Gadgetory

what's up everyone John wrench from technobuffalo here we've got the pebble steel here in the office I thought it'd be fun to put it head-to-head in a little mini comparison against its younger brother the original pebble let's bash these two together and see which one your SmartWatch buying bucks pick up first let me talk about functionality both of these are pretty much functionally exactly the same they both have the same five to seven hour battery life both have the same screen size both have the same OS and apps support with OS to point the same watch faces you're not looking at a quad-core processor here versus dual-core here the internals are exactly the same you're not getting crazy new features with the pebble steel they both have the same five automated teller machines of water resistance waterproofness I know it doesn't stand for that they have the same water resistance level so you're good with either what it really comes down to is design the design of the steel is a bit more industrial some would say a bit more professional more grown-up as opposed to the more casual playful whimsical look of the original pebble that being said original pebble does come in way more colors there are five different options you can get including black red white and I wish I could just pull in orange and pull in gray this is our pebble collection you can imagine if these were orange a grey what that looked like to get way more color options here as well pebble steel low does have some color options of its own you can get it in brushed stainless like we have right here there's also a black matte option available whichever one you get they're also going to come with black band so you can choose if you want the black leather or if you like the sort of metal look of the pebble steel if it gets called steel I like to steal look but there's no accounting for taste so whatever you want you've got the option for so let's talk about intangibles because these watch it again functionally pretty similar so the original pebble is just one hundred and fifty dollars you to pick whatever color you want so a bit more of the impulse buy type price range the watch bands are standard and you can pick whatever watch band you want go to the store and you're fine you have to worry about what chips with did it feel like the way it looks you put a white bands on a black watcher of black band on a white watch you can go crazy if you want to because it's a standard size so no problem there at all on the steel front it's an extra hundie two hundred fifty dollars is not a cheap proposition I want to come into a smart watch especially sort of an unproven platform pebble start as a start-up that's really proven they're going to be successful but whether or not you want to spend ten to fifty dollars on a SmartWatch you know that's really going to come down to your own income or disposable income I should say it does have some improvements though first it's got an improved magnetic charger this is one of my knock on the original pebble when I tried to charge it you really had to make sure you move it at all or charge would fall right off this one though it snaps right on and you can hold the whole watch by it if you go to the original pebble and you use the original charger both magnetic they're not interchangeable though so you have to sort of use the charge that came with your watch put it on there you try and pick it up it falls right off and falls off very very easily it's did not make a very strong connection so if that's a reason to want to get the steal you've got that option as well also we've got two plugged in on this deal you've got a hidden LED indicator right down there in the bottom left-hand corner so you know when charging it's an RGB indicator which is kind of a nice feature to have you can't see it when it's not illuminated you've got marine grade stainless steel on the case and the watch band you've got steel buttons here as well there really isn't much of a gap between them they feel really nice look at the buttons on the original pebble they're plastic and they're spaced between them I found the ones in steel actually easier to use you also have gorilla glass 2 on here so if you drop it if you scratch it not gonna have to worry too much about it's not going to scratch at all if you put in your pocket for some reason if you put your watch in your pocket you're not going to worry about the little nicks and dings that you might get on your original pebble but it's not without its problems I do not like that pebble branding right there on the wash you don't have that on the original pebble I wish I didn't have to advertise for the product that I just bought another issue that I've had the particular pebble steel is actually at the border around the watch if you see where the metal meets the screen there's a bit of lip on the top and bottom there and it's a sharp lip so if you drag your finger over it drag your finger up you're going to catch your nail or catch your cuticle it happened to me it's actually is very very sharp so if you think this might be a touch screen you drag your finger over a lot even though it's not going to be a touch screen be aware that there definitely is a bit of an edger maybe it's something that we saw with the first batch of pebble seals it might get fixed but ours definitely has that right there also I don't like that eases proprietary bands no more standard watch band size hello to pebbles credit they did release a three rendering of the watch so third parties can make separate bands for it but we don't have any of those on the market yet presumably they will come soon so which one should you buy for me if I was looking to pick up a pebble and I really liked the pebble smartwatches I think I'd pick up a pebble steel extra hundred bucks for me is worth it i could wear the watch in more business settings and not feel a little self-conscious of what's on my wrist but it's really just pure aesthetic when it comes down to this point functionality wise they're both exactly the same I like the black watch I think it's a little bit more understated here so it come down to me between the black pebble and the matte black pebble steel if we don't have in the office so this issue here is really personal preference you want to play for watch you don't watch more professional I prefer the more professional significant feel of the pebble steel but you guys might disagree I'll give your comments in your thoughts and what you think about the two watches which one did you pick up I think about the new pebble platform of course we'll have a full review for you of the pebble steel coming very very soon until then I'm John Reggie from TechnoBuffalo pew enjoyed please give video a thumbs up if you did I will see you guys in the next video bye bye what's up everyone thank you for watching that video if you want to see more the latest and greatest tech news you can 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