Bluetooth signal slight notifications right on the wrist so again I kind of like it i also like they use a standard watchbands if you want to get a new watch but you can do that i like the idea of the charger so it's magnetic so it just sort of charges right on their plugs in via USB and you can charge the downside though is that this thing comes off super super easily so you have a hard time you know making sure it's always hang on there's no external way of seeing if it's charging now they fix that in the pebble steel the only way to see this as charging is actually digging to them then you and see the little icon from a software standpoint i wish that i could go back into my previous notifications once i click out of it and I'm back from the home screen those notifications are gone gone or ever often times you take a while for the text on email to actually show up you get maybe a line and you see the loading below it blue Jets enough to know who it's from and see if I have to pull out my phone it's actually worried about responding to it I like that it's kind of waterproof ish up to 5 ATM so you know I wouldn't take it in the shower you know with necessarily but if you're washing your hands you don't really have to worry that's probably why you use that connector these a magnetic connector rather instead of actually having a micro USB cord because you know stuff can get into that I've actually really enjoyed the peg one other smartwatches but you're used to a very that's something we're going to find useful than you know maybe look elsewhere if you're on the fence with it you might want to wait until the pebble steel comes out in the new OS comes out which I work with both smartwatches you can see what the apps you're going to be it supposed to be totally open source and the whole pebble store so kind of cool things coming but I don't to share my opinion it's kind of a mini-review just general thoughts on the pebble smartwatch you guys think if you tried one a bit not tried one you can get them at a nice discount right now if you know where to look on the game was on sometimes has been discounted best buy had it actually where i got mine they had a nice deal right before the holidays on these so you can get up for pretty cheap price before the pebble steel it comes out pretty decent about two hundred thirty bucks for that guy pick this one up if you're lucky for about half of that cost and i really like it i'm excited for this deal but we hard to get this guy off my wrist and take a minute for just one second to thank our friends and sponsors at netflix do you know them you love them season 2 of house of cards is coming up but you should definitely be watching it netflix has some of the best original programming available orange is the new black the final season of Arrested Development all that kind of stuff is available in your area Netflix is the place to go not to mention TV shows and movies that going out on networking giant screens you can watch them you can stream it via really any gaming console you've got xbox 360 xbox one ps3 ps4 intendo weed 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