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Get your new PebbleOS watch
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Wait, the basic version has a compas and barometer without a heart rate monitor, but the more expensive one has a heart rate monitor and no barometer or compass? Why?
There's an explicit line in their site that says these are not made to be fitness trackers, and that garmin are good for that (or some other brand, can't remember). It would be very odd to say that if it was their target.
Seriously, even my $30 PineTime has a heart rate monitor.
I've never once used a compass on my watch, mostly because the phone it's attached to is a much better compass and even has its own barometer built-in. Plus it's a pain to use a compass on a watch because you have to hold your whole arm up.
He wasn't going to add compass because most people don't use it, but then he added it to the Core 2 Duo as a favor to a friend who helped on that version and wanted a compass in it.
https://www.reddit.com/r/pebble/comments/1jea5cc/ama_with_eric_migicovsky_lets_talk_about_the_new/migw1ct/