You’re describing a ton of features that a smart watch does not need. It doesn’t need wifi or a camera, for example.
The thing is, there’s TONS of off-brand smart watches that can do constant heart rate monitoring, notifications, sleep tracking, and those more basic smart features very well. The problem is that they require proprietary apps and a cloud account you have no control over.
That’s definitely what I’m considering next. Though, I would like to have sleep tracking.
I’m convinced Pine64 has no idea how to make an actual usable product.
I wasted my money on a PineTime watch. And it’s basically only useful for telling time, because as soon as you try to use any smartwatch features, the battery life basically disappears. Firmware updates are horrendously slow. The device has like 5kb of storage and 4kb is used by the base firmware, so when I thought I could program my own features for it because it’s open source, it was severely mistaken. Not to mention that if I’m not particularly amazing at programming for this device I either destroy the battery life or brick it.
Yeah. I didn’t mind the idea of learning C for the PineTime, but the development process for it was just not functional for someone new to that kind of development.
I use JavaScript every day for my job, so that seems much better for my purposes.